Winners of the students’ competition are awarded
24 Jan 2019
On January 24, awards were presented to winners of the traditional intellectual game “What? Where? When?”, futsal and “Young Professional of the Year” competitions organized by Free Trade Union Republican Committee of Education Workers (FTURCEW) for students of universities.
The chairman of Free Trade Union Republican Committee of
Education Workers, MP Sattar Mohbaliyev made a speech at the ceremony and noted
that arrangement of all three events aims at making the youth’s leisure time
more productive, increasing their interest in science and education as well as popularizing
healthy living.
“One of the main objectives of the state youth policy
directed by the President Ilham Aliyev, the great leader Heydar Aliyev’s worthy
successor and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, Azerbaijan’s First Vice-President,
President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation is to ensure the youth grow healthy
and educated, to enhance their professional skills and to ensure they become a
decent citizen”, said the member of parliament and noted that the state youth
policy pursued in the country is based on a principle “today’s youth will
govern the country in the future” of the President Ilham Aliyev who authors the
idea “turning oil revenue into human capital”.
This is
proved by state programs, adopted resolutions, development strategies for the
youth that were implemented during the recent years: “As you know, in order to
ensure intellectual, physical and spiritual development of the youth, their
active involvement in social and economic development, public and political and
cultural life of the country, the “Azerbaijan Youth Development Strategy for
2015-2025” is being implemented as approved upon the President Ilham Aliyev’s order
made on 26 January 2015”. The Strategy targets at developing the youth’s
potential in accordance with modern requirements, using such potential for the
good of Azerbaijan Republic, creating active citizenship position in new
generation.a