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Summer School “Modern Approaches of the Study in the Field of Education” has been opened at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. During 5 days trainers R.Jefferson George and David Darsavelidze will introduce the modern research methodologies in the field of education to the participants of the training. The Summer School will involve Phd students of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University and the persons interested in research in the field of education. The Summer School is organized by the BSU and Know-how Training Centre in the frame of the student project of TSU.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Georgia Radu Liviu Horumba visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. At the meeting with Prof. Tamar Siradze, Deputy Rector of BSU and Nana Kurshubadze, Deputy Head of the Department of Strategic Development and International Relations, the representative of the diplomatic corps spoke about the directions of future cooperation. The parties agreed to strengthen the cooperation with higher education institutions of Romania and implement joint educational projects. Following the agreement between the parties the exhibition “Summary of the Towns, European Squares and their Histories” will be held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in July.

BSU hosted the meeting of the representatives of the consortium member universities and the International Advisors’ Board in the frame of the ERASMUS+ CBHE grant project „InnoCENS Project“. 30 participants from Georgia, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Belarussia, Armenia and Kazakhstan summarized the two year work results of the project and competition of the Innovative Business Ideas held in BSU.

The three year project “Enhancing Innovation Competences and Entrepreneurial Skills in Engineering Education (InnoCENS)”, with the involvement of BSU, has been being implemented since 2016.

The BSU Innovative Centre equipped with the modern technologies procured in the frame of the grant project has been opened at BSU. An Entrepreneurial Day, Study Course – Entrepreneurship in Engineering and the Competition of the Innovative Business ideas have been implemented at BSU on the basis of the Innovative Centre. 23 teams comprised of the BSU students participated in the competition at the end of which the winner has been revealed; the winner of the competition will be sent to the Technical University of Valencia to participate in the semi-final.

The workshop in the frame of the project of the Institutional Support “Raising Research Capacity of Georgian HEIs through Developing R&D Units (HERD)“ (Erasmus+Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) has started at BSU. The aim of the project is to improve the potential of research existing in the country though the development of the research services in Georgian Universities. The three day workshop involves about 30 representatives of the Georgian and International universities.

In the frame of the project the Integrated Management System of the Research in Georgia is being created that, with the coordination of Tbilisi State University, will involve 12 Higher Education Institutions of the country, 5 governmental agencies and 3 European universities (Germany, France).

The two year project aims at modernization of research services of the Member Universities, enhancement of the research potential and quality, integration of the teaching/learning and research components at the institutional level. It is planned to create the integrated research platform for 12 Georgian universities as well as the Internet Research Portal for Georgia, develop the skills for the research management and the processing of the data analysis for the Administrative staff and support the enhancement of the research potential.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Georgia Dessislava Ivanova visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. Representative of the Diplomatic Corps met Prof. Merab Khalvashi, Rector of BSU. Parties talked about the directions of the future cooperation as well as planned to put the ERASMUS+project exchange programmes between BSU and the Bulgarian universities in operation and deepen the collaboration with the universities in Bulgaria.