On May 25, Seljuk Bayraktar, technological manager of “Bayrak” company and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Technology Team Foundation, was awarded the title of honorary doctor of the Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU).   The event was attended by Deputy Minister of Education Firudin Gurbanov, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Jahid Bagchi, heads of various ministries of the two countries, professors and students of the Azerbaijan Technical University.   Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Education Firudin Gurbanov said that development of a person is directly related to his/her mastery of science and education. In this sense, it was Bayraktar's mastery of science and education that introduced him to the world. Speaking about the attention paid to the development of defense industry in Azerbaijan, Firudin Gurbanov noted that training of highly qualified personnel in this direction is also an important condition. The deputy minister said that AzTU is currently the only university in the region that trains personnel for the defense industry. Firudin Gurbanov also said that in recent years AzTU has established a high level of cooperation with leading universities, research and innovation centers of Turkey.   Then Seljuk Bayraktar, a guest of honor at AzTU, met with students. Stressing the importance of the development of the defense industry for the country, Bayraktar informed the students about the modern technologies he had developed, as well as his new projects and research works.    Then there was a ceremony of awarding Seljuk Bayraktar the title of honorary doctor of the Technical University of Azerbaijan. Rector of AzTU Vilayat Valiyev presented the guest with a diploma of honorary doctor. The rector noted that only 15 people have been awarded the title of honorary doctor of AzTU so far, and Seljuk Bayraktar is the youngest honorary doctor of AzTU. Vilayat Valiev emphasized Seljuk Bayraktar's research for the technological future on a digital platform, his invaluable contribution to the development of science and technology and thanked him for meeting with AzTU students.   After the event, Seljuk Bayraktar familiarized himself in the lobby of the university with an exhibition of handicrafts of AzTU teams, which will participate in the festival "TEKNOFEST Azerbaijan".   At the end of the ceremony, participants were photographed.  

25/05/2022 17:40

The European Physics Olympiad was held in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana.   Our students successfully performed at the Olympiad and won 4 bronze medals and one "Encouragement Prize". Thus, Eshgin Aliyev, an 11th-grade student of the Lyceum named after Academician Zarifa Aliyeva under the Ministry of Education, Sadig Sadihzadeh, a 10th-grade student of the physics-mathematics and informatics biased Lyceum under the Ministry of Education, Rafsan Habibullayev, an 11th grade student of "Young Talents" lyceum under the Baku State University, Vagif Aliyev, an 11th grade student of Baku Technical and Humanitarian Lyceum No. 147, won a bronze medal.  Nijat Abbasov, a 10th grade student at the Turkish Solidarity Foundation Baku Turkish Lyceum, received an encouragement prize.    We congratulate our students and wish them further success.  

25/05/2022 12:01

A delegation led by Minister of Education Emin Amrullayev continues to attend the World Education Forum, traditionally held from the 22nd  to the 25th of May 2022 in London, UK.   The Minister of Education addressed the 7th plenary session of the Forum on the theme "How we can successfully build the society we hope for" and briefed the participants of the Forum on the activities carried out in the field of education in our country.   During his visit, the Azerbaijani Minister of Education held a working meeting with Baroness Emma Nicholson, Trade Envoy of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Azerbaijan. During the meeting, they discussed the current state and future prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the field of education.  

24/05/2022 16:00

The World Education Forum, organised under the theme "Let's build together a stronger, better educated and more advanced future for our countries and communities", has begun its work. The forum, which will be held in London with the participation of 112 ministers from 107 countries, will discuss the main challenges facing global education in 2022 and how to address them.   The forum will also explore ways to achieve peace, partnership and prosperity through education and the creation of successful economies. Sessions will focus on equal access to education, economic growth, the use of artificial intelligence and the importance of technology and data-driven decision-making for society. Public-private partnerships, individual and collective response mechanisms and finding local solutions to global challenges will also be on the agenda of the general education discussions.   The forum will include nine plenary sessions. The topics such as "How to respond to the world's newest challenges?", "How to increase the efficiency of resources and their use in education?", "How to build collaborative and better education?", "Education. How can we build big institutions and development agencies? "How can we more successfully nurture the citizens and society we hope for?" and "How can we accelerate collaborative innovation?" will be discussed at panel sessions.   It should be noted that our country is represented at the World Education Forum by a delegation headed by the Minister of Education Emin Amrullayev.

23/05/2022 15:15

The Azerbaijani Minister of Education Emin Amrullayev is on a working visit to London to participate in the World Education Forum.   As part of his visit, the Minister of Education met with the State program scholarship recipients at the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the UK on May 22. During the meeting the Minister of Education provided information on the activities carried out by the Ministry of Education and held a useful exchange of views on various areas of education.   At the same time, Emin Amrullayev received detailed information about the educational activities of our citizens participating at the meeting, the research work of doctoral students, their experiences at the universities where they study, and the knowledge they have gained.

23/05/2022 13:00

On May 20, Deputy Minister of Education Mukhtar Mammadov received a delegation from the World Health Organization.   The sides discussed the current state of cooperation between the Ministry of Education and the World Health Organization in the field of education and future areas of cooperation. 

20/05/2022 19:27

On May 20, the Azerbaijani Minister of Education Emin Amrullayev has met with a Director-General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) Dr. Salim bin Mohammed Al-Malik.   The sides discussed the current state of and prospects for cooperation between the Ministry of Education and the ICESCO in the sphere of education. 

20/05/2022 18:45

On May 18, the Deputy Minister of Education Mukhtar Mammadov accepted the delegation headed by Gintautas Jakstas, the deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania.   During the meeting, the current position and future cooperation perspectives of the relation in the field of education between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Lithuania. The parties emphasized the necessity of the direct relations between the higher education institutions of both countries and exchanged the thoughts around the cooperation issues on the direction of implementing dual diploma programs. 

18/05/2022 12:38

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has had an expanded meeting with President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda.   Addressing the event, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said:   -Mr. President, members of delegation, welcome once again to Azerbaijan. We just had a very good and very broad discussion with Mr. President on different important issues of our bilateral cooperation and also regional development and of course, EU-Azerbaijan cooperation. We see that there is a big similarity in our views. With respect to the development of bilateral ties, we are very optimistic. We discussed with Mr. President the areas in economic sector which we consider to be promising and today, members of delegations I think already started their communication and we will continue it. Because it is important to establish a direct personal contacts between people who are responsible for different areas. Of course, business forum is very promising. I know that there will be documents signed but also important is that the direct contacts will be established between our business circles. The areas of potential cooperation we discussed with Mr. President, are really very broad starting from IT to agriculture, tourism, energy, renewable sources of energy, transportation. I think we can achieve very good results, because we have a very good political background. And the official visit of the President is an important factor in bilateral relations and also there is a common understanding about how to develop EU-Azerbaijani ties. We are very grateful to Lithuanian government and President for supporting Azerbaijan’s plans with respect to close cooperation with EU. Of course, we need to take this good opportunity to strengthen bilateral ties. Of course, we discussed broadly regional configuration and the process of normalization between Azerbaijan and Armenia. I know that President is visiting Armenia after Azerbaijan. So, I am sure he will have a full picture after he completes this visit but our position is very open. We want to sign peace agreement with Armenia. We want to normalize relations and to turn the page of hostility. So, Mr. President, there are a lot of things to discuss between the delegation members. Once again, welcome and thank you for paying a visit to Azerbaijan.   President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda said:   -Thank you Mr. President. Really, you already mentioned the issues we had the opportunity to discuss and among them security situation in the region and broadly speaking, then our cooperation in many fields and economic cooperation is especially important. This is the reason why together with me there is a delegation of our vice ministers, vice minister of economy, transport and education is together and vice minister of agriculture. We already described the areas which could be very promising, especially just seeking for larger trade turnover between our countries. I already saw that import from Azerbaijan increased several times. Unfortunately, it was not a case regarding our export but, anyway, we are happy that you are doing well. But speaking seriously, I see the big potential to increase our cooperation in the fields which are becoming more and more important for Lithuania and those are the sectors with high value added. Fintech, ICT, biotechnologies, but of course, traditional sectors are important too. Food products in Lithuania was traditionally very strong in export of food products and we sell the largest part of our export in European Union market and you can imagine that requirements of European Union market are very high.   https://president.az  

18/05/2022 12:35

On May 17, the Minister of Education Emin Amrullayev met with David Cavanough, Executive Director of Asian Development Bank.   During the meeting, the thought exchange was conducted on the cooperation directed to the development of the vocational education in our country in the framework of “Modernizing Vocational Education and Training for Economic Diversification Sector Development Program”.   In the meeting it was discussed the current position and future perspectives of relations in the field of education between the Ministry of Education and Asian Development Bank.   

17/05/2022 18:36