The Winter Leadership School involved more than 100 students from 29 universities
11 Feb 2020
More than 100 students from 29 universities attended the Winter Leadership School on the theme: "Student Trade Union Committees are one of the foundations of volunteer movement at the Education Center in Nabran."
The goal of the event organized by the Azerbaijan Trade
Unions Confederation (ATUC) in connection with the announcement of President
Ilham Aliyev's 2020 year in our country, is to contribute to the promotion of
volunteerism.
Speaking at the opening ceremony on February 11, ATUC
Deputy Chairman Agil Dadashov said that in recent years Azerbaijan has played a
special role in the promotion and development of volunteering. An example of
this is the announcement of the Year of Volunteer 2020 in Azerbaijan by
President Ilham Aliyev's decree.
It was noted that the real development of volunteerism in
modern Azerbaijan began after the return of national leader Heydar Aliyev to
power. Since the first years
of its leadership, cooperation between the public and private sectors and civil
society has been in the spotlight for the purpose of comprehensive and
sustainable development. This process was given a great importance to involve
people voluntarily and benefit from their field experience. In 1998, a joint
project of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Tourism, the United Nations
Development Program and the UN Volunteer Program was launched.
Agil
Dadashov said that today the volunteer movement in Azerbaijan has become an
integral part of successful youth policy. It is no coincidence that President
Ilham Aliyev, while attending the opening of the ASAN Hayat Complex in
Shamakhi, highlighted the success of the volunteers at their successful
international sporting events in Azerbaijan. In recent years, Azerbaijan has
hosted tens of thousands of volunteers in organizing high-level Eurovision Song
Contest 2012, the first European Games in 2015, the Fourth Islamic Solidarity
Games in 2017, Formula 1 and other prestigious international events. .
Deputy
Chairman of the Republican Committee on Free Trade Unions of Azerbaijan, Mirza
Jafarzadeh said that under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev,
volunteerism has begun to expand in our country. The law has been passed, thus
introducing a new phase of development of the volunteer movement.
The
event also highlighted the role of the First Vice President of the Republic of
Azerbaijan, Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva, in the development of volunteerism in our
country and the successes achieved in this field.
Chairman
of the New Azerbaijan Party Youth Union Seymur Orujov said that the youth
policy implemented by President Ilham Aliyev ensures comprehensive development
of all segments of the youth and their close participation in the
socio-political life of the country. He said that this policy covers issues
related to upbringing, health, education, intellectual and moral development of
youth, effective organization of leisure time, and active participation of
youth in all spheres of public life.
It is
emphasized that voluntarism is one of the main directions of social activity,
which is based on free will and free choice, which is not based on any material
gain and aims to further improve the welfare of society.
Then the
head of the One-Student Student Volunteer Program of the Ministry of Education,
Canoglan Ilyasov, spoke about the history of the program, its successes,
activities, opportunities and opportunities for students. He said that the
program was organized by the Ministry of Education on December 14, 2015 to
create a unified student volunteer base for institutionalizing volunteer movement
following the 2015 European Games Presidential Decree. Created in:
Khayyam
Shahbazov, Senior Advisor of the Citizen Reception Sector at the ASAN Service
Center in Guba, told the students about the history of volunteering in
Azerbaijan, the way it is being developed and the implementation of volunteer
activities in modern times.
After
the opening ceremony, the Winter Leadership School continued a panel discussion
on a variety of topics.
As part
of the event, which will run until February 13, competitions will be held for
students in various sports, and participants will visit the Guba Genocide
Memorial Complex.
