The next graduation of the European School took place

Baku/23.06.21/Turan: The Eastern Partnership (EaP) European School programme proudly marks the graduation of its second cohort of students from the six EaP countries in a virtual ceremony hosted by New School – International School of Georgia. The students, their parents and the Faculty were joined by the Mr. Mikheil Chkhenkeli, Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, Mr. Lawrence Meredith, Director Neighbourhood East and Institution Building DG NEAR, and Ms. Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, as well as other dignitaries, to celebrate the spirit of creativity and resilience of the School community to successfully complete the studies in the extraordinary and tough times of the global pandemic.   

The Class of 2021 of the scholarship programme comprises 34 students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. All students, among them 24 girls, successfully graduated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma and will pursue their higher education studies in the universities of Europe, the United States and their home countries. Delightfully, 30 percent of the graduates have received full or partial scholarships from well-known universities globally and will join their peers in Spain, The Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Estonia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, United States and Canada. 

Out of 34 graduates from Class 2021, two are from Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku. Both girls will pursue their further academic studies in Psychology and Global Sustainable Science, in Turkey’s Sabanci University/KOC Turkey and The Netherlands’ Maastricht University, respectively.

“Studying at the Eastern Partnership European School requires you to really work hard and learn how to manage your time. In two years, I have boosted my academic and communication skills together as I had to study a lot of new materials in such a diverse and multicultural environment. As a person I became more sociable, open-minded and confident, and I became close friends with many of the students from other Eastern Partnership countries. If it wasn’t for this program, I wouldn’t be ready to study abroad and be accepted in high ranked universities,” – said Alina Gavrish from Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku, who has been admitted to several European universities but chose to study at the Maastricht University in The Netherlands and pursue her career in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Since the launch of the scholarship programme in 2018, overall 105 students from different urban and rural cities of the six Eastern European countries have been awarded with the EU-funded full 2-year scholarship to study on the IB Diploma Programme. By 2021, the European School has a total of 64 students from two cohorts, 44 girls and 20 boys, graduated with the IB Diploma, pursuing the careers in a diversity of areas such as Economics, Biochemical Engineering, Physics, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture, Communications and Media, International Relations and Global Affairs, Medicine, Law, Liberal Arts and Computer Sciences.–71D-