Project : MAPS - Multicultural Awareness for Peace Strengthening
Aim: to study the history of Kutaisi’s multicultural diversity and Popularization and enhance tolerant environment goals:
2. Multicultural historical memory of Kutaisi Documentation by creating a cognitive mobile app (ECHO)
3. Involvement of students / youth and teachers To increase their knowledge in educational city tours Kutaisi on the contribution of religious and ethnic minorities In the creation of history.
Hidden traces of Jewish and Catholic history in Kutaisi, which have kept the appearance in the city in forms of various cultural institutions, museums, monuments, shrines, cemeteries and more.
The mobile application will enable school groups to plan and carry out a walking tour in Kutaisi with the help of the class leader. Traveling from one place to another using maps and navigation, to learn detailed histories of facilities and monuments.
A quiz will be provided to stimulate learning and sequentially, a certificate to complete their experience
having discovered the hidden multicultural identity of their own city.
The project is funded by the Open Society Georgia Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundations South Caucasus Political Dialogue Program and Akaki Tsereteli State University, and is implemented by Regional Empowerment for Democracy in collaboration with the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development.