ძვირფასო ძველი ბათუმელებო и недавние релоканты!
Вы только посмотрите — какие классные защиты выпускных работ прошли в нашем, Батумском — @Global_Nomad_University!
What is a University? What does it mean to you? 🧐
For me — it is a Universe 🌌 — an endless constellation of human stars and planets that roll together in some joint movement to an unknown destination 🚀.
Unlike stars, these humans are connected by common sense, which is — knowledge: 🐱 its discovering, unravelling, transferring, sharing and production.
Now, the whole trick is:
- How do you connect all the stars and planets, each moving on their own trajectory, into some common environment, where the curiosity and search 🔎 for knowledge keeps them together? 😃😜
- And how do you check ✅ that this knowledge, as glueing substance, does exist ❓ and is enlarged? 🤔
Yesss! — it should be a public defense of the creative works at the end 🔚 of semester! And we made it! 😁
Those having worked at a University, knows the cycle 🙀: out of 12 courses you invest in preparing and marketing, only 6 are selected, then one of teachers can’t make it for sudden 😔 personal reasons and another is overbusy with urgent projects. Students are excited at first, but become distracted by hectic nomad lives and feel they had grabbed enough from the class, satisfying their initial curiosity 😂. Studies for nomads are not an obligation, but a privilege 😉, and they do not struggle for a “Diploma”, so the trick is — HOW to make students contribute to existing knowledge 😄 and get them love 💖 the result! 🤣
Look at the faces of those defending: aren’t they gorgeous! 🥰
Almost half of all those attending classes prepared written Final Course Works worth public defense:
- three of the graduates of the Chinese medicine class are “dzvely batumelebi” — “old Batumi dwellers”;
- three of the Constitution class — recent relocants from Russia, who defended on problems of lustration in Russia, Georgian judicial system, ignoring rights to gain living permits to relocants and international protection of rights to Peaceful Protests;
- latest submission to this course defenses, after I gave up on motivating the author, was from a young Georgian lady entrepreneur, who combined selling Korean cosmetics, studying English, Roma culture and psychology — with participation in current street protests, focusing on discussion of opportunities for parliamentary opposition in Georgia.
My special pride 💓 of this semester — are the two defences from my English course “Global nomad education 🎓 and careers” —
- a young Russian IT cloud engineer, working for US companies, who explored the issue of Global 🌍 Nomad 🤠 Visas;
- an American Fulbright scholar, whose defense appeared as a presentation of business-proposal on “How to make Batumi a hub for Global Nomads”, that would serve both the needs of relocants and contribute to local economy! 😉
And the most important result: we created our unique audience, who appreciated 👍 our work and a feeling that we had accomplished 😀 something meaningful 😌 — adding a little piece of new knowledge to the Universe! 😁
