On October 8^th, Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University hosted the Chairman of Estonian-Georgian Community Zaza Tsereteli, Professor of Tallinn University of Technology, director and co-founder of E-MAP Foundation MTU Vlad Vernygora and other respectful guests as well. During the meeting the parties discussed about the elaboration of joint educational grants project in which TeSaU will be actively involved.

On September 25^th, Telavi State University hosted another consortium meeting within the framework of the international project “UNISON”. Representatives of foreign and Georgian universities attended the opening ceremony of “Science Festival 2018”. After Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the meeting participants visited Telavi State University as well. The project participants discussed about the implemented activities, talked about future plans and familiarized with the Innovation Center work.

On July 25th of the current year, an internal meeting took place at Telavi State University Library Hall. The meeting was arranged within the framework of the international project “INTEGRITY”.

Under  ERASMUS+ PRINTEL 585760-EPP-1-2017-1-AM-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP   project “Change in Classroom: Promoting Innovative Teaching & Learning to Enhance Student Learning Experience in Eastern Partnership Countries”,  working meeting with students and academic staff was held  at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University on July 13, 2018.

Terry Burte, French Embassy Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation is interested in the educational programs of Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University and potential of the field of agriculture.

Memorandum of cooperation with Frankfurt Integrative School will be renewed from the next year.

Chairperson of Southern Africa Georgia Chamber of Commerce Marius Heyns visited Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University on June 29th. On his initiative, a memorandum will be signed by Southern Africa Stellenbosch and Telavi State Universities. The memorandum provides exchange of students and staff, implementation of joint researches in the field of viticulture-winemaking.

Further training courses in using modern teaching technologies will be available for Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University academic staff and students from the new academic year at TeSaU. With that purpose, Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University representatives were at Barcelona (Spain) and Porto (Portugal) Universities on June 11-16, 2018.

Workshops, within the framework of the international project “INTEGRITY”, were held at Telavi State University on July 9, 10, 11. The workshops covered the aspects of teaching electronic systems.

On June 18-23, the next working meeting was held at Haifa University (Israel) within the framework of the EU funded international project DARE (“Developing Programs for Access of Disadvantaged Groups of People and Regions to Higher Education“). The meeting was attended by the project members and students from partner universities.

The next meeting under the EU funded project UNISON (University-Enterprise Cooperation via Spin-Off Companies Network) was held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on June 10-11. The meeting was about the quality of ongoing activities and work implemented under the project, evaluation procedures, development of website and virtual portal.

Virtual aspects of teaching and learning will be introduced at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University.

The next consortium meeting of the DARE Project, funded by the European Commission, was held at Sokhumi State University and Ilia State University on November 20-23.

Within the framework of the international Project UNISON, Santiago de Compostela University (Spain) hosted training for the Project member University representatives.

Wider objective:

Promoting Bologna process implementation through enhancing university-enterprise cooperating via spin-off companies best practices.

Specific Project Objectives:

Telavi State University representatives, under the international project – “UNISON” – attended the meeting at Berlin University of Applied Sciences.

Under the EU funded project “UNISON”, “The Incubator of Ideas” will be created at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University.

Business sector, existing in Kakheti, got a business proposal from Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University. In that regard, TeSaU Rector met with the representatives of different enterprises together with the international project – “UNISON” team members. During the meeting Irma Shioshvili spoke about the plan of establishing Technological Center at TeSaU and proposed entrepreneurs to have firm relations with the University.