The project N AR - 30/03: "Georgian Sign Language Dictionary" of Ilia State University and its Full Professor Tamar Makharoblidze won in the competition of 2012 State Science Grant for Applied Research. The project's main goal was to create a Georgian Sign Language Dictionary, which was successfully performed. Working process has the two parallel phases: working with the language sources performing the linguistic analysis, and visualization of the examined lexical units. The latter implied creating the photos and graphics for the tested signs and their digitalization. Linguistic analysis meant descriptive and typological analysis of the signs; the investigations of the signs in relation with the other sing languages. Rethinking the material and forming the main achievements and theoretical conclusions for conference materials, for papers and for the other research purposes as well.  Using a method of working with diverse type of sources, the main part of Georgian Sign Language vocabulary was revealed. In fact, this is a whole language active fund. Meanwhile visualization and digitalization of the revealed lexical units were performed and the linguistic analysis was provided. Then the visual and verbal materials were unified for the each lexical unit.  The intellectual product as a result of this project will really help the Deaf and hard of hearing people to learn better Georgian Sign Language and spoken Georgian as well. Any interested person can person will also be able to learn Georgian Sign Language vocabulary. In terms of the project the results were displayed on the five International conferences and the results were published in international highly-rated, peer-reviewed scientific journals: Tamar Makharoblidze (2016) Indirect object markers in Georgian Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics. #18 (2)  John Benjamins Publishing Company Tamar Makharoblidze (2013) On Georgian Dactyl Alphabet. INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS – IJOAL (Vol. 40, No. 1-2, Jan-Dec 2014)C/o BAHRI PUBLICATIONS, Kalkaji, New Delhi. Tamar Makharoblidze (2013) Georgian Sign Language Electronic Dictionary. International Journal of Computer and Information Technology. ISSN 2279-0764. vol. XX issue XX –XXXXXXXX 201X ijcit.com ; International Journal of Computer and Information Technology  www.ijcit.com ; Tamar Makharoblidze (2013) The Georgian Dactyl Alphabet Disability studies Quarterly. DSQ, Vol. 33, No.3  http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3318 Disability studies Quarterly. 3   http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3318 Two books were published with this financial support: Tamar Makharoblidze (2015) Georgian Sign Language Dictionary. ISBN 978-9941-16-225-5 1368 p. Ilia State University, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation. Tbilisi. (in Georgian) Tamar Makharoblidze (2015) Georgian Sign Language Election Dictionary 2015 election. ISBN 978-9941-18-224-2; 291p. Ilia State University, the US Embassy. Tbilisi. (in Georgian)

The project NCF/53/13-813/15 with the title - Symposium "For Integration of Healthcare and University Components of Palliative Care - Medical Services, Education and Research" won the conference grant competition in 2015. The Project was headed by Professor Dimitri Kordzaia from Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Alexander Natishvili Institute of Morphology. The symposium was held in the Conference Hall of the hotel "Primavera" (13 th November 2015) and in the auditorium N. 107 of Tbilisi State University (14 th and 15 th November 2015). The following international experts have participated in the symposium: Stein Kaasa, Professor, MD, PhD, Director of the European Palliative Care Research Centre (Trondheim,  Norway), Chair of the European Association for Palliative Care Research Network; Julia Verne, Professor, BSc, MBBS, MSc. PhD, FFPH, Head of Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Lead National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, Public Health, England; Daniela Mosoiu, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, President of Palliative Care Advisory Commission of the Health Ministry Romania, Board Member of the European Association of Palliative Care, Romania; Katalin Muszbek, MD, Medical Director, Hungarian Hospice Foundation; Vice-president of Eastern European Palliative Task Force, Hungary Anda Jansone, MD, Director of Children’s Palliative Care Department at Children’s University Hospital, Riga; Chair of the Board,  Children’s Palliative Care Society, Latvia The invited experts were received by the Deputy Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs (LHSA) of Georgia, Mr. Zaza Sopromadze. The symposium aimed supporting institutional development of the healthcare system for the patients with chronic incurable diseases in accordance to international standards through the integration of healthcare and university components (healthcare, education, research) of the palliative care in Georgia. The symposium covered the following: For the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, as well as for the Healthcare and Social Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, there were elaborated recommendations for the further development of the system of palliative care in Georgia with the participation of Georgian and foreign experts; The memorandum was signed, concerning the establishment of “International Master Program in Palliative Care” at the faculty of medicine, TSU. The symposium recommendations to the University, reflected the decisions related to the opportunities and mechanisms for the involvement of academic staff and students in such international multicenter studies, based on the results of which, clinical and organizational standards of the palliative care are developed/updated; It was recommended to establish the palliative medicine/care section in the newly founded TSU journal "Translational and Clinical Medicine” and Clinical Medicine", to include the participants of the symposium in the scientific council of the journal and to sign the memorandum with them for the cooperation in reviewing and selecting the received profiled articles. About 100 participants took part in the work of the in the conference part of the symposium, including the representatives of the Committee of Healthcare and Social Affairs of the Parliament of Georgia, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, TSU administration and the academic staff and students of TSU faculties of Medicine, Psychology and Humanitarian sciences, Georgian Medical Association, GNAPC, Open Society Georgia Foundation, SOCO Foundation and other organizations. The invited professors (guest speakers) and Georgian experts participated in the work of round tables and elaboration of the recommendations. At the symposium, the Director of the European Palliative Care Research Centre (Trondheim, Norway), Prof. Stein Kaasa was awarded with the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of TSU.