A constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)
(AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATION UNDER THE DEPT. OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH, MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, GOVT. OF INDIA)
CSIR promotes international S&T networking with a belief that sharing of knowledge is like international trade; both parties benefit, and the total amount of knowledge exchanged is greater than the sum of knowledge actually exchanged. ISTAD plays a key role in fostering and expanding CSIR’s international partnerships by initiating new cooperation tools with leading international agencies across the globe, managing/supporting collaborative projects, joint/international workshops and conferences, training programs, and facilitating networking through scientific visits of CSIR delegations/scientists abroad and of foreign delegations/researchers to CSIR and its research institutes.
International S&T cooperation activities of ISTAD could be divided into three broad categories:
