The day of the Georgian Production Forces and Natural Resources Research Center named after Irakli Jordania was celebrated at the Georgian Technical University. The center has completed 46 years since its foundation.
To celebrate the remarkable date, the Irakli Jordania Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia University was visited by Vice-Rectors Tamar Tsereteli, Tamar Lominadze, Head of the Training Process Management Service Zaza Buachidze, Administration Representatives, Deans of Faculties, Heads of Scientific and Research Institutes of GTU, specialists and students.
The event was opened by the vice-rector of the Georgian Technical University, who congratulated the head of the institute, Professor Zurab Lomsadze, and the scientific staff on the day of the institute establishment.
According to Tamar Lominadze, the Irakli Jordania Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia was founded in 1978. Since then, it has served to fulfill very important tasks. The center’s priority scientific research direction is the study of the country’s natural resources - land, water, forest, minerals, energy, resort-recreational, touristic, and human - potential, in particular - analysis, evaluation, and determination of long-term perspectives of its rational, complex use.
“One of the significant institutions for the country, the Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia, was founded 46 years ago. Since 2018, it has been named after academician Irakli Jordania.
Academicians - Irakli Mikeladze, Ferdinand Tavadze, Giorgi Tsitsishvili, Vakhtang Gomelauri, Ioseb Buachidze, Otar Natishvili, and Vasil Gulisashvili participated in the work of the Center’s Scientific Council at different times.
Academy member-correspondenta are - Givi Svanidze, Engineering Academy member -Tamar Janelidze; Professors: Petre Zghenti, Irakli Zurabishvili, Elizbar Tsiskarishvili, Boris Demetradze. Today, scientists and researchers who work here, their fame long ago went beyond the borders of Georgia.
To promote the solution of socio-economic-ecological problems facing the country, they study the resource potential and production forces of Georgia, analyze the regional and sectoral aspects of rational, effective use, and develop appropriate recommendations.
This is one of the most important directions in the background when the stocks of resource species, their demand, and extraction-utilization processes are in constant dynamics, changing in space and time. I congratulate all the employees of the Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia today and wish them success”, announced Tamar Lominadze.
Vice-rector Tamar Tsereteli congratulated the scientists of the Irakli Jordania Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia on the 46th anniversary of the center’s establishment. As she mentioned in her speech, the center employs highly qualified and highly rated scientists, four of whom have signed the Act of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia.
“This is a training-research center of great traditions and experience, without which the research of land, forest, minerals, natural-recreational, hydro, solar, wind, geothermal waters and heating energy resources would be impossible. Important manuals were published here, such as: “Long-term Complex Program of Scientific and Technical Progress of Georgia”, “Natural Resources of Georgia and Problems of their use”, and the cycle of Works - about the natural resources of the regions of Georgia (13 volumes), which describe the research results of the country’s natural resources problems in a regional perspective, which clearly showed the potential of natural resources in the historically and administratively separated territories of the parties and the peculiarities of its use, “Natural Resources of Georgia” in two volumes, etc.; I wish success to the center in this much-needed activity”, said Tamar Tsereteli.
The director of the Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia named after Irakli Jordania - Zurab Lomsadze, presented to the public an overview of the reporting period. According to him, 151 scientific articles have been published under the co-authorship of the Center's scientists. 14 manuals were prepared and published by them. Employees of the Center participated in 102 international scientific conferences.
“I congratulate my colleagues on the 46th anniversary of the center’s establishment. I wish them success, and I would like to thank the rector of the Georgian Technical University, Academician David Gurgenidze, who gave the activities of our center a more impressive and effective tone. With his support, the lecture courses – “Economic Policy of Resource Use” and “Resource Science” were prepared, which will soon be introduced at the GTU Faculty of Mountain Sustainable Development. I am sure many successes await us”, said the center director.
At the end of the event, meritorious scientists Ketevan Makharadze and Tamaz Patarkalishvili of the Irakli Jordania Center for the Study of Production Forces and Natural Resources of Georgia were awarded certificates of honor from the Georgian Technical University.