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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted public lectures delivered by Nikoloz Meskhidze, Professor of the University of North Carolina on the following issues: Scientific Grounds of the Climate Change: Application of the Data of Models and Satellite in the Black Sea Region of the South of Caucasus.

Public lectures that lasted for three days introduced the professors and teaching staff to the following actual topics: Global Change of Climate (modern understanding of its reasons and results); Contemporary Regional and Global Models (general overview), Regional Model Reg-CM, Satellite Data on Gases of Atmosphere, Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation, Temperature of Seas and Oceans, Numerosity of Phytoplankton and the Possibilities of their free Extraction and Processing.

The presenter also talked about the results of the global models and their free extraction and processing possibilities, the effect of oceans and seas on the amount and chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols, cloud condensation measurement tools, biogeochemical cycles of the Earth and perspective directions of the science studying the Earth.

The event took place in the frame of the sub-programme of Support of the Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Autonomous Republic of Ajara.

Professor of Wroclaw University School of Banking Joanna Nogichi visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in the frame of ERASMUS+exchange programme. At the meeting with Deputes of BSU-Natia Tsiklashvilli and Tamar Siradze and the academic staff of the Faculty of Economics and Business- the visitor presented the educational programmes. Professor Joanna Nogichi shared her experience with the colleagues from Georgia as well as talked about the important issues of economics. The event was organized by the Strategic Development and International Relations Department of BSU.

In the frame of the cooperation between Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and the University of Poitiers, teaching staff and professors of BSU as well as 23 students from various faculties participated in IV European Campus. The course of trainings and lectures lasted from June 18 till June 30 2018 focusing on two main directions. Professors and teaching staff got introduced to the following important issues: definition of innovative methodology, analysis of French books of the latest publication and establishment of online methods in the process of teaching/learning of French language as well as the problems of tendencies and evaluation of the modern teaching.

The issues for the students included the following aspects: language, translation intercultural mediation, practical course of French language. The participants of the Summer Campus were awarded the certificates.

Training course considered the following issues:

Role of corpus in compiling pedagogical materials;
Application of press/authentic materials;
Phonetics/correction (methods);
Influence of Digital innovations on the process of teaching languages;
Teaching strategies;
European Campus in the frame of the memorandum between BSU and the University of Poitiers took place with the financial support of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The Faculty of Humanities provided financial support for Assistant Professor Tamila Davitadze and 12 students of the French and English Philology. French University of Georgia financed Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Education Natia Abashidze and Dinara Pagava, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Tourism. Moreover, the Division of Youth of the Department of Sport and Youth of Ajara provided financial support for 12 French language students from various faculties of BSU.

The Faculty of Tourism of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is organizing the summer school ‘Sustainable Development of Tourism in Villages”. The event is taking place in the frame of the project named “Sustainable Tourism: Industry and Cultural Heritage in villages”. The aim of the summer school is to encourage internationalization, implementation of joint student projects and sharing international experience. The Summer School involves the professors and the students from Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, the University of Southeast Norway (USN) and Kyrguzstan University, Akaki Tsereteli State University and Maritime academy of Batumi.

On June 25-29 professors and teaching staff will present the articles and the students will conduct team presentations on the issues related to the sustainable development of tourism in villages.

In the frame of the event the participants of the Summer School will be introduced to the tourism potential of Ajara region.

Dessislava Ivanova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Georgia gave a public lecture “Bulgaria and European Union” at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The representative of the Corps Diplomatique introduced the results of the Republic of Bulgaria chairmanship of the EU council to the students of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Bulgaria joined European Union in 2007 and became the chair of the European Union first in 2018.

Dessislava Ivanova talked about the relations between Georgia and Bulgaria as well as made a focus on visa free regime and the requirements of integration in the European Union. At the end of the lecture the speaker responded to the questions addressed.