Vice-rector of  Baku State University (BSU), Associate Professor Vugar Mehrabov   participated in the 12^th Conference of the Rectors from the Black Sea Region (BSUN) on ‘Changing Role of University in a Global and Regional Context’ that took place in Georgia, Tbilisi on 12-15 May 2016.

The first session  was devoted to the  digitization and challenges of the future Internet technologies. During the other conference sessions, the BSUN member university representatives from Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia made presentations on the new approaches related to social and cultural dialogues, support to innovation related activities for sustainable management of reserves, the university role as an initiative center to support innovations in the society in the Black Sea Region.

At the conference,  rector of the Polytechnic University of Tirana (Albania)  Yorkag Kachani announced that rector of Baku State University, academician Abel Maharramov was awarded a gold medal "For outstanding achievements in the development of the Black Sea Universities Network."

Press and Information Department, May 23, 2016.