Tbilisi Knowledge Hub#
At their meeting on 27 November, 2018, the Board of Trustees were pleased to approve unanimously, a proposal from the Rector of Tbilisi University, Professor Georg Sharvashidze, to establish a new Regional Knowledge Hub of the AE to be based at the University, in Tbilisi, Georgia.
A launch and signing event will be arranged for late April 2019. Further information will be announced via a member newsletter.
Tbilisi Knowledge Hub aims to become a platform to develop multidisciplinary scientific activities and expertise related to the Biocultural - Biological, Cultural, Linguistic, Ecological - diversity in South Caucasus, at the border of Eastern Europe with Western Asia.
The areas of the expertise will include:
- Paleoecological scenarios of early human dispersal
- Reconstruction of the spatial and cultural patterns of human migrations in the area
- Dynamics of biogeography, faunal and floral exchange
- Innovative technological studies of cultural heritage
- History of viniculture and winemaking
- Psychology of ethnic groups and sociology of ethnic relations
- Linguistic diversity and historic-cultural data
- Gut microbial communities in diverse groups of people living in geographically and culturally distinct settings
- The effect of bacteriophages on the diversity of gut microbial communities
