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The round table discussion on \u201creducing a number of self-governing towns \u2013 pros and cons of the initiative\u201d<\/strong> took place on 10 May \u2013 organized by the initiative of Public Administration and State Governance Program.\u00a0 Various experts of relevant fields and Public Administration and State Governance Program students took part in the discussion.<\/p>\n The students of Public Administration and State Governance Program have demonstrated a joint position on this initiative and reviewed pros and cons of the anticipated change, which in turn was challenged by the dissented opinions put forward by the field specialists. The discussion topics related to cancelation of the status of administrative units, history of changes in various self-governing bodies, election-staffing procedures of various institutions and etc., <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The round table discussion on \u201creducing a number of self-governing towns \u2013 pros and cons of the initiative\u201d took place on 10 May \u2013 organized by the initiative of Public Administration and State Governance Program.\u00a0 Various experts of relevant fields and Public Administration and State Governance Program students took part in the discussion. The students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-of-education-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe round table discussion with the students was led by Davit Melua \u2013 Executive Director of National Association of Local Authorities of Georgia (NALAG), Sandro Svanisvhili \u2013 Expert in Local Self-Governance Issues, Koka Kiguradze \u2013 Executive Director of Management Systems Development Center, Liza Sofromadze – Head of Regional Development Center, Nino Loladze – Representative of Regional Development Center, \u00a0Tengiz Shergelashvili \u2013 Former Deputy Minister of Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia and Expert in Local Self-Governance Issues.
\nInvited participants have uphold some of the arguments suggested by the students, whilst students had an opportunity to listen to opposing arguments as well.
\nAn agreement of understanding and cooperation between the International Black Sea University and the Regional Development Center was signed in the framework of this meeting. The document supports
\nthe Social Sciences Faculty Ba and MA students\u2019 practical engagement in relevant fields and cooperation in various educational activities.<\/p>\n