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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University became the member of the consortium of the project “Modernization Internationalization Tools, Practices and Staff Competence to Support the Student-centered Learning in Eastern Partnership Universities- INTERTOOL” , financed by the Swedish Institute. In the frame of the project special seminars focused on improvement of the internationalization tools, identification of the common challenges and preparation of the new project proposal will be implemented for the consortium partner universities.

On February 26-27 the meeting in Stokholm was attended by the INTERTOOL project consortium members: Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Education, Associate Prof. Lela Turmanidze and the Head of the Quality Assurance Service of the University, Associate Prof. Anzor Beridze who presented the challenges of BSU at the meeting.

The coordinator of the mentioned project is the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (KTH).

BSU has been already a member of the Francophone University Agency for several months that envisages implementation of the joint projects. In the context of the event Muhamed Ketata, Regional Director of the Eastern and Central Europe of the Francophone University Agency, Tamar Garibashvili, Francophone University Agency Head in Georgia and Melody Shomen, teacher invited with the support of the Francophone University Agency visited BSU. Representatives of the Agency discussed the issues of future cooperation and defined the priorities at the meeting with the Deputies of the University Rector Tamar Siradze and Natia Tsiklashvili, the University professors, teaching staff and the students.

14 students of BSU will leave for the mobility in the leading universities of Europe in the frame of the ERASMUS+exchange programme. The students from various faculties will cover the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year in the universities in France, Austria, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Spain, Germany and Poland. Moreover, 6 students will continue their studies in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan in the frame of the memorandums concluded between BSU and the Universities.

In order to obtain the scholarship of the European Commission the students had to go through concurs based on 3 stages: exam in foreign language, evaluation and confirmation of the originality of the application and the relevant documents and the interview.

In the frame of the exchange programme Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University will be hosting 12 international students.

In the frame of the official visit Mr. Tornike Rizhvadze, Chairman of the Autonomous Republic of Ajara and Prof. Merab Khalvashi, Rector of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University met Prof. Tiit Land, Rector of the Tallinn University, Prof. Hendrick Voltan, Vice-rector of the University of Technology of Tallinn-TalTech- and the representatives of MEKTORY -the Centre of Innovations and Business.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is ranked as the third University among Georgian higher education institutions, in according to the data of distribution of the financed ERASMUS+MUNDUS exchange programmes and projects during 2015-2018. According to the statistics of the National ERASMUS+Office Georgia BSU implemented the exchange programmes for the students, professors/teaching and the administrative staff in the frame of 45 Partnership Agreement in the above given period. The University also got involved in 9 projects of the development of the higher education institutions and holds Juan Monet Summer School every year.