The project primarily involves the improvement of the quality of teaching and learning, as well as the development and implementation of educational programs oriented to the needs of the industry jointly, in partnership with higher educational institutions.

In particular, the goal of the project is to develop specific educational programs of engineering profile in two regional universities of Georgia and, in general, to create methodical and technological foundations for distance engineering education in regional universities.

The project is implemented by a consortium consisting of Georgia Technical University (GTU), Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU) and Jacob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (TESAU). It is significant that the Technical University of Georgia has an ultra-modern laboratory base that allows conducting natural experiments. It is known that from a methodological point of view natural experiments in laboratory teaching give much better results than traditional laboratory or even virtual ones. At this stage, regional universities are deprived of this opportunity. Through the project, they will have access to the STU laboratory base and highly qualified staff. Regional universities will implement/develop high-tech training courses based on laboratory training, adapted to the employment market. With the presented approach, the partner universities will jointly modify the training courses available in STU, taking into account the specifics of regional and remote laboratories. For this purpose, universities jointly:

Methodological approach for educational programs of engineering profile adapted to distance laboratory learning will be developed.
Educational programs of the engineering profile are being modified and implemented taking into account the new training courses.
Educational literature and methodical manuals adapted to distance laboratory learning will be processed.
Pedagogical and support staff will be trained to implement modified programs in regional universities.
Methodological and technological approaches will be evaluated/adjusted under pilot implementation conditions.
As a result, laboratory training in regional universities will be carried out through remote experimentation in the STU laboratory, namely, using the Georgian innovation - patented technology "Remote Laboratory System" (patent # GEU20222123Y). Within the framework of the project, the opportunity to conduct a natural laboratory experiment will be created for students of all three levels of educational programs (bachelor's, master's, doctoral) of regional universities. In addition, educational programs of computing and related fields will be strengthened in all partner universities with modern high-tech training courses, which will help prepare competitive specialists for the labor market. The application of the approach developed in the project echoes the challenges faced by students with special educational needs in the process of studying engineering specialties. The project creates a good example of university collaboration, for the joint development and implementation of educational programs focused on quality improvement and industry needs, which, in the future, will encourage other Georgian universities to make maximum use of each other's methodological and laboratory capabilities for modifying engineering profile educational programs.