Student Youth Organisation
The Student Youth Organisation (TGT) is a voluntary body that represents and defends students’ interests: social issues, awareness campaigns, leisure, competitions and festivals. It belongs to the Union of Student Youth Organisations of Azerbaijan (ATGTİ).
- MembershipVoluntary
- Applications consideredWithin 10 days
- Supreme bodyConference, at least once a year
- UnionATGTİ
How to join
Apply in writing
Any student of the Academy may become a member. The application is submitted in writing to the Governing Board.
Wait for the decision
Applications are considered within 10 days. You become a member when more than half of the Board members approve.
Get involved in your group
The group organisation is the organisation’s basic cell. Initiatives pass from the group to the faculty and on to the Governing Board.
Vote and stand for election
Members take part in running the organisation, elect and may be elected to its bodies, and propose projects and programmes.
Aims and tasks
The organisation represents and defends the interests of students, individually and collectively, in line with the state youth policy, and encourages their active part in public, cultural, social and economic life. Its main tasks:
- solving students’ social problems and protecting their rights;
- awareness campaigns and prevention of drug and alcohol abuse and other harmful behaviour;
- organising leisure: clubs, studios, societies and courses;
- supporting talented students in competitions, olympiads, exhibitions and festivals;
- seminars, forums, round tables, debate clubs and meetings with prominent people;
- raising students’ problems with the Academic Council and petitioning the management.
Structure and governance
| Level | How it works |
|---|---|
| Group organisation | at least 3 members; chair and deputy elected by secret ballot; a 5-member board once membership exceeds 20 |
| Faculty organisation | formed when at least half of the faculty’s groups have cells; a board of at least 7 members |
| Academy level | Conference — the supreme body, at least once a year; Governing Board — 2–3 members from each faculty, at least 11 in total, elected for two years; Audit Commission |
The Governing Board meets at least twice a month and decides by simple majority.
Election of the chair (2026)
In 2026 the election of the chair of ADDA’s Student Youth Organisation was announced and run by the Union of Student Youth Organisations of Azerbaijan:
Events and projects
- “Nasimi 650” — an event marking the great poet’s anniversary, held with the Humanities Department (news).
- Fibonacci quiz competition (2025) — a project of the Ministry of Youth and Sport, ATGTİ and Fibonacci LLC (news).
- Student competitions and Academy teams — through the organisation’s sports officer.
- Volunteering and awareness campaigns — Student life.
Legal basis
Student youth organisations were set up in all educational institutions under the action plan approved by Order No. 41 of the Head of the Executive Office of the President of Azerbaijan of 15 February 2005 and Order No. 89 of the Minister of Education of 28 February 2005. The organisation acts in accordance with the Constitution, the law, decisions of the Ministry of Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Science and Education, the Academy’s statute and its own charter.

