.On November 21, an Information day was held at Sumgayit State University of the project "Green and sustainable global economic improvement in Azerbaijani universities:renewable energy and climate change mitigation" REFRESH, coordinated by Azerbaijan State University of Economics (unec.edu.az) and funded by Erasmus fund of the European Union.

The purpose of the event is to involve teaching staff in the Training of Trainers (ToT) program in order to improve the transition period to green energy in Azerbaijan, improve teaching methodologies, course programs and start pilot courses in each partner higher education institution by increasing awareness in the field of renewable energy in our country, in which SSU is also a partner.  4 European universities (University of Barcelona in Spain, University of Bologna in Italy, Technical University of Denmark, Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden) and 6 local universities (Sumgait State University, Ganja State University, Mingachevir State University, Lankaran State University, Azerbaijan University of Technology) act as partners. On December 3-9 associate professor Turgay Huseynov, head of the department of Electromechanics of the faculty of Physics and electroenergetics, will be sent to Bologna, Italy, to participate in the first trainings within the framework of the REFRESH project. It should be noted that the interactive event continued with a question-and-answer session.