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On October 10, 2013, ISET Policy Institute signed a memorandum of understanding with the Competition and State Procurement Agency of Georgia (CSPA). The main points of this memorandum were granting access to its information and analyzing the dataset.

One of the strategic goals of the agency is to increase academic interest in public procurement and find competent people to explore this system. Tato Urjumelashvili, head of the CSPA, stated that the agency needs the involvement of smart people to explore the data in various ways. ISET-PI and the CSPA will also work together to support internships for ISET students.

Professor Einar Hope from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) is a leading Nordic authority on energy market design and regulation. In 1995-1999, he took a break from academic activities and served as director of the Norwegian Competition Authority.

This year’s visit to Georgia (and ISET) was the second one for Professor Hope in as many years. In addition to advising ISET students, Professor Hope used his ten-day stay in Tbilisi in order to deliver a public seminar “THE POTENTIAL OF GEORGIA’S ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN AN INTEGRATED REGIONAL POWER MARKET”.

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