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Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) is the first national university in Georgia and the first higher education institution in the South Caucasus region. It established formal education in the country, created the local intellectual workforce and paved the way for human development and democracy. For over 100 years TSU has granted degrees to men and women and promoted the ideals of equality, justice and progress.The University was founded on February 08, 1918 as a comprehensive European-style higher education institution. Majority of its 12 founders had received higher education in the European countries and brought their knowledge, experience and contacts to TSU, thus establishing the Georgian higher education system on truly Western values. Being a national university, TSU has always delivered schooling in Georgian language making it the only institution of higher education to do so in the former Russian empire. The Centennial anniversary of Tbilisi State University, celebrated nationwide, was an event organized under the auspices of UNESCO.Initially, TSU started with the Faculty of Philosophy, which included some fields of study from humanities as well as natural sciences and mathematics. Today, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University is a research-intensive higher education institution focusing on four core pillars of performance - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.The mission of Tbilisi State University is:To establish comprehensive national and international academic values and to support intellectual, cultural and socio-economic development of the society;To produce and further new knowledge;To sustain and further on research capacity and innovation tradition;Train competitive staff;