AZƏRBAYCAN RESPUBLİKASININ ELM VƏ TƏHSİL NAZİRLİYİ Bakı Dövlət Universiteti

To ensure the sustainable development of the country, BSU aims to establish an integrated "education - science - production" model by incorporating scientific innovations into the educational process, to maintain a leading position in human capital development and elevate domestic and international cooperation to foster research habits among students. This includes periodically training employees, doctoral students, and students at research institutes worldwide to study priority areas of modern science, exchange experiences, conduct joint research, and transfer the latest scientific innovations to young researchers. This is achieved by facilitating their participation in world-renowned universities, research institutes, and industry-oriented scientific research centres, and by organizing master classes, lectures, and scientific seminars with leading scientists and specialists.

Additionally, the experience of professors and teachers is enhanced through student-teacher exchanges with prestigious higher education institutions, promoting the application of new scientific results in production. BSU envisions becoming a "Research University" that actively participates in addressing socio-economic challenges. Currently, BSU students engage in scientific seminars and conferences, present reports, and participate directly in various research projects.

The Centre of Excellence for Research, Development, and Innovation at BSU, which houses several research laboratories, plays a vital role in training students to become researchers with multidisciplinary expertise. This training occurs within the triad of education, scientific research, and production, all within a dynamic research environment. The Centre conducts contract-based projects commissioned by prominent organizations such as the Ministry of Defense Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan, BP Azerbaijan, and SOCAR. These projects are carried out in laboratories like Digital Research, Ecological Chemistry and Environment, Nano Research, Industrial Chemistry, and Biomedical Materials (ICESCO department). Students and young researchers are actively involved in the scientific research conducted within these projects.

The Student Scientific and Technical Creativity Centre was established to foster education, science, and innovation thinking among students and to facilitate the implementation of their ideas. The Centre works directly with Faculty Student Scientific Societies, joining bright students interested in scientific research and engineering-creative activities. It provides opportunities for students to develop STARTUP projects in various fields such as electronics, engineering, and programming. 

In 2023, the teams representing BSU achieved significant success at the "TEKNOFEST-2023" Aerospace and Technology Festival. The BSU Creativity Workz team won first place with their project "Driver's Eye," an electronic system designed to detect car accidents in advance and warn the driver. The Humantek team won third place with their project on a "Smart Drip Irrigation System," which consists of small solar-powered stations for use in agricultural fields to collect and wirelessly transmit data such as soil mineral content, humidity level, air temperature and pressure to a central station. The BSU Creativity Workz team successfully participated in the final stage of the "TEKNOFEST-2023 - My Entry" competition, held in Ankara, Turkiye, from August 30 to September 3, 2023. Competing among 2,419 teams across 10 categories, they showcased their "Driver's Eye" project and became one of the three winning teams in the Technology Front Incubator category under Transportation and Mobility.

There are 16 faculties, 121 departments, 2 scientific research institutes, 5 scientific research centres, and 21 scientific research laboratories and a Scientific Library with various services at Baku State University. All the resources in the mentioned departments and more than 1,000 devices and materials available in the teaching-practice base including equipment such as atomic force and optical microscopes, nuclear magnetic resonance machines, scanning electron microscopes, various types of X-ray structural diffractometers, spectrofluorimeters, spectrometers covering different wavelength ranges, chemical reagents, reaction equipment, biological incubation cabinets, mechanical devices, magnetic and electric field devices, calorimeters, thermogravimeters, temperature and field measuring devices, ecological research devices, pH meters, chromatographs, oscillographs, and over 400 pieces of technological equipment and measuring devices are utilized by

employees, students, master's and doctoral students of BSU and are also shared with scientific research institutes, ATMs, and other relevant institutions in the Republic within the framework of collaboration.

More than 1,000 computers and IT equipment, equipped with various programs and internet access, are utilized for scientific research across the scientific research institutes, centres, laboratories, and departments at BSU.

BSU regularly organizes visits for employees, young researchers, and students to world-renowned universities, research institutes, and industry-oriented research centres. These visits often involve participation in international symposiums, conferences, and workshops. Cooperation agreements in science and education are frequently signed between BSU and these prestigious institutions. Teacher-student exchanges are facilitated through various programs such as Erasmus+, COST, DAAD, Marie Curie Actions, Fulbright, Mevlana, and others. Additionally, BSU consistently hosts international conferences, master classes, scientific seminars, and training sessions. These missions encompass a wide range of activities, including participation in scientific events, conducting joint research, training on new devices, attending summer or winter scientific schools, holding working meetings on joint grant projects, and organizing seminars and professional development sessions in various scientific fields

Currently, around 200 doctoral and dissertation students from BSU are studying under the supervision of renowned scientists from the countries such as Turkiye, the USA, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and others.

Belarus, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The collaborations have resulted in publications in prestigious journals, the acquisition of various devices and equipment, the organization of scientific-experimental missions, student-teacher exchanges, and scientific events.

At BSU, highly qualified personnel are trained in 120 specialties within the Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Sciences programs at the doctoral level. The university employs over 300 professors and more than 800 associate professors, all of whom are qualified to supervise doctoral dissertations in various specialties. Each professor and associate professor can supervise doctoral theses in multiple specialties within the same scientific field simultaneously.