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Capacity Building

Selected research teams receive support through methodology workshops tailored to meet their needs. Workshops address both quantitative and qualitative methods. Other capacity building activities, such as summer school, provide additional support.

Capacity building is an empowering process. It provides social scientists the tools and networks they need and an improved opportunity to produce good, even excellent, research results. Consequently, the professional status, legitimacy and visibility of these social scientists also increases in their respective countries. The first capacity building trainings took place in 2010; at least four trainings have been planned for 2011.

Upoming workshops


29-31 March 2012, Tbilisi, topic to be defined


Past workshops


7-8 December 2011, Yerevan, Qualitative Interviewing

3-5 November 2011, Tbilisi, Social Capital Theory

12-13 September 2011, Yerevan, Research Design

5-7 May 2011, Tbilisi, Academic Writing

4-5 March 2011, Tbilisi, Qualitative Data Analysis

19-20 November 2010, Tbilisi, Survey Design

22-23 October 2010, Tbilisi, Qualitative Interviewing

12 May 2010, Tbilisi, Proposal Writing

10-12 May 2010, Tbilisi, Research Design