Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania in Georgia Ionas Paslauskas held the meeting in Technical University of Georgia. The meeting was attended by the special guest from Lithuania Professor Vida Kavaliauskas, representatives of Technical University of Georgia, Professor-Educators, students, reports GHN.
Ionas Paslauskas talked about Georgian-Lithuanian relations, about Lithuanian diaspora in Georgia, about issues of education. As he stated the Center of Lituanistics functions in Georgian Technical University successfully. The analogous center will be opened in Lithuania too.
In Vilnius there begins functioning of Georgian Language Center. With the order of Minister of Education and Science of Georgia in Lithuania there will be sent teacher of Georgia language, the professor of Tbilisi State University.
We remind that in 2012 October in Technical University of Georgia there was opened the Center of Lituanistics. The Center of Lithuanian Language was opened by the ambassador of Lithuania in Georgia Ionas Paslaiskas. The event was attended by the chief of chancellery of embassy of Lithuania Rasa Indriunaite-Barkalaia. As Ionas Paslauskas stated every student from Technical University as other Universities and also everyone who wants to learn Lithuanian language will have possibility to attend the lessons free. The course is leaded by the Professor Vida Kavaliauskas who was invited in Georgia. As organizers stated the functioning of Lithuanian Language Center will support deepening of Georgian-Lithuanian contacts. The initiative belongs to the Technical University; the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania will finance the project.
It must be said that the students that have special achievements will receive scholarship from the government of Lithuania. On the first stage there will be financed students who are studying in Lithuanian Language Center in Technical University of Georgia.