{"id":38436,"date":"2023-12-03T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38436"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:31:30","slug":"gian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gian\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>About Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)<\/li>\n<li>Salient Features of GIAN<\/li>\n<li>Significance of GIAN Programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight years after its inception, the Ministry of Education is gearing up to restart the fourth phase of the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education was launched in 2015. It is a program of Ministry of Education.<\/li>\n<li>Aim: Tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India.\n<ul>\n<li>This will help augment India\u2019s existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India&#8217;s scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Objectives:\n<ul>\n<li>To improve the quality of higher education through international collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>To increase the touch of reputed international faculty to Indian academic institutes.<\/li>\n<li>To bring in International academic excellence in India&#8217;s higher education institutions.<\/li>\n<li>To augment the country&#8217;s existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India&#8217;s scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nodal Agency: IIT Kharagpur<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Salient Features of GIAN<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An honorarium is paid to the foreign experts to cover their travels and other expenses.<\/li>\n<li>Short term courses are conducted by these experts\/faculties in Indian Institutions.<\/li>\n<li>This programme was first launched to establish collaboration between India and The United States of America, but later, the scope of the programme was extended.<\/li>\n<li>The duration of courses differ for different courses. The minimum duration is one week and the maximum duration is 3 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>A lump-sum amount of up to US$ 8000 (~ \u20b97 lakh) for 12 to 14 hours of contact and up to US$ 12000 (~ \u20b912 lakh) for 20 to 28 hours of contact can be paid to the foreign experts covering their travel and honorarium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Significance of GIAN Programme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central government has spent at least \u20b9126 crore in payment to support foreign faculty\u2019s travel and honorarium since the inception of GIAN.<\/li>\n<li>Since the beginning of the scheme in 2015-16, 1,612 foreign faculty members have visited the country to deliver courses from 59 countries.<\/li>\n<li>As many as 692 (39%) of 1,772 courses were delivered in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses, while the second largest cohort of lectures, 436 (24.6%), took place in the National Institute of Technology (NITs).<\/li>\n<li>Up to 41.4% (668) of academicians who visited India belonged to the U.S. The rest consisted of experts from the U.K. (143), Germany (93), Canada (89), etc. Up to 72,000 Indian students directly benefitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Institute of Excellence?<\/h3>\n<p>Institute of Excellence was launched in order to empower the Higher Educational Institutions and to help them become world-class teaching and research institutions.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) Who built IISc Bengaluru?<\/h3>\n<p>The Indian Institute of Science was founded in 1909 as a result of the joint efforts of Jamsetji Nussarwanji Tata, the Government of India and the Maharaja of Mysore.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/after-covid-break-centre-approves-fourth-phase-roll-out-of-gian-scheme\/article67599029.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>After COVID break, Centre approves fourth phase roll-out of GIAN scheme<\/u><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/gian.iitkgp.ac.in\/cgenmenu\/guidelines#:~:text=GIAN%20is%20an%20evolving%20scheme,Short%20or%20Semester%2Dlong%20Courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IITKgp<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education was launched in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}