Students will be funded within the framework of the social program
The project has been implemented since 2005, and the list of categories under which socially vulnerable students are funded expands annually. For the 2012-2013 academic year, 1 118 208 (one million one hundred eighteen thousand two hundred eight) GEL has been allocated for funding.
This year, for the first time, full funding will be provided to: students who are under state care or have left state care within the past three years and were under state care for at least two years.
Within the framework of the social program, a specific number of students are fully funded (see Resolution #300 of the Government of Georgia dated July 26, 2012 #300 Resolution):
I. Funding within the social program may be obtained by a student who was enrolled in an accredited higher educational program as a result of the 2012 Unified National Exams and belongs to one of the following categories:
- Students who, over the past two years, studied and received a complete general education certificate in general educational institutions located in the occupied territories as provided by the Law of Georgia on "Occupied Territories" (hereinafter – occupied territory), or whose complete general education was recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia in accordance with the established rule, as well as students who, for the two years prior to August 7, 2008, studied in the occupied territory and received a complete general education certificate outside the occupied territory, among them:
a) In the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, including the Akhalgori municipality;
b) In the Tskhinvali region (territories of the former South Ossetia Autonomous Oblast), including Kurta, Eredvi, and Akhalgori municipalities;
c) In the village of Perevi, Sachkhere municipality.
- Students who are children of those who died or went missing without a trace in the struggles for the territorial integrity of Georgia;
- Students who are orphans (both motherless and fatherless);
- Students with profound/significant disabilities.
II. Funding within the social program may be obtained by a student who was enrolled in an accredited higher educational program as a result of the 2012 Unified National Exams, except for the following directions or fields/specialties: a) Law; b) Healthcare; c) Business Administration, except Tourism; d) Mass Communication/Journalism; e) International Relations; f) Public Administration, and belongs to one of the following categories:
- Students who, over the past three years, studied and received a complete general education certificate in general educational institutions located in high-mountainous and ecological migration regions, among them:
- In Mestia municipality;
- In Lentekhi municipality;
- In Oni municipality;
- In Keda municipality;
- In Khulo municipality;
- In Shuakhevi municipality;
- In Kazbegi municipality;
- In Dusheti municipality (in the schools of Barisakho, Shatili, Kvesheti, Mleta, Magaroskari, and Gudamakari);
- In Adigeni municipality;
- In Akhalkalaki municipality;
- In Ninotsminda municipality;
- In Tsalenjikha [Note: Tsalzka in original text] municipality;
- In Dmanisi municipality;
- In Akhmeta municipality (in the schools of Pankisi Gorge and Upper and Lower Alvani);
- In Aspindza municipality.
- Students who, over the past three years, studied and received a complete general education certificate in general educational institutions located in border villages of the occupied territory.
- Students who, over the past three years, studied and received a complete general education certificate in Azerbaijani-language general educational institutions;
- Students who, over the past three years, studied and received a complete general education certificate in Armenian-language general educational institutions;
- Students who are descendants of the population deported from Georgia during the communist regime from Samtskhe-Javakheti;
- Students who are members of large families (with four or more children);
- Students whose families are registered in the unified database of socially vulnerable families and whose family rating score is equal to or less than 70,000;
If the funds provided by the program are not fully distributed according to the categories defined by the resolution, they will be given to:
- Children of those who died or went missing without a trace in the struggle for the territorial integrity of Georgia, who were enrolled as a result of the Unified National Exams and did not receive a full grant or received a partial grant, including within the framework of the social program funding for the 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2007-2008 academic years;
- Also, this year for the first time, funds will be given to:
Persons with profound and significant disabilities who were enrolled as a result of the Unified National Exams and did not receive a full grant or received a partial grant, including within the framework of the social program funding for the 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2007-2008 academic years.
To receive detailed information, please review Resolution #300 of the Government of Georgia dated July 26, 2012 .
To receive funding, the application along with the attached documents must be submitted to the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia no later than October 8, 2012.
