06.02.2022 (Caucasian Journal). The first "Georgian" Nordic Talk was
organized in the end of 2021 by Caucasian Journal. It focused on clean energy and high
school education, in particular on
university exchange between Norway and
Georgia - two “hydropower
nations”.
Today we are pleased to present the video
summary of our 2 days' international
discussion.
▶ ქართულად: Read the Georgian version here.
Our discussion focusing on clean energy education was entitled "How to make maximum of Nordic clean energy knowledge? Case of Norway and Georgia – two “hydropower nations”.
The discussion is now available with Georgian subtitles. You are welcome
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Our distinguished speakers were:
- Prof. Oddbjørn Bruland (Norway), Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU);
- Line Amlund Hagen (Norway), Managing Director of the International Centre for Hydropower;
- Nana Imedashvili (Georgia), Ministry of economy and sustainable development;
- Prof. Murman Margvelashvili (Georgia), Ilia State University;
- Kirsten W. Westgaard (Norway), Programme Director, International Department, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate.
Georgian students also actively participated in discussion
by Zoom from Georgia, Norway, Sweden.
Our idea for this Nordic Talk – the first one involving Norway and Georgia - was to talk about most efficient ways of sharing the Nordic knowledge to the benefit of other countries, especially on the SDG-related problems such as clean energy. As an example we take the hydropower engineering education exchange between Norway and Georgia.
A special angle of discussion was the feedback from the young people - aspiring and current exchange students: For instance, are they planning to go back to home countries after they get education in Norway?
Our idea for this Nordic Talk – the first one involving Norway and Georgia - was to talk about most efficient ways of sharing the Nordic knowledge to the benefit of other countries, especially on the SDG-related problems such as clean energy. As an example we take the hydropower engineering education exchange between Norway and Georgia.
A special angle of discussion was the feedback from the young people - aspiring and current exchange students: For instance, are they planning to go back to home countries after they get education in Norway?
Professor Oddbjørn
Bruland:
We are really happy to have
this collaboration now with
Georgia - these students are
very clever and engaged. So
we are very happy to have
them here.
The key issue addressed was improvement: We focused on
practical suggestions, or what can be done to maximize
the efficiency of Nordic countries’ education
exchanges and other knowledge-sharing. Speaking about
the ways to raise efficiency of the exchange
programme, Professor Bruland from NTNU said: "A
challenge is that the mass of applications is from few
countries, as the main advertising of the program is
through word of mouth."
We are quite satisfied that in the course of Nordic
Talk a series of practical suggestions have been
formulated, and they were initiated both by the
speakers and the attending students.
Kirsten Westgaard from Norwegian Water Resources and
Energy Directorate said, in response to a
proposal made by Prof. Murman Margvelashvili: "I think
it is a very good idea to promote academic cooperation
in Georgia and Norway, so we'll be happy to introduce
you to people we know. And an idea could be to
have a commission who could look into various aspects
of hydropower, and if you do that we can welcome you
to study tours to Norway."
Shalva Abramishvili from Georgian State University
noted: "A partnership in applied sciences is very
important but also extremely important is partnership
in fundamental sciences. I hope we will have a chance
to work with glaciologists too because you have very
good school of glaciology... It's very important
especially today at the time of global warming". This
suggestion by Tbilisi-based student was welcomed by
the Norwegian representatives, who thanked him for the
valuable input.
Caucasian Journal considers high quality
education a fundamental priority, and hopes our first
"Georgian" Nordic Talk would play a useful role in
further development of this critical field. We would
be thankful if our readers cooperate in sharing and
reposting the
video in Georgia. For international distribution, you may
also use the version in English without
subtitles: link.
Caucasian Journal's Georgian-Norwegian Nordic Talk is featured in Nordic Talks website
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