The selection results for the 2016 call for grant proposals were officially announced by the National “Erasmus +” Office Georgia a few days ago. Nine new projects of institutional collaboration (ex-Tempus) with participation of Georgian universities have been funded by Brussels. Kutaisi University, as a partner, will participate in one of these projects.

There are 18 partner organizations (6 partners from Israel, 6 partners from Georgia, 2 partners from Austria, 2 partners from Estonia, one partner from Poland and one partner from United Kingdom) in the project named “Curriculum Reform for Promoting Civic Education and Democratic Principles in Israel and in Georgia (acronym: CURE)”. The applicant of the winning project is Gordon Academic College of Education (Haifa, Israel). Georgia is represented by 5 Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and one Non-governmental organization (NGO):

1. ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

2. IVANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY

3. “KUTAISI UNIVERSITY” LLC

4. SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI STATE UNIVERSITY

5. BATUMI SHOTA RUSTAVELI STATE UNIVERSITY

6. CIVIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, NGO.

The project duration is 3 years.