AFELSH – Executive Committee Session
Events
On March 22-23, Ilia State University will host a session of AFELSH executive committee. AFELSH (Association des Facultés ou Etablissements de Lettres et Sciences humaines) is one of the most important francophonie networks, being established in 1994. Since 2010, Ilia State University has been a representative of the central and eastern European universities in the executive committee of AFELSH. Professor Mzaghve Dokhturishvili is a member of the committee.
Twice a year, the association organizes international conferences, congresses, takes part in symposiums or conferences organized by other francophonie networks and publishes electronic versions of the conference materials. For instance, see the materials of the congress held in 2010:
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/afelsh/archives.html
One of the vital works of the association is related to the assessment of academic courses at bachelor, master and doctoral levels; supports the mobility of students, teachers and researchers. AUF (the University Agency of Francophonie which incorporates 800 universities worldwide and Ilia State University is an associate member of it) supports the association.
Among the most important projects, the association implements a project linked to the establishment of the regional doctoral colleges. Such kind of the college has already been launched for the Middle East, named CODFRAMO – Collège doctoral de français au Moyen Orient. On March 23, the executive committee meeting will be dedicated to the launching of the mentioned doctoral colleges within the university space of the Central and Eastern Europe.
The doctoral college will be a regional scientific-research network which incorporates the universities and scientific institutions of the region, researchers, heads of doctoral dissertations and doctoral students. It provides interaction and mobility among them, supports organization of the joint seminars, conferences, researches and creation of the regional database, resource center and etc. On March 23, the second half of the session will be held at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (building 5, 3rd floor, CNF). The deans of the faculties of Philology and Humanitarian sciences, heads of field doctoral programs, PhD students are invited to the session. The central and eastern European universities will take part in the session through the video conference.
The session will be conducted in French language.
For additional information, please contact Prof. Mzaghve Dokhturishvili.
599 21 85 17
mzagho_dokhturishvili@iliauni.edu.ge
For the detailed information about the works of AFELSH, please see the attached file.