Batumi sightseeing
Lecturers
Batumi seaside city of Georgia’s Adjara region is the favorite spot both for locals and tourists during summer. Apart
from the beach of the Black Sea, one can find various ways
to entertain oneself.
Europe Square is one of the beautiful sites in the center
of Batumi, surrounded by central streets and exquisite
buildings. The statue of Medea was erected at the square
in 2007. Another beautiful square, one of the symbols of
Batumi, is Piazza Square, famous for its wonderful samples of decoration, mosaic and stained glass-art.
Batumi Boulevard is a well-known seaside park with the
territory of 8 km, where the colored Dancing Fountains
have been functioning since 1977. The old and the new
parts of the Batumi Boulevard are distinguished by fountains, wide promenade, alleys of magnolias and palm trees,
statues and modern art. Here is where a famous statue of
Nino&Ali us located. Batumi Botanical Garden is one of the
biggest and richest botanical gardens in the world, being
more than 100 years old.
Another visiting card for Batumi are colonnades, one of
them used to be a gate to the beach and another one still
marks the central entrance to the 6 May Park, which includes a dolphinarium, aquarium and zoo corner. Batumi
is also known for its towers – one of them is the Alphabet
Tower, dedicated to the beautiful Georgian alphabet and
decorated with 33 letters and another is the Chacha Tower,
which in fact is a fountain which periodically pours this alcoholic drink in order to popularize it among the tourists.
Aiste Mickonyte – University researcher at Russian, East
European & Eurasian Studies Centre, University of Graz
(Austria)
Aleqsandre Devidze, LL.M., Head of Legal Department at
the United Water Supply Company of Georgia as well as
Invited Specialist at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (Georgia)
Andrey Makarychev – Professor, Johan Skytte Institute of
Political Studies, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Benedikt Harzl – Researcher at Austrian Study Center for
Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), Austria
Gvantsa Davitashvili – LL.M., Assistant Professor at the
Technical University of Georgia as well as Invited Specialist at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (Georgia)
Jürgen Pirker – Assistant Professor, University of Graz
(Austria)
Nicolaas Stijn Groenendijk – Visiting Professor of European Studies, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies,
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Oliver Reisner – Professor at School of Arts & Sciences, European & Caucasian Studies, Ilia State University
(Georgia)
Raul Eamets – Professor of Macroeconomics, Dean of the
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Shota Kakabadze – PhD student, Johan Skytte Institute of
Political Studies, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Stefano Braghiroli – Lecturer in European Studies, Johan
Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu
(Estonia)
Stephan Hinghofer-Szalkay – University researcher, University of Graz (Austria)
Yeghishe Kirakosyan – Chief Legal Counsel, Initiatives for
Development of Armenia (IDeA) Charitable Foundation,
Yerevan (Armenia)
Summer School Batumi
“Unpacking Europeanisation in the South
Caucasus and the Black Sea Region:
Economic, Legal and Social Contexts”
15-24 July 2016
Description
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (Georgia) as a
partner of the Jean Monnet Network “Developing the
European Studies in the Caucasus” is organizing the first
DESCnet Summer School, which stems from the annual
seasonal schools on EU Law in the South Caucasus (EULISC). The summer school is consequently dedicated to
European integration, policy and law.
The aim of the school is to unpack the various dimensions
of Europeanisation for the South Caucasus and explain
how it affects – or might affect in the future – the state of
relations in such spheres as legislation, political institutions, security strategies, social and cultural practices. The
school aims at developing a transferable model of analysing post-Soviet transitory countries on their ways towards
Europeanisation.
Topics
The Summer School will offer teaching on the following
topics:
–– Development of Minority Rights Framework in EU Law
–– The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the ECHR, and
Domestic Constitutions
–– Interplay between Internal Market and Minority Rights
in EU
–– Approximation to EU Law: Norm Diffusion in Eastern
Periphery
–– Approximation to EU Law: EU Conflict Management
–– Dealing with the Past: Social Cohesion through Dialogue
–– Europeanization and Political Backlash
Timetable
Thursday
14 July
9:00
11:30
Meeting with
Georgian EU
integration
minister
12:0012:30
Introduction
of the school
concept
13:00
14:30
15:30
16:00
16:30
–– Transnational Political Elites in Europe and the South
Caucasus
17:00
–– International legal aspects of joining a free trade regime- comparative regional experience of Eastern European countries in negotiating Association Agreements
with EU
17:30
–– European Social Policy And Migration
Opening
Ceremony
11:00
–– Good Governance and Minority Rights in Georgia
–– Security and Biopolitics in the South Caucasus
Registration
and gathering
10:00
13:3014:30
18:00
18:30
Friday
15 July
Saturday
16 July
20:00
Monday
18 July
Tuesday
19 July
Lecture Lecture "The
Lecture
"Approxi- EU Charter of
"Developmation to Fundamental
ment of
EU Law:
Rights, the
Minority
Norm DiECHR, and
Rights
fusion in
Domestic
Framework
Eastern Pe- Constituin EU Law"
riphery" tions. Part II"
Refreshment break
Lecture
"The EU
Lecture
Charter of "Dealing
Fundamen- with the
tal Rights, Past: Social
the ECHR, Cohesion
and Dothrough
mestic Con- Dialogue.
stitutions.
Part I"
Part I"
Arrivals /
check-ins
Wednesday
20 July
Breakfast
Lecture "Europeanization
and Political
Backlash"
Thursday
21 July
Individual
work
(research,
interviews,
reading)
Friday
22 July
Saturday
23 July
Refreshment break
Lecture
- "InExcursion
ternational leto the
gal aspects of
West
Lecture
joining a free
regions
"Dealing
trade regimeVisit to
Lecture
Lecture
with the
comparative
the Con"Security and
"European
Past: Social
regional expe- stitutional
Biopolitics
social
Cohesion
rience of East- Court of the
in the South
policy and
through
ern European Republic of
Caucasus"
migration"
Dialogue.
countries in
Georgia
Part II"
negotiating
Association
Agreements
with EU"
Possibility to Discussion
Lecture
Working
join "Georgia's "Interplay "Approxigroup
European Way" between mation to
Internal
discussion
conference
EU Law:
with
(Session V) Market and EU Conflict
Minority
Benedikt
ManageRights in
Harzl
Possibility to
ment"
EU"
join "Georgia's
Refreshment break
European Way"
Meeting
conference
Round
The Policywith the
(Session VI)
table
Academia
"Overview Ukrainian
Dialogue
of political ambassador
to
Georgia
trends
Tour in Batumi
in the
/ Leisure time Caucausus"
Reception /
dinner
Joint
dinner
Lecture "Good
Governance
and Minority
Simulation of
Rights in
Excursion
EU DecisionGeorgia"
to the
making on
West
Issues related
regions
to the South
Lecture "Good
Caucasus
Governance
and Minority
Rights in
Georgia"
Mid-term
feedback
Leisure time
Leisure
time
Sunday
24 July
Lecture
Lecture
"Security
"Security
and
and
Biopolitics Biopolitics
in the South in the South
Caucasus" Caucasus"
Part I
Part II
Lunch
19:00
19:30
Sunday
17 July
Individual
work
(research,
interviews,
reading)
Follow-up
/ feedback
session
Oracle
session
"From
Leisure time
debates to
practices"
Refreshment break
Closing of
Visit to the
Film screen- the School
Education Au/ Farewell
ing and
Leisure time thority of the
reception
discussion
Autonomous
("TangerRepublic of
ines")
Ajara
Departures /
check-outs