A project preparation control group will be established at the AzTU for successful participation of the university in projects financed by the European Union and other international organizations.

Tofig Babayev, Director of R.I.T.A. and ICT&FET NCP HORIZON 2020 and HDM contact person in Azerbaijan, and Anar Suleymanov, deputy head of department at the State Customs Committee, represented Azerbaijan at the 1st EU4Digital: eTrade Workshop in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 15-16 December 2016. It was the first workshop of the future EaP network on eTrade suggested at the 2nd Panel on Harmonisation of Digital Markets. EU4Digital network will act as a forum for promotion and development of interoperable electronic trade services and processes among the partners and with the EU, comprising with HDM topics "eCommerce for SME’s”, "eCustoms” and "eLogistics & digital transport corridors”.

On December 2,2016  Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) hosted National Erasmus+ Information Day for the first time. It was held jointly with National Erasmus+ Office in Azerbaijan for representatives of Azerbaijani higher educational institutions. Representatives of the Ministry of Education of the Azerbaijan Republic, State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), British Council in Azerbaijan, Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Azerbaijan and a number of other diplomatic missions in the country also attended the event. Senior officials, teachers and representatives of youth student organizations from leading universities of Baku, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Sumgayit, Lenkeran and Mingechevir participated in the Information Day.

Azerbaijani delegation consisting of Isbandiyar Aliyev, Head of Department at the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, Tofig Babayev, Director of R.I.T.A. and ICT&FET NCP in Azerbaijan, Anar Suleymanov, representing the State Customs Committee, Jalal Rahimov, Deputy CEO at Technopark took part in the 2nd Panel on Harmonisation of Digital Markets (2nd HDM Panel) held in Brussels, Belgium, on 17 and 18 October 2016.

Azerbaijani delegation headed by Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies Elmir Velizade participated in the Ministerial level meeting on the Digital Community held in Brussels, Belgium, on 18 October 2016. Tofig Babayev, Director of R.I.T.A. and ICT&FET NCP in Azerbaijan and HDM Initiatives contact person, also took part in the work of the meeting as a member of the delegation.

The Azerbaijani delegation, including Director of R.I.T.A. and ICT&FET NCP in Azerbaijan T. Babayev, Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies NCP in Azerbaijan E. Sabziyev, as well as two researchers, participated in ICT Proposers’ Day 2016

Another event organized by R.I.T.A. within the framework of the Idealist 2018 project took place at the Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry on 15-16 September 2016. The event was devoted to the HORIZON 2020 EU Framework Research & Innovation Programme and the rules of participation in the programme.