Seminar - "Teacher - Guide to Europe"

A two-day seminar for teachers entitled “Teacher – A Guide to Europe” has opened. The purpose of the seminar is to inform teachers about the process of integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures and to actively involve them in this process.

The first day of the seminar was opened by David Bakradze, State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Tamar Sanikidze, Minister of Education and Science, and Elene Gotsadze, Director of the Information Center on NATO and the European Union.

At the seminar, Boris Iarochevitch, Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Georgia, and Elita Gavele, Ambassador of Latvia to Georgia, spoke about the significance and prospects of Georgia's integration into the European Union.  The teachers were also introduced to the opportunities offered to them by European projects.

Registration for participation in the seminar was announced in February 2015 by the National Center for Teacher Professional Development of the Ministry of Education and Science, as a result of which 100 teachers of geography, history, and civic education from Tbilisi and the regions were selected. 

The project is implemented by the Information Center on NATO and the European Union and the National Center for Teacher Professional Development of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. The project supporters are: the Office of the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, the Delegation of the European Union, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.