Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Baku International Multiculturalism Centre Azerbaijani Multiculturalism Textbook for Higher Education

Teaching Azerbaijani Multiculturalism as a discipline at foreign universities

Azerbaijani Multiculturalism has been included in the curricula of 19 higher education institutions: La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy); Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria); Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin (Russia); Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic); the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences; Fribourg University (Switzerland); Malmö University, (Sweden) ; Hokkaido University (Japan);

Poltava University of Economics and Trade (Ukraine); Erciyes University (Turkey); Lusofona University of Humanities and Technologies (Portugal); Augsburg University (Germany); Julius Maximilian University Würrzburg, Germany; Tbilisi State University (Georgia); Belarus State University; Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia); Sri Sri University (India) ; Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iashi (Romania); The University of Wroclaw (Poland) and 38 higher educational institutions of Azerbaijan.

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   International summer and winter schools in Azer­baijan:­ ‘Multiculturalism as a way of life in Azerbaijan: learn, explore and share’
   

On the recommendation of President Aliyev, the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre together with the Knowledge Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan holds summer and winter schools twice a year under the motto ‘Multiculturalism as a way of life in Azerbaijan: learn, explore, share’. The schools are held for students from Azerbaijan and foreign countries who are interested in the courses ‘Introduction to Multiculturalism’ and ‘Azerbaijani Multiculturalism’.

3. Club of Young Friends of Azerbaijan

The Association of the Club of Young Friends of Azerbaijan was set up during the Third International School of Multiculturalism entitled ‘Multiculturalism as a way of life in Azerbaijan: national and religious values’. Held in summer 2016, the school was attended by more than 50 students from 16 countries. The club was the initiative of Salomeja Lukaite, a research fellow at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, and Dimitrios Asproulis, a student at the University of Athens. The Association includes foreign students who have attended international multiculturalism schools in Azerbaijan, students from 20 foreign universities where Azerbaijani Multiculturalism is taught and other young people whom they have interested in Azerbaijan.