The project Presidential Collegium for Government Structure is implemented by the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs with the financial support from the Presidential Reserve Fund. The project aims to facilitate public, political and academic discussions on the major issues related the government structure through the engagement of the civil society. Participants of the said activities will be university professors, students and representatives of nongovernmental organisations. In the frames of the project, leading foreign professors will pay visits to Georgia and hold public lectures throughout the whole duration of the project (11 months) in the Presidential Palace and different educational institutions of Georgia. The lectures will relate to the subjects of democracy, constitutional and social state, human rights, religion philosophy. The lectures will be delivered by the professors of leading universities: Stefan Gosepath, Andreas Arndt, Mattias Kumm, Georg Lohmann, Theo Kobusch, Ludwig Siep, Michael Kwante and Marcus Gabriel. The said professors represent such educational institutions as: New-York University, Sorbonne University of Paris, Harvard University, Yale University, Free University of Berlin, University of Munster, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Ruhr University Bochum, University of Tokyo. In addition to their academic achievements, these professors are distinguished by their vigorous civic activism. Civic activism contributes to the deepening and further spreading of the knowledge on human rights and democratic principles which forms the foundation of a constitutional state.
