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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted Erasmus Academic and Administrative Staff Exchange project events on 29 May – 2 June; The international week participants were delegates from the Angel Kanchev University, Ruse, Bulgaria, and Bialystok Technological University, Poland. The delegates introduced themselves to the educational programs and the academic life of BSU as well as to the Georgian Culture.
Members of the delegation, Desislava Atanasova, Plamenka Kristova, Kritina Emelianova, Milena Dimitrova Popova, Tsvetlana Atanasova Shenkova, Kristina Emelianova and Administrative staff Eva Petrova Parvanova and Kristina Mirosvska gave public lectures for the students of social and political sciences. The delegates also presented their universities.
The participants of the eventful international week have agreed on the implementation of the joint academic and scientific projects, involvement of various academic fields into the exchange programs, and development of the joint BA and MA educational programs.

Faculty of Tourism at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is a participant of the 10th anniversary international exposition of ‘Tourism and Hotel Equipment’. The Students and the Professors will present to the visitors the educational programs, the information about the study at BSU, and the student life. The three day’s exposition includes exhibits from 80 companies from 7 countries.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University held a joint international scientific conference devoted to the 25th anniversary of Georgia-Ukraine diplomatic relations. ‘Ukraine and Georgia, Diplomatic Relations, International Ties, Culture Diplomacy’ featured discussions on the urgent issues at the sessions of three panels during two days. The scholars and diplomats from Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, and Romania presented 40 papers to the academic audience.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University celebrated European Days with several events. The Students of the Social and Political Studies held a Flashmob imitating the visa free border crossing. Assistant Professor Lasha Bazhunaishvili and Gela Iremadze delivered public lectures on the topic European Unification Idea and Contemporary Challenges of European Union.
The Faculty of Humanities, including the departments of the Slavic Studies, Georgian Philology, English, French and German Philologies, arranged information corners about Europe. The other European information corners were represented by the BSU Department of Strategic Development and International Relations, the NATO and the EU Information Center and the Center for International Education`s Office of Batumi. The verse reading performance "We read Shakespeare" invited both students and professors to read sonnets by Shakespeare in European Languages.
Under the auspices of the European days several interesting events included presentation on the European identities and the songs performed by the Georgian and international students and

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University celebrated US-Georgia 25 years of friendship anniversary. The festive events dedicated to the diplomatic relations of the two countries continued for a week. The Consulate at the US embassy, International Development Agency (USAID), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) held exhibitions introducing the culture, exchange and grant projects which the US Government implements in Georgia. The US Week ended with a concert given by the BSU Band, ‘Helomaniakk’ (a rock-group) the hip-hop performance by the ’Two Step Crew’ and Levan Laghidze Girls’ Choir. The 25th anniversary of the US-Georgia diplomatic relations was attended by Charles F. Seten, the US Embassy economic officer. BSU Rector Merab Khalvashi, Vice Rectors Natia Tsiklashvili and Tamar Siradze hosted the events.