Alte University has officially announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Northeastern University and Alte University. According to the memorandum, the institutions may explore cooperation in various educational activities, including interaction of faculty, scholars and students between Institutions; arranging joint trainings, seminars, webinars; educational program partnerships; joint development of curricula and academic projects; collaboration in academic publications and other materials of mutual interest based on the aforementioned activities and etc. Also the project is being prepared by the Northeastern university within the Dialog of Civilization Program that will take place in Tbilisi at Alte University. The title of the project is as follows: Georgia: Second Heaven between Europe and Asia.
“The collaboration between Northeastern University and Alte University will create a lot of unique opportunities for our students and faculty members. The experience that Northeastern University will share with us will be of significant importance for Georgian educational sphere. I strongly believe that this is just a beginning of very strong, mutually beneficial partnership and various important projects are just ahead of us” – commented Ramaz Kukuladze, President, Alte University.
“I’m excited to offer Northeastern students an experiential opportunity to study the dynamic economic transformation and transculturation processes associated with political change in the field, and examine how Georgia has dealt with the difficult transition from a planned economy to capitalism in the first global experiential learning program stemming from this collaboration between Northeastern and Alte Universities“ – commented Yakov Bart, Associate Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University and Faculty Leader of the Dialogue of Civilizations program titled Georgia: Second Heaven between Europe and Asia.
About Northeastern University
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-powered lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus. Our locations—in Boston; the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; and Vancouver—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research. Northeastern’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs—in on-campus, online, and hybrid formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 140 multidisciplinary majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.
About Alte University
Alte University is fully authorized higher education institution that was founded in 2002 and now unites students from 12 countries at 4 schools: Business School, International Medical School, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Law School. Its mission is to equip students with the knowledge and skills essential for creating sustainable value for themselves and for the society they live in.
