Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN)

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What is GIAN program?

Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education was launched in 2015. It is a program of Ministry of Human Resource and Development.

Aim: 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.

GIAN is envisaged to achieve the following objectives:

• To increase the footfalls of reputed international faculty in the Indian academic institutes.
• Provide opportunity to our faculty to learn and share knowledge and teaching skills in cutting edge areas.
• To provide opportunity to our students to seek knowledge and experience from reputed International faculty.
• To create avenue for possible collaborative research with the international faculty.
• Develop high quality course material in niche areas, both through video and print that can be used by a larger body of students and teachers.
• To document and develop new pedagogic methods in emerging topics of national and international interest.

What needs to be done to make our cities sustainable?

There is a need to harness the potential of urban information system and urban planning for making Indian cities more sustainable. All stakeholders should come forward with innovative and contextual solutions for Indian cities and create a model of a “living lab” by adopting a rural agglomeration in a nearby area which will transform into a township in the near future.

Way ahead:

India is the global host of the World Environment Day 2018, where the focus is on Sustainability and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals including SDG 11 which has a goal to “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. Now, it is the responsibility of all the stakeholders involved to achieve this goal in a timely manner.

What’s important?

• For Prelims: GIAN and its objectives.
• For Mains: Significance of GIAN and reforms in higher education, sustainable cities- need, significance, challenges and solutions.

Sources: pib.