The professors of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University participated in the symposium of the Institute of Empirical Linguistics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt - "Digital Caucasianology - Paradigm Shift". At the official opening ceremony of the symposium, the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor Theona Beridze welcomed the participants. The BSU Professor Ramaz Khalvashi and Associate Professor Khatuna Beridze participated in the conference and introduced the results of the latest research to the participants.
In order to develop digital humanities, Shota Rustveli State University of Batumi was the first to sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Institute of Empirical Linguistics of the University of Frankfurt, as a result of which the gradual implementation of digital humanities began at BSU. In particular: in 2012, at the initiative of Professor Manana Tandashvili (Frankfurt) and Professor Ramaz Khalvashi (BSU), a Summer School in Digital Humanities was held for the first time in BSU, which is held every year and is now known as the Batumi Summer School in Digital Humanities.
In 2015, as a result of the cooperation of Manana Tandashvili and Ramaz Khalvashi, an accredited minor program in digital humanities was developed and introduced into the curriculum. In 2016-2017, the pilot version of the joint educational program of Frankfurt, Batumi and Tbilisi State University Cross-National Doctoral School in Digital Humanities was implemented. In 2017, the Digital Humanities Center was established for the first time in Georgia at Batumi State University with the support of Frankfurt University.
In 2017-2020, the Center for Digital Humanities, under the leadership of Professor Ramaz Khalvashi and Professor Manana Tandashvili, implemented the scientific project "Linguocultural Digital Archive of Batumi", thereby laying the foundation for the implementation of modern technologies and tools for documenting language and culture in Georgia.
Batumi University professors and doctoral students are actively involved in two international bilingual scientific online journals - "Digital Georgianology" and "Millennium" - founded in 2022 by the initiative of Professor Manana Tandashvili, along with European scientists.
With the cooperation of Frankfurt Goethe University and Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgian-language textbooks were created in digital humanities, corpus linguistics, digital Georgian Studies, digital Rustvelology, doculinguistics, which brought the most important result for Georgian science - the introduction of scientific terminology in digital humanities.
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