On November 26, a Memorandum of Cooperation was agreed between the ISET Policy Institute and the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia. The document was signed by Eric Livny, the Director of the ISET Policy Insistute and Otar Danelia, the Minsiter of Agriculture.
The Memorandum aims to develop a market price collection system of agricultural products at the Ministry of Agriculture. Through close cooperation between the ISET Policy Institute, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Georgia and the Ministry of Agriculture, a price collection methodology will be developed and a list of products will be defined to be collected on a regular basis.
On November 25, 2014 the Deputy Rector of Tbilisi State University, Professor Joseph Salukvadze who teaches at the Department of Human Geography at the faculty of Social and Political Sciences held a presentation on the topic “Changing Patterns of Urban Development in Post-soviet Tbilisi” at ISET.
In the beginning of the presentation Professor Salukvadze spoke about Tbilisi of the Soviet period and Tbilisi today, about its growth and urban planning. Afterwards, he distinguished and discussed three different phases of urbanism: the first one is the so-called “Do it yourself” phase covering the early/first transition phase (1990s), the second phase “Investor urbanism” covering the second transition (2000s) and the third phase -“Politically determined urbanism” revealing itself