Foreign Activities Registration

Objectives & Benefits

There is currently no central repository for information about global activities, so the data required must be requested from the academic units of the University. By registering your project you are:

Enabling Stanford to better support global academic activities

The registration database will be used to inform the development of new tools and services to better support global academic activities.

Benefits:

  • Enabling the coordination of safety and security programs for Stanford's students and personnel while working in a foreign location.
  • Establishing the necessary infrastructure support services and processes for starting up and sustaining international activities.
  • Providing operating "synergies" through knowledge and resource sharing in the interest of international cost containment

Enabling Stanford to meet compliance obligations

The University must comply with new reporting mandates from the IRS. These include identification of programmatic foreign activities, and associated foreign expenditures.

Benefits:

  • Ensuring compliance with laws, regulations and employment practices whether international, local or U.S. with respect to the fulfillment of Stanford's mission

Creating visibility for your project on the Stanford Global Gateway web portal

The Global Gateway highlights the array of global activities undertaken across the University. It is accessible by the Stanford community, peer collaborators, students, potential funders, and others. (Note: Should you not wish your project to appear on the University's web site, an "opt-out" choice is provided.)

Benefits:

  • Promoting coordination of the University's global strategic direction.
  • More effectively promoting Stanford's international programs, projects and activities.
  • Facilitating international inter-faculty initiatives and collaboration.