Student Grant Program

Planetary Health and Waste Management

Avtandil Samadalashvili, Medea Kusiani

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At Tbilisi Medical Academy (TMA), diversity, inclusion, and equality are virtues reflected in both our mission and institutional culture. Our student-centered environment is built on an educational approach with an emphasis on that places students' needs, interests, and abilities, while actively encouraging their engagement and participation. This commitment is reinforced through student representation in key academic governance structures, including the Curriculum Committee and the Advisory Board.

The project combined a variety of activities over three months: seven informational and educational training courses and one large-scale cleaning campaign. Students collaborated with three non-governmental organizations and two social organizations, namely: โ€œTeneโ€, โ€œSadagiโ€, CENN, Plastic Watcher and โ€œMy City Killsโ€.

At the final conference, 14 project participants gave presentations on environmental topics of interest to them. Among the speakers were both TMA students and students from different schools.

As a result of the project, the students provided training for 30 students. In cooperation with the organization โ€œTeneโ€, special boxes were placed in the TMA space for collecting plastic bottles, the transportation and recycling of which is also provided by the same organization.

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