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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University held trainings within the Summer School "Research in Social Sciences" The one-week summer school aims at facilitating professors and researchers working in social sciences to improve the essential professional skills and improve the quality of research and pedagogic activities. The summer school strives to create a unified research space adapted to international standards in Georgia, the center of which will be located in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. The academic and research personnel involved in the preparation and implementation of the project will work on elaboration of the joint strategic plan
The target group of the summer school come from four high schools of Georgia - Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Gori State Teaching University and Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University professors and scholars who teach, explore and publish papers in social sciences.
The Summer School “Research in Social Sciences“ was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. The school was organized by Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University with the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University acting as a co-organizer.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted Terry Burte, Attaché of the French Embassy for the University and Research Cooperation and Professor Herve Chappert, Head of the Faculty of Tourism at Montpellier University. BSU Rector Merab Khalvashi and representatives of the Tourism Faculty held a meeting with the guests.

The goal of the visit was initiation and launching BA and MA programs at the Tourism Faculty, BSU, jointly with the Montpellier University of France. The parties discussed the exchange programs for students and professors, and prospects of the dual diploma programs for PhD studies in management.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and Frankfurt Wolfgang Goethe University and Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University jointly opened the annual summer school in digital humanities.
The international summer school has been held since 2012 to develop digital humanities in Georgia. The summer school will dwell upon and develop such studies as major principles of the digital humanities, language and culture documentation, acquaintance with such skills as Georgian and international resource application, methodology of field work etc.
BSU already offers Minor BA program in and the international PhD school in Digital Humanities. The summer school has attracted Georgian and international students from various universities.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted Professor Ashraf Helal, Faculty of Medicine Cairo Al-Azhar University and the President of the European and Mediterranean Association of Life Sciences, and research fellow Eman Helmy, Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology at Al-Azhar University. The parties planned prospects for cooperation, including implementation of joint research projects, and launch of exchange programs in phytopathological, biodiversity and natural sciences.

Academic council of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University elected BSU Honorary Doctor Professor Livio Zebrini of Italian Ferrara University. The professor of classical archeology Livio Zebrini Has contributed to the Georgian studies and in particular the Adjara archeology. He pioneered in establishing in Batumi an "International Center for Black Sea Studies Studies" which will coordinate development and implementation of the Georgian-Italian joint research and educational programs.
The Professor Zebrini is actively involved in studying Gonio-Apsaros cultural heritage. Last year Prof. Zebrini led the archaeological studies conducted in the central part of the castle. The expedition will be resumed this year.
BSU and Ferrara Universities signed Memorandum of cooperation in 2014. after which research and academic cooperation was further deepened. Prof. Livio Zebrini sponsored the Atskuri (Georgia) expedition, where a group of acheologists, headed by Prof. V. Licheli (Georgia) carried out excavations of the monuments dated back of the Roman period. Professor Zebrini published a monograph devoted to the Roman Age of Colchis (in Italian).