page_title: Europe-Georgia Institute
section_title: Europe in a suitcase
hierarchical_section_title: Europe-Georgia Institute / Projects / Europe in a suitcase
caption_attribution_description: English: The launch of Europe in a suitcase project.
context_page_description: Europe-Georgia Institute – is a non-governmental organization in Georgia. The Europe-Georgia Institute was founded by George Melashvili, Shalva Chkheidze and Revaz Topuria in 2015.
  The EGI states its mission is to advance democracy, the rule of law and free market in Georgia and the Caucasus and empower a new generation of leaders to find solutions that are essential for Georgia’s development and for successful common future of the Caucasus. The EGI focuses its campaigning on issues, such as human rights, peacebuilding, promotion of good governance and supporting the involvement of youth in democratic process.
  Together with EGI's volunteers and partner organizations all around Georgia and the Caucasus, and with support from different donors, the EGI works hard to improve Georgia's political culture, to provide a platform for policy level discussions and to enable citizens to make their voices heard. The EGI is the only organization in Georgia that implemented a nation-wide Get out the vote campaign in 2016.
  An essential area of the Institute's work is cooperation with youth.
context_section_description: The Europe-Georgia Institute and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation invited a group of European politicians, journalists and representatives of civic sector and academia to Georgia within the Europe in a suitcase project.
  The opening event of the "Europe in a suitcase" project was dedicated to the United Kingdom and was held on 22 October 2019. The presenters were a representative of British Liberal Democrats, Imad Ahmed, an economist and a PhD researcher at University College London, who spoke about “The current political situation in the UK and the role of the Liberal Democrats in British politics” and former Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom Ambassador Giorgi Badridze, who made a presentation about “Brexit: Implications for Britain and Europe”.
  This meeting was the first attempt to create a tradition of Oliver Wardrop Discussions aiming to bring together British and Georgian politicians and young leaders and foster dialogue and cooperation between the countries and will be held annually.
  After the opening in Tbilisi the project continued in Khashuri with presentation by participant from Bosnia and Herzegovina Dr. Valida Repova Niksic on Ethno-nationalist populism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Gori with the presentation by participant from Ukraine Dr. Dmitro Iarovyi on Winner takes it all: Ukrainian society during and after the monocoalition of the presidential party in the Parliament. The participants also visited the occupation line in Khurvaleti. The next day participants visited Marneuli, where Ataberk Ozcan, participant from Turkey, spoke on Between support and confrontation: Civic society, Media facing populism and Mtskheta, with Georgian participant Salome Rurua speaking about Populism as a threat to the global peace.
  The final meeting was held in Telavi with a presentation by participant from Armenia Asya Malamyan on Are all populists the same (Observation of Political Agendas of Populists in post-soviet Countries) and followed by a presentation by a participant from Russia Nikita Lyakhovetskiy speaking about Populism in modern day Russia.
  The “Europe in a suitcase” is the continuation of an international project series which up to 2013 had been implemented by the European Academy Berlin with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and other foundations.
caption: Amb. Giorgi Badridze and Imad Ahmed.
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