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PhD students of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) traditionally lead in the State Grant Competition announced by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation to provide financial support to PhD programs. In 2024, 17 out of 39 winning projects (43.6% of winning projects) were submitted by TSU PhD students.
The purpose of the competition is to identify talented young researchers and to promote the compliance of their doctoral research with modern international standards; to provide proper environment for scientific research; to promote collaboration between PhD students and foreign higher education and research institutions, which in turn, will contribute to raising the quality of higher education in Georgia.
Within the framework of the call, PhD students may submit project proposals in the scientific fields defined by the scientific field classification as follows: Natural Sciences; Engineering and Technology; Medicine and Health; Agricultural Sciences; Humanities; Social Sciences; Georgian Studies.
Project’s budget can cover the following categories of expenditure: a) Stipend (scholarship) for PhD student; b) Expenditure of technical equipment, laboratory supplies for educational and research process or/and costs of fieldwork; c) Expenditure of participation in international scientific event (conference, congress, workshop, seminar and etc.) for the purposes of the project and on the background of agreement with the thesis supervisor; d) Expenditure of research visit abroad for the purposes of the project and on the background of agreement with the thesis supervisor; e) Other costs necessary for educational and research process – might include payment of educational costs, purchase of printed/digital literature and computer programme, publication and patent obtaining costs, etc.
The grantee is responsible to publish at least one scientific article based on the research materials of the funded project in international peer-reviewed journals or proceedings of conference papers that are indexed in Scimago Journal Ranking, Scopus, Web of Science, ERIH plus.