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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University opened VII Summer School “Digital Humanities, Georgian Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Documentary Linguistics”. The aim of the school is to develop digital humanities in Georgia, teach/learn the main principles and methods of electronic documentation of language and culture, introduce Georgian international electronic resources, and develop the skills of the implementation of the field work. BA, MA and PhD students of various universities from Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Iran, in the frame of the interdisciplinary programme, will be introduced to multidisciplinary methods, tools and standards of digital humanities as well as achievements and prospects of development of digital humanities.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted Terry Burte, the French University Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation, Pierre Van de Veg, Deputy Rector in the Field of International Relations of the University of Rennes 1 and Elise Gautier, Coordinator of European Projects of the Foreign Relations Department of the University of Rennes 1.

At the meeting with Merab Khalvashi, the BSU Rector, the cooperation with the University of Rennes 1 and the establishment of the Consortium of other five HEIs in France, in the study as well as the research, was planned. The future consortium envisages the exchange of professors, students and administrative staff. At the meeting, the sides also talked about the creation of a joint doctoral program, which will allow students to get double diploma.

The meeting was attended by Tamar Siradze, Deputy Rector in the field of study, Giorgi Tavamaishvili, Head of the Department of Strategic Development and International Relations and Tamar Machutadze, Head of the Research Service.

Two institutional cooperation projects (Erasmus+Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) will be implemented by the participation of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The results of the ERASMUS + CBHE grant project concurs revealed the winner projects: „Enhance Research Capacity of Georgian Higher Education Institutions Through Scientific-research Services” and “Mediation: Training and Society Transformation”. The project “Enhance Research Capacity of Georgian Higher Education Institutions Through Scientific-research Services” aims at improving the research capacity available throughout Georgia through the development of the research services in Georgian universities. In the frame of the project the joint platform of research, that considers planning, implementation and evaluation of the research activities in Georgian universities will be created. Partner European Universities will carry out training sessions focusing on the improvement of the research management and data analysis skills of the administrative staff of the universities.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is hosting the Summer School “Multilingualism and the Role of Translation in Knowledge Globalization”. The Summer School is being implemented in the frame of the European Union Research and Innovation Programme “Horizon 2020”, project KEAC-BSR „Sharing Knowledge and Academic Culture in the Field of Humanities: Europe and Black Sea Basin, XVIII-XXI Centuries“. The project involves PhD and MA students and professors and teaching staff of the universities of the consortium from Georgia, the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Russia, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

The sixth Summer School “EU Law and European Integration in South Caucasus” was opened in Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The aim of the Summer School is to highlight and discuss the European Integration in the South Caucasus Region from various aspects with particular focus on the way and scope European Integration can influence on the political institutions, security strategies, law and social and cultural issues of the region. Moreover, the school considers analysis of the development of the Post-soviet countries within the Europeanization pathway. The Summer School was opened by Prof. Tamar Siradze, Deputy Rector of BSU, Prof. Adam Makharadze, Dean of the Faculty of Law of BSU, Mr. Davit Gabaidze, Chair of the Supreme Council of Ajara, Vladimir Yakimchuk, Director of Kiev University of Law of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Professor Benedikt Harzl from the University of Graz, Austria.