Tbilisi. On July 13 the National Library of the Parliament of Georgia hosted the presentation of the study - "Generations and Values", carried out by the Institute for Policy Studies.

The study, which was carried out with support of the "Open Society - Georgia" Foundation, aims at establishing the differences between generations in respect of values and identifying the challenges for the country's democratic development. Two value orientations were selected as the study tools - individualism, collectivism, and the materialistic, post-materialistic and  related values. In addition, studied were the related factors such as trust, optimism, self-assessment, etc. The study was conducted on 21 November - 19 December 2011 in Tbilisi and all regions of Georgia, covering 1,058 individuals of the three generations.