The phrase "a major research programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a significant or extensive initiative focused on research in a particular field or topic.
Example: "The university has launched a major research programme aimed at addressing climate change and its impacts on biodiversity."
Alternatives: "a significant research initiative" or "a substantial research project."
Over a decade ago, the NSPCC conducted a major research programme to try and identify the scale of the problem.
A major research programme was launched to combat the disease and in 1955 Jonas Salk announced he had developed a vaccine which, after three shots had been administered, provided more than 90% protection.
To strengthen the environmental friendliness of railway traffic in Germany, Deutsche Bahn (DB) is in the process of performing a major research programme concerning noise reduction.
The paper derives from a major research programme on texture evolution and characterisation in the titanium alloys Ti-6Al-4V and Ti550.
Great expectations were set into the ExternE project, a major research programme launched by the European Commission at the beginning of the 1990s to provide a scientific basis for the quantification of energy related externalities and to give guidance supporting the design of internalisation measures.
In 2005, facing "limited information about the amounts and types of food waste produced", WRAP launched a "major research programme" which would lead to the publishing of "The food we waste report" on 8 May 2008.
This paper presents a case study of the new major research programme "Future Earth", which aims to bring 'research for global sustainability' to the mainstream of global change research.
Proposals for major research programme over the next three years to evaluate public perception of the Met.
Academic career perspectives are promising since interdisciplinarity is strongly supported by major research programmes at the European and national level (e.g., the BMBF Systemology initiative).
There have been major research programmes on food safety, and epidemiological studies and population surveys have contributed to understanding the trends and causes of disease.
As part of this new collaboration, at this conference the global-environmental-change programmes support a major research initiative, Future Earth: research for global sustainability.
