Successful co-operation with Azerbaijan renewed

MSM and its partner in Azerbaijan, ADA University, recently renewed its co-operation. During a visit of Rector Hafiz Pashayev and senior managers and academics from ADA University to Maastricht, the success of the institutions’ joint Executive MBA program in Baku was celebrated. Twenty senior managers and entrepreneurs graduated during MSM’’s graduation ceremony, the first cohort from this program, which was started in September 2013.

At the occasion of signing a new agreement for the continuation of the program, MSM Dean Professor Wim Naudé thanked the leadership of ADA University for their dedication to bring top quality higher education to their country.

A number of avenues to expand the co-operation were discussed, including offering joint programs in agri-business management, healthcare and sports management; and in engineering and management. In the latter the delegation from Azerbaijan were also taken on a fact-finding mission to Aachen to see how the excellent collaboration between MSM and RWTH Aachen University had resulted in three highly innovative M.Sc. degrees in management and engineering.