Kids' Crossroads, Pan-Caucasus TV Program
Internews Georgia is announcing its new initiative in creating a pan-Caucasus Television Program - Kids' Crossroads - that will focus on instilling values and good decision-making skills among the region's youth. The goal of this program is to create, via the powerful medium of television unprecedented contact among adolescents in three Southern Caucasus countries: Armenia , Georgia and Azerbaijan . The program aims to build better understanding, mutual learning and respect between young people coming from different cultural backgrounds in the Caucasus . More information about Crossroads can be found at www.perekrestok.ge, www.perekrestok.am and www.perekrestok.az in English, Russian, Georgian, Azeri and Armenian. The project will be implemented in Armenia , Georgia and Azerbaijan .
Internews will identify and train young people between the ages of 14 and 17 in all aspects of broadcast production. Kids will shoot videotape, report stories and edit each program. Criteria for participants: It does not sound to me that this program is very good if it does not allow students to participate who do not have excellent skills in both verbal and written Georgian, especially those from Azeri and Armenian regions of Georgia , and in fact this is discrimination. Please clarify this before you submit this newsletter. It sounds very stupid to a native speaker that this program is to foster cooperation and then discriminates based on language skills and to specific certain languages over others. There are also other languages spoken in Georgia and the region.
• Age 14-17
• Excellent skills both verbal and written in Georgian;
• Good knowledge of conversational Russian; (Why Russian?)
• Experience in any kind of Television Profession;
• Preferable to be the member of any youth organizations or children's clubs;
• Ability to work with the team.
Candidates are required to complete application forms and to provide recommendation letters, copies of certificates and diploma in order to apply. You can get application forms from web-site www.internews.ge or at Internews office on 14/22 Paolo Iashvili str. Tbilisi 0105.
Deadline for submitting applications is 26 May 2004 (7:00 p.m.)
Contact person: Shorena Kochiashvili
Project Manager
14/22 Paolo Iashvili Str., Tbilisi 0105, Georgia
Phone: 92 33 95/96/97
Fax: 92 04 25
shorena@internews.ge
www.internews.ge
Grants for Internet access
Small Grants for Internet Access are available from IREX Media Innovations Program (funded by USAID) for independent, privately owned media outlets, based outside Tbilisi , Georgia 's capital.
The goal of the program is to provide with Internet access those media outlets that lack technical or financial capacity for accessing it. The grant can be requested for equipment and installation works and/or for Internet service payments.
Independent privately owned media outlets registered according to the Law on Entrepreneurship and based outside Tbilisi are eligible to apply.
To be eligible for this contest, those media outlets, which have already received grants for Internet access from IREX Media Innovations Program Georgia , should have completed previously supported Internet access project prior to May 10, 2004.
Applications should be received no later than Monday, May 31, 2004, 17:00 to be considered for a grant award.
Complete application package and questions regarding this grant application should be submitted to IREX Grants Officer Valeri Nanobashvili at vnanobashvili@irexonline.ge . Alternatively you can visit IREX Media Innovations web-site at www.irex.ge. Tel: 29 19 05.
Academic Fellowships in Social Sciences
Center for Social Sciences (CSS) announces the competition for fellowships for writing extended syllabi for the purpose of development of graduate curriculum in social sciences in Georgia . Fellowships will be awarded for preparation of extended syllabi in Georgian and for teaching the prepared courses at graduate programs in social sciences at Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University .
The following courses must be prepared and taught under the aegis of the CSS: Political and Social Theory · ; International Relations Theory ; Policy Analysis; Social Psychology; Post-socialist Transformation in Eastern Europe; Post-Soviet transformation in the southern Caucasus; Politics of European Union; Political Economy of International Relations; Globalization of World Politics; Civil Society: A Comparative Analysis Sociology of Culture; Culture and modernization; Political ideas in action; Economy in transition; Political institutions: A comparative analysis; Sociology of institutional changes; Regional security and the geopolitics of the Caucasus; Data Analysis; Qualitative research methods; Quantitative research methods; Culture and religion in the southern Caucasus; Sociology of religion; Strategic studies; Legal state and constitutionalism; Gender: Culture and Society; Gender: Politics and Law
Only persons with higher education who can write the syllabi in Georgian and English, and teach in Georg ian may apply . The length of the fellowship will last for 6 months.
Fellows will receive stipend of up to USD 250 per month, in several installments upon completion of agreed amounts of work.
Also, they will be allowed to purchase necessary literature (up to USD 200) at the expense of the Center for Social Sciences (note: books purchased under this fellowship will become property of and will be held at the CSS library).
The application materials must contain: Standard application form (attached to the Call for Applications), applicant's Curriculum Vitae, list of applicant's published academic works since 1996 , c opies of applicant's academic degree documents (Diploma of higher education, etc.).
Description of the syllabus, including:
- the title of the course
- duration and timetable of the course (note: one academic term at the graduate program in social sciences at Tbilisi State University lasts for 8 weeks, implying 32 classroom hours plus 64 hours of student's independent work)
- course description
- course objectives
- course structure: titles of topic (with indication of types of class - (lectures, seminars, workshops, etc.), core and secondary reading lists
- student evaluation guidelines
Note: The course description materials (see point 4) must be submitted both in English
and Georgian.
The deadline for submission of application materials is the 17 th of June 2004.
Consultation sessions for prospective applicants are held at 12.00 on Thursdays: 27 May; 3 June; 10 June 2004. Address: office of “Open Society – Georgia Foundation”, Chovelidze St. 10a.
For detailed information, apply via e-mail: contact@ucss.ge
Women's Legal Rights Advocacy Center
The American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative The ABA/CEELI Georgia office launches this Call for Proposals for the project "Women's Legal Rights Advocacy Center - Legal Assistance to Women and Protection of Women's Legal Rights". The project will be supported through the financial assistance of USAID and the technical assistance of ABA/CEELI.
The goal of the project is to support the legal protection of women's rights by providing women with qualified legal consultations on various issues (labor, family, violence and etc), to provide legal representation in the courts, to inform the public on the legal rights of women guaranteed by Georgian legislation, and to work with women's organizations and civil society to develop proposed legislation for the protection of women where that legislation does not exist and advocate for its adoption and implementation.
The applicant organization should meet the following requirements:
• The applicant should be a registered union, the main goal of which is the protection of human rights.
• The applicant organization should have served in the field of human rights protection minimum for five years;
• The applicant organization should have relevant experience in the sphere of legal assistance (legal consultations, representation of clients in court);
• The applicant organization should have relevant resources available: qualified personnel, office, logistics that will support successful implementation of the project;
• The leaders of the organization and all the staff who will give legal advice and take cases to court must have passed the Georgian advocates' examination in November 2003, or must agree to pass the next examination to be given in September 2004.
The applicant organization should submit the following documents:
• The project proposal with estimated budget; time frame for project implementation, expected results, monitoring and evaluation,
• Copy of the charter of the organization,
• CVs of the people participating in the project.
The deadline for submission of projects is: May 30, 2004
Contact person: Irina Lortkipanidze, Program Coordinator irina@caucasus.net
Address: #9 Arakishvili Lane ; 0179, Tbilisi , Georgia
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