Georgia - Students Organizations League of Georgia (SOLG)

The Union “The Students' Organisations League of Georgia”, is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-entrepreneurship, non-political and a socially registered union which brings together student organisations formed at the higher education institutions of Georgia.

The main principles of SOLG's activities are as follows: voluntarism; cooperation on issues representing the common interests of the members; equal representation by considering a member’s status; unlimited initiative when putting questions on the agenda for consideration.

The aim of SOLG is to protect students’ rights and freedoms and to coordinate the activity of member organisations; to take active part in educational reform both within Georgia and within the emerging European Higher Education Area, through the Bologna Process; to take an active part in the development of the youth movement in Georgia, to establish close contacts with students’ and youth organisations, unions and movements in every field both within the country and outside its borders, and to promote close cooperation among them; to promote students’ active participation in the social life of the country, to support the students’ initiatives; to protect human, women’s, children’s and minority’s rights; to promote close relationships between Georgian and international students; to take an active part in the employment of the students and young specialists; to study the social problems of students and to find proper solutions to them; to represent the interests of students’ organisations in Georgia at the level of state structures and beyond, and to promote their integration with the students globally.  To establish conditions aiming at presenting the initiatives of the students; to promote and establish conditions to ensure the free, democratic and effective functioning of Georgian civil society.

The activity of SOLG focuses on reaching the mentioned aims and implementing the objectives in the following ways: organising joint student meetings, various thematic seminars, conferences, training and educational courses, visits, festivals, various actions and campaigns in Georgia and beyond its borders.

SOLG became a member of the European Students’ Union in May 2007.

The main areas of SOLG's work are the Bologna Process and issues related to HE.