European Wide Students and Staff Mobility Campaign Lets Go in Georgia

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European Wide Students and Staff Mobility
Campaign Lets Go in Georgia
Conference Lille6 7 October 2008

• National Coalition Lets GO! Georgia
• Contact persons
• Shorena Japaridze Kate Chachava

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Lets Go Georgia! WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
Staring up the Mobility Campaign in Georgia

• February 2008 Establishment of National
  Mobility Coalition by Educators Scientists Free
  Trade Union of Georgia (ESFTUG) and Students
  Organizations League of Georgia (SOLG)
• Defining main Obstacles for Mobility in Georgia
• Creation of the conceptual approach to Mobility
  in Georgia
• Define Main stakeholders and actors in the field
• Plan activities for Mobility Campaign in Georgia

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Presentations
Lets Go Georgia! WHAT HAS BEEN DONE

• Official Presentation of Mobility Campaign Lets
  GO! in Georgia (29.04.2008)
• Presentation of the Concept of Mobility Campaign
  at the workshop organized by Ministry of
  Education and Science of Georgia with
  participation of Accredited Higher Education
  Institutions Rectors and the Heads of Quality
  Assurance Services (21.04.2008)
• Presentation of Mobility for the Heads of the
  QAS of Georgian HEIs at the Tempus Tasic workshop
  (19.06.2008)

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Meetings in Regions of Georgia
Lets Go Georgia! WHAT HAS BEEN DONE

• Official and unofficial Meetings with students
  and staff of Tbilisi HEIs (May July, 2008)
• Meeting at Kutaisi State University (Kutaisi -
  24.06.2008)
• Meeting at Georgian Subtropical State University
  (Kutaisi - 25.06.2008)
• Meeting at State University (Batumi - 26.06.2008)
• Meeting at Telavi State University (Telavi - 01.
  07. 2008)
• Meeting at Gori State University (Gori -
  17.07.2008)
• Meeting at Sukhumi State University (located in
  Tbilisi - 09.07.2008)

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Informational support of the Mobility Campaign
Lets GO! Georgia
Lets Go Georgia! WHAT HAS BEEN DONE

• Triplet of the Mobility Campaign Lets GO!
  Georgia
• Leaflets Sign Mobility Petition In Georgian
• Triplet of the Mobility Campaign Lets GO!
  Georgia - what has been done
• ESFTUG Monthly Bulletin - Information Lets GO!
  Georgia
• Banners - Mobility Campaign Lets GO! Georgia
  
• Information about Mobility Campaign Lets GO!
  Georgia on Wiki
• Information about Mobility Campaign Lets GO!
  Georgia on web-site www.educator.ge
• Information about presentation of the Mobility
  Campaign Lets GO! Georgia on National
  Television (29.04.2008)
• Joint E-mail address Georgia.letsgo_at_gmail.com

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Other kind of Activities
Lets Go Georgia! WHAT HAS BEEN DONE

• Translate Mobility Petition into Georgia,
  Printing, Distribution and collecting
  signatures.
• ESFTUG - in the Frame of Project funded by Adam
  Smith International more than 1000 teachers of
  10 Georgian HEIs in Tbilisi and regions voted to
  include Staff Mobility Programmes in MES new
  budget
• Students Project application for creation of the
  Mobility Center in Georgia to Municipality of
  Tbilisi

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Preliminary Results of Lets Go Georgia

• Raising awareness, necessity of Mobility among
  main stakeholders, staff students
• Obstacles and ways of resolve
• Define preferable for Georgian reality types of
  staff and students mobility
• Platform for raising funding of mobility
• Base of creation mobility Center

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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE to make mobility reality in
Georgia?
Lets Go Georgia!

• Collect and Analyze reliable statistical data on
  Mobility of Staff and Students
• Establishment of the Mobility Centre
• Development of Special Mobility Programmes
• Financing of Mobility (Mobility Fund)
• Free Language courses at Higher Education
  Institutions
• Remove visa problems
• Recognition of qualifications
• WHAT WILL WE DO to make mobility reality in
  Georgia?
• Support the improvement of work of the
  International Relations Divisions in the HEI
• Conference European wide Mobility Campaign
  Lets GO! - Results and New Perspectives for
  Georgia
• Lobbing Creation of the Students and Staff
  Mobility Center

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• Thank you!
• Contact Persons
• Shorena Japaridze Kate Chachava
• E.mail Georgia.letsgo_at_gmail.com