On May 30, a group of pupils from school №284 in Baki visited Sumgayit State University in the framework of “Maktablinin dostu” project (“A friend of schoolchildren”) which is implemented by Ministry of Education and State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Vice-rector for humanitarian issues Ramiz Huseynov received the pupils and talked about various projects and significance of the project “Maktablinin dostu” which are for heightening the quality of education, creation of healthy environment at schools. He noted that the project of “Maktablinin dostu” which is being implemented by Ministry of Education and ASAN service as a pilot project since December, 2016 in 30 schools of Baki. The aim of the project is to form safe, healthy environment for teachers and pupils, provide first medical and psychological aid and conduct educative and diagnostic work with pupils, parents and the collective and administration of training and education institutions. Recently, building relationships between a university and a school has become a tradition. It enhances connections between a university and a school, pupils get broad information about universities and they have an idea about applying to the university. Vice-rector also gave information about history of the university, current specialties and specialties to be opened in the future taking into account the necessity of our country. 
Then, students took an excursion to the teaching buildings. Future students visited Heydar Aliyev Center, various faculties, auditoria, laboratories, TEMPUS room, library, teaching rooms, computer and information center and sport hall. Representatives of school №284 expressed their gratitude for being at the university and thanked to the university administration and initiators. 

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