Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, and EIFL’s partner library consortium, Georgian Integrated Library Information System Consortium, are to facilitate a series of meetings and discussions on open science in Tbilisi:

• Meeting with the  Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association, to discuss collaboration in the NI4OS (National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe) project;
• Presentation and discussion on open access, Georgian open repositories and open access journals, and Research Data Management, with librarians, researchers and students from Tbilisi universities;
• Policy meeting with the Rector of 'Ivane Javakhishvili' Tbilisi State University;
• Policy discussion with the 'Shota Rustaveli' National Science Foundation of Georgia.