AN EMPLOYEE OF SSU PARTICIPATED IN THE TRAINING AT THE STEAM INNOVATION CENTER
On June 14, the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement between the Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and the "Elsevier" company was held at the STEAM Innovation Center.
At the signing ceremony, deputy minister of science and education Idris Isayev, regional director of Elsevier Company Tayfun Basal, advisor to the minister of science and education Nijat Mammadli, chairman of the board of Quality Assurance Agency in education Ulkar Sattarova, rector of Baku State University Elchin Babayev, general director of the Institute of Information Technologies Rasim Aliguliyev and other guests attended.
Deputy minister Idris Isayev, appreciating the initiative to sign an agreement that provides access to various resources and tools of the Scopus elmmetric database, said that scientists and researchers working in more than 100 state and private institutions of our country, as well as students, will benefit from these resources.
After the contract signing ceremony, training on the use of "Scopus" and "ScienceDirect" databases was held for relevant employees of higher education institutions and research institutes. The purpose of the training was to convey the information to the representatives of science and educational institutions to provide access to Scopus, one of the largest scientific databases in the world, for the private and state higher education institutions of Azerbaijan, as well as for all scientific research institutes, for the first time, to improve the indicators of our country in the field of science and innovation according to various international ratings.
It should be noted that Shafagat Mammadova, an employee of SSU, the chief methodologist of the scientific department, actively participated in the training both as a listener and during the discussions.
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