TCOE initiative encourages wider participation from the industry. Apart from the principal industry sponsors, other organizations are welcome to join as Associate sponsors through signing of MoUs with the TCOE(s) of their choice.

Associate sponsors must commit a financial contribution which can be in the form of equipment required by the TCOE, institution of a Professorship chair or sponsorship of projects of mutual interest, with well defined objectives, investigators and budget, to be carried out by the institute’s faculty members. Associate sponsors can enter into IPR sharing agreements with the TCOE for the projects sponsored by them.

Close association with TCOE network will give the associate sponsor better access to host institutes’ seminar and training calendars and opportunities to avail of  the training facilities at concessional rates.