Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.14, sa.1, ss.11-12, 2026 (TRDizin)
Following the disintegration of the USSR, international organizations such as the UNDP, EU, TİKA, and YEE have encouraged governments and local populations of Central Asian countries to innovate in a bid to find solutions for existing social problems. The impact of foreign aid and international collaboration on social innovation in the Azerbaijan’s vocational education system has been analyzed in this study. Focusing on vocational acquisition, the research has examined how financial aid coming from international organizations and bilateral cooperations has improved transformation in the practice of vocational training in Azerbaijan. The study has merged quantitative data obtained from questionnaires with qualitative data from interviews by adopting a mixed-methods approach. The findings reveal that foreign aid has had an important role in introducing progressive methods and in forging partnerships that form a bridge between education and industry needs. All of these efforts have had significant contribution to develop Azerbaijan's human capital and made vocational training more responsive to the groving needs of the labor market. Additionally, this study is expected to contribute to the sustained international coordination in stimulating social innovation and offers policy directions to enlarge the positive effects of such interventions.