Azərbaycan Dövlət
İqtİsad Unİversİtetİ

Main objectives of the Project

• Establish an optimal and flexible International relations Department (IRD) mechanism at partner universities according to the European best practices and national development traditions
• Determine concrete missions and tasks of IRD at partner universities
• Create an international education environment at partner universities involving multinational students and teachers
• Promote partner universities to turn them into higher education institutions with global relations and ensure their integration into the network of regional / global universities
• Enter partner universities in the international rating lists

Action Plan of the Project:

Following activities are going to be implemented within the three-year project:

• Review current status of IRD at partner universities and study IRD practices of European partners of the Project
• Draft 3 main documents related to IRD at partner universities:
• “Strategic development policy paper for IRD”
  “Statute of IRD”
  3. “Set of recommendations for entering the University into the international rating lists”
• Create effective management tool for IRD at partner universities
• Arrange study tours for IRD staff of partner universities at EU universities of the Project

Actions for 2013-2016:

MEETINGS

• First meeting of the Project January 27, 2014, UNEC, Azerbaijan
• Meeting for the discussion of results of the review of the current status of IRD at partner universities and study of IRD practices of European universities
  June 2014, UNEC, Azerbaijan
• Meeting dedicated to the evaluation of the 1^st operation year of the Project
  October 2014, KUNE, Ukraine
• Meeting dedicated to the evaluation of the2^nd operation year of the Project
  October 2015, KSU, Tajikistan
• Meeting dedicated to the evaluation of the 3^rd operation year of the Project,
  October 2016, KIU, Kyrgyzstan

TRAININGS

• Workshop on “Learning how to review the current operation of the International relations Department of the University”,
  January 28-29 2014, UNEC, Azerbaijan
• Training course on “Drafting of necessary documents related to IRD”
  September 2014, UNEC, Azerbaijan
• Arranging study tours for IRD staff of partner universities at European universities of the Project:
  May 2015, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  October 2015, University of Malaga, Spain
  February 2016, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  April 2016, University of Bologna, Italy
• Workshops for IRD staff from all universities participated in the project after study tours to European partner
  June 2015

November  2015
March 2016
May 2016

VISITS

• Visits of IRD staff of partner universities to the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and the University of Malaga (Spain) to study IRD practices
  April 2014
• Visits of IRD staff of partner universities to the University of Santiago de Compostela University (Spain) and the University of Bologna (Italy) to study IRD practices
  May 2014
• Visits by EU partner universities to all partner universities for quality control, evaluation and monitoring
  April, 2015
  September 2016

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CONFERENCES

– Project information days
July 2015, UNEC, Azerbaijan
September 2015, KUNE, Ukraine
December 2015, KIU, Republic of Kyrgyzstan
May 2016, KSU, Tajikistan
– Final conference dedicated project outcomes
November 14-15 2016, UNEC, Azerbaijan