“Creativity and IP in Georgian Schools” – among the list of successful projects

One of the components implemented within the EU-Georgia Intellectual Property Project (EUGIPP) - “Creativity and IP in Georgian Schools” has met to all the components of the successful project and received the highest grade.

The final event was opened by Mr. Christian Archambeau, Executive Director of European Union Intellectual Property Office together with Mr. Mindia Davitadze, Chairman of Sakpatenti, Mr. Catalin Gherman- Deputy Head of Cooperation, EU Delegation to Georgia, Ms. Ekaterine Dgebuadze- Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Mr. Irakli Nadareishvili- Deputy Minister of economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.

The readiness to further continue the project but this time on a larger scale including all municipality schools was announced at the event. It will play the significant role in the development of country economy of Georgia in the long run.

The project component “Creativity and IP in Georgian Schools” was directed towards support of integration of intellectual property into the basic education system. 6 public schools throughout Georgia in Tbilisi, Rustavi and Gori were involved in the project component. The results achieved by the project clearly revealed stimulation of creativity in pupils, that was enabled by conducting intellectual property pilot lessons. The event was preceded by trainings of selected public schools’ teachers by trainers of the Training Center of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia - Sakpatenti.

The project implemented in three stages involved training of selected public schools’ teachers in intellectual property teaching methodology, as well as conducting lessons on creativity and intellectual property according to the plan that was elaborated during trainings. Teaching materials specially created for the project, including “Creative Diary” were used for Native Language and Civic Education lessons. In order to achieve efficiency of teaching, the teachers of the selected public schools were provided with the teaching materials that were based on the content of teachers training package “Basics of Intellectual Property” of European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

The results of the project were clearly revealed on the exhibition conducted after completing the project component, where the small inventions, trademarks, designs, new varieties of plants and samples of various works of art created by the pupils were introduced.

The EU funded project is based on the best practices of enhancing knowledge in the field of creativity and intellectual property of European countries.  EUGIPP has been being implemented since January 2020 jointly by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia –Sakpatenti.