Meeting of UrFU Delegation with Rector of Baku State University

08:51, December 18, 2023

UrFU and BSU are expanding the range of joint projects

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:

1. Evgenia Saburova, the Head of the International Marketing and Communications Office;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. 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.

Evgenia Saburova

Reference

Elchin Safarali oghlu Babayev, Rector of the Baku State University, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, was born on April 4, 1965. In September 2005, he was awarded the Taraggi Medal, a state award of Azerbaijan Republic for certain services, among which are special contributions in the field of science. Currently, he is the head of the Department of Space Plasma and Heliogeophysical Problems of the Shemakha Astrophysical Observatory, and a member of the International Astronomical Union, European Astronomical Society, Eurasian Astronomical Society, International Biometric Society.

The UrFU and the BSU have some things in common. Both universities were established at almost the same year: the Baku State University was estblished in 1919, the Ural Federal University was founded one year later, in 2020. Each of the universities has a range of technical and humanitarian specialties. There is an equal number of each of them in the BSU.