SRNSF organizes public scientific/popular lectures for school students for science popularization. Successful young scientists will deliver lectures in various fields of science with slogan ‘science starts from school’. The authors of SRNSF funded projects will introduce news in science to schoolchildren as soon as they return from internship. On November 7, 2016, Guranda Avqofashvili, the grant winner of the Call for Postdoctoral Internships 2015, delivered a public lecture at Tbilisi N217 Public School.

On November 4, 2016 at the Hotel "Betsy" conference room (s Makashvilis k.№ 32-34) During the International conference - “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” and its Place in the World Literature, Modern Interpretations” (The conference is dedicated to 850th Anniversary of the creation of Shota Rustaveli’s masterpiece “Knight in the Panther’s Skin”) Held presentation of the Scientific collection  "the Term, Concept and Paradigm in the “Knight in the Panther’s Skin". Goal of the Project, funded by SRNSF, “Term, Concept and Paradigm in the “Knight in the Panther’s Skin” was studying of the paradigmatic images-symbols and specific concept-terms. Ideological contents of the poem cannot be adequately interpreted without gaining retrospective understanding and knowing of the creative function of each concept, term, paradigmatic image and symbol. Each issue provided for by the project was worked with due regard of the traditional and most recent scientific literature. Periodically we were issuing the scientific publications. 2 scientific conferences were held and finally the collection of works “Term, Concept and Paradigm in the “Knight in the Panther’s Skin” was published, publishing house “Mtsignobari”, Tbilisi, 2016 (304 pages). Collection includes the works by Lia Karichashvili (Project Scientific Manager), Mariam Karbelashvili, Nana Gonjilashvili, Tamar Khvedeliani and Lia Tsereteli. Introduction was written by Vano Amiranashvili, Collection of works includes the summary in Georgian and English languages. In our opinion, the Collection of Works will be useful for the scientific, pedagogical audience and students interested in Rustaveli’s art and generally, literature of his epoch. Problems stated by Rustaveli are always important, given their national and universal significance. And today’s scientific and pedagogical environment requires clear understanding of Rustaveli’s concepts-terms and image-symbols and their adaptation to today’s environment. This is the necessary condition for understanding of Rustaveli’s creative world. The work has significant potential, not only for researches in the sphere of Rustaveli studies and generally, for literature criticism but for interdisciplinary researches as well as it offers discussion of concept-terms and realities of political, philosophical, legal, social, ethical, theological, economic, folklore, geographical, ethnic and culturological nature. The Collection will be also useful for the comparative studies, as it highlights the intercultural communications. It is clear that Rustaveli’s model combines image-symbols and concept-terms of western and oriental literature, as well as the Bible and general literature. Work will be helpful for development of the special Rustaveli dictionaries, as it provides justification of the meaning of certain lexemes, with respective contexts. We regard that the work will be of interest not only for the scientific audience, teachers and students but also for general readers.  

SRNSF organizes public scientific/popular lectures for school students for science popularization. Successful young scientists will deliver lectures in various fields of science with slogan ‘science starts from school’. The authors of SRNSF funded projects will introduce news in science to schoolchildren as soon as they return from internship. On November 4, 2016, Tatia Mtvarelidze, the grant winner of the Call for Postdoctoral Internships 2015, delivered a public lecture at Tbilisi N175 and N133 Public Schools.  

SRNSF organizes public scientific/popular lectures for school students for science popularization. Successful young scientists will deliver lectures in various fields of science with slogan ‘science starts from school’. The authors of SRNSF funded projects will introduce news in science to schoolchildren as soon as they return from internship. On November 2, 2016, Shota Gogichaishvili, the grant winner of the Call for Postdoctoral Internships 2015, delivered a public lecture at Tbilisi N175 and N133 Public Schools.

EC funded project: “Knowledge Transfer Community to bridge the gap between research, innovation and business creation” (NoGAP) was completed in September 2016. The Project was successful. German company “Steinbeis Europa Centrum” was coordinating it. Project consortium consisted of representatives of six countries (Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia). International Center for Advancement of Research, Technology and Innovation (ICARTI) and Georgian Technical University were participating in the project from Georgia.  Main results of the project were published in the Project Handbook - Knowledge Transfer Community to Bridge the Gap between Research, Innovation and Business Creation. NoGap project Handbook

On October 31, 2016, at 17:00, presentation of 3 books - Proclus Diadochus, "Elements of Theology", Translation and Commentary of Petritsi - took place at Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts. The three books were published under SRNSF funded project Proclus Diadochus' "Elements of Theology", translation and commentary of Petritsi.

For science popularization purposes, SRNSF organizes public lectures delivered by grantees for school students.  On October 29, 2016, Gia Javakhishvili delivered a lecture for science popularization at N3 public school named after Muskhelishvili, in Telavi.   

Presentation of   the scientific-research center molecular diagnostic and biotechnologies’ project was held at Sokhumi State University on 25.10.16. The project is implemented by cooperation with Hannover Medical School, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO) and with support of the Volkswagen Scientific Foundation. The aim of the project is to train specialists, who will master biotechnological techniques that will be relevant for medical diagnostics and research.

An international conference titled "European Values and Identity: Multiple Dimensions of Europeanization" took place on October 25 , 2016, at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.   The multidisciplinary conference was organized by Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Center for Social Sciences, Georgian Community of France and financially supported by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and Georgia Proeuropa.   2nd International Conference "European Values and Identity: Multiple Dimensions of Europeanization" covered the following areas: European values, political economic and social aspects of EU integration, European education. The event was attended by Professor Giorgi Sharvashidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Rector, Pascal Meunier , Ambassador of the French Republic to Georgia, Georgian and European experts and specialists of various fields.  

Under the framework of SRNSF’s call for travel grants, Zurab Kiguradze participated in the international conference, which took place in the United States, the State of Massachusetts, Boston, 2016 11 July 2016 15 July. Conference title was SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics annual meeting in 2016 where he made a speech  On Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Integro-Differential Equation Associated with the Penetration of a Magnetic Field into a Substance. It was also one of the head of the section at the conference.