Europe-Georgia Institute

The EGI focuses its campaigning on issues, such as human rights, peacebuilding, promotion of good governance and supporting the involvement of youth in democratic process.

[2] The Europe-Georgia Institute also analyzes Georgian and international politics, creates policy recommendations, and develops projects which contribute to a more open, democratic, and free society.

[3] The Europe-Georgia Institute, under the patronage and financial support from President Giorgi Margvelashvili, initiated the unprecedented campaign "Your Voice, Our Future" (YVOF), aiming to increase the involvement of Youth in the election process and to show the importance of one single vote.

The core idea of this project was the importance of a vote for future generations, focusing on the fact that in Georgia the Youth usually is less active in elections than any other age groups.

The opening speech was held by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Georgia Igor Dolgov and Chargé d’Affaires of Czech Republic Jiri Preclik.

[9] The last session of EaP&V4 Countries Countering Disinformation titled Disinformation and the Youth Resilience: Forging a New Generation of Leaders moderated by George Melashvili, President of the Europe-Georgia Institute (Georgia) and featured Eto Buziashvili, International Security Expert, (Georgia); Jonas Syrovatka, Programme Manager, Prague Security Studies Institute (Czech Republic); Zviad Adzinbaia, Founder and Visionary at Temocracy, (Georgia); Polad Muradli, Baku-based Independent Expert (Azerbaijan) and Artsiom Sizincau, journalist, Civil Society Research Center (Belarus).

The campaign which ran from 4-10 held a number events in different of cities and districts of the region, and featured information material in Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Russian and English.

[12][13] The Europe-Georgia Institute and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation invited a group of European politicians, journalists and representatives of civic sector and academia to Georgia within the Europe in a suitcase project.

The presenters were a representative of British Liberal Democrats, Imad Ahmed, an economist and a PhD researcher at University College London, who spoke about “The current political situation in the UK and the role of the Liberal Democrats in British politics” and former Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom Ambassador Giorgi Badridze, who made a presentation about “Brexit: Implications for Britain and Europe”.

[14] This meeting was the first attempt to create a tradition of Oliver Wardrop Discussions aiming to bring together British and Georgian politicians and young leaders and foster dialogue and cooperation between the countries and will be held annually.

[21] The “Europe in a suitcase” is the continuation of an international project series which up to 2013 had been implemented by the European Academy Berlin with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and other foundations.

The last session of EaP&V4 Countries Countering Disinformation titled Disinformation and the Youth Resilience: Forging a New Generation of Leaders . from left to right: Eto Buziashvili, International Security Expert, (Georgia); Polad Muradli, Baku-based Independent Expert (Azerbaijan); George Melashvili, President of the Europe-Georgia Institute (Georgia).
HALO Trust staff members explaining the danger of mines to school students in Tbilisi during the "Landsmine Free Caucasus" campaign organized by the Europe-Georgia Institute and LiNKS.
The launch of the project.
Amb. Giorgi Badridze and Imad Ahmed.