The Office of Technology and Grant Projects of the Georgian Technical University held another open informational meeting about grant competitions for researchers of the university’s faculties and scientific research institutes.
Within the framework of the meeting, the researchers got acquainted with the news and opportunities of different grant directions.
At the information meeting, Giorgi Mikiashvili, head of the Technology and Grant Projects Office of GTU, with the office staff, talked in detail to the researchers of the faculties and research institutes of Georgian Technical University, about Horizon Europe, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, USAID, ERASMUS+, Competitive Innovation Fund (CIF) and other international funds or donor organizations grant directions, current and planned grant contests, research project funding conditions, schemes and main directions, as well as provided information about news.
As Giorgi Mikiashvili pointed out, the flexible format of open informational meetings of the Office of Technology and Grant Projects helps university scientists in research development, which involves obtaining funding opportunities, university-wide, developing grant proposals, and coordinating the management of already funded projects.
Luka Kemoklidze, the Deputy Head of the National Office of Horizon Europe Georgia, participated in the meeting, consulted the university scientists, and answered their questions.
The University Office of Technologies and Grant Projects regularly holds open informational meetings to introduce and popularize the culture of grant activities of the academic and scientific staff of the Georgian Technical University and the introduction and promotion of the culture of students’ grant activities, the maximum involvement of employees in it, and the development and implementation of a wide range of research programs.