Tbilisi State University was founded in 1918 as the first national university in the Caucasus. Today, it is one of Georgia’s leading universities and research institutions and runs around 200 national and international academic scholarship programs every year.

The university has seven faculties in which around 22,000 Bachelor’s and Master’s students are enrolled. As an active member of leading international education networks, Tbilisi State University has more than 200 institutional partners in 56 countries and places particular emphasis on joint projects with its international partners. Between 1995 and 2022, the University was involved in up to 60 capacity-building projects with European universities, three joint ERASMUS Master’s programs, two Jean Monnet programs and seven Erasmus Mundus consortia. Based at the university, the Materials Research Institute pursues an interdisciplinary research approach: the combination of disciplines, known as “convergence”, includes natural sciences, engineering sciences and computer technologies with the aim of developing solutions for complex problems relevant to the future.