The club was set up at the Third International Summer School (17-18 July 2016) on 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. At present the international Club has over 200 members from over 20 countries. They are foreign students who have attended the international schools of multiculturalism and Azerbaijani students who have taken courses on Azerbaijani multiculturalism. The International Club of Young Friends of Azerbaijan has a website (www.youngfriends.az), and is attracting the attention of young international readers. The creation of the club, which already has a broad social base, is an important step. It can be regarded as the ‘spiritual child’ of BIMC’s regular summer and winter schools which bring together dozens of friends, who love Azerbaijan.
Virtual Round Tables
BIMC regularly organizes virtual round tables on a variety of pressing issues for local and foreign experts. BIMC has published material from those round tables in the form of booklets. The booklets include “The Harmony of Socio-economic and Spiritual Development in Azerbaijan in the Modern Era; Multicultural Harmony”; “Teaching Azerbaijani Multiculturalism as a Discipline in Foreign Universities”: “Problems and Perspectives; Interest in Azerbaijan turns into Love for Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani multiculturalism through the eyes of foreign and local students)” ;“Azerbaijani Multiculturalism through the Eyes of Foreign and Local Students of the International Winter School” and “Albanian Apostolic Church: Historical Outlook”. These booklets have been distributed
in Azerbaijani, Russian and English and are valuable aids in research
into, and promotion of, the Azerbaijani model of multiculturalism at home and abroad. They may be used in secondary schools and higher educational institutions, in various organizations and by foreign visitors to Azerbaijan.
