Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication (CAERC) and Newcastle University of Great Britain organized a two-day workshop on teaching and learning strategy formulation for higher education teachers. The seminar was held at the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication as part of the British Council Creative Spark Higher Education Enterprise Programme, and Vusal Gasimli, Executive Director of CAERC opened the seminar by welcoming the participants. Representatives of Newcastle University, Fiona Whitehurst and Leigh Sear, discussed the development of appropriate teaching and learning strategies for educators working in the field of business and entrepreneurship. The differences between pedagogies for learning “about”, learning ‘through” and learning “for” in enterprise and entrepreneurship education were explored. The teachers took part in group activities on topics such as designing teaching and learning techniques to engage student learners and establishing relationships with external stakeholders and presented their work to the seminar. An interactive exchange of ideas was held and a visit to the “One Stop Shop” was arranged on the second day in order that the representatives from Newcastle University and the teachers could learn more about support for exporting.

 More than 10 teachers participated in the two days seminar from Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku Engineering University, Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University, Azerbaijan State Economic University, Azerbaijan University of Culture and Arts, Dagestan State University.

End of the two-days seminar, with the presence of Project Manager, Elnur Aliyev, teachers of higher education who participated in the training were presented with a joint certificate of CAERC and Newcastle University.

It should be noted that before the training, the teachers of Newcastle University of Great Britain held a series of meetings with representatives from the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication, the Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Azerbaijan, and British Council Azerbaijan and discussed the deepening of cooperation and the organization of a series of seminars. They also met with representatives of innovative start-up projects at the "SABAH.lab" Acceleration Center established under the Educational Institute of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

CAERC and Newcastle University will seek to extend their partnership after the British Council Creative Spark Higher Education Programme finishes and Fiona Whitehurst and Leigh Sear will be returning in December 2022 to conduct further training on behalf of British Council.