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By Nigar Orujova

Azercell has supported another project aimed for the development of knowledge and capacity of young people.

Azercell's Barama Innovation Center in cooperation with Oracle Users Group held a joint AzerOUG meeting, which brought together 60 people, including leading IT engineers from various companies, database experts and students of technical science.

The participants had a broad discussion on the "Oracle database performance" and "Practical methods of verification of application programs". At the same time, student got a chance to learn more about the activities and projects implemented by Barama Innovation Center.

Azercell has initiated a number of innovative projects in Azerbaijan in the frames of Barama Innovation Center.

Thanks to Worldwide Startup Competition, Baku TechTalks, Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Program and others, talented young individuals got opportunities to realize their ideas, introduce them in international arena and receive financial support.

Azercell has always supported the projects focused on development of young generation. Company's Student Scholarship program offers additional scholarship for talented and skillful university students.

In addition, majority of Azercell's Social Projects are education related. Azercell spent 0,4 million manats for social projects in 2013 and totally 14 million manats during 17 years of its operation in Azerbaijan.

Azercell partners with the leading universities in the country and supports strengthening of their material and technical capacities. Namely with Azercell's initiative the first 4G lab was installed and launched at Qafqaz University. The company plans to continue providing its support to the successful career development of talented young people.

Since its founding in 1996, Azercell Telecom sustains a leading position on the market in Azerbaijan. The company introduced number of technological innovations like GSM technology, GPRS/EDGE, 24/7 Customer Care, full-time operating Azercell Express offices and others.

With 51 percent share of Azerbaijan's mobile market Azercell's network covers 99.8 percent of the country's population. By the end of 2013 the number of Azercell subscribers reached 4.5 million people.

The Company is the leader of Azerbaijan's mobile communication industry and the biggest investor in the non-oil sector.