Modern Technology development centre ahead for Georgia
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The Georgian Government and a group of scientists have started working to create a science-education centre for modern technology development in Georgia.
Work on the Technological Institute and Hadron Therapy Mega Project are underway, announced the Government Administration.
The first meeting of the Commission to deal with issues relating to the foundation and the concept of the Science Education Centre for Modern Technology Development was held yesterday.
"The Commission has undertaken the arduous task of developing concepts for the Technological Institute and the Science Education Centre for Modern Technology Development,” the Prime Minister’s press office said.
"Members of the Commission discussed technical and planning processes relating to the Technological Institute. Plans were proposed, one of the most important of which is to conduct negotiations with foreign partners, and in particular, to coordinate research works and consultations with the CERN [the European Organisation for Nuclear Research] and the CNAO [the National Centre of Oncological Hadrontherapy]”.
The Commission will be chaired by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and co-chaired by internationally-known Georgian physicist Giorgi (Gia) Dvali. Others involved in the commission are the founder of the Cartu Chariti Foundation, Georgian tycoon and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, Cartu Group member Irakli Karseladze, head of the Government Administration Maia Tskitishvili, scientist Teimuraz Lomtadze who has a Ph.D in physics and mathematics, and Professor Mariam Tstatsanashvili.
Representatives of various local, international organisations and experts may also be invited to take part in the work of the Commission.
Professors from South Florida University, the fourth-largest public university in the United States (US) state of Florida, are visiting Tbilisi today to learn more about a new Technological University in Georgia's capital city.
A charity fund established and financed by Georgian tycoon and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili will finance the building of a new university in Tbilisi.
The Georgian delegation is continuing to hold meetings with world leading companies, including BP and Jindal Steel and Power at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to introduce them to Georgia's investment opportunities.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will implement four large-scale information technology projects at the Georgian Technical University.
Georgia has a high chance to become an associated member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), an international research organisation operating the world's largest particle physics laboratory, officials say
The Government of Georgia has chosen to collaborate with leading international partners to launch a €500 million (1.8 billion GEL) project supporting modern technology development in the country.
Today is a historic day for Georgia. Constriction of Georgia’s Technological Institute, a science-education centre for modern technology development, has officially begun in capital Tbilisi.
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Georgia is embracing a new era of education that will transform tertiary learning and make the country one of the educational leaders of the region.
Georgian Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Mikheil Batiashvili has announced about the building of a new campus in Tbilisi, on the territory of the Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University upper building in the Saburtalo district.
A modern cancer therapy centre will be set up on the campus of Kutaisi International University in cooperation with the leading international proton therapy company IBA.
Pierre Mottet, the Chairman of the Board at a leading international proton therapy company Ion Beam Applications, on Tuesday said providing treatment to cancer patients was the company’s “largest goal”, in comments on the launch of the construction of the Hadron Therapy Centre in Georgia’s west on Tuesday.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday marked the launch of the construction of the Hadron Therapy Centre in western Georgia’s city of Kutaisi by calling the prospective venue an “unprecedented and unique” medical facility of “international scale” that would serve Georgian citizens and patients from across the South Caucasus.