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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden to Georgia Ulrik Tideström has paid the visit to Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. During the meeting with Merab Khalvashi, Rector of BSU, professors, and students, the diplomat talked about cultural-educational relations, directions of future cooperation and exchange programs between the two countries. At the end of the meeting, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Georgia, Ulrik Tideström answered the students` questions. During the visit, a photo exhibition depicting the efforts of Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg was held at the BSU, which saved the lives of up to 10,000 Jews during the Holocaust during World War II.

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program, funded by the EACEA of the European Commission has been presented at Shota Rustaveli State University of Batumi. The National Erasmus + office of Georgia representatives Tata Lortkipanidze and Nino Urushadze introduced the students from different faculties the opportunity of studying at JMD programs and conditions of taking part in the call for application. As part of the Erasmus + program, the EACEA of the European Commission announces the call for applications at 123 JMD programs, which are implemented by universities from different European countries.

British Ambassador Justin McKenzie Smith has met with students of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University within the frames of the UK-Georgia 2019 season. The representative of the diplomatic corps talked about the distinguishing friendly relations between the UK and Georgia and focused on the launch of joint exchange programs and the implementation of the internship programs. At the end of the meeting, the British Ambassador answered the students` questions.

Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller met the students from western Georgia higher education institutions at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. At the meeting, the Deputy Secretary General spoke about the NATO-Georgia relationship, the world security challenges and the mechanisms for dealing with it together with the students and answered some questions from students. At the end of the meeting, Rector of BSU Merab Khalvashi expressed gratitude towards Rose Gottemoeller for the visit and handed a book "Treasure of Adjara" and a map of Georgia with the logo of NATO made by BSU Fablab.
The event was moderated by the former Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia, Mikheil Darchiashvili.
Rose Gottemoeller is visiting Georgia in the framework of the North Atlantic Council Meeting. The event was organized by the Information Center on NATO and the EU of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and is the launch event of the Center`s annual project - NATO Days 2019.
NATO Days in Georgia will be held from October 3 to October 31 and aims at informing Georgian citizens about the mechanisms and perspectives of cooperation between Georgia and NATO.
In the framework of NATO days, about 70 educational and cognitive events will be conducted in Tbilisi as well as in 10 regions of Georgia.

Within the framework of the 8th International Summer School of Digital Humanities "Digital Kartvelology and Caucasus Studies," an international workshop was held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University on issues of documentary and corpus linguistics. European expert Jost Gippert, director of the Empirical Linguistics Department, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, German, and Diana Forker, professor at the University of Jena and Head of the Department of Caucasus Studies, delivered lectures on the following topics: “Text Corpus, as a Basis for Historical Research" and "Digital Dictionaries of Caucasian Languages”.
At the workshop, students were introduced to topical issues such as: Defining Digital Kartvelology and Caucasiology as a New Direction and Developing a Theoretical Framework, Modern Research Methods and Introducing to Necessary Tools for Creating Multidisciplinary Resources in Digital Kartvelology and Caucasiology (Multimedia format files: EAF and FLEX files, XML format). European experts also introduced the achievements and development prospects of Digital Kartvelology, Georgian and international electronic resources of the given profile (ARMAZI, ECLinG, CauPal, SSGG, GeoPal, GDC, GNC, DigiArchive, Spoken BNC2014, ELDP-SOAS) to the young people.