Contracting Authority
Delegation of the European Union to Georgia
For more information follow the link: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/georgia_en?s=221
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Beneficiary Administration
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia
For more information follow the link: https://rustaveli.org.ge/eng
Co-beneficiary:
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia
For more information follow the link: https://mes.gov.ge/?lang=eng
Implementing Consortium
Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt GmbH) is a leading Austrian expert organization for environmental issues; working on the science/policy interface; supporting Austrian & European environment and cooperation policies in projects of public interest. For more information follow the link: https://www.umweltbundesamt.at/en
About us:
https://www.umweltbundesamt.at/fileadmin/site/ueberuns/twinning_reference_projects_en.pdf
Joanneum Research is one of the major public research organizations in Austria with some 450 employees in 7 institutes with a mission to support innovation in the private and public sector providing public policy and private actors with applied research and decision making support in all Austrian provinces, at the federal level, in many countries around the world and for international organizations. For more information follow the link: https://www.joanneum.at
About us: https://www.joanneum.at/.../news-detail/eu-twinning-projekt
DLR Project Management Agency is one of Germany’s largest project management agencies; the only project-executing organization in Germany with a thematic breadth ranging from the natural sciences and engineering to the humanities, social sciences, and educational research; builds the bridge between politics and research, education & innovation. For more information follow the link: https://projekttraeger.dlr.de/en
About us:
Austrian Science Fund is a national funding agency for scientific research (including humanities) established in 1968 funding top-quality research projects, international collaborative projects, priority research programs, science prizes, and human resources development doctoral programs. For more information follow the link: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en
About us:
Austrian Research Promotion Agency is a national funding agency for applied research and innovation; national Contact Point Hub for EU programs; bottom-up firm projects (industry & SMEs); competitive thematic/challenge oriented cooperative programs (e.g. mobility, production, cities of the future, energy, environment space, etc.) For more information follow the link: https://www.ffg.at/en
About us:
Daugavpils University is an internationally recognized and modern state university in Latvia. Since its establishment in 1921, it has evolved into a powerful higher education and scientific institute performing basic as well as applied research in Natural, Humanities, and Social science fields which allow interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary investigations to be conducted and a wide range of projects to be implemented. For more information follow the link: https://du.lv/en/home
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Twinning Team
Project Leaders
Wolfgang Polt, Joanneum Research, Austria
Erekle Astakhishvili, SRNSFG, Georgia
Project Junior Leaders
Kirsten Kienzler, DLR Project Management Agency, Germany
Juri Soms, Daugavpils University, Latvia
Project Administration
Johannes Mayer, Environment Agency Austria
Resident Twinning Adviser
Inese Gavarane, Daugavpils University, Latvia
RTA Counterpart
Rusudan Jobava, SRNSFG
