The Netherlands Government (NFP) funded tailor made training project - Developing the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) as an - Entrepreneurial University. In frames of the project GIPA is actively collaborating with Dutch counterparty – Maastricht School of Management (MSM). The program aims to strengthen GIPA’s entrepreneurial profile as well as to contribute to the enhancement of entrepreneurship and the MSME sector in Georgia. In frames of partnership professor Meine Pieter van Dijk has visited GIPA to deliver workshops in research methods for PhD Students and project participants, as well as modern teaching methods workshop for GIPA faculty and lecturers. Within the partnership conference will be held at GIPA in Spring, 2017 around the concept of “Entrepreneurship in Georgia”.
Meine Pieter van Dijk (PhD Economics Free University Amsterdam) is an economist and professor of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, professor of Entrepreneurship at MSM and professor of Urban Management at the Institute of Social Studies and at the Economic Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (EUR), all in the Netherlands. He is member of the research schools CERES and SENSE. He worked on and in developing countries since 1973 and as a consultant for NGOs, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, different bilateral donors and UN agencies. His recent books are on Managing cities in Ethiopia (eds, with J. Fransen, Delft: Eburon, 2008), Managing cities in developing countries, the theory and practice of urban management (2006, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar) and with C. Sijbesma (eds., 2006): Water in India (New Delhi: Manohar), etc.
