Expanding Research Through External Grants
SLIIT assists researchers in securing competitive external grants by offering proposal guidance, administrative support, and networking opportunities with funding agencies.
The goal is to enhance the scale and impact of research through partnerships with government bodies, international organizations, and industry collaborators, enabling researchers to expand their work beyond institutional boundaries.
Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD)
AHEAD (Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development) is a World Bank funded programme, which is implemented with the supervision of Government of Sri Lanka, with the aim of supporting the higher education sector of the country. The sole objective is to uphold the higher education system, thereby uplift Sri Lanka from Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) to Upper Middle-Income Country (UMIC).
One identified result area is to promote research and innovation culture to support economic development, especially the growth of higher-value industries and services.
The Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) established the SLIIT – Society Linkage (SLIIT-SL) Cell to be eligible to compete for Research Innovation and Commercialization (RIC) projects and Development Oriented Research (DOR) projects as a non-state Higher Education Institute through the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) operations.
SLIIT-SL Cell is formed to build up better industrial partnerships that will aid the above mentioned DOR and RIC projects of AHEAD Operations.
Key Personals
• Prof. Colin N. Peiris - Head - SLIIT Society Linkage Cell
• Prof. Rahula Attalage - Research Team Leader
Advisory Board
• Prof. Lalith Gamage
• Prof. Nimal Rajapakse
• Dr. Athula Pitigala Arachchi
• Mr. W K H Wegapitiya
• Mr. A Wickramanayake
• Mr. K Rajapakse
• Eng. D D Ananda Namal
• Mr. Wasaba Jayasekara
• Prof. Rahula Attalage
• Prof. Colin N. Peiris
• Prof. Chandimal Jayawardena
• Prof. Saman Thilakasiri
• Prof. Samantha Thelijjagoda
• Dr. Malitha Wijesundara
• Prof. Mahesha Kapurubandara
SLIIT Internal Board
• Prof. Koliya Pulasinghe
• Prof. Sriyani Peiris
• Prof. Rahula Attalage
• Prof. Mahesha Kapurubandara
• Prof. Colin N Peiris
• Prof. Ayantha Gomes
• Prof. Ruwan Jayathillake
• Establish Institute Policy (IP), Cell Advisory Committee, Framework for NDA, IP sharing, Tech Transfer as relevant
• Establish a Score Card provided by the project to ensure all of the above requirements and responsibilities are met
• Submit suitable numbers of proposals with adherence to the deadlines stipulated
• Create institutional awareness and capacity mobilization in order to harness SLIIT’s strengths
SLIIT received four grants initially, and two more new grants by the end of December 2019.
These were in different disciplines, and the faculties below received grants.
Faculty of Humanities & Sciences
• Commercialization of CSUP Low Cost Micropropagation and Production of Genetically Modified Ornamental Plants
• An Investigation of Online Harassment among Young Population in Sri Lanka: Development of a National Strategy to Combat Online Harassment
• Engineering development of a multi-functional flow reactor for wastewater treatment
Faculty of Engineering
• Integrated Traffic Management System for Safe and Sustainable Mobility
SLIIT Business School
• Quality of Life and Employability Potential of Blind and Partially Sighted Persons (BPSP) in Sri Lanka
Faculty of Computing
• Development of a Culturally Sensitive Autism Assessment Tool