Last Updated: 22 Oct 2025

Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)

The scheme attracts international scientists and entrepreneurs to collaborate with Indian higher education institutions. Visiting faculty deliver specialized courses, mentor students, and engage with local counterparts.

  • Aim: Tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India.
  • Faculty from highly rated institutions abroad will visit India, interact and partner with their counterparts and with students, and deliver specialised courses.
  • The lectures under GIAN would be made available to the students across the country through the SWAYAM, the MOOCs platform and the National Digital Library.
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