The campaign, organized with the support of the Office of the National Seaside Park, was held in order to demonstrate children`s support for the Baku 2015 First European Games and their creativity. Within the framework of the campaign entitled "The colors of SABAH", white board that can be painted and paints were placed in the special corner of the Seaside National Park by volunteers studying in SABAH groups of the Ministry of Education. The board and paints have attracted the attention of parents who come with their children. Parents and children were informed about the Baku 2015 First European Games by "SABAH Volunteer". Then the colorful paints were presented to children who want to participate in the campaign. After submission of paints, "European Games" logo was painted within 4 hours by more than 150 children. Every child, drawing a picture, has signalized his (her) name and age by putting the handprint on paintings. The gifts, reflecting the symbols of the European Games, were presented to children, participating in the campaign, by "SABAH Volunteer". Photographs and video taken during the event were shared on social networks. Link for photographs: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1636633186555152.1073741856.1487428338142305&type=3 Link for a video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI4w7m70wVM&feature=youtu.be) It should be noted that "SABAH volunteer" program plays a significant role in increasing the social activity and applying knowledge to practice, as well as developing management skills and leadership potential of students of “SABAH” groups without leaving the academic training and by involving students in voluntary activity. SABAH groups have been organized from Educated, Skilled and Trained students studying at higher education institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic in order to improve the quality of education in higher education, to ensure personnel training in accordance with modern requirements and to create the new environment in the higher education system. Currently, SABAH groups cover 755 students in 34 specialties in 7 higher education institutions (Baku State University, Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University, Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan State Economic University, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and Azerbaijan University of Languages).

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First of all, the national anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan was played. Then a video was shown about the essence of the Enactus program. Vusal Guliyev, head of the sector for work with youth organizations within the Presidential Administration's Socio-political Department, Yusuf Majidov, Enactus Global 's vice president for CIS countries, Sulhaddin Gozalov, head of Student Support Sector of the Ministry of Education, Shafag Bayramova, representative of the Youth Fund under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilgar Musabalıyev, representative of “AGBank” OJSC, Naila Ismailova, head of the "New Life" Humanitarian and Social Support Public Union, Elbrus Isayev, Dean of the Faculty of Management at the University of Nakhchivan, Mehman Badalzade, graduate of the Enactus Azerbaijan program, and Kamala Mammadli, Country Director of "Enactus Azerbaijan", made a speech at the event. In their speeches, they spoke about  Enactus Azerbaijan`s activity, youth development in the field of business and entrepreneurship and emphasized the importance of program in terms of improving people's living standards, reaping additional revenue and increasing the activeness of the youth. As well as, congratulations were voiced on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Enactus Azerbaijan program. The semi-final and final stages of the competition were held at "Monolit Plaza" on May 31. The competition was attended by 9 teams of Azerbaijan - spokespeople of Azerbaijan State Economic University, Azerbaijan State Agrarian University, Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, Azerbaijan Technological University, Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University, Ganja State University, Nakhchivan State University, Nakhchivan University and Sumgait State University. Two teams, selected from each league, won the right to participate in the final round. The teams of Azerbaijan State Agrarian University and Sumgait State University competed in the first league and the teams of Nakhchivan University and Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts competed in the second league. The team of Azerbaijan State Agrarian University was the winner of the competition and gained the right to represent our country at "Enactus World Cup 2015" to be held in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa on October 14-16, 2015. Nakhchivan State University was selected in "The best team spirit" category, Nakhchivan State University's "Guide" project was selected in "The best social project" category, Azerbaijan Technological University`s "Edial" project was selected in "The best ecological project" category and "Iron Wonder" project of Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts was selected in "The best business project" category.

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Prior to the forum, the participants visited the grave of national leader Heydar Aliyev, laid a wreath at the monument. Then they laid flowers to the tomb of the well-known scientist-ophthalmologist, academician Zarifa Aliyeva and also visited the Alley of Martyrs. Vietnamese citizens, who have graduated from higher educational institutions of Azerbaijan in 1970-80s, Members of Parliament, employees of the Ministry of Education, the heads of higher education institutions, Vietnamese students currently studying in Azerbaijan and others attended the Forum. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mikayil Jabbarov, the Minister of Education, said that the initiative to hold the forum was put forward by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev within the framework of his first official visit to Vietnam on May 18-19, 2014, during a meeting with Vietnamese alumni of Azerbaijani universities. The Minister underlined that there are historical relations between the two countries and the visits of Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan's national leader Heydar Aliyev to Vietnam in the second half of the twentieth century play a crucial role in strengthening these ties. The Minister of Education mentioned that more than two thousand citizens of Vietnam had studied in Azerbaijan so far and the appointment of them to posts of responsibility in political, economic, military, scientific and educational fields in Vietnam showed that the higher education system of Azerbaijan is able to train qualified personnel. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the forum, Ngo Duc Manh, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Vietnamese Parliament, noted that Azerbaijan provided a lot of support in the difficult days of Vietnam and hundreds of Vietnamese made a great contribution to the development of Vietnam by studying in the leading higher education institutions of Azerbaijan. He also said that the first official visit of the President of Azerbaijan Republic to Vietnam in 2014 played an important role in the expansion of relations between the two countries. Ngo Duc Manh mentioned that the Vietnamese delegation was very happy to visit Azerbaijan many years later and expressed his gratitude to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the initiative to hold this forum. Forum will continue its work in sessions, devoted to current state of relations and prospects of further cooperation between Azerbaijan and Vietnam in the political, inter-parliamentary, energy and education spheres. It should be noted that during the visit to Baku, the Vietnamese delegation visited Baku State University and Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, from which they had graduated, and held meetings with former teachers on May 6.

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24 of athletes, who will represent our country at the First European Games, are the graduates of children and youth sports schools operating under the Ministry of Education and the coach-teachers working in these schools. They will compete in 7 sports (athletics, acrobatic gymnastics, badminton, fencing, sambo, freestyle wrestling, table tennis). Rasim Babayev is the graduate of the Republic Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Sports School no.1 of “Təhsil” Republic Sports Center. He is the two-time Azerbaijan Champion in the shot put and a member of the European Youth Olympic Festival, a record holder among teenagers in the shot put. He is studying at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Training and Sports. Alexandra Biryukova is the graduate of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Athletics School no.5 of Baku. A.Biryukova is one of the participants of the Azerbaijan championship and is engaged in the high jump. Narmin Ramazanova is eighth grade student. N.Ramazanova, engaged in acrobatic gymnastics, is the winner of the national championship, the bronze prize-winner in an international tournament in Minsk and the member of the European Championship. She is the graduate of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Gymnastics School of the Ministry of Education. Abdulla Hasanov is the graduate of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Sports School no.8 of Baku city Education Department. A.Hasanov, engaged in fencing, is the winner of Azerbaijan and Baku championships and the bronze prize-winner of the international tournament in Georgia. Amil Gasimov is the graduate of Children and Youth Sports School No. 1 of Ganja.  A.Qasımov, studying at Ganja State University, is European and world Champion in sambo among men.

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Primary school teachers and administrative staff of schools in Baku attended the trainings, conducted according to the contract signed between the Ministry of Education and the Organization of Innovative Technologies. Initially, the primary teachers and administrative staff underwent a diagnostic evaluation. Teachers and administrative staff, scored fewer points in diagnostic evaluation, were involved in the training. 742 teachers and administrative workers attended the first stage of the trainings and 584 of them were awarded certificates by passing an exam. Computers and promethean boards will be presented to the participants, scored high points in final exam, and teachers and administrative workers, scored high points in the diagnostic evaluation, by the Ministry of Education.

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The conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union was attended by Akif Alizade, president of ANAS, Ali Abbasov, minister of communication and high technologies, Firudin Gurbanov, Deputy Education Minister and experts of ANAS’s scientific and practical institutes on information technologies. The conference started with the showcase of the exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union. Opening the meeting with introduction speech, Akif Alizade, president of ANAS estimated the conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union as a very important event for scientific community of Azerbaijan, and highlighted the importance of the conference from the standpoint of gathering the leading scientists and experts on information technologies together and necessity to hold such meetings regularly. Akif Alizade mentioned the national Olympiad of informatics among university students co-organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Ministry of Communication and High Technologies, the Ministry of Education and ANAS's Information Technologies Institute, and estimated this event as essential part of the activities on preparation of the personnel for information security. As for him, the main goal of the annual contest of knowledge is to support the talented students in order to make them the expert of information technologies and programming. Ali Abbasov, Minister of Communication and High Technologies noted that provision of the necessary level of information security was one of the priorities of state policy and the ministry took the appropriate measures in this direction. According to the minister, it is important to mobilize the intellectual capacity to ensure information security. Firudin Gurbanov, Deputy Education Minister highlighted the importance of the event. The deputy minister said that the development of ICT is one of the priorities of state and emphasized the focus of the president to this area. F.Gurbanov noted the fast efforts taken for the measures intended to expand the use of ICT in "National Education Development Strategy of Azerbaijan Republic”. Director of ANAS's Information Technologies Institute Rasim Alliquluyev said that cultivating information security culture in citizens is one of the most effective strategies against information dangers. According to him, the personnel training in information security field should be focus. To provide the information security, there should be prepared textbooks and books in Azerbaijani, organized regular conferences, workshops, "round tables" and conducted mass campaigns. After speeches, the university student who won the national Olympiads in informatics was awarded. The event continued under 3 parallel section meeting. There were presented 74 scientific papers to conference from the different state, scientific and educational institutions of the country.

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Elchin Babayev, executive director of Science Development Foundation making speech at the ceremony, noted that the competitions are attended by the groups of scientists and experts, as well as individual scientists from Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), higher educational institutions, research institutes operating under ministries, government agencies, non-government organizations and other scientific organizations. It was noted that, the University grant competition is being held for the first time and the Ministry of Education provided organizational support to the contest. According to speeches, University grant competition with the total budget of 910 thousand manat involves 37 projects. Among these projects were determined 11 winners with the total funding of 890 thousand manat. These projects will be implemented in Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (4 projects),  Azerbaijan Medical University (3), Azerbaijan State Agricultural University (2), Azerbaijan State University of Economics (1) and the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic Of Azerbaijan (1). The Industrial grant competition held for the first time determined 6 winners. One of the winner-projects was presented by Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University. According to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Education Yagub Piriyev, one of the main tasks of the higher education institutions under "National Education Development Strategy of Azerbaijan Republic" is to become center of science, research and innovations. In order to ensure it, higher education institutions should operate as scientific centers that can guarantee the quality of education and reflecting the latest achievements of science. Thus, in modern conditions, it is impossible to achieve the quality education and high-level scientific innovations without providing integration between education and science. The solution of this problem is highly contributed not only by the higher education institutions, but also Science Development Foundation. It's expedient for the Foundation to build the relations with higher education institutions at the new plane and higher level. In other words, Science Development Foundation should provide greater support to science development in higher education system. Y.Piriyev mentioned that there are 9579 PhD and 2251 Dr among more than 32 thousand experts conducting researches at the different universities and organizations. “This means a huge army of scientists. More than half of the scientists with degree are working at the education system. " Y.Piriyev noted that heads of 94 projects from 315 projects presented to 17 different competitions held by Science Development Foundation within 2010-2014 acted on behalf of higher education institutions. 74 of those 315 projects were executed by the higher education institutions.

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The scientific project on "The absorption, movement and collection of nanoparticles in plants: nanofitotoxicology" of Farrukh Rahmatzade, Ayan Hajibeyli and Fuad Abdulzade, students of Baku European Lyceum, became a winner among 427 projects, presented on the topic "Environmental management and pollution", and was awarded a gold medal. It should be noted that this project was implemented with the participation of Olga Humbatova, biology teacher of Baku European Lyceum, and with the guidance and support of Mohammadali Ramazanov, professor of Nano Research laboratory of Nano Research laboratory of BSU, and Ismet Ahmadov, associate professor.

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Employees of the Ministry of Education, heads of press services of media organizations and higher education institutions, NGO representatives on education, students of the Faculty of Journalism will attend the training-conference. It is intended to be heard presentations and to be held trainings on media and educational relations, the quality of education and mass media, the creation of professional skills in Public Relations (PR) at the conference. Participants will increase their knowledge and skills in holding information campaigns, writing press releases, social group work and other topics. Successful participants will be awarded certificates in the training-conference. It should be noted that this training-conference is the third conference held within the framework of "Media and educational dialogue" by the Ministry of Education.

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  We continue to introduce the athletes, who will take part in the first European Games, from sports schools operating under the Ministry of Education.   24 of athletes, who will represent our country at the First European Games, are the graduates of children and youth sports schools operating under the Ministry of Education and the coach-teachers working in these schools. They will compete in 7 sports (athletics, acrobatic gymnastics, badminton, fencing, sambo, freestyle wrestling, table tennis).   Billura Eminova is the coach of Sumgait City Branch of “Tahsil” Republican Sports Center. B.Eminova, the two-time champion of Azerbaijan in table tennis and the bronze prize-winner of World Championship Division IV, graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports. Ramil Jafarov is a graduate of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Tennis Sports School no.7. R.Jafarov, engaged in table tennis, is the silver prize winner of Azerbaijan Cup and the gold prize winner of Azerbaijan Republic TOP-16 tournament. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports. Rufat Guliyev is engaged in table tennis. R.Guliyev, the bronze prize winner of Azerbaijan Cup and the gold prize winner of Azerbaijan Republic TOP-16 tournament, is a graduate of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Tennis Sports School no.7. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports. Dursadaf Karimova is a graduate of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Sports School no.11 of Baku. D. Karimova, engaged in sambo, is the winner of the Grand-Prix tournament. She graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports.

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