Project Objectives

Iakob Gogebashvili State University hosts HERD representatives


On 14-17th of October, 2020 a member of the project consortium, Telavi State University, hosted a HERD Georgian partner university representatives' meeting aimed at improving the Scientific Portal System and making the final agreement on the Georgian version of the Portal. HERD Project is Co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union and aims to Raise Research Capacity of Georgian HEIs' through Developing R&D Units. Projects goal is to respond to major objectives of Georgian R&D strategy defined by the government’s four-point development plan including education reform and creation of knowledge-based society; to strategic development plan of the Ministry of Education and Science [MES] on quality enhancement of education, research, raising innovation potential, capacity building on tech-transfer via strengthening university-industry relations, and internationalization; and to new standards of National Center for Education Quality Enhancement demanding the evidence-based policy for R&D and strategic development plans for research at HEIs.