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What is GIAN?
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani has given a call to all higher educational institutions in the country to make the best use of the Global Initiative of Academic Network (GIAN). GIAN brings into practice the belief of \'Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam\'.
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani has given a call to all higher educational institutions in the country to make the best use of the Global Initiative of Academic Network (GIAN). GIAN brings into practice the belief of 'Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam'.
The Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) is a new and catalytic programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, one with potentially far reaching impact. It is intended to enlarge and deepen the interface of India’s institutions of higher learning and globally recognised institutions of academic eminence.
Over the next year or so, faculty from highly rated institutions abroad will visit India, interact and partner with their counterparts and with students, and deliver specialised courses. The two courses - one at IIT Gandhinagar and the other at IIT Kharagpur – launched marking the starting points. In the weeks and months to come, the academic interface will enlarge, and increasingly enable international academic collaboration.
Most importantly, the GIAN programme offers a basis and a platform for a long-term cooperation. Faculty from 38 countries are presently scheduled to deliver courses, which will span 13 disciplines and 352 courses to be taught in 68 national institutions. Webcasting will allow students across the country to benefit, in real time, providing access to high quality educational content.
To encourage and make possible continued access to course content and delivery, it would be placed on the website of the concerned institution. GIAN aims at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs to engage with the institutes of higher education in India to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reforms, and further strengthen India's scientific and technological capabilities.
It is not just the institutes classified as 'nationally important' but, engineering institutes across the country have an opportunity to send MHRD proposals to initiate these elective courses.
