This is a good course overall, with good discussions, topics and content. The Bocconi tutor is clearly knowledgeable of the subject and I learned several things I did not know about PPPs.

There are however many things that are frustrating with this course. The assignment tests is one of them. They are written in poor English and clearly not checked by an English native. Also, the pass rate of 80% and the way it is calculated is very annoying. There must be a better way to test this subject on. For instance, if you select the wrong answer in a question, maybe link it to the course content where you can find the information, or explain why it is wrong in the answer sheet.

The course also needs an update - I believe this was done in 2015. A lot of talk about the financial crisis in 2008/09.

In general, I still don't think I hav a good concept of PPPs after taking this course. Too little time spent on the actual structure, the different types of contracts, consortium trade-offs, key contracts and key negotiating items, more examples of successful and unsuccessful PPPs, how the market has developed (e.g. private infrastructure market and PPP share of private), new trends in the industry, drivers of PPP growth, and more.

I still give it a four but would have given it 3.5 if I could. I do however appreciate that they put this course together and it is well worth taking.

I enjoyed the course and it is quite light for project finance and I would think that this should act as an intro course for a second more complex course dealing with the actual complexities of project finance. Such as real financial close considerations in developed and emerging markets, early stage sub performance and restructuring as well as refinancing. I would also think that more time should be allocated to project bonds and use of derivative structures on securing cash flows and working ratios to support competitive financing and projects. There were highlights on impacts of Basel on long tenor financing, but more market considerations of new players and structures would have been invaluable.

Professor Gatti established an unhurried and well-paced journey through Project Finance, covering it from several logical angles. He has a great presenting manner and is very confident without being arrogant. I really learnt a lot. The videos are great, although the tutorials with his students/assistants seem a little too contrived, and the English on the transcripts is incorrect in some cases. The downloadable spreadsheets and quizzes are really helpful, and I will keep the former (having corrected the typo of 'UCFC' to 'UFCF'.

Thank you Professor Gatti ! (and PS you wear great ties)

A comprehensive course for an introduction to project finance. It could have been even better if more advanced, detailed real life cases are included (e.g. what happens when obligations of contracts violated, what are the cases when precautionary terms worked (or not) to save the project, some examples where the model could only be built with specific interventions etc.). Or an advanced version of this course could be designed. Even more, a certification process could be arranged regarding the limited variety of certificates that Coursera offers.

Useful top-view discussion of the key elements and concepts in project finance, great for having basic understanding of the theme without prior requirements tof having knowledge in finance or legal. Professor's lectures are well organized and performed. The students in the video look intimidated and hurt, though, and they are steadily leaving the leader up to the point, when there is only one left at final lectures. Hope, they are good and not severely traumatized by video production.

Course was very well organized and presented. Concepts were straightforward and presented in logical order. The network of contracts, syndication of loans and tailor-made amortization were extremely useful. Week 7 cases were very interesting and provide additional insight into the complexity of infrastructure projects. Thank you for offering this course.

The course if very useful to organize the topics of project finance for the ones who work daily with it. For me that work in the brazilian development bank it also helped to undertand better how it works in other markets. Maybe the course should have more data and bibliography for further studies and more real cases studies over the world.

A very good introductory course on the topic. Explanations are clear and the vocabulary given is useful.

Only slight are the questionnaires at the end of each week that are really trying to play on words to trick you, forcing you to answer the same questions multiple times if you try to answer without the slides next to you.

Useful course on Project finance / infrastructure. And, this course is need of hour for any finance professionals who want to enrich their further knowledge on project finance practices.

Great faculty members and great topics covered as part of this course.

Would recommend for all BFSI professionals to enroll this course.

It's quite a nice course. It gives you a thorough overview of the particularities of infrastructure investing. The quizes are well done, they really force you to pay attention to the content.

The audio was not always top notch, which made it difficult to set the playback speed; but overall, pretty solid course.

It was highly interesting and I got a better vision of how project finance actually works. However I was surprised to find some strange bias (no reinvestment opportunity) or some little mistake in the materials. Anyway, thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn more about a passionating topic!

A very good introduction to project finance. A lot of new terms are presented and explained in an interesting way, the questions and tasks within each quiz are well chosen, the pacing of the overall course feels very good and the presentations are available as practical pdfs for review.

I am a project finance professional and I found this course extremely beneficial for providing a background for why project finance works the way it does. I will be recommending this course to junior colleagues as a project finance primer. Thank you for putting it together.

Very good introduction to project finance. I would have enjoyed more detailed and complex exercises with a walkthrough on how to complete them.

Also, after the submissions of the tests, it would have been greatly useful to have a full explanation of why an answer was wrong.

Would be 5 stars if it was updated for 2023, excellent nonetheless. You will learn a lot about the actual best practices, not just the possibilities. Would have loved a full Excel model for a case scenario, but section examples are largely enough for comprehension.

I pleased to this course because they have cleared explanation and simple logoc about financing and investing in finance. I just ask to update the case and give some advice about career by learnt from this course. Encourage every people to study this!

Overall a good course and I would recommend. Since the weekly tests require you to do calculations, examples should be worked through for students e.g. calculating the LLCR. Some of the English translations were off and could be phrased better.

Great course - I learnt a lot about project Finance. However, sometimes I am confused about the way the Professor explains topics in his use of English. Nevertheless, interesting course and fantastic way to start understanding project finance.

A very comprehensive course covering all aspects of the project finance. Loved the setting of the video sessions in an interactive style. However, the grading system could have improved as they do not allow fractional marks for MCQs.

The course touches base on all key aspects of project finance for infrastructure projects. Additional chapters could be added about: risk mitigation instruments, ESG and sustainable finance frameworks, risk premium calculation, ...

The course provides a structured and detailed orientation to project financing in infrastructure sector. The accompanied materials, quizzes, exercises help your understand and retain the basic concepts of Infrastructure financing

The course is simply fantastic. I gave 4 stars because it was focusing a lot on theory and the quizzes had more theoretical rather than practical exercises. But overall incredibly helpful and Professor Gatti is really good!

The course was well structured and informative, with great case studies supplementing the information. The answers to a few of the exam questions however contradicted the course material and should be reviewed for accuracy.

Overall the course was very good although some of the concepts were not 100% clear and some of the question tests were also not clear. There is small room for improvement but overall enjoyed the course and learnt alot!

The course is very well designed and includes latest trends in project financing. However, I would suggest to include the impact of latest trends in construction sector like BIM, Lean etc on the project financing.