Ongoing Projects
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Role of Universities in the Regional Development RURD The aim of the project is to make Georgian regional HEIs more relevant to the communities and regions they are located and to serve as a basis for regional development. Objectives of the project are: •to develop mission, vision and strategic development plans for regional universities based on SWOT analysis and local needs analysis in cooperation with local authorities and social partners •to increase cooperation between Universities and Local Government Authorities to increase their capacity and enhance specification of each region •to improve and modernize the management structures in universities of Georgia and make their administrative structures compatible with those of the European universities by gathering and sharing best practices from EU Partners
GEORGIAN PARTNER HEIs: 9 regional universitiesEU PARTNERS
GOVERNMENT / NON HEI PARTNERS
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PRINTeL The PRINTeL Project, entitled “Change in Classroom: Promoting Innovative Teaching and Learning to Enhance Student Learning Experience in Eastern Partnership Countries”, is a Multi-Country, three-year duration Joint Project funded by the ERASMUS+ CBHE programme of the EU (registration number: 585760-EPP-1-2017-1-AM-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP / 2017-3076/001-001). The Project intends to implement significant change in the ways teachers are teaching and students are learning nowadays by promoting innovative and technology enhanced teaching & learning (T&L) with the ultimate aim of enhancing student learning experience in Armenian, Georgian and Belarusian partner universities. The aims of the Project are: • To enhance student learning experience in the partner countries (PC) in accordance with the ET 2020 objectives by promoting development and innovation in teaching & learning (T&L), supporting integration of technology and research, and dissemination of good practice. • To modernize HE in AM, GE and BY in line with the Bologna agenda and to establish cooperation in education & training between EU and the partner countries and amongst PCs by promoting virtual mobility of teachers and students, and enhancing lifelong learning resources & means. These aims will be achieved through completion of the following specific objectives: 1. To strengthen Teaching Staff Development Centres (TSDC) in the PC HEIs by enhancing capacities of staff and trainers, modernizing infrastructure and introducing innovative teacher training and academic leadership programmes. 2. To build up capacities of the partner HEIs’ teaching staff by developing their innovative and technology-enhanced T&L skills and abilities of competency- and research-based teaching. 3. To establish a Virtual Academy of Teaching & Learning (VATL) as an international community of teachers, staff and students interested in using and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) for the improvement of technology-enhanced T&L. 4. To promote greater awareness on the types and methods of innovative and technology-enhanced T&L and to disseminate best practices within and between HEIs in the PCs. See official web page of the PRINTeL project https://www.printel.am/uploads/page/pdf_en/PRINTeL%20Leaflet_Final.pdf https://printel.am/uploads/page/pdfs/PRINTeL%20e-Newsletter-1.pdf https://www.facebook.com/printel.tesau https://www.facebook.com/ErasmusPlusPRINTeL/ https://printel.am/uploads/page/pdfs/PRINTeL%20e-Newsletter_2.pdf Erasmus + KA2 "Raising Research Capacity of Georgian HEIs through Developing R&D Units (HERD)" Project reference number: 598207-EPP-1-2018-1-GE-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (2018-2578 / 001 – 001) The project aims to upgrade the research capacity of Georgian universities through developing the R&D units within the target universities. In order to achieve this aim, the following objectives are set: · To establish a joint research platform that would facilitate the planning, implementation and evaluation of research activities in the target universities. · To create an Online Georgian Research Portal that will display the state-of-the art information on the activities, human resources and infrastructure of the academic institutions in Georgia. · To upgrade the research management and data analysis skills of university administrative personnel for producing high quality research management, analyzing institutional research data and providing ground for further forecasting and strategic planning. · To enhance the capacity of the target universities in respect to research transfer and university-industry collaboration. Project Partners from “Program Countries” 1.Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD) – Germany; 2. Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) – France; 3. University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) – France; Georgian partners:
Learning Optimization and Academic Inclusion via Equitativa Distance Teaching and Learning (LoveDistance) Project aims to promote inclusive education in Israel and Georgia by widening access to higher education for potential and existing students. Specific objectives are: build capacities in Israel and Georgia that will enable their HE systems to accommodate effective distance learning programs; develop curricula offer in Israel and Georgia based on distance learning, that responds to the requirements for equity and accessibility of the partner countries HE systems to improve the educational integration of disadvantaged learners in their educational system; to coach and train faculty members, professional and administrative staff on the design, development, implementation and quality assessment of e/blended-learning and distance education courses; raise the public awareness of access to, equity, and democratization of HE, to promote social inclusion; facilitate transfer of best practices to expand access to, participation in, and successful completion of distance learning programs. Project coordinator: Polytechnic University of Porto https://lovedistance.eu/?lang=geo&fbclid=IwAR2HFfE8OnSzAvCSvkElqLPhtEZMQyOgrI3gjhQPzjr_0dy595GrPTQjFqI ESTA
Establishment of Psychological Counselling Centers at Georgian HEIs for Students E-PSY (617980-EPP-1-2020-1-GE-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP) Georgia ESTA Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/764030350800443/
HERIPRENEURSHIP Establishing partnerships and create investment opportunities in tourism, cultural and creative industries at UNESCO areas (BSB 831-HERIPRENEURSHIP)
(BSB 831-HERIPRENEURSHIP) _ “Establishing Long-Lasting Partnerships to Upgrade Heritage-Based Offers and Create New Investment Opportunities in Tourism and the Cultural and Creative Industries at UNESCO Designated Areas in The Black Sea Basin”. http://heripreneurship.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2_HiuF0NNp6q3iF5bFr1a05LukOu__qm8DFO6eP8nWnqHU--kdJbzzg3A
Specific objectives of the project are: With the aim of raising mental health awareness among the students, academic and administrative staff of the partner universities, and wider audience, in general, it is planned to hold public information campaigns in the following regions of Georgia: Shida Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samegrelo, Adjara, and Samtskhe-Javakheti. As a result of the campaigns, the students and the wider audience will become better informed about the importance of psychological couselling and mental health. With the establishment of psychological counselling centers, the students of the partner higher education institutions will receive psychological counselling and assistance upon their request. The psychologists and counsellors will undergo special training at the Universities of Economy in Bydgoszcz and Transylvania University of Brasov, as well as participate in the workshops and seminars organized by Georgian and European specialists. By the end of the project, the consortium will develop specific recommendations and legislative documentation for policy makers. To ensure the sustainability of the project, an Association of University Psychological Counselling Centers of Georgia will be established. Sokhumi State University (Project Coordinator)Transilvania University Of BrașovSTEPs (Strategies Nd Tools To Enhance People’s Skills)Batumi Shota Rustaveli State UniversitySamtskhe Javakheti State UniversityGori State Teaching UniversityKutaisi UniversityShota Meskhia State Teaching University Of ZugdidiIakob Gogebashvili Telavi State UniversityMinistry Of Education, Science, Culture And Sport Of GeorgiaTbilisi Mental Health Crisis Intervention Service (TBILISI KIS)Caucasus UniversityIvane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
"Common borders, Common solutions" ''Jointly preparing the conditions in the agricultural and connected sectors in the BSB area for the digital transformation'' Developing and implementing a replicable and transferable model for preparing the conditions for ensuring the digital transformation in agriculture in the Black Sea Basin area. The project will improve the capacities of the farming community, academia, public institutions, industry actors and entrepreneurs for cross-border trade opportunities in order to meet the common territorial challenges related to the lagging behind in the modernisation in the gricultural and connected sectors.
Smart Farming represents the application of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into agriculture, leading to what can be called a Third Green Revolution. The Project supports sweeping away some of the main BSB countries demerits related to the upcoming digital transformation, boosting entrepreneurship with a well-planned and relevant activities to a number of challenges and opportunities arising from the main territorial running processes in three dimensions. What are those 3 dimensions? The project answers the immediate and unmet need for a significant change in the existing conditions in all Black Sea Basin countries related to the surge of the digital transformation in agriculture and connected sectors worldwide that also affect deeply the area. The digitisation of the agricultural sector requires transition from traditional cultivation to modern methods by way of new technologies and the project answers the main territorial challenges in three dimensions: 1. The first dimension is related to the consistent external and internal pressure for improving the conditions for modernisation the agriculture and connected sectors in the area as the economic structure in the BSB eligible area still shows overall a larger share of agricultural and industrial sectors.
2. The second dimension is related to the challenges afore the main driver of economy and local people welfare – the SMEs in the region. SMEs play an important role as key engines for economic growth in the area. There is still potential for growth, in particular in the Eastern part of the Basin.
3. The third dimension is answering the socio-economic challenges in the area – the brain and skill drain and the brain waste, the migration flows, the regional disparities related to urbanisation and the seasonal increase of activities in coastal zones that puts additional strain on local infrastructure and the environment.
What is the project approach? The project applies a combination of innovative methods for deploying the planned change towards a model for improving the conditions the digital transformation for modernization in the agriculture and the connected sectors in the BSB eligible area countries. Project Partners: The lead partner organization is Pieriki Anaptixiaki S.A._O.L.A. Local Development Agency, Ellada. Member institutions are from BSB 6 partner countries such as: Business Agency Association, Bulgaria, Fund “Investment Support Center”- Armenia, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati (UDJG) Romania, Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, Georgia, Business Advisory Center, Moldova.
The main objective of the project is to develop and implement a highly replicable and transferable and local people welfare – the SMEs in the region. The project ensures a sustainable territory for further with neighbouring authorities, local farmers and the local community, as well as with private sector
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