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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University’s Faculty of Tourism sends 78 students to Germany’s high-class hotels from 10 June to 10 October in 2 stages. The 2 months internship for the students means learning of the theory and acquiring practical skills in the hotels. They will be able to learn about all the basic structural units of the hotels and will be engaged in the daily activities. The students will get international competencies for the future successful employment in the tourism market. The opportunity of the international internship is a result of the formal Memorandum of Understanding signed between BSU and German Baltic College Schwerin. The project of the internship was financially supported by the City Hall of Batumi and the Department of Sport and Youth Affairs, Adjara AR.

H.E. Martina Quick, Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Sweden to Georgia and Armenia and Professor Staffan Laestadius, Royal Institute of Technology, a senior advisor at Global Utmaning visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University during the days dedicated to the environment protection.
H.E. Martina Quick and Professor Emeritus Staffan Laestadius held a public lecture on ‘Climate Change Transitions, Changes, Experience and Potential for the Growing Economy’. Nino Chkhobadze, Head of the Georgian Green Movement, and Khatuna Chikviladze, Head of the Nature Explorers’ Union presented a project – ‘Let’s Clean Georgia’. The lecture continued in a question-and-answer format, the guests answered many questions of the students.

Professor Eva Sadovska, Bialystok Technical University, Poland, delivered the public lecture at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University on 6-8 June. The event was held at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The lecture gave an in-depth overview to the job market in the European Union, problems of the professional inertness and the employment policy of the EU.

Delegates of the ’Broader Perspective’, an initiative group from the Institute of Political Science (sciences po), Paris (iep), visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. 6 student-trainers held training for the BSU students for 5 days.
The students discussed the role of the media and nationalism during war and peace, their interrelation and the role of propaganda, and the Balkan war. The training dates are 6-10 June. The initiative group was hosted by Inga Shamilishvili, Vice Rector of BSU, who honored the visiting students with memorable gifts. The parties expressed readiness for the future collaboration.

Professor Emeritus Georg Lohman, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, delivered a public lecture for the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University students “National and International Public Sectors and Protection of Human Rights”.
The cycle of the public lectures ‘Presidential Collegium of the State Order’ has been held with the support of the Georgian President’s reserve fund. The project goal was to organize multiparty academic discussions around the state building issues, with the public engagement, e.g.
- Interrelation of the rule of justice state and democracy
- Role of the religion in the state and religious pluralism;
- The significance of the public space in the constitution developing process.
Professor Emeritus Georg Lohman focused to the national, international and transnational concepts of the human rights and talked about human rights and religious freedom. In the end of the meeting, Professor Lohman answered the students’ questions.