Since 1996 the Central Asian Telecommunication Training Center for raising the level of engineers' skills has been functioning at the University. This Center uses the grant TASIS TEMPUS under the program of the European Union Commission. About 100 lecturers and post-graduates raised the level of their skills in training centers of Belgium and Greece under this program. At the University there is also a Center for training women in information and telecommunication technologies established by the Trade and Development Agency and, besides that, there are courses under the CISCO program (US). All the preparations are being made to organize the joint Uzbek–Indian Training Center of Information Technologies. The University has established close friendly and business relationships with many relative higher education institutions of the world.