OREANDA-NEWS. Baku Higher Oil School establishes a training and research center on renewable energy engineering, referring to the speech delivered by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the ceremony dedicated to the 70 years anniversary of Azerbaijan National Academy of Science and with the view of contributing the non-oil sector development and benefitting from alternative energy sources.In the course of the past years very significant projects on renewable energy have been realized in Azerbaijan, and a number of courses on renewable energy sources have been included in the curriculum of certain universities. The center aims at conducting research and developing recommendations on the use of the wind, solar, thermal and bio energy sources, as well as training highly qualified specialists in renewable energy engineering in accordance with contemporary education programmes and technologies and targets at training of engineers on renewable energy based on an interdisciplinary approach. To achieve this goal, BHOS with the support of Germany’s E.ON signed a cooperation agreement with RWTH Aachen University. The agreement envisages creation of appropriate infrastructure at BHOS, providing necessary facilities, carrying out scientific and research work and training of specialists. The center is planning to benefit from the scientific and methodical assistance of the mentioned structures, and involve highly qualified specialists, who have studied abroad in scientific and lecturing activities, while providing them in-service and on-job training opportunities and ensuring their participation at various international scientific conferences on renewable energy.