MTA is part of the bi-national project “Where Georgia and Switzerland meet: Sustainable development in mountain areas”, which is supported by a seed funding Grant of the Swiss Leading House for Science & Technology Cooperation, University of Geneva, as part of the Swiss Bilateral Cooperation Programme of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Within this project, a modular course at both the Department of Human Geography at TSU and the Department of Geography at UZH was created.