Development Fund

Since 1992 the Development Fund of the University has been generating assets for further growth of UWED through increasing effective performance in a matter of training, retraining and research activities.

Assets raised by the Development Fund through commercial and fund-raising activities are allocated mainly for:

• supporting conduct of research programs, publication of methodological manuals and handouts;
• organizing symposia, conferences, exhibitions, reviews, festivals, presentations;
• providing competitive means for students and faculty members traveling abroad for studies, internships and research;
• purchasing educational and scientific resources, subscription to periodicals;
• running projects dealing with the issues of the intellectual property and copyrights observance.

At present, the Development Fund is in the process of implementing a number of projects, namely:

• establishing at UWED campus of a Dante Alighieri Italian Cultural Center in line with the Agreement on Cultural Cooperation between Republic Uzbekistan and Italy;
• founding 3 multimedia labs in cooperation with Saudi Arabia entrepreneurs;
• launching the Medical Center for rendering respective services to the students, faculty, staff and larger community;
• providing equipment for the UWED Printing Facility with a purpose to expand it to the Publishing House.