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Student Life

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

  1. Governing Board

    Apply in writing

    Any student of the Academy may become a member. The application is submitted in writing to the Governing Board.

  2. 10 daysGoverning Board

    Wait for the decision

    Applications are considered within 10 days. You become a member when more than half of the Board members approve.

  3. Group and faculty organisations

    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.

  4. Members

    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:

  1. Applications — in line with the organisation’s charter.
  2. Interviews (3 June) — candidates’ leadership potential, organisational and management skills and vision for the organisation were assessed (news).
  3. Online vote (9 June) — Huseyn Jamalli, who received the most votes, was elected chair (news).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions