On 31 May 2021, the next virtual Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was organized by Khazar University, Career Development Center within the framework of Erasmus+ UniLab project. During the meeting, a discussion was held with the representatives of country’s career development offices on document entitled “Strategic plan for developing existing and forging new university-business collaboration” which was developed within the framework of UniLab project.

The meeting started with greetings of the coordinator of the Career Development Center, Elnura Ahmadzada. Then, the Head of Teaching and Learning Center Ulkar Bayramova provided information about the strategic plan, which was developed within the framework of the UniLab project.

During the meeting, various topics were discussed including strategic plan, its implementation in our country, changes that career office representatives from different universities want to make in the plan and their recommendations, university-business partnership and the impact of this partnership, etc. Participants highlighted the importance of university-business collaboration and shared their ideas from different perspective.

Among the participants there were career office representatives from different universities, French-Azerbaijani University, Baku State University, Azerbaijan Tourism and Management University and Ganja State University, along with Khazar University staff.