An event was held at the Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU) on May 26 to mark the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ministry of Science and Education (MES) and the Ministry of Defense Industry (MODI).

The event was attended by Deputy Minister of Science and Education Idris Isayev, Deputy Minister of Defense Industry Hidayat Azimov, Rector of AzTU Vilayat Valiyev, General Director of “Azersilah” Defense Industry Holding” Closed Joint-Stock Company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense Emil Ibrahimov, other senior employees of the Ministry of Defense, teaching and professorial staff of the university, as well as a group of students with high academic performance.

First, the participants laid flowers in front of the monument to the great leader Heydar Aliyev and paid tribute to his dear memory.

During the signing ceremony, which was underway at the Heydar Aliyev Center of the university, Deputy Minister of Science and Education Idris Isayev gave detailed information about the modern education system, reforms carried out in this area, and admission programs for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees of higher education institutions. The Deputy Minister noted that the cooperation between the Ministry of Defense will enter a new stage with the memorandum to be signed. Idris Isayev reviewed the document, which includes multi-directional cooperation, prepared taking into account the requirements of modern education. He emphasized that it will play a special role in ensuring the demand for personnel training in the defense industry, including the training of highly qualified engineers with modern knowledge and skills in the field of new technologies.

Deputy Minister of Defense Industry Hidayat Azimov, in turn, noted the effective cooperation with the Ministry of Defense and its scientific and research institutes, as well as higher and vocational education institutions, in order to train qualified personnel in the defense industry, improve sectoral specialists and further develop innovative engineering, and the importance of expanding relations in this area. Hidayat Azimov noted that the memorandum creates broad opportunities for ensuring the demand for personnel in priority development areas of our country, including the training of highly qualified engineers in the field of new technologies, and that this document is of great importance in terms of the development of industry-university relations in the modern era.

AzTU rector Vilayat Valiyev, in his speech, noted that effective cooperation relations have been established between the higher education institution which he heads and the Ministry of Defense. He noted that based on the relevant decision of the Cabinet of Ministers and the initiative of the Ministry of Defense, he emphasized that the Faculty of Special Techniques and Technology has been successfully operating at AzTU since 2012, and most of the graduates who have achieved high achievements during their studies have successfully worked at the institutions of the Ministry of Defense. The rector brought to attention that a new strategy has been developed in accordance with the requirements of the modern era regarding personnel training in the defense industry.

Then a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed.

At the end of the event, the guests got acquainted with the technological capabilities and perspective projects created by AzTU on the basis of the material and technical base of the higher education institution in order to implement modern educational programs.