Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) has taken a strategic step to turn the university into a hub of entrepreneurial education, by signing an academic partnership agreement with the World Business Angels Investment Forum – an affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion. The University joined the WBAF Financial Inclusion Program for Higher Education with this agreement.
The WBAF Financial Inclusion Program for Higher Education provides the following benefits to UNEC:
- The WBAF Financial Inclusion Center opens its doors to Azerbaijan State University’s faculty members and students. 1323 students and all faculty members at UNEC now have the opportunity to benefit from the WBAF Financial Inclusion Center for global networking, quality mentoring, and smart finance under the sponsorship of the WBAF.
- The engagement of UNEC with WBAF opens the way for the UNEC Business Angel Network (U-BAN), which will ease access to finance for startups in the University’s entrepreneurship club and close the finance gap for commercializing faculty members’ research projects.
- The entrepreneurship club at the university becomes official partners in the World Business Angel Investors Week 2023, which is coordinated globally by WBAF and celebrated every year in 132 countries.
- Faculty members at the University have an opportunity to use the WBAF Financial Inclusion Center to deliver global educational courses and MBA programs on entrepreneurship, innovation, digital economies, and business transformation.
- WBAF also supports incubation programmes running at the University.
One of the biggest educational institutions in the South Caucasus
Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC) is a full member of the European University Association, the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation’s University Council, and the Eurasian Association of Universities. Foreign student enrolment in undergraduate and graduate courses at UNEC is about 3.5% of the total student population.
Heydar Aliyev, former president and national leader of Azerbaijan; Suzanne Mubarak, former First Lady of Egypt; Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece; and Erik Stark Maskin, Harvard University Professor and Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, have all accepted honorary doctorates from the UNEC.
Your university can engage with the WBAF Financial Inclusion Programme for Higher Education
The WBAF Financial Inclusion Programme for Higher Education aims to contribute to the development of skills and expertise of students and faculty members alike, assist in the digital transformation of higher education institutions, and foster the kind of creative thinking that leads to innovation and eventual success in the ever-changing market environment of the 21st century.
WBAF encourages all institutions of higher education to explore the merits of the WBAF Financial Inclusion Programme for Higher Education and take full advantage of its many benefits.
Send an email to learn about the next steps for engaging your university with the WBAF Financial Inclusion Program for Higher Education:
Christina Mc Gimpsey,
Secretary General, World Business Angels investment Forum
Christina.McGimpsey@wbaforum.org
