The project’s aim is to contribute to the modernisation of the higher education system in Georgia by introducing a new 2-year master programme on “European Integration and Employment Relations”. Its broader objective aims at improving the education of specialists in the field of employment relations able to play a transformative role in facilitating a policy change that brings Georgia closer to EU and internationally agreed labour standards. This objective seems to be of particular relevance in the dynamic of the recent rapprochement negotiations between Georgia and the European Union (cfr. DCFTA). Employment relations is understood here as a broad concept encompassing legal, labour market, socio-economic, industrial relations and organisational aspects of the “world of work”. Improving the terms of employment and the conditions of work in Georgia will have a beneficial effect on the sustainability of the economy and the quality of live.A consortium of three universities in Tbilisi, have agreed to integrate such an innovative 2-year master programme in conformity with the Bologna Process in their postgraduate offering during and after the three years of the project. 27 courses/seminars (plus thesis writing) and corresponding teaching material will be developed. For the concerned teachers East-West mobilities to (re)train teachers will be organised in the three participating member state universities. Apart from the teaching aspect much attention will be paid to stimulate a research-based educational environment.Stakeholders such as ministries, other public authorities and agencies, private sector companies, employers’ and workers” associations and other civil society institutions will be actively involved in the project (as will be students and university administrators) in order to disseminate the project’s objectives and to create sustainable conditions for the master programme.