The lack of access to high-tech research equipment in Pakistani universities is a significant barrier to scientific progress. Due to the high costs of acquiring and maintaining modern equipment, the Higher Education Commission has launched an innovative program to share scientific instrumentation facilities. This initiative aims to provide the scientific community with access to advanced equipment while also offering a funding source for institutions that make their instruments available.
The objectives of this program are:
- Provide spectroscopic, analytical, chromatographic and other services to researchers working in different public sector universities on cost plus basis, which will be paid by the Higher Education Commission.
- Through this program the institutions with instrumentation facilities will get financial resources to optimally utilize their instruments.
- The PhD scholars in Pakistani HEIs will have access to available facilities within the country, which will promote research collaboration and save foreign exchange, which is otherwise, required.
