EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn to visit Georgia to launch European School for Eastern Partnership
During his stay in Tbilisi Johannes Hahn will also meet with President Giorgi Margvelashvili, Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani.
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Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, will visit Georgia on September 3-4.
The European School for the Eastern Partnership will be officially launched during his two-day visit to Tbilisi.
The vision for a European School for the Eastern Partnership is to offer quality education to high-school students from partner countries, increasing opportunities, fostering cooperation and fundamental values and promoting a better understanding of the EU.
In the first pilot phase, the project establishes a partnership with an existing school in Tbilisi, offering scholarships to students from the six partner countries for an IB Diploma Programme with a focus on European Studies.
30 students have already been selected for the 2018-2019 academic year. The European Commission and the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia have selected the private New School as a partner where the Eastern Partnership School will be developed. The new building for the school will be constructed on land allocated by Tbilisi City Hall.
During his stay in Tbilisi Johannes Hahn will also meet with President Giorgi Margvelashvili, Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani.
Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze and EU Commissioner for for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn have discussed the implementation progress of the Association Agreement and DCFTA in Brussels.
Hahn met with Georgia’s State Minister of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Victor Dolidze in Brussels yesterday. Dolidze congratulated the EU Commissioner on becoming an honorary citizen of Tbilisi.
European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Johannes Hahn welcomes the progress in relations between Georgia and the European Union (EU). Meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the 54th Munich Security Conference today, EU Commissioner Hahn also praised the government’s efforts in carrying out reforms in Georgia.
European Union (EU) Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn believes Georgia has carried out "impressive reforms” to meet its obligations drafted within the EU-Georgia Association Agreement (AA) deal, signed in June 2014.
Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze and the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn have discussed the new high-level bilateral cooperation format between the EU and Georgia, the first meeting of which will be held in Brussels in November.
The first Eastern Partnership European School opened its doors to 30 students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine today. The start of the academic year was marked with an official inauguration ceremony by EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn and Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze.
Georgian and EU officials have laid the foundation for the very first fully-fledged European School outside the EU borders, which will enroll students from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine at Lisi Lake in Tbilisi.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has met with the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn earlier today. Both officials stated that the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) should enter the two Russian-occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.