MHRD-approved GIAN courses at University of Mysore

The University of Mysore (UoM) launched courses under the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) approved by Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The courses are Quantitive Climate Finance, Social Entrepreneurship, Environmental Finance, Introductory Course on Design for Development and eXtensible Business Reporting Language. While the Quantitive Climate Finance course commenced from Monday, the remaining courses will begin by end of December or in January 2017.

Tapping int’l talent pool

GIAN aims at tapping an international talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs to encourage their engagement with institutions of higher education in India.

It is basically an attempt to enrich our systems of education by garnering best international experience and enable interaction of students and faculty with the best academic and industry experts from all over the world.

The primary objective of ‘Quantitive Climate Finance’ is introduction to climate with a focus on quantitative modelling, discussion of stochastic valuation methods for financial contracts related to climate, building confidence and capability of course participants to analyse the environment-friendly investments, to evaluate effectiveness of regulatory markets and to test the strengths of certified emission reductions and carbon credit market.

Effective introduction

The course on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ is designed to provide youths an effective introduction to social enterprises. The course structure focuses on an all-round perspective of social enterprises with both theoretical and practical insights.

While ‘Environmental Finance’ course is aimed at students and industry professionals who are active in areas that interface economics, finance, environment and sustainable development.

The introductory course on ‘Design for Development’ is designing with a social purpose to support millions of poor people who long for a better life and ‘XBRL’ is enabled to explore, identify, describe and evaluate technology and accounting issues and problems and their potential solutions that are related to the eXtensible Business Reporting Language in online financial reporting.