Festival of Science and Innovations 2017
Festival of Science and Innovations 2017 at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences
On the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science, in the framework of the on-going Festival of Science and Innovations 2017, on the 28th of September, 2017, at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences a Public lecture for the high school students of public school No 31 was held.
The meeting was opened by Guram Aleksidze, the President of GAAS who talked about the role of science and education and particularly about the role of agrarian sciences in the economic stability and progress of the country. Prior to the beginning of the public lectures, the President and director of the school Marian Nijharadze signed an Memorandum of cooperation, which once again confirms the role of the close cooperation between the scientific institutions and schools.
During the meeting the students listened to the following lectures:
“The Solar system, Geography, biodiversity and the role of a man in preservation of nature”.
The presenter: Learned Secretary of the Academy, Revaz Lolishvili.
“ Global Challenges of Earth protection in the 21st century: Nature in the 19th century Georgian Poet Vajha Pshavela and the American Philosopher and Poet R.W. Emerson.”
Presenter Dr. Prof. Irina Bakhtadze, The Academy of Agricultural Sciences
The lectures raised wide interest among the listeners and the students asked the questions and shared their ideas around the problems.
The meeting was attended by Vice President Academician G. Japaridze, Head of Academic Department, E. Shapakidze, Scientific Secretary M. Barvenashvili, Deputy president Dr. Giorgadze, and other members of the Academy.
At the end of the meeting, the President of GAAS gave to school academic publications, and the authors of public lectures Dr. Lolishvili and Dr. Bakhtadze presented printed versions of their lectures.
Photo: The president of the Academy of GAAS G. Aleksidze and the director of public school No 31 Nijharadze Signing Memorandum.
The students in the Exhibition Hall, Deputy President Dr. Giorgadze, is talking with the students
See the printed versions of the public lectures on the sites follow the links.
1. Revaz Lolishvili. “The Solar system, Geography, biodiversity and the role of a man in preservation of nature”.
2. Dr. Irina Bakhtadze . “ Global Challenges of Earth protection in the 21st century: Nature in the 19th century Georgian Poet Vajha Pshavela and the American Philosopher and Poet R.W. Emerson.”
GAAS presented the basic researches of real members and member-correspondents of the Academy since 2013 – till present. GAAS offered to the visitors the proceedings, a collection of articles, of the scientific conferences held by the Academy in 2013-2017 years. Also, there were the conference banners, and other scientific publications in different fields of agrarian science, such as, soil management, grain and seed production, viticulture and winemaking, sericulture, cattle breeding, and other.
On the photo: Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science at the exhibition of GAAS. From the left, K. Natriashvili, Minister A. Jejelava, Acad. E. Shapakidze, L. Gigauri. 
The meeting was opened by Academician G. Aleksidze. He mentioned that a partnership document between the two academies was first signed in 2009, but the progress in management and in application of energy-saving technologies which has taken place for the last decade in agriculture called for the necessity of renovation of the terms of partnership.
