Azerbaijan Student Youth Organizations’ Union (ASYOU)

Azerbaijan Student Youth Organizations' Union (ASYOU), known as Azərbaycan Tələbə Gənclər Təşkilatları İttifaqı (ATGTİ) in Azerbaijani language is one of Azerbaijan's largest cross-faculty student organisations. ASYOU is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in November, 2009 and registered in March, 2010. As a non-profit organization ASYOU’s main activity strategy is based on grants awarded by different local and international donors. Since the time of the establishment ASYOU successfully co-operated with The Ministry of Youth and Sport, The Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, etc. The aim of founding the ASYOU is to represent and protect students’ interests in Azerbaijan, to improve the level of education at higher schools and to ensure students’ active participation in social, political, cultural, economic spheres of the country and to promote solution of society’s problems and improve the well - being of vulnerable population. ASYOU is the biggest student organization in the Republic of Azerbaijan and in South Caucasus and it comprises 110 public and private Higher Schools’ Student Youth Organizations. ASYOU functions on local, national and international levels. ASYOU regularly organizes local training courses, seminars, conferences, thematic parties, national and international Summer Camps (so called: Summer Universities), youth exchanges and other kinds of activities not prohibited by legislation.