Grant
The goal of the project initiated by the Foundation is to promoting the teaching profession, providing motivation to future teachers, creating more opportunities to attract high-achieving students to partner universities.
In order to achieve this goal, GPF is ready to provide scholarships for the excellent students of three universities, who will strengthen the pedagogical contingent of secondary education in the country tomorrow.
Grant objectives and working directions
“Future Teacher” initiated by the Foundation is an incentive scholarship project. It has been implemented in partner state universities since 2020 and brings together 10 successful students from each higher education institution. Its purpose is to promote the teaching profession, to provide additional motivation, especially to young people living in the region, and to create more opportunities for attracting applicants with high academic performance in partner universities. The monthly amount of the scholarship is 150 GEL. Scholars with high academic performance are selected by the universities themselves. Within the framework of the scholarship program, the foundation has about 70 scholars in 7 state universities: Gori State University, Sokhumi State University, Shota Rustaveli University of Batumi, Shota Meskhia University of Zugdidi, Iakob Gogebashvili State University of Telavi, Samtskhe-Javakheti State University and Akaki Tsereteli State University of Kutaisi.
Schedule of project’s main activities
The educational project initiated and funded by the Foundation was signed on July 22nd and its duration is one academic year.
Grantee
Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (TeSaU) is one of the oldest educational centers in Georgia. The University is the worthy successor of the century-old educational traditions of Ikalto Academy (XII Century), Telavi Philosophical and Theological Institutions (1758-1782), Theological Seminary (1782-1801), Theological School (1818-1918), Teachers’ Professional College (1924-1939), Teachers’ Professional Institute (1939-1951) and Pedagogical Institute (1951-1999).
Since 1940 the institution has been named after the great Georgian pedagogue and public figure Iakob Gogebashvili. On the 60th anniversary from its foundation, in 1999, it was awarded the status of State University. It is an autonomous State Higher Educational Institution. Teaching language here is native Georgian.
Getting education at the university is available through renewed programmes covering Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral cycles. The Institution covers vocational educational programmes as well.
Development path and achievements of Samtskhe-Javakheti State University have been created within 30 years of its establishment as a higher education institution. Students, graduates, employees and the community of the University are proud of the achievements and results that evolved as a result of the higher education foundation in Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
LEPL Samtskhe-Javakheti State University is a successor of the Akhaltsikhe Branch of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University founded in Samtskhe-Javakheti as the first higher education institution in 1990. In 1991 ,,Independent University of Akhaltsikhe” was established on the basis of the existed branch which joined Akhaltsikhe Branch of Tbilisi State University as a paid educational department in 1995. In 2002 Akhaltsikhe Branch of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University was named as Meskheti Branch of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Legal Entity of Public Law – Gori State Teaching University is a significant center for education and science in Shida Kartli. It was established as a result of merging two higher education institutions, LEPL – Gori State University and LEPL -Tskhinvali State University (Government Resolution #176, August 22, 2007).
In August of 1935 it was opened as a two-year teaching institute, being afterward in 1939 re-established as Gori State Pedagogical Institute with a four-year study program. The Institute was given the name of N. Baratashvili, a great Georgian poet. In 1985, as a result of reorganization of Gori N. Baratashvili State Pedagogical Institute, it was established as Gori State Economic Institute, and renamed again in 1997 as Gori State Economic-Humanitarian Institute. On 16th July of 1999, the mentioned institution received university status.
The history of Sokhumi State University begins on February 7, 1932, when by the decision of the Government of Georgia Pedagogical Institute was established in Sokhumi. Initially, Sokhumi Pedagogical Institute had two chairs that were mainly destined for preparing pedagogic staff. In the following years, other specialties were added and by the beginning of the 1960s the Pedagogical Institute became the leading educational and scientific center where the teaching process was conducted in the Georgian, Abkhaz and Russian languages. In 1979 Sokhumi Pedagogical Institute was re-established as University of Abkhazia (Sokhumi).
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is an important educational, scientific and cultural center of our country. It has a 85-year-long history.
The establishment and development of the educational system in Adjara was a long-time endeavor of the Georgian community. In 1893 the issue was raised to open a Boys’ Gymnasium in Batumi. On 26-27 June, 1893 the Municipality of the city granted 2 623, 95 sq/m area of land for the Boys’ Gymnasium at the seaside. The project was designed by a military engineer Sedelnikov. The first floor of the building allocated a gym while the second floor contained the church, assembly hall, eight classrooms, art classroom, physics study-room, laboratory and a library. The Boys’ Gymnasium started functioning in July, 1897. On 26 September, 1900 it became possible to open a Women’s Gymnasium as well. Later, by 1923, a Pedagogical Institute was founded in the building of former Women’s Gymnasium (present Public School №2) which afterwards turned into a Pedagogical College. It used to prepare the first stage school teachers.
Shota Meskhia Zugdidi State Institute are implemented by Management bodies, academic, administrative, invited, support and other staff. University has an equal environment for getting vocational and higher education. There are 3 Master, 8 Bachelor, Teacher Preparation, Georgian language preparation, 28 vocational programs and 28 short-term training/retraining courses. In the university Educational programs are implemented by 40 academic staff, 24 affiliated, 4 administrative,45 support staff, 43 invited professor/teacher specialist and 110 teachers on vocational educational programs. 536 students are getting an education on higher educational programs, 475 on vocational education programs, more than 6 thousand beneficiaries trained/retrained under lifelong learning principles. Modular vocational educational programs among them new model –dual education ( work-based learning) was developed and is being implemented. Teaching university. Under the demand of labour market, the agrarian field is still priority of the Teaching University, that’s why modular ( dual) vocational and higher education programs will be prepared and implemented under the framework of agrarian field, which will make possible to recognize credits obtained at the vocational educational cycle with the purpose of higher education.
The history of Akaki Tsereteli State University started eight decades ago and now, it is a higher educational institution in Georgia distinguished with its excellent traditions, which have found a decent place in the cultural-intellectual and moral upbringing of generations. The University has gained universal recognition as a result of staff training, high quality scientific potential and wide- ranging links with scientific institutes of advanced countries.
Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University, in fact, was founded in the entrails of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. In July 1930, the authorities abolished Tbilisi State University and created four independent higher education institutions at its base. One of them was the State Pedagogical Institute, which, from then on, until 1933, was functioning in Tbilisi. In 1933, the institute continued functioning in Kutaisi from February 13 of the same year. In 1933-1990 the institution was in the position of Alexander Tsulukidze State Pedagogical Institute.
In 1990, the higher education institution was transformed into Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University, which was a logical culmination of the great work that the institute successfully had for almost six decades of its existence.
According to the Decree #39 of the Government of Georgia of February 23, 2006, reorganization was carried out of the legal entities of public law – Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University and Kutaisi N. Muskhelishvili State Technical University through their unification. The educational institution was named as a university and was called Akaki Tsereteli State University.