San Diego State University held a ceremony due to the start of the new academic year. The event was attended by the Minister of Education and Science – Aleksandre Jejelava, The US ambassador in Georgia – Ian Kelly, the deputy Executive director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation – Nancy Lee, and the executive director of Millennium Challenge Account Georgia – Magda Magradze.
Millennium Challenge Account, within the scope of the project – “Vocational Education for the Economic Development”, held an award ceremony for the winners in the grant competition.
The Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, spoke about the implemented and planned projects in general education on a meeting with the journalists, and provided a detailed information regarding the subject.
It has become a tradition for the Ministry of Education and Science to celebrate the European Day of Languages on the September 26, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Owing to the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, a festival of Science and Innovation was held on September 17-25. The Festival included more than 150 various events such as conferences, public lectures, presentations, workshops, training sessions, open days, scientific shows and so forth.
After many years of successful cooperation, the European Union National Institute for Culture (UENIC), with the participation of high school students, has celebrated the European Day of Languages at the Tbilisi Classical Gymnasium.
The Minister of Education and Science – Aleksandre Jejelava, within the scope of Science and Innovation Festival, opened the exhibition of educational technologies, with the invited guests from public schools and the university students.
The Minister of Education and Science of Georgia – Aleksandre Jejelava, visited a renovated public school in Pkhvenisi, within the scope of Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Second Compact.
Owing to the initiative of Ilia State University, the fifth scientific picnic was held. The event was organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, within the Science and Innovation Festival framework.
Owing to the initiative of British Council and the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, a conference was held regarding the inclusive education. During the conference, the Ministry has presented a report regarding the ongoing activities, and emphasized once more the importance and significance of introducing and establishing a culture of inclusive education in the Georgian educational practice.
Within the scope of the National Center for Education Quality Enhancement’s “Professional Qualifications Development and Support Program”, an informative seminar was held regarding the “Sector Committee Members’ opportunities to strengthen their role and functions, dicussing and evaluations the issues of professional qualification and updating the methodology.”
Within the scope of the Georgian-German scientific bridge, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University held an opening ceremony for its SMART | Lab. SMART | Lab will help the students to engage in the international studies at the Jülich Research Center.
The Minister of Education and Science of Georgia – Aleksandre Jejelava held a meeting with the Master’s students of Journalism, Media engineering, Public Relations, as well as with the specialists and representatives of Public Administration and Law School at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).
Millennium Challenge Account has announced a innovation competition for the high school students, for the academic year of 2016-2017. The innovation competition aims to nominate best three teams in the country, based on their projects in three fields: innovation, technology and science. The team who receives the best team nomination, will visit NASA, in the United States in April 2017.
For the development of the Agricultural Sciences and Biosystem Engineering Faculty the government has spent more than 12 million Georgian Lari. This sum was spent on infrastructure, in conjunction with updating and implementing the new necessary software.