EU, UNDP open industrial workshop in Azerbaijan's Ganja

  10 July 2019    Read: 2015
 EU, UNDP open industrial workshop in Azerbaijan Photo: European Commission

Opened on July 10, 2019, the first industrial workshop of the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ganja aims to improve the quality of education and, particularly, to support the attractiveness of vocational education, AzVision.az reports.

The workshop is based in the Ganja Regional Centre, which was established in 2018 and provided with world-class industrial and technical training equipment for supporting the vocational education programmes. The school allows students to acquire industry-relevant skills to study heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems; apartment turnover and renovation service; mountain mining jobs; fashion design; plastic welding services for the instalment and repair of plastic pumps; and turner’s services to manufacture and assemble metallic components of industrial machinery.

Speaking at the opening of the new Ganja centre, Ms Simona Gatti, Minister-Counsellor/Head of Cooperation at the European Union Delegation to Azerbaijan noted: "The European Union is supporting Azerbaijan to modernise its vocational education and training systems in line with European Standards and Practices. Overall, this project will contribute to match skills with labour market needs. The workshop that we are opening today in the Regional Industrial VET Centre in Ganja will enable students to practice what they learned."

The Ganja Regional VET Competence Centre opens opportunities for students to get ready for their future career in one of the specialities offered at the centre while at the newly opened workshop enables them to enhance their job-related skills.

“The opening of this flagship workshop today underlines the importance of vocational education as a critical step to expand the country’s diverse workforce and create a more inclusive labour market,” said UNDP Resident Representative in Azerbaijan Mr Alessandro Fracassetti.

To develop cooperation between vocational education schools and a diverse business community of the Ganja region, a roundtable meeting with the private sector was also held within the opening of the VET workshop. According to the EU and UNDP, the Sustainable Development Goals can be achieved through the involvement of the business sector which can help VET graduates to develop competences to meet the requirements of the labour market.

The project in Ganja, which was realized by the UNDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the State Agency on Vocational Education, is a part of a broader programme on Modernising Vocational Education and Training (VET) Centres in Azerbaijan with a 3,463,531-dollar budget financed by the EU, with co-financing from the UNDP Trust Fund. The main aim of this programme is to boost the vocational education and development capacity of Azerbaijan’s Ganja and Jalilabad regions.

 

Leyla Jabbarzade


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