Spring is a period when not only nature awakes and flourishes. This spring has been very intensive and full of events for DESCnet and the Caucasus region more broadly. In April, Ilia State University and New Vision University in Tbilisi jointly organised the AESC Second Annual Convention under the topic…
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 9th issue of DESCnet newsletter! As you know, DESCnet stands for the Network for Developing European Studies in the Caucasus. The institute of higher eduction that are located in the EU and the Eastern European countries established…
Dear Colleagues and friends, I would like to welcome you to the eighth issue of the DESCnet newsletter. From the events planned within the DESCnet project, the second AESC Convention is of special significance. This time the Convention will be held in Tbilisi and will be jointly organised by New…
Dear Friends of the DESCnet Project! Allow me to extend my warmest greetings to the readers of the 7th issue of our DESCnet Newsletter. Almost two years after the inauguration of our project, it is a great pleasure to see that the seeds planted by so many colleagues and partner…
Dear colleagues and Friends! Greetings and a warm welcome to the 6th issue of our DESCnet newsletter! Our project is almost two years old and we have accomplished much throughout this period. We have already had two winter schools in Stavropol and Pyatigorsk, a summer school in Batumi and a…
Give the comprehensive nature of the undertaking within the framework laid down by the DESCnet and the AESC, it seemed to be a daunting taks for me when I was asked by Professor Thomas Kruessmann to prepare the editorial for the fifth issue of the DESCnet Newsletter. Going through the…
Dear colleagues and friends! This is to welcome you to the fourth issue of our DESCnet newsletter. As you can see by its souze, our network keeps growing in numbers and extent of topics covered, whic is also expressed in the current issue. The most important issue in 2016 was…
This summer Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University hosted an intensive summer school, which coincided with two side, but not less important events – the “Georgia’s European Way” Converence and annual meeting of the DESCnet consortium. Both came at a very pivotal moment of unprecedented challenges for the destini of mutual…
The DESCnet is now approximately 6 moths in operation. Thinking back that it was only in early December 2015 that we met in Tartu, we have seen the first activites unfold in almost breakneck speed. As you know, we had been preparing the Pyatigorsk Winter School under high time pressure…
This inaugural newsletter marks the beginning of the activities of the Jean Monnet Network »Developing the European Studies in the Caucasus« (DESCnet). Originally conceived of by the University of Graz‘ Russian East European & Eurasian Studies Centre (REEES), it is now under the direction of the Johan Skytte Institute of…