MoU
The Outreach Office facilitites signing of MoUs by IITG with educational institutes and organisations of the country with added focus on Northeast India. Besides educational organisations, a few MoUs have been signed with organisations engaged in research based works focused on social upliftment and nation-building.
Focus North East
IITG aspires to participate with and contribute towards Educational, Industrial and Collaborative development activities in the North East region of India. IITG operates through the offices of the Dean OEP to reach-out to all the seven sister states of North East India and Sikkim so as to be able to share its academic, research and social engineering innovation expertise.
Sciences and Technology Popularisation Programmes
IITG hosts a large number of Student Science association who are involved in conducting Science popularisation programmes in the North Eastern states. The Dean - Outreach facilitates and supports activities of these bodies who travel deep into the region and conduct workshops, lectures, and demonstrations right at the door step of local schools, colleges and universities.
Navodaya Regional Science Congress
The Regional Science Congress, of all the 83 Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs) in the North-East of India has been conducted from 2nd to 7th December, 2018 at IIT Guwahati. About 160 students participated in the event, which was attended by the Assistant Commissioner, NVS along with 30 Principals and several teachers participated and co-organised the event. The programme included special lectures by the eminent faculty from different departments - Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Computer Science, Design, Nanoscience and Energy. Visits were conducted to research labs providing students with lab sessions, hands on exercises and experimental demonstrations.
NCERT - NTS Awardees Nurturance
Programme has been organized from 9th December to 13th December 2019. National Talent Search Awardees from all over the country attended a five-day programme addressed by Faculty of IITG. The programme included creativity sessions, visits and Lectures.
Science, Maths and Technology Shows/Camps/Workshops
The outreach office organises and conducts regional science congress and science technology camps regularly, upon requests for national level Schools such as Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jwahar Navodaya Vidyalaya and NCERT - National Science Talent training programmes on its campuses at Guwahati. So far over 2000 students have attended these residential events along with their teachers. Participants get to experience life at an IIT including its hostels, classroom and laboratories besides interacting with subject experts. Programme durations ranges from one to two weeks and is normally conducted during the beginning of winter vacations in December.
Ishan Vikas Programme
ISHAN VIKAS is an outreach programme coordinated by IIT Guwahati for school and engineering college students from the North Eastern states. The aim of the programme is to introduce students from NE states to high quality academia across the country and thus overview on the career opportunities for higher studies. The programme began with the initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2014.
From the winter of 2014 until the winter of 2017, 1743 school children (987 Boys and 756 Girls) from more than 170 schools have visited 24 institutes of higher education across India for a maximum period of 15 days. These institutes of higher education comprise of 15 IITs, 5 IISERs, 3 NITs and NIAS, Bangalore. In addition, 378 engineering college students (266 Boys and 112 Girls) in their final year were placed for summer internships in various institutions of higher education. These internships provided the students with experience and mentorship from renowned scholars across the country. Ishan Vikas programme has been popular and successful and IITG looks forward to its continuation.
NEDFi
A team of experts from IITG conducted project evaluation of recently completed studies under Techno Economic Development Fund, assessment of science curriculum in schools in North East, benchmarking with schools in Maharashtra, submission of final report to North Eastern Council. The Outreach office, IIT Guwahati collaborated with NEDFI (North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd.) to ascertain the standard of science education, the deficiencies of the curriculum, its ramification on the academic scenario and the scope for improvement therein. A concrete strategy to work towards the goal is currently being finalized.
FICE Intel IITG School Project
An MoU was signed between Outreach Education Program, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Foundation for Innovation and Collaborative Education (FICE) to conduct a three month programme to bridge the innovation gap between leading urban schools and schools that cater to the not so privileged. Institute received grant of Rs. 250,000.00 (Rupees Two Lakh Fifty Thousand Only) to implement the project. Six High Schools located in Guwahati, Nalbari are covered.
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan
Coordination of student activities at Uttarakhand, Dimapur, brainstorming sessions at Delhi.
Outreach Internship Programme for J&K Students in Collaboration with AICTE
Outreach Internship programme for J&K Students in collaboration with AICTE for undergraduate students from colleges of J&K for a duration of four weeks with partial financial support.
Internship Programmes for Engineering College Students of Assam
Internship opportunities are provided to Students from Assam based institutions to undergo internships in the Departments and Centers. At any given time, there are over 20 students undergoing these internships.
SAMEER
Providing support and hand holding in all administrative matters, aiding in collaborative research of the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology - GOI SAMEER is located in the IITG Campus
North East Institutions Conclave
The first Conclave of Heads of North East Institutions, CFTIs and Central Universities took place on 17th and 18th February 2020. Heads of institutes and faculty members from Northeast CFTIs and NITs attended the conclave during which Heads of IITG's departments and centres presented areas of potential cooperation. Four MoUs were signed.
Kendriya Vidyalaya, IITG
Dean, OEP, is the nominee chairperson on behalf of the Director of the IITG, Kendriya Vidyalaya Management Committee which looks after the governance of the school. Besides infrastructure, IITG supports the KV school located within its campus, in all its education and sports activities.
Educational Group Tour and Visits of Schools/College Students to IITG Campus
- Students from around 65 schools and colleges of the North Eastern states, West Bengal, Odisha, etc., have visited IIT Guwahati since October 2016. Each group size varies from a minimum of 15 students to a maximum of 100 plus.
- We welcome schools and Institutions intending to visit our departments and Laboratories in groups and interact with Faculty, Staff and Researchers. Since we have limited visiting time slots in a semester a minimum of 4 weeks of prior intimation is required to process a request.
- No hostel accommodation on campus is available at IITG during ongoing semesters.
- Hostel accommodation is extended to participants of officially organised outreach programmes by IITG.