Free University of Tbilisi
Seal of the Free University of Tbilisi
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| Motto | Scientia, Labor, Libertas (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Science, Labour, Liberty |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 2007 |
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Parent institution
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Knowledge Fund |
| Chancellor | Vakhtang Lezhava |
| Rector | Guram Chikovani |
| Founder | Kakha Bendukidze |
| Location | Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Campus | Kakha Bendukidze University Campus, David Aghmashenebeli Alley № 240 |
| Director of the Knowledge Fund | Anastasia Bendukidze-Goncharova |
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| Website | freeuni |
The Free University of Tbilisi is a private university established in 2007 via the merge of ESM Tbilisi and the Tbilisi Institute of Asia and Africa. The main goal of Kakha Bendukidze, FreeUni's founder, was providing opportunities for a quality education for every motivated adult, regardless of financial conditions, believing that clarity of purpose and the future were essential to any human endeavour.
The Free University is organized into 7 constituent schools: the Institute of Asia and Africa (International Relations), Business, Law, Physics, Computer Sciences and Maths, Visual Arts and Design, Governance and Social Sciences. While the Free University is governed by a combination of its Board of Overseers and the Knowledge Foundation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus shared with Agricultural University of Georgia in downtown Tbilisi, the University owns facilities all around Georgia, including Anaseuli Education Center.
The current Rector of The Free University is Prof. Guram Chikovani. There are 56 full-time and 84 part-time lecturers. 44 hold PhDs; 25 are PhD students. The programs are run on a daily basis by deans and academic coordinators.
The Free University was founded by Kakha Bendukidze (Georgian: კახა ბენდუქიძე; 20 April 1956 – 13 November 2014), Georgian statesman, businessman and philanthropist. The main aim of Kakha Bendukidze was providing opportunities for a quality education for every motivated adult, regardless of financial conditions, was the goal of Kakha Bendukidze. He made unprecedented investments in education in Georgia. Since the foundation of the Knowledge Foundation and head of the united supervisory board of Agricultural and Free Universities.
A biologist by education, Bendukidze started his own business, Bioprocess, which manufactured biochemicals for scientific research in 1987. Soon he became known as one of Russia’s leading libertarians. He led a working group on tax and currency within the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and pressed for changes in tax policy, which ultimately included adoption of a flat 13 percent tax rate. In Russia, he was a strong opponent of government intervention in the economy, a view that put him at odds with President Vladimir Putin. Soon Bendukidze sold his stake and moved back to Georgia.
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