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At Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Head of the National Office of "Erasmus+" in Georgia, Mariam Sulashvili, members of the office and representatives of the European Union "Feasibility study of Georgia`s participation in the Erasmus+ program" - Sebastian Schweitzer, Israel Peralt and Nina Gogoladze, visited educational institutions operating in Batumi, "Erasmus+". program and its financing possibilities were introduced. As part of the information meeting, workshops were held covering the following educational sectors: higher education, vocational education, adult education, youth, sports and schools.

The international scientific electronic journal "Messenger of Oriental Studies" (E-ISSN 2720-8168; ISSN 2587-490X) of the Oriental Studies Department of the Faculty of Humanities of Shota Rustaveli State University of Batumi has been assigned an impact factor of 1.668 in the International Scientific Indexing database. (2023-2024). The international scientific journal "Messenger of Oriental Studies" was founded in 2018 at the Faculty of Humanities of BSU on the basis of the Department of Oriental Studies.

The process of selecting universities for long-term cooperation within the framework of the USAID Education for the Future program has been completed, and according to the decision of the commission, the project will be implemented with the involvement of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.In selected universities, including Shota Rustveli State University in Batumi, the USAID Education for the Future program with the technical assistance of Arizona State University will support the development of teacher training and educational sciences programs.

On December 11-12, Ilia State University hosted the first international conference "Third mission role in universities - local and global perspective". The conference was held within the framework of the institutional development project "Strengthening the quality and relevance of the third mission in Georgian universities" (SQUARE) funded by the European Commission.

A presentation of educational programs of the US Embassy was held for students and professors at Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi. Coordinator of exchange programs of the US Embassy in Georgia, Thea Kuchukhidze, and Manager of Public Diplomacy Grants, Ana Kharibegashvili, introduced the educational and cultural grant programs of the Embassy to the interested persons and consulted on the programme and technical issues of the grants.