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Six young researchers of Ilia State University won in the grant funding competition 2021 of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia.

Among the winning projects are:

• Eka Kvirkvelia – Digital edition of an annotated parallel corpus of Giorgi Athonite's recension of the Gospel of Matthew
• Salome Pataridze - Space and Time Representation in the Literary Texts and Private Letters by Georgian Woman Authors – Time, Space and Gender
• Irakli Paghava - Monetary Policy and History of Kartl-Kakheti Kingdom (1744-1801)
• Lia Tsverava - Prevention of epileptogenesis, inositol isomers, their target proteins and proteomics of cellular thermal shift assay
• Ia Shekriladze - Response to Culture Change Among Georgian Immigrants and Sojourners
• Giorgi Khishtovani - Political Economy of Donor Domination – Case of Georgia (2012-2020)

The competition aims to identify and encourage talented, young scientists through open competition by funding individual innovative research projects; promote the quality of research with the support of young scientists' research projects, deepening research cooperation and thematic or interdisciplinary scientific cooperation and increase the country's scientific potential and also, strengthening and improving the scientific-research activities of the Georgian higher education institution.

121 projects participated in the 2021 Young Scientists Research Grant Competition.

The evaluation of the projects was carried out in 3 stages by independent experts of the European Science Foundation (European Science Foundation - Science Connect, ESF-SC).

Link: https://bit.ly/31iCCaA

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