On May 7, 2020, a webinar being a part of #StayHome with the British Council campaign, was organized aimed at holding the discussion of the common challenges facing universities in the 15 countries in the Wider Europe region and ways to solve them during and post Covid-19. The topic of the webinar was “Accelerating Technology: University’s Proactiveness to Use Emerging Technologies Across all Activities - Teaching, Learning, and University Management.”

Speakers from the UK, Ukraine and Azerbaijan spoke about the most interesting areas, focusing around models of distance learning, the quality of online learning, the impact of the current situation on students and teachers, as well as on the research projects. Simon Guy, a representative of the University of Lancaster, spoke at the first part of the webinar.

In the first part of the webinar, Simon Guy, a representative from the University of Lancaster (UK), Raziya Isayeva, Director of Khazar University Development Center, Roman Shulyk and Ivana Kraincanic from Ukrainian universities, spoke about the challenges of online learning and teaching.

Webinars, which will continue until July, are held on a weekly basis via Zoom platform.