The next DAAD seminar was held at AzTU
The next seminar was held for students of Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU) on applying for scholarship programs of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The seminar, titled “How to Write a Successful Motivation Letter,” provided students with guidelines on preparing the motivation letter required for applications to DAAD’s master’s level scholarship programs. The seminar was conducted by Claudio Kasperl, a DAAD German language teacher working at AzTU. In the seminar, students were provided detailed information about DAAD’s activities and scholarship programs, application conditions, required set of documents, and the rules for the correct preparation of a motivation letter. At the end of the event, the participants’ questions were answered. In addition, Claudio Kasperl organized an information session on “Language courses with scholarships in Germany”. Summer schools in Germany and the rules for applying to them were explained in detail at the DAAD information session for undergraduate and graduate students.
Training was held within the DIRNA project at AzTU
The training was held within the framework of the “Development of research potential through the network of institutional repositories in Azerbaijan” (DIRNA) project of the “Erasmus+KA2” program, in which Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU) is a partner. The training on “Presentation of the Digital Repository at AzTU and open access possibilities” was organized based on the presentations of Khayala Hajiyeva, director of the AzTU Library Information Center (LIC), and Iltifat Ibrahimov, an expert on library systems and digitization of the LIC. The participants were informed in detail about open science, open access concepts, international licenses, copyrights, open publishing opportunities, AzTU’s open access policy, author agreements. The participants were introduced to the digital repository of AzTU, and a presentation was given on the rules of resource admission to the repository. In the training, the participants were also presented with information about the subscription databases and open access databases provided by AzTU LIC,…