Representatives of Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia, recently visited Trinity College Dublin with the aim of exploring opportunities for collaborations in teaching and research.  

University Rector, Alexander Kvitasvili and Head of Department of Foreign Relations at Tbilisi State University, Tea Gergedava, visited Trinity College on September 13th and 14th last. The two day visit saw the TSU guests exploring many parts of the Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science while also engaging in discussions with the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Trinity’s Global Relations Office.  

Trinity and Tbilisi University wish to build on existing relations and during the visit discussed the possibility of joint endeavours including: undergraduate student exchanges in maths, theoretical physics and physics; awarding joint degrees; staff exchanges; funding for joint research; and joint interactions in the area of European studies and international relations. Representatives from Tbilisi were also keen to learn more about Trinity’s research activities and to better understand innovation and technology transfer programmes within Trinity  College.

Tbilisi is the oldest University in the Caucasus region and currently has over 18,000 students enrolled across six faculties.  University representatives were accompanied by Georgian Charge d’Affaires to Ireland, Irakli Koplatadze, who has been actively engaged in promoting interactions between the Ireland and Georgia. The visit to Trinity, co-ordinated by the Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science, follows on from a visit to Tbilisi State University earlier this year by the Dean of Engineering Mathematics and Science, Professor Clive Williams and Erasmus Smith’s Chair of Natural Philosophy, Professor Samson Shatashvili.