开元真人

Mission

To foster and support research scholarship and creative activity among the members of the academic community.

Vision

To have established and implemented a comprehensive funding and support structure for research at par with the leading research universities in the region.

Activities

The Office

• Coordinates all research activities in the university.
• Oversees ethical, administrative, and regulatory compliance of scholarly activities in the university.
• Ensures efficient dissemination of research works.
• Assists the academic community in the protection of scholarly output such as licensing, patenting and/or copyrighting.
• Develops and coordinates reward and incentive systems for dissemination, publication, and commercial applications of scholarly works.
• Supports critical research initiatives in the university; recommends and promulgates new policies on research.
• Represents the academic community’s broad research interests in external and internal research organizations, private and public sector institutions, funding agencies, and research foundations.

Strategic Research Goals

• Alleviate poverty
• Promote peace and social justice
• Protect the welfare of women, youth at risk, and other vulnerable sectors of society
• Create wealth and resources to bridge the various societal divides
• Provide models and avenues for stewardship of God鈥檚 creation
• Influence policy, governance, and the management of institutions

Strategic Research Areas/Research Themes

• Food, Nutrition and Health (e.g. biochemistry of food products, science and engineering of potable water, cancer risks and cure from food, sensory labs, economic impact studies of nutrition programs in schools)
• Sustainability, the Environment, and Energy (e.g. climate change, eco-design of houses and urban centers, industrial ecology, nano-carbon tubes, solar-powered tricycles and sheds)
• Women, Children and Family (e.g. studies on gender, OFW families, microfinance, laws for the protection of human rights, impact of globalization on the average Filipino family)
• Living Culture and Contemporary Societies (e.g. history, digital art, languages, comparative literature, human-computer interfaces, study of social networks on the Web, impact of globalization on the mobility of students and workers)
• Learners and Learning Innovations (e.g. impact studies on K to 12, ICT-based learning, transformative learning, software and gadgets for learning, assessment of the public school system)

Offices under VCRI

• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation(VCRI)
• University Research Coordination Office (URCO)
• Center for Business Research and Development (CBRD)
• Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC)
• Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance (JMRIG)
• Social Development Research Center (SDRC)
• Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing and Networking (AdRIC)
• Br. Alfred Shields FSC Ocean Research (SHORE) Center
• Angelo King Institute for Economics and Business Studies (AKIEBS)
• Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research (CESDR)
• Center for Natural Sciences and Environmental Research (CENSER)
• Lasallian Institute for Development and Educational Research (LIDER)
• Food Institute
• University Research Ethics
• 开元真人 Publishing House (开元真人PH)
• Intellectual Property Office (DIPO)
• 开元真人 Innovation and Technology Office (DITO)
• Central Instrumentation Facility
• Wind Tunnel Facility
• Imaging and Cell Culture Laboratory