Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA) has opened an international artificial intelligence camp in Tbilisi, bringing together 60 students from six countries to study AI, machine learning and cybersecurity, the agency announced this week.
Participants come from Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates, GITA said. All are university students with backgrounds in technology or business, and the entire program is conducted in English.
What the camp covers
The curriculum spans introductory computer engineering, AI and machine learning fundamentals, cybersecurity in the AI era, AI-focused entrepreneurship, and how AI is being applied across different industries and professions. Sessions mix lectures with hands-on workshops meant to help participants identify real-world problems AI could help solve.
GITA deputy chairman Tornike Jobava said the program lets Georgian students “work on innovative ideas together with foreign students, share knowledge and experience with each other, and create international teams and startups” in AI. He described it as one of the largest international AI camps held in the region this year, noting six countries are represented.
Part of a broader push
The camp adds to a string of government-backed AI education efforts aimed at building Georgia’s AI talent pipeline. Earlier this month, Georgia’s national team won medals at the IOAI 2026 olympiad, and a recent survey found that a shortage of AI skills remains the top barrier Georgian businesses cite when adopting the technology. Programs like this one are explicitly designed to close that gap by pairing local students with international peers and pushing them toward forming their own AI startups — a goal already visible in Georgia’s fast-growing AI startup ecosystem.
GITA said it hopes some of the international teams formed during the week-long program will keep collaborating on AI ventures after the camp ends.