The Caucasus Summer School (CSS) is an instrument of education and scientific collaboration providing new skills and knowledge exchange, building individual capacities and human capital

The CSS encourages global, regional, and national knowledge exchanges, the identification of suitable models, and the improvement of higher education teaching and learning practices in the Caucasus.

The topic of CSS 2021 was “Natural Hazards in the Mountains: Mapping and Risk Assessment”.

The second CSS was organized by the Scientific Network of the Caucasus Mountain Region (SNC-mt) and its coordination unit Sustainable Caucasus, with scientific advice and input for the event provided by the independent experts from the Russian Federation and Ilia State University and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).