Irena Gonashvili

Since 05/2021

PhD student and research associate, FSU Jena, Institute for Caucasus Studies, Resilience in the South Caucasus: Prospects and challenges of a new EU foreign policy concept (Jena-Cauc)

10/2020-12/2020

Student Assistant, Department of European Studies, Institute for Political Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

04/2020-06/2020

Tutor, Department of International Organizations, Institute for Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• Conducting online tutorials accompanying the lecture on the topics: United Nations, the Security Council, the Syrian conflict
• Co-organization of the 2-day simulation of the UN Security Council

10/2017-today

Yoga teacher, University Sports Centre, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

03/2019-05/2019

Internship, Alliance 90/The Greens Party

• Communication with the citizens vis phone and E-Mails
• Research
• Evaluation and analysis of the election results
• Assistance in the public relations events
• Creation of content for the party's website

02/2014-12/2016

Translator, GMG Center, Ltd (Tiflis, Georgia)

• Translation of documents from English and Russian to Georgian and vice versa

10/2018-02/2021

M.A. Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Master thesis: Political Regionness of the Visegrad Group
Average grade: 1,6 (German grading system)

09/2019-01/2020

Erasmus Scholarship EQF Niveau 7, Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Faculty of Political Science und European Studies

04/2018-07/2018

German Preparatory Course (DSH), JenDaF Jena, Deutschland (DSH 3)

03/2017-03/2018

Erasmus+ Scholarship EQF Niveau 7, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

09/2016-03/2018

M.A. European Studies EQF Niveau 7, Institute for European Studies at the Tbilisi State University (not graduated)

09/2012-03/2016

B.A. Business Administration EQF Niveau 6, Tbilisi State University

09/2000-05/2012

School Certificate, Private School-Lyceum Mtsignobartukhutsesi (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Gonashvili, Irena & Lebanidze, Bidzina (2021). Associated Trio: Eastern Partnership’s Visegrád Group? Jena Cauc Blog No 2.

Lebanidze, Bidzina & Gonashvili, Irena (2022). Is Germany spoiling the resilience of the liberal world order? Jena Cauc Blog No. 4.

Pfeilshifter, Veronika, Lebanidze, Bidzina & Gonashvili, Irena (2022). Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from the South Caucasus. New Eastern Europe (3). 167-173.

Lebanidze, Bidzina, Aleksanyan, Ashot & Gonashvili, Irena (2022).The resilience-security nexus in the South Caucasus: Can the EU promote resilience without engaging in geopolitics? Caucasus Analatical Digest No. 127.