Programme News: Civic Integration of Minorities - Council of Europe Office in Georgia

New Bilingual Textbooks for Kindergartens in Georgia

The Council of Europe continues promoting educational aspects of integration of national minorities in Georgia. On 19 and 20 April 2017, new bilingual kindergarten textbooks produced within the EU/Council of Europe Joint Programme “Civic Integration of National Minorities in Georgia and the...

Meeting with the Advisor to the President of Georgian on National Minority Issues

Deputy Head of the ECRML Secretariat, Joerg Horn and the project officer of the joint EU/CoE joint project “Civic Integration of National Minorities in Georgia and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages”, Mariam Tsikvadze met with the Advisor to the President of Georgia on Ethnic...

Continued Support to Civic Integration

On 24 March 2017, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science and the Georgian National Youth Palace of Georgia, the Council of Europe and the European Union delegation co-organised an event dedicated to increasing civic integration of national minority children and for exposing...

The Council of Europe continues promoting educational aspects of civic integration of national minorities in Georgia

A number of public schools in Georgia provide education in minority languages, however, there is lack of textbooks and the quality of the existing ones necessitates improvement. To address this issue, among other things, existing Greek language textbooks (5 Volumes) have been updated and...

New Touristic Signpost and Road Signs installed in Historic German Settlements

In the framework of the signed Administrative Arrangement between the Council of Europe and the Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency of Georgia, under the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia of Georgia, objects belonging to German cultural heritage in historic German...

Meeting in Asureti

2 March 2017

On 2 March 2017, the deputy head of the Council of Europe Office in Georgia, Mrs Ana Zec met with the head of Tetritskaro Municipality, Besik Tsiklauri in Tetritskaro, Kvemo Kartli Region. The aim of the meeting was to hand over the 80 bilingual street signs produced by the Council of Europe to...

Journalistic Trainings for School Students

On 1 March 2017, the series of journalistic trainings have been launched in cooperation with the Azerbaijani newspaper Gurgistan, the Armenian newspaper Vtastan and the German newspaper Kaukasische Post. More than 200 students of secondary schools from Tbilisi and regions teaching German,...

Regional promotion meetings on bilingualism and minority language education in Gori, Zugdidi, Khelvachauri and Batumi

On 14 and 15 November 2016, the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia (MoES) and the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia (MRDI), organised four information and promotional meetings on minority language education in...

Regional promotion meetings on bilingualism and minority language education in Kakheti region

On 2 and 3 November 2016, the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia (MoES) and the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia (MRDI), organised eight information and promotional meetings on minority language education in...

Regional promotion meetings on bilingualism and minority language education

On 24, 25 and 26 October 2016, the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia (MoES) and the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia (MRDI), organised nine information and promotional meetings on minority language education in...