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On January 15, 2020, the ERASMUS + CBHE three-year grant project "Learning Optimization and Academic Inclusion Via Equitative Distance Teaching and Learning - Love Distance" has been launched at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The project envisages access and quality improvement of higher education for students with disabilities, disadvantaged conditions and those from ethnic minorities, and peripheral areas in Israel and Georgia. The project coordinating institution is Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), in which Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is involved with another HEIs of Georgia- Ilia State University and Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University.

From February Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is ready to receive foreign students at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Health Care on one circle educational program of Medical Doctor.

The conference dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Training Center "ETI-2000" was held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The Rector of BSU Merab Khalvashi, Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sport of Ajara AR., Aleksandre Davitadze, Founder of the Educational Center Geoff Hardy-Gooley, Deputy Rector Tamar Siradze, students, professors and community representatives attended the event. Important speeches were presented at the conference such as: Marjorie and Oliver Wardrops in Georgia; Britain in Georgia 1921-28; Georgia-British Joint Archaeological Expedition - 15 Years of Relationships and Multimedia Technologies in Teaching English.

Presentation of the programs of the Francophonie University Agency (AUF) was held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. Tamar Gharibashvili, the representative of the Francophonie University Agency in Georgia introduced students and professors to the Agency educational programs and conditions for participation in the international projects. Within the framework of the event, GIPA lecturer Kati Kvinikadze organized a training for students on the topic: "I am a brand! So how do I present myself?"
The purpose of the 12-hour training was to evaluate self-competencies, analyze the job market and make an adequate offer to a potential employer. The participants were awarded with certificates of attendance.

The Honorary Doctor of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Professor Carl Kaser delivered a public speech on "Challenge of XXI Century - Visual Culture Research in the Black Sea Region". The speaker presented three stages of lectures on visual culture research. Professor Carl Kaser discussed the pre-secular history from the spectrum of the religion of visual cultures, cinematography and culture in modern life, the dispute of reality and utopia, and the influence of gender on the digital world. The prominent researcher is one of the founders of visual anthropology in the European scientific sphere.