Royal Mahmudov, the master's student in the Department of Education at Khazar University, has won a research grant announced by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). Royal will spend 6 months and try to study the problems faced by university students in Azerbaijan in his research, which will be funded by ARISC. The results of the project, which will be supervised by the coordinator of the Department of Education Javid Jafarov, is to be posted on the website of ARISC and published in an international journal.

Royal Mahmudov is the only student from Azerbaijan to win this project for 2022. In general, so far only two people from Azerbaijan have won the research grant announced by ARISC in this category.