Center for Economic and Social Development

CESD Presented Internship Program Results

Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD) presented CESD Internship Program results to mass-media on July, 23, 2010 at the CESD Training Center. Vugar Bayramov, chairman of CESD, mentioned that 326 applications received and 3 of them were selected. Nicola Morfini is PhD candidate at the University of St. Andrews (UK) and Junior Researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome and Ulrich Schubert, graduate student at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg (D) applications among 65 ones were approved by CESD Selection Committee. Farida Poladova, from Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, was only winner among Azerbaijani applications.

Alimammad Nuriyev, Board Member at State NGO Council under President Office, appreciated CESD Internship Program and mentioned that the first time inAzerbaijan civil society history, European researchers will have internship at the civil society institute. From this perspective, CESD once again confirmed its leading position.

Winners of internship program shared their internship plans with mass-media representatives.

3 winners within 326 applicants including 65 foreign applicants are announced by the CESD. This year, CESD will host interns from Switzerland and Italy, and 1 local student from Azerbaijan State Oil Academy is in between winners. Foreign interns will have chance to work at EU Integration and Civil Society Development Departments.