Union Government launched GIAN Scheme to boost higher education GIAN

Global Initiative of Academic Networks(GIAN)scheme to boost the quality of the country’s higher education through international collaboration launched at the Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar byHRD Minister SmritiIrani, and was started at IIT Kharagpur in the presence of R. Subrahmanyam(additional secretary for technical education), is inter-connected with the ‘Make in India’ campaign and the IMPRINT programme.

Key points:

• 10-day courses:3D Digitisation for Cultural Heritage at IIT Gandhinagar and Orthopaedic Biomechanics: Implants and Biomaterials at IIT Kharagpur.
• 201 courses approved under GIAN from among 495 courses so far.

Orthopaedic biomechanics courseby: Prof. NicoVerdonschot from the Netherlands