QNRF Announces The UREP 11th Cycle Awards

Qatar National Research Fund, QNRF, announced today the outcome of the 11th cycle of its funding Program, the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP).

In this 11th UREP cycle, QNRF received 135 research proposals, each of which was independently reviewed by three international peer reviewers, none of whom had any affiliation or connection to the institutions whose proposals they reviewed in line with QNRF’s policy of  maintaining the utmost integrity and transparency throughout the submission and  review processes  to further ensure complete independence

In order to maintain a high quality level for the awarded UREP proposals while achieving a good success rate, the QNRF Steering Committee decided to adopt a cutoff score of 83% for this cycle, which resulted in the award of 52 research proposals engaging 179 undergraduate students across six academic institutions and distributed across the following disciplines; natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The results are summarized in the table below:

UREP aims at spreading research culture amongst undergraduate students by engaging them in hands on research projects under the guidance of their academic supervisors. UREP also encourages partnerships between academic and non-academic institutions to promote collaboration between academia and other institutions in Qatar.