As part of India's commitment to international cooperation, especially south-south cooperation, India has been sharing its expertise and experience on oceanography with our partner countries.
In the Indian Ocean region, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (ESSO-INCOIS) is one of the few centres providing value added and comprehensive ocean-service products to a vast array of users (from fishermen folk to marine industries). INCOIS relies heavily on advances in satellite oceanography, modeling capabilities, and vast in-situ observation networks. INCOIS focus areas are mainly :
 Tsunami early warning
 Marine fishery advisory
 Ocean State forecast during severe weather events
 Coral bleaching alerts
 Coastal geospatial applications
 Updates on climate indices etc.
An International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean) was set up by the Ministry of Earth Sciences under Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) at the ESSO-INCOIS in Hyderabad in 2012.
ITCOocean shares the benefits of operational oceanography to the Indian Ocean Rim countries and other developing nations. More than 660 researchers, university students, state and central government officials, including around 100 foreign experts from 33 countries of the Indian Ocean region and from Europe have attended the training courses.
A state of the art E-class room is available with the facility to link different research centres, organizations and participants across the globe, making the training class room, a truly global classroom and providing seamless access of INCOIS training programmes to all interested participants.
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and ITCOocean signed an MoA in 2013 followed by a Letter of Intent between the Ministry of Earth Sciences and UNESCO in 2014, providing that INCOIS will be developed as a UNESCO "Category 2 Centre for promoting effective exchange of data and information on natural hazards; developing courses for early warning systems for disaster risk reduction; generating scientific methods for capacity development programs in GIS and remote sensing, etc. In 2015 ITCOocean was recognized as a Regional Training Centre (RTC) of the Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) to offer training in Operational Oceanography for the benefit of Indian Ocean Rim countries. Efforts are underway to upgrade the centre into Category-2 Centre of UNESCO.
India will continue to work to enhance the research and training capacities of INCOIS.