Representatives of the embassy of Switzerland visit Iliauni
The deputy of the ambassador of Switzerland Mr. Florian Gubler and attache Mrs. Alexandra Hefliger visited Austrian Culture Centre of Ilia State University on December 18, 2014. They gave the Library new books as a gift. Based on the agreement between Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland and Austria the department of Swiss Literature has been functioning in the library for two years. The State fund of culture in Switzerland, Pro Helvetia, provides books and other information materials for the department. The foreign guests were especially interested in the initiative which implies addition of Georgian publications to the department of Swiss Literature. They inspected the fund of Georgian translations of Swiss authors and expressed gratitude towards the leadership of Iliauni Central Library for supporting the initiative and purchasing those books for Austrian Centre of Culture. Representatives of Swiss Embassy and the director of Austrian Culture Centre discussed the prospects of future partnership and agreed on implementation of two projects in 2015. The activity concerns international conference dedicated to the 140th birth anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke on which it is planned to invite one of the leaders of international society of Rilke in Switzerland. The second project deals with the cycle of lectures, on political-judiciary systems of Swiss Confederation, led by Mrs. Alexandra Hefliger. An idea was expressed about offering students of European Studies a course on Switzerland the preparation of which, according to the guests, will be supported by the Embassy.