The seasonal school “Methodology, Approaches and Practice of Teaching Children’s Rights in University Educational Programmes” concluded at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU) on 18 September 2026. The school was supported by the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and co-organised by BSU and UNICEF Georgia.
A seasonal school titled “Modern Methodologies and Legal Aspects of Teaching Children’s Rights” has opened at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Education of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.
The school aims to support the professional development of academic staff, teachers and students through contemporary approaches to teaching children’s rights, international standards and Georgian legislation. Its programme will promote rights-based, inclusive and student-centred educational practices.
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University welcomed the newly appointed Representative of UNICEF in Georgia, Isabella Castrogiovanni, together with Maia Kurtsikidze, Head of the Communication Programme at UNICEF Georgia.
On 21 April 2026, the Higher Education Accreditation Council granted unconditional accreditation to the Joint Master`s Programme in Child Rights, offered collaboratively by Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, and Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University.
On 10 December, staff members of the Children’s Rights Centre at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Education visited Makhinjauri Public School in the municipality of Khelvachauri to mark International Human Rights Day.
During the visit, Professor Lela Tavdgiridze and Associate Professors Diana Akhvlediani and Dali Dobordzhginidze donated academic publications to the school`s library. The donated resources included the monograph Identifying the Optimal Model of a Safe School in the Social Context of Georgia, published with the support of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, and the handbook How to Create Autonomous Learners: Teaching metacognitive, self-regulatory and study skills – a practitioner’s guide, by T. Moir, published within the framework of the Higher Education Support Programme of the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara.
