The partnership comes at a time when the Sri Lankan economy needs a fresh impetus for innovation-led growth, with a focus on regenerative and sustainable business practices. Entrepreneurship, whilst taught in many courses worldwide, demands real-world experiences through successes and failures to understand the realities on the ground and to have a real impact.

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay jointly witnessed the establishment of partnership linkage between the Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC) Research University and the Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IITM) for an inclusive partnership for academic, research and resource exchange.

Educating, grooming, and nurturing holistic graduates who can actively contribute towards a chosen discipline in the context of academia or profession has always been a top priority for SLTC, Sri Lanka’s first Research Based Nonstate University. SLTC is also one of the first universities to adopt a student-centric, problem-based learning process since its inception and research and innovation are the defining factors of the institution’s ethos. Today the fruits of i ts labour are visible in the many achievements, innovations, and global research projects that the SLTC community has contributed to.