The Project aims at strengthening English Language teaching and learning within the secondary schools of Georgia. Since 2009 the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia has implemented student-oriented programmes which will respectively increase the interest of secondary school students of Georgia towards learning the English language and at the same time will enhance continuing professional development of those English teachers involved in English-language summer schools in Georgia.

The above-mentioned project represents the part of the long-term state strategy focusing on raising the competitiveness of graduates of Georgian schools and their integration within the international market.  

Within the framework of the English Language Learning Strengthening Project three different sub-projects are being accomplished:

• English-Language Summer Schools in Georgia;
• English-Language Summer Schools in the United Kingdom;
• Georgian High School Exchange Students’ Programme/GHSEP.

All three of them are financially supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.

English-language summer schools in Georgia comprise of:

arranging three-week English-language summer schools for 8^th, 9^th, 10^th and 11^th grade 1200 secondary school students by May, 2010 (they will be selected on the basis of the results they will get at different school subject olympiads and various school-related competitions along with the certain knowledge of the English Language) in Georgia.  Three English native-speaking experts will be invited to the English-language summer schools in Georgia to be in charge of the academic and nonacademic programmes taught at summer schools. 

English-language summer schools in the United Kingdom comprise of:

selecting the best 108 students out of those 1200 participating in the English-language summer schools in Georgia and sending them to the United kingdom for taking part in two-week intentsive English language summer schools there.

In order to strengthen mutual cooperation and understanding between the youth of Georgia and the United States of America and to support mutually beneficial contacts between Georgian and American schools and communities, the Ministry of Education and  Science of Georgia (MoES) and American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS (American Councils) have reached the agreement on furthering and continuing the exchange program for 100  high school students from Georgia to live and study in the United States during the course of the 2010-2011 school year. 50 out of them will be financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, the rest of them  -  by the US State Department

The selection of those Georgian high-school students who will pursue their studies in the USA in 2010-2011 has already been finished on the basis of the three-stage competition in the way FLEX usually does it.