Students from any Georgian university are eligible to take part.
Themes of the essays:
- Two royal families, two stories – equality on examples of Arabia and India
- Individual as a main value in the “Knight in the Panther’s Skin”
- Avtandil and Phatman – from denial to respect
- Friendship between a man and a woman in the “Knight in the Panther’s Skin”
Conditions:
- Essays should not exceed 3,000 words
- Submission deadline: 10th of May 2016
- Essays should be submitted in an electronic form only to the following e-mail addresses:
Ketevan.Makharashvili@undp.org
Selection Criteria
- Original approach to the issue
- Context of the problem
- Analysis and argumentation
- Writing skills
Prizes:
Three winners of the contest will be given opportunity to undertake short-term paid apprenticeship at the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and the Gender Equality Project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Georgia.
The contest is organized within the framework of the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality in Georgia funded by the Government of Sweden.
For more information see websites:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Georgia: http://www.ge.undp.org/
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia: http://www.mes.gov.ge/
Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia: http://www.culture.gov.ge/