The University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved a new initiative - Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for Indias Developing Economy (STRIDE). It is to boost research culture in the country. It will provide support to research projects that are socially relevant, locally need-based, nationally important and globally significant. STRIDE shall support research capacity building as well as basic, applied and transformational action research that can contribute to national priorities with a focus on inclusive human development. STRIDE shall support creation, development integration of new ideas, concepts and practices for the public good and strengthening civil society. STRIDE scheme will strengthen research culture and innovation in colleges and universities and help students and faculty to contribute towards Indias developing economy with help of collaborative research. Additional InformationSPARCThe Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) is a Ministry of Human Resource Development initiative that aims at improving the research ecosystem of Indias Higher Educational Institutions by facilitating academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and the best institutions in the world. IMPRESSThe Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) launched a new scheme called IMPRESS (Impactful Policy Research in Social Science) to promote policy research in social science. The Indian Council of Social Science Research has been entrusted with the task of implementing and monitoring the scheme IMPRESS. Impactful Policy Research in Social Science (IMPRESS) aims to encourage social science research in policy-relevant areas so as to provide vital inputs in policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. The basic idea is to have a visible impact on polity, economy, society, culture, media, governance, health, environment, technology, law etc. STARSScheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS) for promoting translational, India-centric research in Sciences, to be implemented and managed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. With the key objective of supporting socially relevant research, the following 6 basic thrust areas have been identified: Physics, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Nanosciences, Data Sciences & Mathematics and Earth Sciences.