Academic and research achievements aside, it is ISET’s community spirit that prompts alumni and visiting professors to recall their time at the institute fondly, and which also continues to attract BA and MA students hoping to become a part of the ISET family.
This week witnessed a strong display of this vaunted espirit de corps when David Tsirekidze, an ISET alumnus of the Class of 2011, decided to award merit-based scholarships to six of ISET's MA students with the best academic achievements. Roy Southworth, a member of ISET's Governing Board and a long-time supporter of the organization, did one-on-one matching with the money donated by Davit Tsirekidze and the hard-working recipients.
ISET prides itself on the diversity of its multi-national composition; faculty members have come from Germany, Israel, Norway, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Italy. The institute is therefore very happy to add Sweden to the list, with the arrival of Lotta Björklund Larsen, a PhD holder from Stockholm University.
Throughout spring 2019, Lotta will collaborate with the Private Sector Development Research Unit on an assessment of the Georgian tax lottery in 2012. She will also hold a few seminars on tax compliance issues presenting international as well as her own research, and organize a workshop on applying qualitative methods in tax research. This project has been made possible by a grant from The Swedish Institute Visby Programme.