Under its mandate to strengthen people-to-people contact between India and other countries, ICCR facilitates visits of performing/visual artistes, choreographers, curators, scholars, authors, academicians abroad to participate/perform in international events/festivals/seminars/conference or to give lectures/talk on the field of his/her expertise. The facilitation is done by providing to and fro Economy Class air-ticket from a city in India to a city abroad where the participant has been invited by the host organization/institution/university. The request of the participant is evaluated on the basis of his/her credentials, field of expertise, theme of the project, credentials of the host organization and its willingness to acknowledge/publicize the support of ICCR, recommendation of the concerned Indian Mission/Post, availability of funds with ICCR etc. The recipient of the travel grant is expected to submit a detailed report after his/her visit with the ICCR.
