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Planting of Pterocarya fraxinifolia , one of the species of IUCN Red List, grown up on the basis of the Research Department of Conservation of Kolkheti mires and Water Eco-systems in the Nursery of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Phytopathology and Biodiversity Institutes, in the territory of the National Park within the Municipality of Lanchkhuti in the direction to Supsa, has been started. The event involved the students from Rustaveli State University, staff of the nursery of the Institute, State Representative –Governor in the Municipalities of Lanchkhuti Mr. Merab Tchanukvadze and other representatives of administration, Mr. Aleksandre Khabeishvii, Director of the National Park, Mr. Aleksandre Sarishvili, Mayor of the Municipality of Lanchkhuti, Mr.Besik Tabidze, Chair of Sakrebulo and the representatives of various institutions.

Prof. Thomas Crusmann, an Honorary Professor of BSU, delivered a lecture on ‘German Casuistry Method in Georgian Criminal Law’ for the law students in BSU. The lecture aimed at teaching based on the analyzing a casus with the German methodology of comparison-based legal analysis on the example of the Anglo-Saxon precedent law and an infamous case in the German criminal history.The lecture was followed by the discussion on how the actions of the Acting Chief of Police Department should be viewed, i.e. the threat of torture made towards the suspect in attempt to extort the information about the location of the underage hostage.

The close relationships between the Georgian and German legal experts formed the basis for the lively discussions of the German doctrinal theories in the Georgian scientific legal literature. The university expressed its readiness to introduce the long-term programme on methodological teaching of German Law. The objective of the intensive seminar is to assess the prospects of the idea of methodological teaching of the German law; the seminar shall also determine the possibility of teaching Georgian Criminal Law through the German Causistics in universities.

“BSU International Week” organized by the BSU Strategic Development and International Relations Service on April 23-26, in the frame of ERASMUS+exchange programme for the academic and the administrative staff, came to the end. The professors from the foreign universities delivered lectures for the students of the Faculties of Tourism and Physics-Mathematics and Computer Sciences. ARASMUS+ coordinators from the European partner universities conduced training courses on effective management of the exchange programmes. ERASMUS+ coordinator of BSU Mrs. Nana Kurshubadze shared the experience of Georgian colleagues with the international counterparts.

Mikheil Chkhenkeli, the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The Minister inspected the BSU material-technical base, the Publishing House equipped with highly advanced technology, offices and laboratories where the students acquire theoretical knowledge as well as master the practical skills.

Foundation Works of the new study building of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University have already been inaugurated. Mr. Mikheil Chkhenkeli, the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Mr. Zurab Pataradze, Chairman of Autonomous Republic of Ajara, Prof. Merab Khalvashi, Rector of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Mr. Davit Gabaidze, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ajara have signed the certificate of construction. The Minister wished the University success and handed the historical repousse of Shota Rustaveli.