The office of the Outreach Education Programme (OEP) facilitates Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati's (IITG) networking with institutions, universities, academic bodies, professional associations and schools within India. It facilitates cooperation, collaboration and confluence of education programmes, academic collaborations, scientific and technology mentoring and sharing of knowhow.

The Outreach office has special focus on North East India. IITG aspires to participate with and contribute towards educational, industrial and collaborative development activities in the north east region of India having geographically international borders with neighbouring countries. IITG operates through the office of OEP to reach out to all the seven sister states of north east India and Sikkim sharing its academic, research and social engineering innovation resources with both Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTI) and private sector institutions.

In alignment with its vision statement, IITG aspires through its outreach programme to build working relationships with the institutions in India including other IITs, CFTIs, educational institutions, industry and government professional societies and bodies.

Operations of the Outreach Office

1. Initiating academic collaborations and interactions with government organisations, scientific bodies, public sector undertakings and industry.
2. National internship programmes for students of other Institutions in India under GOI schemes.
3. Visiting faculty and student exchange short duration programmes under MOUs with other educational institutions.
4. Flagship national programmes such as Ishan Vikas.
5. Science popularisation programmes for schools, colleges, institutions in the North Eastern states of India - (a) Conducted at IITG, and (b) Organized at school/college/university.
6. Outreach activities such as interactions, educational group visits to departments and centres in IITG.
7. Community engineering and social innovation programmes with educational component in the North East.

Mentoring and Collaborations with Institutions

The outreach office interacts and supports new institutes and universities in India through MoUs wishing to work together with IITG. These outreach activities cover student exchange, faculty exchange, infrastructure know how transfer, expert assessments, facilitating Faculty members to register for PhD programme at IITG that are especially located in the North East which comprises of the following eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura.