On February 21-23, 2024, the first management meeting of the ERASMUS+ project called “Increasing the Digital Skills of Universities in the Eastern Partnership Countries” coordinated by the University of Tartu (Estonia) and partnered by Khazar University was held. The hybrid gathering organized by the Khazar University Development Center, involved the representatives from Azerbaijan (Khazar University, Nakhchivan Teachers’ Institute, Mingachevir State University) and Europe (University of Tartu-Estonia, University of Gdansk-Poland, University of Primorska-Slovenia, Polytechnic University of Valencia – Spain and Zaporizhzhia National University of Ukraine, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University) and partner universities and associative partners (Karveke Linn, Koper, Tartu Linn kindergartens, MTU EdTech Estonia).
In the official opening part of the event, the founder of Khazar University, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees Prof. Acad. Hamlet Isakhanli, Rector of Khazar University Assoc. Prof. Irada Khalilova, Director of National ERASMUS+ Office Parviz Bagirov delivered speeches.
During the three-day discussion, the project blueprint, financial considerations, the role and responsibility of each partner university in the project, potential risks and ways to solve them were discussed, 6-month and one-year travel plans were determined. The project’s primary objective is to enhance digital literacy among educators across various educational levels (pre-school, primary, secondary, and tertiary) while exploring the European Union’s educational digitalization approach.
The budget of the 3-year BEAUCOUP project, overseen by Khazar University as the national coordinator, is 1 million euros.
