
Collaborations
Manish Arora collaborates with national and international academic institutions, research organizations, industry leaders, government bodies and non-profit organizations to foster innovation, interdisciplinary research and community development.













International partners

Johns Hopkins University
UGC Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Communication Design, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2013–14

Center for Social Design, MICA
MoE SPARC partner on the history of social design; guest advisor for the Gates Foundation ‘Records for Life’ challenge

Michigan State University
Department of Art, Art History & Design. MoE SPARC partner, 2019–2023

University at Buffalo, SUNY
Visiting Scholar under the BHU and University at Buffalo exchange, 2010
BTB ART Group

Plymouth College of Art
Now Arts University Plymouth. Department of Photography. Virtual photography exchange (Nov 2021 to Feb 2022) and an international photography competition for World Photography Day 2021
National

Ministry of Education
NDIN (National Design Innovation Network) and Open Design School

ICSSR
Indian Council of Social Science Research
MoE SPARC
Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration
PMMMNMTT
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching

World Bank
With the Ministry of Education

AICTE Innovation Cell
New Delhi

NITI Aayog
New Delhi
NIESBUD
Ministry of Skill Development, Govt. of India

D’Source
IDC, IIT Bombay

Woxsen University
Hyderabad
ATLAS SkillTech University
Mumbai

Srishti Manipal Institute
Of Art, Design and Technology
Areas of collaboration
Ventures and IP
GreenBit / CEWA
Carbon Emission Tool for Digital Advertising, incubated at BioNEST BHU
Mother Intelligence (MI vs AI)
Cultural Intelligence Framework, registered at BHU IPRTTC
UI vs AI
At the conceptual stage
rAशN Research Adda
Design research brand identity