Visit of the university delegation to Azerbaijan and continuation of work on the WORK4CE project
On October 26-28, Baku (Azerbaijan) hosted a coordination meeting under the WORK4CE project and pilot training for project participants.
Zaporizka Polytechnic National University was represented by Vice-Rector for Research Professor Vadim Shalomeev, WORK4CE project coordinator Professor Halyna Tabunshchik, project participants Professor Andriy Karpenko and Associate Professor Dmytro Plynokos.
Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University is a grant holder of the WORK4CE project Interdomain competences to ensure healthy and safe work in the 21st century (Erasmus+ 619034-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), so the meeting of the project management and the discussion of the results of the first part of the project implementation were particularly important. The coordinator of the project, Professor Halyna Tabunshchik, held meetings with all representatives of the consortium, where the issues of activity under the project, preparation of reports, financing of activities were discussed.During the coordination meetings, official visits were made to the universities of Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry, Azerbaijan University of Construction and Architecture, Academy of the State Customs Service of Azerbaijan. They met with the management of the universities and discussed the prospects for further cooperation.
At the Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry, the vice-rector, professor Vadim Shalomeyev and the project coordinator, professor Halyna Tabunshchik, met with the rector of the university, professor Mustafa Babanly, and discussed the development of cooperation within the framework of the project. Special attention was paid to interaction with stakeholders, business representatives. The Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry also held a meeting of the project coordinator, Professor Halyna Tabunshchik, and Professor Andriy Karpenko with business representatives in the B2B format, where they discussed ways to involve representatives of the Azerbaijani industry and representatives of the Zaporizhzhia IAM 4.0 cluster in the WORK4CE project.
At the Azerbaijan University of Construction and Architecture, representatives of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic project discussed the development of international and scientific cooperation with the vice-rector for international activities, Professor Abdulaeva N. and the vice-rector for scientific activities, Professor Aslanova N.
The meeting at the Academy of the State Customs Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan was also fruitful, where a solemn meeting was held with all project participants, representatives of the national Erasmus office of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Education, the deputy head of the Customs Service of Azerbaijan. During the meeting, the high level of project management and planned performance of project indicators was assessed. An agreement on long-term bilateral cooperation has been concluded between Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University and the Academy of the State Customs Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Vadim Shalomeyev, the vice-rector, conveyed the most sincere congratulations from the rector of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic, Professor Viktor Greshta, and emphasized the university’s exceptional interest in the development of international activities, the initiation of new joint projects at our universities.
During the project meetings at the Azerbaijan University of Construction and Architecture, Professor Andriy Karpenko and Associate Professor Dmytro Plynokos gave lectures on innovative development and project management.
Professor Halyna Tabunshchik gave a course of lectures at partner universities on online learning and open educational resources.
All meetings during the project were informative and had practical significance in establishing long-term bilateral and multilateral relations between Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic and universities of Azerbaijan.
