A ceremony was held at the Georgian Technical University to award certificates to the successful students of the four full-time intensive professional training courses from the spring semester of 2025 and to summarize the project’s results.
The project was organized by the Labor Safety Training Center of the Georgian Technical University, with the financial support of the City Department of Culture, Education, Sports, and Youth Affairs of the Tbilisi Municipality City Hall, and was implemented within the framework of the Tbilisi City Hall program - “Learn and Get a Job”.
In the spring semester of 2025, within the framework of the Tbilisi City Hall program, a total of 85 citizens living in the territory of Tbilisi Municipality successfully completed four full intensive courses at the Georgian Technical University. Including: a full course for training a labor safety specialist - 40 students; The preparatory vocational course for a blasting assistant - 15 students; the vocational courses for an installation assistant for renewable energy sources (solar photovoltaic and thermal systems), and well drilling also had 15 students each.
The program beneficiaries were awarded certificates by the Chancellor of the Georgian Technical University, Professor Carlo Kopaliani, the President of the GTU Supervisory Board, Professor Zurab Gudavadze, the Deputy Head of the Tbilisi City Hall Department of Culture, Education, Sports, and Youth Affairs, Vasil Karseladze, the Dean of the GTU Faculty of Energy, Professor Ketevan Kutateladze, the Project Manager, Associate Professor of GTU Rati Gurgenidze, and the Head of the University Training Center for Occupational Safety, Luka Tvaradze.
The results of the project implemented in the spring semester of this year were summarized at the event, and the future action plan was discussed. As Rati Gurgenidze, the project manager of the Tbilisi City Hall program “Learn and Get a Job” at the Georgian Technical University, noted, taking into account the active involvement and high demand from citizens, new streams of applicants have already been accepted for all four intensive courses of GTU since November 1st of this year.
Chancellor Professor Carlo Kopaliani spoke about the fruitful partnership between the Georgian Technical University and Tbilisi City Hall in the educational field. He focused on the future benefits in terms of future employment and career growth that successful graduates will receive as a result of mastering the sought-after and at the same time rare specialties of GTU.
“The joint project of the Georgian Technical University and the Tbilisi City Hall, which is gradually expanding, creates an opportunity to train candidates in highly sought-after and rare specialties on the labor market - such as labor safety, explosives, installation of renewable energy sources, and drilling wells - at a highly professional level. We thank the Tbilisi Municipality City Hall, its City Department of Culture, Education, Sports, and Youth Affairs, for their support. The fact that we have awarded certificates to 85 successful students is proof that this next stage of the project at the Georgian Technical University has also ended with good results. We are confident that our university graduates will find worthy employment in private or state organizations, enterprises, or companies of various profiles. It is especially important that the project continues and that many citizens living in the Tbilisi territory express their desire to participate in it. On behalf of the university, we wish them career advancement,” said Carlo Kopaliani.
According to Vasil Karseladze, Deputy Head of the City Department of Culture, Education, Sports and Youth Affairs of the Tbilisi Municipality, the goal of the Tbilisi City Hall is to promote the employment of job-seeking citizens registered in the capital in specialties in demand in the labor market, and the contribution of the Georgian Technical University is important in this regard. Vasil Karseladze thanked the GTU administration and academic staff for their cooperation and wished the project graduates decent employment.
The Georgian Technical University actively partners with the Tbilisi Municipality City Hall program - “Learn and Get Employed”. The program provides for the professional training/retraining of citizens registered in Tbilisi and seeking employment in up to 50 specialties in demand in the labor market through intensive professional courses.