Professor Kakhaber Lazarashvili, Rector of East European University, has been elected by the Council of the European University Association (EUA) as a member of the Association’s Education Sustainability Working Group.
The EUA’s Special Working Group on Sustainability brings together leaders of Europe’s leading universities, whose joint efforts aim to develop a vision for sustainable education – “Beyond the UN 2030 Agenda with a Perspective towards 2040.” Professor Kakhaber Lazarashvili will actively contribute to the process of shaping strategies for sustainability in education and research, as well as participate in the formulation of the EUA’s “Declaration on the Future of Universities and Sustainability.” His engagement, alongside European rectors and education policy leaders, will be directly linked to ensuring the creation of strategies for sustainable transformation in higher education.
The European University Association (EUA) is the representative organization of universities and national rectors’ conferences, bringing together nearly 800 universities from 48 countries across Europe. EUA plays a key role in the Bologna Process, provides unique expertise in higher education and research, and influences European Union policies in the areas of higher education, research, and innovation.
The election of a representative of a Georgian university to such a strategically significant body as the Council of the European University Association (EUA) marks an important milestone. It reflects not only the success of Georgia’s higher education system but also the growing international recognition of the Permanent Conference of Rectors of Georgian Higher Educational Institutions and of East European University.