Ilia State University becomes full partner of EU’s Erasmus+ programme

Tbilisi-based Ilia State University has become the first Georgian university with the status of full partner within the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.

The university recently announced that within the framework of this programme, a joint master’s degree programme of the international consortium comprising of eight universities in Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CEERES) was given funding. 

Within the programme, Ilia State University was conferred the status of full partner, meaning that the programme graduates together with diplomas from the European universities will get academic degrees from Ilia State University.

Apart from Ilia State University, other universities included in the programme are: The University of Glasgow (Great Britain), the University of Tartu (Estonia), Corvinus University (Hungary), the Jagiellonian University (Poland), Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (Russia), and KIMEP University (Kazakhstan).

The joint programme aims to produce professionals with a modern and systematic knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia and particularly the Caucasus region who will manage to negotiate political, security and social-economic challenges in the region by applying modern approaches in the field and research methods.

The joint programme will launch admissions for fall 2018. Students having chosen the Caucasus Studies will spend the second year of their studies at Ilia State University and obtain academic degrees from three universities:

• Master of Arts in Social Science (Central and East European, Russian and Eurasia Studies), in Estonian Magistrikraad sotsiaalteadustes (Kesk- ja Ida-Euroopa, Venemaa ja Euraasia uuringud, The University of Tartu (Estonia);
• International Master in Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, the UK;
• Master of Caucasian Studies, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.