Under the framework of SRNSF’s call for travel grants,Shalva Bardjadze participated The 23th International Conference, dedicated to the underground biology. Where he made a presentation : New diagnosis for species of Plutomurus Yosii (Collembola, Tomoceridae),with descriptions of two new species from Georgian caves . Two new species of the genus Plutomurus, P. revazi sp. nov. from Prometheus and Satsurblia caves and P. eristoi sp. nov. from Satevzia Cave are described, illustrated and differentiated from other morphologically closely related species. A high variability in the number of teeth in the claw, unguiculus and mucro of P. revazi sp. nov. demonstrate that these characters are not useful for species diagnosis. However, dorsal chaetotaxy was shown to be stable character for this purpose. Anal-ysis of DNA sequences for the COI and 28S genes is congruent with species-level groups delimited by chaetotaxy, and provide additional support for chaetotaxy as the most reliable morphological character system to distinguish species in Plutomurus. A key to species of the genus Plutomurus found in Georgia is provided, which for the first time includes char-acters of the macrochaetotaxy.

On September 23 an International Workshop - Aegean World and South Caucasus: Cultural Relations in the Bronze Age was held at Georgian National Museum. The workshop is funded by joint project of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and the National Research Council (Italy).

On September 20, 2016 in the frame of science and innovations’ week in Georgia, Caucasian University introduced its current scientific project. Scientific Director of the project, Professor Temur Khutsishvili introduced newly appeared things in historic Tao in 2016, including photo and video materials. The project “The Catalogue of Georgian Historical Sides – Tao-Klarjeti and Kola-Artani  - Georgian Material and Cultural Monuments Located in Turkey’’  was funded by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation in 2014  and this project is implemented successfully till now. At the end of 2016, Tao-Klarjeti monuments catalog will be published in three volumes.

On September 28, Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences has organized an International Scientific Conference "Modern Technologies to Produce Ecologically Pure Products for Sustainable Development of Agriculture". The Conference is sponsored by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation. 

Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and The US Civilian Research & Development Foundation in the frame of Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Program (STEP) grants by Funding Agreement # S-LMAQM-10-GR-014 on “Revival technology of degradated lands”  CSO “People’s Harmonious Development Society”.    

EGU General Assembly 2016 ( http://egu2016.eu/ ) was took place during 17-22 April in Vienna, Austria. At the conference 13,650 scientists from  109 countries participated. Different sessions covered such topics as Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Climate, Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences, Solar-Terrestrial Sciences and other interesting topics. In the joint session of Atmospheric Sciences and Solar-Terrestrial sciences Giorgi Dalakishvili presented poster Tidal wind as a possible link of coupling between atmospheric waves activity and sporadic E formation . Coauthors of the work are Goderdzi Didebulidze and Giorgi Matiashvili. They demonstrated influence of vortical perturbations excited in atmosphere on the process of sporadic E formation.

Olgha Tsurtsumia made a presentation “Preliminary high temperature oxidation experiments of the slurvy aluminized deformable Austempered ductile Iron (DADI)” funded by SRNSF under Travel Grants. The presentation was made at the 9th International Symposium on High-Temperature Corrosion and Protection of Materials (HTCPM 2016) from May 15th to 20th in France. For more details, please see this link .

Closing ceremony of the International Summer School “Georgian Manuscript” was held on July 28, 2016 at Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts (the summer school was financed by SRNSF). Participants of the summer school made presentations and received certificates.

Under the framework of SRNSF’s call for travel grants, Natia Ebanoidze made a presentation ‘Reconstruction of the past/construction of identity: Levan Choghoshvili’s ‘destroyed aristocracy’ at the Association of Art Historians (AAH) Annual Conference, the University of Edinburgh on April 7-9, 2016. The presentation included Levan Choghoshvili’s art series made in 1975-85.  

On July 22, at 12:00, presentation of project results “Preparing for publication of academic old Georgian translation of Luka’s gospel” was held at at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, faculty of humanities. The project was funded by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation under basic research grant #31/64