EPTRI has been a valued partner of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India (MEA, GoI) for the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme. Beginning with a few ITEC programmes, then as part of the TCS Colombo Plan, EPTRI has conducted forty-three (43) residential courses in the three (3) areas, water, urban development and climate change, of environmental policy sub-systems and has hosted four-hundred eighty-one (481) participants till 2019-20.

The broad areas under which EPTRI offers its training programmes are:

• 1. Environment and Climate Change and
• 2.Urban Planning

The courses offered by EPTRI are:

• 1. Environmental Impact Assessment: Development Projects (EIA: DP)
• 2.Solid Waste Management (SWM)
• 2.Urban Planning
• 3.Wastewater Treatment (WWT)
• 4.Environmental Management (EM)
• 5.Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)
• 6.Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CC & SD) and
• 7.Introduction to the 2030 Agenda
• 8.Integrated Approach to Climate Change Policy Development and Financing the SDGs.