Universities need to integrate education and research in various disciplines to sustain as centres of academic excellence.As a part of quality mandate, the UGC has proposed STRIDE - a new scheme to promote quality research by faculty and students. Th¬is would promote creation of new knowledge, inculcate innovative and cognitive thinking, and improve quality of doctoral research. STRIDE shall support Indian Higher Education Institutions that are eligible to receive UGC funding. STRIDE will support trans-disciplinary research for social inclusion in line with national priorities and also support innovations and entrepreneurship. Inclusive innovations relate to creation, development and integration of new ideas, concepts and practices for public good and strengthening civil society. STRIDE will be focused on solution driven efforts by addressing needs of local/ regional communities and national priorities. STRIDE will support the innovative research projects that are (i) Socially Relevant, (ii) Locally Need-based, (iii) Nationally Important, (iv) Globally Significant. STRIDE shall support basic, applied and transformational action research for India’s developing economy to attain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will facilitate overall human development.

UGC has funded a sum of rupees one crore to Alagappa University to carry out STRIDE activities.