On 25 January 2017, researchers from the APRC attended a stakeholder meeting of the European Neighborhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD). The meeting was organized by EVOLUXER, which is an implementing partner for capacity building to the Agricultural Cooperatives Development Agency (ACDA).

The year 2017 turned out to be a very fruitful one for ISET and the ISET Policy Institute. On January 17, Eric Livny, the President of ISET and the ISET Policy Institute, and Dimitri Kumsisvhili, the First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Georgia, signed an official memorandum of understanding between ISET Policy Institute and the Ministry of Finance.

Mikheil Nadareishvili graduated from Oxford University with MSc in Applied Statistics before attending ISET and graduated as part of the Class of 2014. He joined TBC bank shortly afterward, motivated by his deep interest in using statistical and machine learning tools to gain insights from vast amounts of data and use them to inform policies and decisions. His initial role was to develop statistical models to segment customers, understand their needs, and predict their behavior.

23 დეკემბერს, ISET-ის კვლევითი ინსტიტუტის (ISET-PI) მკვლევარმა, გიგლა მიქაუტაძემ მონაწილეობა მიიღო EPAC-ის წევრებისთვის ორგანიზებულ შეხვედრაში, სადაც განიხილეს, რამდენად საჭიროა ქვეყანაში ანტიდემპინგური კანონის შემოღება. შეხვედრის ორგანიზატორი იყო საქართველოს ადვოკატები დამოუკიდებელი პროფესიისთვის, USAID-ის პროექტი „მმართველობა განვითარებისთვის“ (G4G) და თავისუფალ ინდივიდთა საზოგადოება.

On December 16, in cooperation with MOLI, ISET organized a dialogue on “The Role of Leaders in Modernizing Georgian Agriculture”. The MOLI (Market Opportunities for Livelihood Improvement) project is implemented by the HEKS/EPER office in South Caucasus with the support of the Swiss Government.