The following general process has been approved by the VUT Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee for researchers seeking funding for research activities.

Support Structure:

• Executive Director of Research - The Executive Director of research is responsible for the strategic planning of research and to ensure its culmination into commercial products and opportunites. This includes:
  - Partners development
  - Stimulation of innovative research
  - Research capacity of new and existing staff
  - Developing appropriate structures, systems and policies for research with innovative potential.
  - Postgraduates and student support development.
• Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee - The main functions of the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee is to initiate, co-ordinate and evaluate research, as well as to encourage the publication of results.
• The Senate Research Committee - The Senate Research Committee is a sub-committee of Senate tasked to stimulate a research, technology transfer and innovation culture, monitor the activities and research output targets in the university.
• Faculty Research Committee - Research within faculties is managed by a faculty research committee or departmental research committee in the case of bureau’s or centres. The objective of this research committee is to support research at faculty/departmental level.

All funding applications to be considered by the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee have to be submitted to the research directorate via the relevant Faculty Research Committee prior to being submitted to the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee.

• Non-academic staff members must submit their funding application forms to the relevant Faculty Research & Innovation Committee before submitting them to the Executive Committee of the Senate Research & Innovation Committee. If such funding applications lie outside the areas of specialization offered at the institution, such applications can be considered on an ad hoc basis by the Executive Director: Research. In such cases feedback will be provided on the outcome of the process by the Research Directorate to the applicant/s.
• In as far as decisions are taken by the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee, if such decisions need to be reviewed this has to be brought to the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee.
• The stimulation funds allocated to Faculties on an annual basis will be reviewed annually by the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee. Faculties are required to report annually to the Executive Senate Research & Innovation Committee on their utilization of these funds.

SRI Application forms:

• SRI Application Form - consulting prof-scholarship-visiting fellow-post doctorate
• SRI Application Form Research Expenditure
• SRI Application Form - Traveling Expenses

Research Report Template