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What are WE...
UNIVERSITY of the Philippines Visayas Foundation , Inc. (UPVFI) is a branchild of UPV pioneers.
We are a non-stock organization created in 1978 and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As a support arm of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), our principal objective is to provide a medium for initiating, assisting, and underwriting activities towards the promotion of educational, scientific, cultural and social pursuits, including basic and applied research, studies, and instruction seminars in the social, biological and physical sciences, and travel grants.
We are UPV’s partner in harnessing support for scholarship grants, improvement and modernization of facilities and equipment, and faculty and staff development programs.
As the fund manager for special projects, we have been assisting UPV in pioneering the growth of scientific knowlege and breakthroughs, as well as policy studies through research undertakings and extension projects of the faculty and non-teaching personnel with a focus on the Visayan region.
We are located at the heart of the UP Visayas Miagao Campus inside the Villadolid Hall. We share a doorstep with the flagship college of UP Visayas. We share a doorstep with the flagship college of UP Visayas, the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, and other key administrative offices.
We continue to support UPV’s vision to become a world-class university at the forefront of fisheries and aquatic sciences, education, research, and development.