Tbilisi. On September 19 the Civil Society Institute held a working meeting within the framework of the project – "Promotion of Applied Research for Georgian Regional Development”. The aim of the event was a presentation of Regional Development Program: introduction of basic goals, directions and competition conditions to the audience; discussion about the first stage topics of the program: representation of aims of competition topics and introduction of expectations of the project governing council; determination of the second stage potential topics of the program and offering them to the project governing council; support to collaboration of analytic organizations working in a regional development field. The meeting was attended by representatives of Public Organizations, the field experts, representatives of EU and regional development and infrastructure as well as education and science; representatives of the Office of the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.