The International Office is responsible for:
- Advise, implement and assess IST’s internationalization strategy;
- Ensure and support IST partnership in the European Institute of Technology (EIT);
- Coordinate IST participation in CLUSTER, TIME, CESAER and MAGALHÃES and other international networks that IST will join;
- Identify opportunities for new international cooperation agreements with universities, R&D centres, industry and companies;
- Prospect and prepare proposals for international projects (e.g. Erasmus Mundus) and insure its development;
- Identify funding opportunities and projects, and disseminate them at IST;
- Give support and advice to IST professors and researchers in the preparation of proposals.
The Mobility and International Cooperation Office is responsible for:
- Coordinate mobility programmes;
- Implement and renew agreements;
- Disseminate mobility programmes to students;
- Support with administrative and internal academic procedures for incoming and outgoing students;
- Assist foreign students and researchers with visas, contracts, scholarships and social security;
- Provide Housing services for international students and researchers;
- Organise Welcome sessions for incoming students at the beginning of each semester;
- Coordinate foreign visitors (teaching and non-teaching staff) under the different mobility programmes, including prospective institutions;
- Organise and participate in national and international events;