Project support: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) (2023-2024)
Research Project: Crossing borders, building walls. Towards ethnography of Russian war mobilisation. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Participants: Mariam Darchiashvili, Ketevan Gurchiani
Project: Between the Sea and the Land: Work and Family Lives of Georgian Sailors
Principal Investigator: Elene Gavashelishvili;
Project support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2022-2024).
Project: Anthropology of Gardens “Otherwise and Elsewhere” (2022-2027)
Principal Investigator: Paul Manning
Project participants: Ketevan Gurchiani, Tamta Khalvashi, Florian Mühlfried.
Project Support: Social and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2022-2027).
Principal Investigator: Elene Gavashelishvili
Coordinator: Nino Rcheulishvili
Collaborators: Mariam Darchiashvili and Ketevan Gurchiani.
Project support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2020-2023).
Project support: European Commission, Erasmus+ Jean Monet Network Programme (2023-2025)
Project: HER-UKR: Challenges and opportunities for EU heritage diplomacy in Ukraine, KU Leuven
Project participant: Ketevan Gurchiani
Project support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2020-2023)
Principal investigator: Ketevan Gurchiani
Project coordinator: Ia Kupatadze
Project participants: Tamta Khalvashi, Paul Manning
Project: Infrastructures and Narratives: The Black Sea Connectivity (2019-2020)
Principal Investigator: Tamta Khalvashi
Project participants: Elene Gavashelishvili, Mariam Darchiashvili, Nino Abakelia.
Project Support: Ilia State University institutional Development Grant Program (2019-2020)
Principal investigator: Paul Manning
Project participant: Tamta Khalvashi
Project Support: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2015-2020).
Principal Investigator: Ketevan Gurchiani
Project Support: Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2015 – 2018).
Professors and affiliated academic stuff involved in the program jointly obtain local and intenational funding to conduct anthropological research.
Crossing Borders, Building Walls: Towards Ethnography of Russian War Mobilization
NAWA project; Polish Academy of Sciences; Website: http://iaepan.edu.pl/crossing-borders-building-walls-towards-ethnography-of-russian-war-mobilisation/?fbclid=IwAR1GBBnHk0VQap0fdUuR6vk2ekkemk_d1cWW-GsKy-PaeSbeoMDkQx_rgXg; Collaboration Partner Mariam Darchiashvili and Ketevan Gurchiani.
Between the Sea and the Land: Work and Family Lives of Georgian Sailors.
Principal Investigator Elene Gavashelishvili; Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2022-2024).
An Anthropology of Gardens “Otherwise and Elsewhere”
Principal Investigator Paul Manning; Collaborators Ketevan Gurchiani, Tamta Khalvashi, Florian Muehlfried. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (2022-2027).
Surrogacy As Networked Phenomenon
Principal Investigator Elene Gavashelishvili; Coordinator Nino Rcheulishvili; Collaborators Mariam Darchiashvili and Ketevan Gurchiani. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (2020-2023).
Challenges and Opportunities for EU Heritage Diplomacy in Ukraine
Jean-Mone network; KU Leuven, Belgium. Member Ketevan Gurchiani (2023-2026).
Tbilisi As Urban Assemblage
Principal Investigator Ketevan Gurchiani; Coordinator Ia Kupatadze; Collaborators Tamta Khalvashi and Paul Manning. Website: https://urbanassemblage.iliauni.edu.ge; (2020-2023).