UrFU Delegation Holds Meeting with Rector of Baku State University
On December 16, the delegation of the UrFU had a meeting with Elchin Safarali oghlu Babayev, Rector of the Baku State University (BSU), along with Shahin Mohammed Panahov, Vice-Rector for International Relations; Huseyn Mikayil Mammadov, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation; Alish Choban Aghamirzayev, Vice-Rector for Social Affairs, Student Affairs and Public Relations, within the framework of the business trip to Baku.
The delegation includes:
- Evgenia Saburova, the Head of the International Marketing and Communications Office;
- Yulia Zapariy, PhD in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Primary Sources Research, Head of the Office of Research and Innovative Work Organization;
- Anna Pecherkina, Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Education, Head of the Faculty of Psychology, Senior Researcher of the Academic and Research Laboratory of Neurotechnologies, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor;
- Rustam Muslumov, Associate Professor at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Education, Head of the Center for Professional Retraining, Qualification Development and Continuing Education, PhD in Psychology.
Within the meeting, the parties highlighted the need to expand the range of joint projects. The cooperation agreement between two universities was signed during the visit of Victor Koksharov, UrFU Rector, to Baku in 2019. Until now, joint scientific work was carried out in the field of chemistry and materials science: joint articles on these topics were published in international scientific journals.
Now the parties have decided to expand the scope of collaborative work and add humanitarian areas, in particular: history, international relations, and psychology. Moreover, the rector proposed to work on other fields of knowledge that are currently in demand. He is interested in the UrFU programs: Food Biotechnology, Astrophysics and Astrochemistry, Artificial Intelligence for Power Industry Applications and Energy for Smart Cities. He proposed to discuss further possible forms of cooperation in these fields of research.