Sulkhan Sisauri Awarded Summer School Participants

The Director General of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of the Ministry awarded the participants of the international summer school "Georgian Script". Sulkhan Sisauri presented the foreign students involved in the project with books published within the framework of the grant competitions of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation: "Byzantium in Georgian Sources", "History of Georgia in Toponymy", "Ethnography of Georgia", and "Georgian Romanticism: National and International Boundaries".

The Summer School of Kartvelology, implemented on the basis of the National Centre of Manuscripts, officially closed today. The project involved 22 foreign participants interested in the Georgian language and manuscript heritage. Over the course of ten days, the students attended lectures and practical sessions, toured various regions of Georgia, and familiarized themselves with Georgian culture.

This year, the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation will fund four summer schools from the state budget. The aim of the project is to engage foreign researchers in Kartvelological scientific fields and, overall, to popularize Kartvelology in scientific centers worldwide.