The Center for International Research, Education, and Development (CIRED) is a university-wide center within Virginia Tech’s Division of Outreach and International Affairs (OIA). It supports the university’s international mission by identifying and pursuing partnerships and funding opportunities for Virginia Tech faculty members in order to advance the university’s discovery, teaching and outreach missions through work in developing countries.  

CIRED matches university expertise and experience to sponsors’ objectives in order to win funding for projects that improve people’s lives. In doing so, CIRED enriches the international dimension of the university’s curriculum and research. This engagement strengthens faculty and student capabilities for high-quality, multidisciplinary international engagement.

Our role as a global land-grant university is to make education and research portable, so that our students and faculty members can work and learn anywhere in the world. We enhance the impact of our research by supporting scholarship, promoting collaboration across disciplines, and lowering the barriers to global partnerships 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is a public land-grant university serving the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world community. The discovery and dissemination of new knowledge are central to its mission. Through its focus on teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement, the university creates, conveys, and applies knowledge to expand personal growth and opportunity, advance social and community development, foster economic competitiveness, and improve the quality of life.  

Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 240 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 33,000 students and manages a research portfolio of more than $504 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across
Virginia.  

Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).