RiHEI — Newsletter 2 and 3 are published!

RiHEI stands for Respon­si­ble and Impactful Uni­ver­si­ties as Sus­tainable Growth and Enter­pri­se Cata­lysts in Geor­gia. The pro­ject aims to turn Georgia’s hig­her edu­ca­ti­on eco­sys­tem into a dri­ver of sus­tainable, respon­si­ble growth by equip­ping young peo­p­le with skills and lin­king edu­ca­ti­on, rese­arch, and inno­va­ti­on more clo­se­ly to pri­va­te sec­tor needs.

New Uzbekistan University (NUU), Tashkent

Well-edu­ca­ted young peo­p­le are the most valuable asset of any coun­try. This is the mot­to of the Uzbek govern­ment, which has set its sights on ope­ning a new edu­ca­tio­nal insti­tu­ti­on, the “New Uzbe­ki­stan Uni­ver­si­ty”. The uni­ver­si­ty, which ope­ned in the capi­tal Tash­kent in the sum­mer of 2021, is based on the excel­lent stan­dards and appli­ca­ti­on-ori­en­ted focus of the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich (TUM) in a wide ran­ge of are­as.

Kutaisi International University (KIU), Georgia

In Kutai­si, the third lar­gest city in Geor­gia, a young uni­ver­si­ty is gro­wing up with the aim of beco­ming a uni­que edu­ca­tio­nal and rese­arch cen­ter in Geor­gia. Kutai­si Inter­na­tio­nal Uni­ver­si­ty (KIU) is gui­ded by its role model, the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich (TUM).