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An international week in the frame of the ERASMUS+MUNDUS exchange programmes for the academic and the administrative staff was opened at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. The aim of the event is to support the internationalization of the Higher Education Institution. The participants of the event met Professor Merab Khalvashi, Rector of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Professor Inga Shamilishvili, Minister of Education, Culture and Sports of Autonomous Republic of Ajara and the professors and the teaching staff of the University. At the end of the event participants looked through the material-technical base of BSU, Dental Clinic, Regional Chromatography Centre of the Western Georgia, the Office of Immunogenetics, Psychological and Law Clinics.

At 19:00 am, April 22, in the frame of NATO days, Mikheil Janelidze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia is visiting Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University to meet the representatives of the self-government of the Ajara Region, the University professors and the teaching staff, the students as well as the representatives of the civil sector and media.

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted the Scientific Conference- “Waste Management and the Related Challenges”-dedicated to the International Day of the Earth. The event was aimed at raising awareness in the environmental protection and waste management issues in the youth. Participants of the conference included the X-XII grade students from the secondary schools and the University students in Ajara selected based on the contest.

The best participants of the conference-Anita Lomadze, X grade student from Alambri Public school and Shorena Takidze, IV year student of BSU, ecologist, were given
Tablets and all other participants -certificates and souvenirs.

The conference was held by BSU Eco Club in the frame of the programme “Waste Management in Regions, II Phase (WMTR II). The programme is implemented by the Caucasus Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations’ Network (CENN) through the support of the USA International Development Agency (USAID).

Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University concert hall hosted the presentation of DAAD Scholarship- Programme for Georgia 2019-2020. Mr. Berthold Linder, DAAD Representative explained the rules and terms of participation in the programme to the teachers and lecturers. The German Academic Exchange Service offers the students and the academic staff the following German and English programmes: Summer Courses at Higher Education Institutions in Germany, Scholarship for the Student Groups, Master’s Scholarship for the Students of all Specialties, Scholarship for Research for the PhD Students and the Young Qualified Scholars, Research Internship for the Researchers at Higher Educational Institutions and Research Institutes, Mutual Exchange of the Scholars.

Professor Merab Khalvashi, Rector of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and Mr.Valeri Gulbani, Director of the Georgian-Spanish Research and Consultation Centre “Research and Innovation for Business Solutions” signed the Memorandum of Understanding. Following the agreement between the parties the Spanish Centre of Education and Culture-Iberia-has been created at BSU where the Spanish Language and other Certification courses will be activated. In the frame of the Memorandum joint international conferences, forums, training courses and exchange programmes will be implemented. On top of the exchange programmes educational and research projects will be realized.

On the basis of the Memorandum the Laboratory of Industrial Innovations existed on the basis of the Faculty of Technologies of BSU- FAB LAB BSU-will be given the possibility to participate in the events organized by Spanish and Georgian Techno Park and other research organizations of innovations.