Each year a five weeks Summer School in Kartvelian Studies for non-Georgians is held in the months of July and August.
In a broad sense Kartvelian (Georgian) Studies (Kartvelology) embraces Georgian culture, history and all fields of the humanities: linguistics, literary criticism, art, archaeology, folklore, ethnography and source study.
Georgia, Sakartvelo, successor to ancient Colchis and Iberia, lies at the boundary of Europe and Asia, east of the Black Sea, in the southwestern part of the Caucasus. Today too it continues to serve as a geographical, economic and cultural bridge between East and West.
The Summer School in Kartvelian Studies - the only one of its kind in the world, with a ten-year experience of continuous work - is organized by the Centre for Kartvelian Studies and sponsored by the Government of Georgia, Tbilisi State University and by the Fund for Kartvelian Studies.

The School offers intensive instruction in Modern Georgian - both along the line of spoken as well as grammatical norms of the language - with account of the level of mastery of the language by the participants. They can also attend lectures on Georgian history, literature, language and art and become acquainted with Georgia’s cultural and historical past and her present achievements.
Excursions out of town - to various regions of Georgia - are organized at weekends.
The five-week course at the Summer School costs 1500 Euros per student. This includes accommodation (in a student’s dormitory or at a private apartment), board, lectures and seminars, and cultural program (excursions to the countryside, visiting museums, seeing Georgian films, etc.). ›

The Center ensures meeting the attendants of Summer School at the airport and seeing them to their destination.
The attendants pay the travel costs (arrival in Tbilisi and departure from Tbilisi), and medical aid, if needed.
This year the costs of instruction and board of some foreign students who intend to specialize in Kartvelological disciplines and will attend the full course of the Kartvelological curriculum but are unable to pay the whole cost, will be partially refunded by the Fund for Kartvelian Studies.
However, in all cases the attendants of the Summer School, including those planning to specialize in Kartvelology, are expected to contribute about one third of the above-mentioned course costs as a charity to the Fund of Kartvelian Studies, for the Summer School in Kartvelian Studies in the main is financed by this Charity Fund.

Those who wish to attend the Summer School should communicate with the Fund for Kartvelian Studies.

Director of the Centre: Prof. E. Khintibidze
Address Centre for Kartvelian Studies
Tbilisi State University
1, Chavchavadze Ave., 0128 Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel +(995 32) 290 833
Fax +(995 32) 252 501
E-mail kartvcentre@hotmail.com
khintibidze@myoffice.ge
Internet www.kartvfund.org.ge

“I learnt about the Summer School at my university and I decided to attend. My decision stunned everyone – my parents, friends, my professors. The view about Georgia is hazy in my country. We know almost nothing and the only thing we have heard is that one must not go there because it is a zone of dire economic hardship. Imagine my surprise, elation and joy to find that none of the above points came true. Furthermore, great warmth and love, selfless kindness and boundless hospitality – occasionally quite unexpected and strange, exceptional people, beautiful city and country…” (Sachiko Iokoi, Osaka University of Foreign Languages, August, 2000). ›