Tuesday, 24 March at 17:00 PM Nana Iashvili will deliver an online lecture “Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia. In this talk, Nana will present framework and preliminary findings for her PhD project that investigates credit-debt arrangements in Georgia where i
Organized by the Anthropology Research Center and the PhD Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University, we invite you to join our Spring 2026 Anthropology Seminar Series. The series brings together lectures and book talks, gathering researchers from Tbilisi and beyond around questions of ethnogr
In collaboration with Inha University, Ilia State University students have the opportunity to participate in a student program addressing the global climate crisis. In July-August 2026, the 2026 Georgia-Korea Global Green Challenger Week is scheduled to take place in Georgia. During this event, Ilia State University st
This workshop is part of the project “Addressing Academic Misconduct and Integrity in Georgia,” funded with the support of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. This workshop is designed for early-career researchers and do
09 of March 2026 His Excellency Givi Mikanadze Minister of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia Subject: Ensuring Sustainable Social Work Education Capacitywithin Georgia’s Higher Education Reform Your Excellency, On behalf of the European Association of Schools of Social Work (EASSW), representing schoo
Dear Minister, I write to express my concern at what I understand is a proposal to cut the educational programmes and scientific output of Ilia State University. My colleagues and I at the University of Cambridge have a longstanding research collaboration with Professor R O Solomonia’s neuroscience research prog
Prof. Nino Doborjginidze Rector Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia Dear Rector Doborjginidze, On behalf of the Universitat de Girona, I would like to express our deep concern regarding the recent developments affecting Ilia State University within the framework of the announced higher education reform in Georgia. T
Buckingham, 2 March 2026 Dear Mr Kobakhidze Through long-standing scientific research collaborations with scientists of Ilia State University, as well as my role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, of which Ilia State University is a copublisher (together with an academic learned soc
In the Fall semester of the 2025–2026 academic year, partner universities successfully piloted a series of short courses developed within the framework of the RE-DIRECTION project. Among them, the course “Inclusive Communication for All” stands out as a particularly timely and strategically important
Support Letter Professor Ferhan Sağın Chair, FEBS Education and Training Committee Dear Minister Mikanadze, I am writing in my personal academic capacity as a professor of biochemistry, Chair of the Education and Training Committee of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), and
Professor Nino Doborjginidze, The Rector, Ilia State University Concerns about program reductions and admissions cuts at Ilia State Uni- versity Dear Professor Doborjginidze, I am writing to you as a faculty member who has had Georgian graduate students as well as a postdoctoral research scientist and has hosted long-t
From March 23 to May 8, Ilia State University will host an internal minifootball tournament, organized by the Department of Student Affairs. The tournament will take place on the newly renovated sports field in the courtyard of Iliauni Building E. Participation in the tournament is restricted to teams consisting of Ili