Georgia, Tbilisi, Aug.6 / Trend N.Kirtzkhalia /
The Georgian Education and Science Minister, Nika Gvaramiya and U.S. Embassy in Georgia, John Tefft, signed a Georgia-US agreement on science and technology, under the bilateral strategic cooperation.
The agreement targets deepening relations between scientific and technological circles of both countries and realizing joint scientific projects and researches.
The direct contacts between the governmental agencies and the senior educational institutions of both countries will be deepened and joint workshops and conferences be held under the agreement.
After signing the Charter on Cooperation in 2009, cooperation in education and science entered a new phase.
Deepening cooperation is planned not only in science, but in the field of higher and secondary education.
"I am pleased that as a part of the Charter the first agreement was signed in the field of education," Gvaramiya told journalists.
In turn, Tefft expressed his hope in more intensive cooperation between scientists of both countries, appraising the importance of the agreement.
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