Academia Europaea opens Tbilisi regional centre

Academia Europaea, a European non-governmental association acting as an academy to promote learning, education and research from 1988, has opened a regional centre at Tbilisi State University today.

The centre aims to help the usage of European scientific achievements for national and regional policy making and to encourage education, science and scientific researches with the coordination of international agencies.

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze called the day historic, as the Academia Europaea unites 3,800 members which includes leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law.

PM Mamuka Bakhtadze thanked those who contributed for opening the centre. Photo: Prime Minister's press office. 

We are proud of our history, our past, which stand on education and culture,” Bakhtadze said, adding that the promotion of education will help the country overcome its top two challenges - occupation and poverty and become a regional hub and leader.

He repeated that the government will spend six percent of its GDP on education in the coming years.

We are proud that the Tbilisi centre will be the fifth member of the Academia Europaea regional network,” Bakhtadze said.

He stated that the centre will play a “big role” to upgrade relations between Georgian and European scientists to a new level.

The day will become the start of very important scientific-technical progress,” Bakhtadze said.

Members of the managing council of the Academia Europaea made the decision to open a centre in Tbilisi during an annual assembly in Barcelona last year.