UNICEF representative in Georgia Ghasan Khalili and the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport of the Autonomous Republic of Ajara Maia Khajishvili visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. In October 2021, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University will host an international conference dedicated to the inclusion of children’s rights in university educational programs and curricula. During the meeting with the Rector of BSU Merab Khalvashi, the parties discusses the organizational issues of the international conference dedicated to the inclusion of children’s rights in university educational programs and curricula and the details of the establishment of the Scientific Council.
The participants of the meeting also discussed the composition of the organizing committee of the conference, in the work of which Ajara A.R. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports will participate.
The two-day conference will bring together professors and students, officials, local and international child rights experts, diplomats and international and civil society organizations working in Georgia to discuss child rights related education at universities.
The Batumi International Conference will be the second event after the first conference held at Kutaisi State University in October 2020, which facilitated the sharing of teaching and learning experiences on the rights of the child and aimed at enabling future professionals to work in everyday life at home, at school, or in communities to practically exercise the children’s rights.
Through the partnership with the Norwegian government, UNICEF has already supported the establishment of a Child Protection Center at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The center will be an information hub and will help raise awareness of specialists in various fields, civil society organizations, representatives of the scientific field, parents and children on the children’s rights.
The conference will give national and international specialists, experts and students the opportunity to engage in discussions and make presentations, share their initiatives aimed at incorporating child rights into university programs for the education of future child rights defenders in education, law, business and other important fields.
Incorporating child rights into higher education programs and curricula will increase students’ awareness of child rights. In turn, this will arouse interest, motivate and inspire all future professionals who choose a social worker, lawyer, judge, teacher or any other profession to work for and with children.
This will lay the foundation for the specialization of all professionals working with children in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Child Rights of Georgia, which came into force on September 1, 2020.
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