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In 2010, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre launched a joint research project that aims at studying the physical state of Medieval Georgian churches.

From 6 to 20 September 2011, the second stage of the project was conducted. Japanese scholars Shiro Sasano (head of the project), Yasuhito Fujita, Sachiko Hattori, Norio Yoshimoto, and Rika Fujita came to Georgia to carry out field survey and to collect technical data. Six researchers from the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre – Mariam Gabashvili, Giorgi Patashuri, Natia Natsvlishvili, Manon Liluashvili, Irina Mania, and Eter Edisherashvili participated in fieldwork together with the Japanese scholars. The work was coordinated by David Khoshtaria, the head of Medieval Department.

The joint group surveyed Cathedral of King Bagrat in Kutaisi, monasteries in Gelati, Martvili, Ateni, Ubisa, Katskhi, Kintsvisi, Timotesubani, Tsunda, and Zeda Vardzia, cathedrals of Nikortsminda, Samtavisi and Urbnisi, churches at Tsromi, Samtsevrisi, and Koreti.

22^nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies were held on August 22-27, 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria. More than thousand scholars from different countries and institutions attended the Congress. Scholars form the G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation were invited to participate in the Congress:

Dr. Prof. Leila Khuskivadze, La mosaïque de Guélati: organization du travail, technique, restauration);

Dr. Mariam Didebulidze, Impact of the Anti-Heretical Disputes on the Wall Painting Program of the St. Nicholas Church at Kintsvisi.

Georgian scholars took an active part in the Congress, participating in debates; visiting all the exhibitions arranged in the frames of the Congress and also visiting cultural heritage sites: Plovdiv, Bachkovo monastery, Bojana monastery etc.

They disseminated the books published by the G. Chubinashvili Centre as well as the leaflets with the annotations on these books among the Congress participants. They renewed old and established new relations with foreign scholars.