International Relations Office

Highlights (2011 - 2016)

• Immense growth in the number of incoming International students – e.g., received more than 118 queries for Full-time Programmes (2016)
• Expansion of IRO activities and programmes
• From International Students Office (ISO) to International Relations Office (IRO)
• More clarity in IRO work and activities - introduction of different systems and guidelines to support our everyday work
• Prepared IRO guideline/ handbook / Fee and Financial Matrix/ Web-page/ Brochure, Different forms and formats to help us facilitate our work
• Working on Preparing Online Platforms
• Added one more Programme Coordinator to our IRO team in (March 2015) (Team Strength – 04)
• Collaboration with many prestigious Scholarships/ Fellowships and Consortium's
• As part of the EMINTE (Erasmus Mundus India To Europe Scholarship), we received a total of 20 scholarships (17 students, 2 Faculty Members and 1 Administrative Staff) - one of the highest number of scholarships received by any Indian partner.
• We are successful in receiving grants/ scholarship under the current Erasmus+ Application process with 3 International Universities that we jointly submitted.
• Introduced Double Layered Selection Process
• Handling on-campus accommodation facility - IRO hostels (7th Floor); IRO flats (1&2) and Service Apartments (701 & 703)
• On account of the Decade celebration of IRO in 2016 - IRO is very pleased to announce 02 Fellowships titled – 'TISS-IRO International Fellowship' for 01 PhD scholar and 01 TISS Staff on an annual basis.
• IRO has now been re-instated as an Independent Resource Centre