OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2015. Rector of Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) Elmar Gasimov received Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Azerbaijan Mrs. Heidrun Tempel. BHOS Rector informed the guest about the higher school’s history and pointed out that BHOS was established within SOCAR in 2011 according to the decree issued by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. He said BHOS aimed at educating highly qualified engineers for petroleum and chemical industries and realized education totally in line with the education programme of Heriot-Watt University, UK.

The Rector mentioned that every year the students with the highest entrance scores selected BHOS and the number of the Presidential Scholarship winners was increasing. He also said that out of the 25 Presidential scholarship winners from Specialization Group #1, 17 students were studying at BHOS and three of them gathered the top 700 entrance score. Elmar Gasimov familiarized Mrs. Tempel with the project of BHOS campus, which would meet international standards and provide all necessary conditions for students. He said BHOS students enjoyed the privilege to take internship in such companies as SOCAR, Total, BP, Schlumberger, Emerson, Schneider Electric and the significance attached to research at BHOS. The Rector particularly stressed the cooperation with E.ON, a German company, along with the agreement on creation of renewable energy center signed with the President of RWTH University of Aachen, the collaboration largely supported by SOCAR and its partner E.ON. Mr. Gasimov emphasized his interest in establishing partnership relations with German universities.

Ambassador Tempel extended her gratitude to BHOS management for the warm welcome. She focused on cooperation between SOCAR and E.ON. While bringing forward the idea on joint project on renewable energy and organization of a joint conference dedicated to the same topic the Ambassador expressed her hope on establishing close cooperation in this regards. She also underlined the importance of students’ mobility and assured of the availability of high quality technical programmes at German universities. Mrs. Tempel also expressed her confidence that BHOS, as a higher school educating specialists for important industrial spheres, would occupy worthy positions in future. While sharing her impressions on the witnessed dynamic development of BHOS, the German Ambassador expressed her commitment and full support to developing relations with BHOS involving German specialists and experts through DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).

In conclusion, Rector Gasimov invited Mrs. Heidrun Tempel to make presentation for BHOS students on a mutually agreed topic.