(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 28. The share of
women entrepreneurs in Azerbaijani innovation sector is growing
rapidly, the Chairperson of the Innovation and Digital Development
Agency under the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of
Azerbaijan Inara Valiyeva said during the 'Women at STEM Festival'
event, trend reports.
According to Valiyeva, within the framework of the Technest
program, which is conducted by the agency, free trainings are
provided.
A total of 43 percent of this program graduates last year were
women. Besides, in Azerbaijan, 28 percent of start-up projects were
developed by women entrepreneurs,” she noted.
Besides, according to the official, 30 percent of women heads of
organizations in 2022 became winners of various categories of the
competition held by the agency.
STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Math] is a new
approach in education, when all branches of natural science and
technical knowledge are combined, and the student receives this
knowledge not from a textbook, but through solving creative
tasks.
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