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Due to the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus COVID-19, the AABS board along with the AABS Connect organising team have made the decision to postpone this year’s conference initially scheduled to take place in Dakar, Senegal in June. The Conference is therefore postponed (but not cancelled) to May 2021. New dates will be announced as soon as possible.

Lodz University of Technology (TUL) is the first Polish university awarded the prestigious international accreditation HCERES (Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur). The whole accreditation process took 2 years. The university performed very well on all 6 criteria and was fully accredited for 5 years.

In the ever-changing environment of our reality there are several major barriers that all educators have to overcome. Uncertainty is one of the biggest to address. A business degree is not easiest to defend in front of students when they are deciding the future. The current crisis once again demonstrated that being an independent business person is a risky job. IBS-Moscow determined not only to show students the way to professional development, but to help them unlock their potential with an example of two Master programs.

On February 25, one of the 20 winning startups in the GITA co-funding program at the Innovation and Technology Agency of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development was a CU startup. CU Startup C10 accelerator helped develop this project, also, Startup accelerator C10 will help the winner in the implementation of his project.

Caucasus University, as well as the entire world, is facing a new reality and challenge, caused by the new Corona virus - COVID-19. Our team followed all the recommendations from the state and completely switched to distance learning and online work. In addition, online trainings have been launched by the Caucasus University Training Center, which, thanks to its advantages, is now attended by participants from all over the world.

Narxoz University is now entering the top 400 universities worldwide contributing to the UN SDGs, which makes it one of the two universities in Central Asia to be included in the rankings and one of the first Universities in the region to develop a Strategy for Sustainable Development.

In 2020, KROK Business School, the only one organization in Ukraine, supported the official UN initiative to host World Creativity and Innovation Week (WCIW), which kicks off annually on April 15, devoted to the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, organizing a series of educational events on creativity.

World's top four audit companies - PwC, EY, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche - held a week-long meeting for students of Caucasus Business and Technology Schools. This is the first precedent in Georgia when the representatives of the Big Four held similar format meetings for students. It is important to note that Caucasus University was the first to host these meetings during its career week.

Today, being in quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, business is faced with challenges previously unknown. Both global conglomerates and tiny enterprises are experiencing stress, shock and confusion. KROK Business School (Ukraine, Kyiv), always responding in time to changing circumstances and the business climate, organized a series of activities in April-May 2020 aimed at studying new circumstances and finding optimal solutions for the functioning of Ukrainian enterprises.

The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities in the world by their missions and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Kazakhstan is presented by two universities: Almaty Management University ranked in 301-400 and NARXOZ University ranked in 401-600.