About Us

"Georgia’s European Orbit" is an innovative new platform with the ambition to inspire a vision for the future of Georgia, connect the intellectual and creative minds of thinkers and doers, and engage trusted, credible, and influential Georgians in discussions about the country’s future.

Our mission is to inspire visions, ideas, knowledge, and deeds for the future of Georgia.

Our Work

Georgia’s European Orbit was founded as a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity on May 10, 2023. Within six months of its establishment, the organization attained an important place within Georgia’s civil society space and established itself as a key voice in support of Georgia’s EU integration and obtaining candidate status. Our first project – "Georgia’s European Voice" – united some of the most influential Georgians from the arts and sciences around a campaign to support Georgia’s EU candidacy. We also collected messages from Georgian citizens to EU institutions from across the country, and a book of these messages was later delivered to Brussels as a testament to Georgia’s European voice.

In 2024, Georgia’s European Orbit was a member of the "My Vote" election observation coalition, which brought together around 30 civil society organizations—the first such effort of large-scale civil society coordination to observe elections. Georgia’s European Orbit contributed to the coalition by ensuring a robust methodological framework for observation, training observers, collecting data, and documenting electoral violations on election day.

Currently, Georgia’s European Orbit focuses on documenting human rights abuses, crackdowns, and repressions against the pro-democracy movement in Georgia. We have issued several reports assessing repressive tactics used by authorities against pro-democracy protesters; documented individual instances of violence, including violence against journalists; studied criminal cases against prisoners of conscience; and created relevant databases available on this website.

Our Projects