Start Date: 1.12.2015

Duration: 36 months

Brief Information & Main Objectives: The AESOP project develops student advocacy offices in Azerbaijani universities to remove obstacles in the academic process and to effectively protect students’ rights. Improving the administration of the Azerbaijani partner universities will enable them to fully implement the Bologna Process, giving students access to the democratic processes that are used to make decisions about their education. The project will learn from the experience and best practices of European universities in the area of student advocacy. The findings are implemented in Azerbaijani universities through the creation of a Student Advocacy Office in each university headed by a full-time, trained ombudsperson who will offer training and support services. The ombudsperson will be a “neutral” (free from other work responsibilities or conflicts of interest) resource who can listen to student issues and direct them through appropriate procedures to resolve them fairly, consistently, and efficiently. 

Project Coordinator: Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia

Partners:

• Office of the Austrian Student Ombudsman (Austria)
• University of Warsaw (Poland)
• University of L’Aquila (Italy)
• University of Minho (Portugal)
• University of Jyvaskyla (Finland)
• Middlesex University (UK)
• Khazar University (Azerbaijan)
• Nakhchivan State University (Azerbaijan)
• Ganja State University (Azerbaijan)
• Nakhchican University (Azerbaijan)
• Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic
• Akaki Tsereteli State University (Georgia)
• Caucasus University (Georgia)
• Georgian American University
• Poltava University of Economics and Trade (Ukraine)
• Kyiv National Economic University (Ukraine)

Contact:

Sabina Allahveranova

E-mail: sallahveranova@khazar.org

Phone: +994 (12) 421 79 16/ ext 212