The Educators' Certificate Programme helps senior professionals, faculty, and L&D leaders translate expertise into teaching, executive education, and academic influence.
The National Education Policy 2020 recommends that institutions onboard Professors of Practice to bring greater industry relevance and contemporary business perspectives into the classroom.
As emerging technologies, changing consumer behaviour, and digital transformation reshape business, management education is being challenged to move beyond theory and deliver more practice-informed learning.
For experienced professionals, academicians, and learning leaders, this moment creates a unique opportunity to extend expertise into the classroom and shape future-ready leaders.
Source: Detailed Demand for Grants by Department of Higher Education, Parliamentary Standing Committee report.
Whether you are an academic seeking to drive business impact or a practitioner seeking to institutionalise your expertise, the ECP is designed to unlock cross-functional pathways across the education ecosystem.
Experience becomes powerful when it is translated into structured teaching, credible academic contribution, and learning experiences that shape future-ready leaders.
Take on teaching roles as visiting faculty or Professor of Practice.
Design and deliver executive education programmes.
Contribute to curriculum development across institutions.
Prepare for academic leadership roles.
Build a platform for structured thought leadership.
Professionals seeking to transition into academia and contribute as faculty or guest educators.
Industry experts aspiring to become Professors of Practice and bridge the industry-academia gap.
Faculty members and educators looking to elevate their teaching effectiveness and classroom impact.
Leaders involved in faculty development, learning strategy, and institutional capacity building.
The ECP is certified by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), making it one of the first programmes of its kind aligned with globally benchmarked management education standards.
The ECP is certified by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), making it one of the first programmes of its kind aligned with globally benchmarked management education standards.
AI is embedded across course design, curriculum development, case writing, assessment, and classroom engagement.
Learn alongside senior corporate practitioners, CHROs, L&D leaders, and academicians with diverse industry perspectives.
Learn from accomplished faculty and practitioners who bring academic insight, contemporary teaching methods, and leadership experience.
Translate industry expertise into engaging classroom experiences and relevant learning outcomes from day one.
Participants explore how AI can support curriculum development, case writing, simulations, personalised learning, and classroom engagement while building the broader capabilities required to excel in management education.
The ECP prepares you to move beyond subject expertise and become an educator who can shape thinking, influence practice, and create impactful learning experiences.
Create the course outline, learning objectives and session plan for a course where your expertise should be aligned with specific learning objectives.
Live cases that Integrate real world dynamics and academic frameworks, by leveraging public data and optionally your access to firms that exemplify the subject of learning.
ECP scholarship support is available for eligible applicants under the following categories:
The programme helps participants unlock value throughout the industry-academia ecosystem.
The faculty pool brings together distinguished academicians, globally recognised researchers, and accomplished industry leaders.
Vice Chairman, IIFR; Former Dean, ISB; Former Provost, Singapore Management University.
Professor of Marketing, UQ Business School; Visiting Professor of Executive Education & Research Fellow, ISB.
Visiting Professor at ISB, IIMA, CEIBS, IESE Business School, Rotman-Bocconi GEMBA, and BITSoM.
Backed by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, IIFR is building a future-focused ecosystem for practice-informed teaching, research, and academic leadership development.
The centre and its programmes are certified by the European Foundation for Management Development, an organisation associated with the highest standards of global management education quality.
Ready to embrace the pracademic journey?
The ECP programme fee is ₹5,00,000 plus applicable GST.
Special pricing is available for eligible participants joining the Founding Cohort. Please speak with the admissions team for the applicable offer and payment details.
No. The eight learning days are not conducted continuously.
They are spread across three alternate weekends during August and September 2026, followed by a four-month online mentorship by ECP faculty.
Participants do not need to travel to Delhi every week.
The programme helps experienced professionals and educators build capabilities across:
The programme is intended for experienced professionals, educators and academic leaders who want to contribute more effectively to teaching, executive education and institutional learning.
Admission is based on the applicant’s professional experience, profile, motivation and overall fit with the programme.
The next cohort schedule will be announced separately.
Candidates interested in a future cohort can share their details with the admissions team to receive updates when registrations open.
The ECP is not a placement programme and does not guarantee employment or faculty appointments.
It is designed to strengthen participants’ readiness for teaching, executive education, curriculum development and other academic opportunities.
The programme’s EFMD certification strengthens its academic credibility, but it does not automatically qualify or guarantee a faculty position at any university.
Each institution will assess candidates according to its own eligibility criteria, experience requirements and selection process.
Any financing or interest-free payment facility will be subject to the applicant’s eligibility and approval criteria.
The admissions team can share the latest available options and required documentation.
Participants will be evaluated through programme activities such as assignments, classroom participation, applied work and the mentored capstone project.
Successful completion will require participation in the scheduled learning days and completion of the required academic work.
The goal of ECP is to build independent PoP professionals who have the industry expertise and educators' skills to command hourly teaching rates at top B-schools. ECP cohorts will be eligible to participate in all the learning tables, discussions & networking opportunities organised by IIFR, including Pracademic Circle, a series of roundtables between faculty cohorts, deans & administrators, research scholars, corporate L&D teams, etc.
International Institute for Faculty & Research — for India and the Global South.
