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Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and Frankfurt Wolfgang Goethe University and Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University jointly opened the annual summer school in digital humanities.
The international summer school has been held since 2012 to develop digital humanities in Georgia. The summer school will dwell upon and develop such studies as major principles of the digital humanities, language and culture documentation, acquaintance with such skills as Georgian and international resource application, methodology of field work etc.
BSU already offers Minor BA program in and the international PhD school in Digital Humanities. The summer school has attracted Georgian and international students from various universities.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted Professor Ashraf Helal, Faculty of Medicine Cairo Al-Azhar University and the President of the European and Mediterranean Association of Life Sciences, and research fellow Eman Helmy, Regional Center for Mycology and Biotechnology at Al-Azhar University. The parties planned prospects for cooperation, including implementation of joint research projects, and launch of exchange programs in phytopathological, biodiversity and natural sciences.

Academic council of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University elected BSU Honorary Doctor Professor Livio Zebrini of Italian Ferrara University. The professor of classical archeology Livio Zebrini Has contributed to the Georgian studies and in particular the Adjara archeology. He pioneered in establishing in Batumi an "International Center for Black Sea Studies Studies" which will coordinate development and implementation of the Georgian-Italian joint research and educational programs.
The Professor Zebrini is actively involved in studying Gonio-Apsaros cultural heritage. Last year Prof. Zebrini led the archaeological studies conducted in the central part of the castle. The expedition will be resumed this year.
BSU and Ferrara Universities signed Memorandum of cooperation in 2014. after which research and academic cooperation was further deepened. Prof. Livio Zebrini sponsored the Atskuri (Georgia) expedition, where a group of acheologists, headed by Prof. V. Licheli (Georgia) carried out excavations of the monuments dated back of the Roman period. Professor Zebrini published a monograph devoted to the Roman Age of Colchis (in Italian).

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Vice Rectors Prof. Natia Tsiklashvili, Tamar Siradze, deans and professors of BSU met the delegates from Artvin Coruh University. Deputy Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Huseyin Peker, Vice Rector of the Artvin Coruh University and Prof. Zafer Olmez, Dean of Forest Faculty. The parties planned to implement joint educational programmes and scientific projects within the framework of the memorandum of understanding. Initially, the academic personnel of the Faculty of Technologies, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Health Care will get involved in the research project on forestry, carried out by Artvin Coruh University. Georgian and Turkish scholars will work jointly on the see bank development and processing.

30 Students of Faculty of Tourism at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University departed to Germany. The young people will gain valuable experience at various best rate hotels. The 75 day internship will give the students an opportunity of exposure to all the structural units of the workplace. Besides, the internship includes gaining of theoretical knowledge. The practical skills and competences is a valuable edge for their successful employment on the competitive international job market.
The international internship is carried out through the framework of MoA signed between BSU and Baltic Schwerin College. Over 350 students of BSU have already had paid internships, which was sponsored by the City Hall of Batumi and Department of Sports and Youth Affairs of Adjara AR. BSU Rector Merab Khalvashi, Dean of Faculty of Tourism Prof. Dr. Rostom Beridze and parents bid farewell to the students