The involvement of university and college students in the voluntary activity with the aim of supporting the First European Games leads to expansion of voluntary movement in Azerbaijan. The program named “SABAH’s volunteers”, which was initiated in March 2015, aims to give students an opportunity to improve their social activity, put their knowledge into practice, and improve their management skills and leadership potential by involving them in volunteer activities without being distracted from academic study. A festival entitled “SABAHFest” was held on Wednesday within the framework of "SABAH Volunteer" Program in order to demonstrate the support of volunteers studying at SABAH groups of the Education Ministry for the Baku-2015 first European Games. The festival entitled “SABAHFest” was organized by the Ministry of Education and the Administration of State Historical-Architectural Reserve “Icherisheher” and was held in musical-interactive style. The Celebrity Ambassadors for the Baku 2015 European Games - Murad Dadashov, well-known TV host, and Tunzala Aghayeva, honored artist, attended the festival and the live performances of students studying at SABAH groups were watched at the event. During the festival, the students took part in many interesting quizzes and had the opportunity to get tickets to the sporting events of the European Games. The winners (Ramal Valiyev and Humay Javadzade) of “SABAH Live” and “SABAH Foto” contests, held by "SABAH Volunteer" in order to support the European Games, were awarded at the event. SABAH groups have been organized from Educated, Skilled and Trained students studying at higher education institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan Republic in order to improve the quality of education in higher education, to ensure personnel training in accordance with modern requirements and to create the new environment in the higher education system. Currently, SABAH groups cover 755 students in 34 specialties in 7 higher education institutions (Baku State University, Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University, Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan State Economic University, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and Azerbaijan University of Languages).

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At sports halls of the school, all conditions were created for foreign athletes, whose total number reaches 50 people, to prepare for the Games. Athletes check their preparations on aerobics, rhythmic gymnastics, men's and women's artistic gymnastics. It should be noted that the students of the Baku Gymnastics School will also participate in the Baku 2015 First European Games. 3 of them will represent our country in acrobatic gymnastics, 1 of them in artistic gymnastics and 1 of them in rhythmic gymnastics.

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In the period of admission of e-applications, which lasted 10 days, the applications of 1308 persons (40%) from 3283 people, who applied, were received. 1245 (95%) of them applied for the Azerbaijani sector, 63 (5%) of them for the Russian sector. The majority (68%) of persons, whose applications were accepted, are primary school (21%), Azerbaijani language and literature (15%), Mathematics (12%), history (11%) and English (9%) teachers. The persons not working in general education system, not working as a teacher in secondary schools or working as a teacher on fixed term contract basis, also the persons intended for application of incentive measures at the current workplace are among the people whose applications were canceled. The candidates, whose electronic applications were received, should take part in the test examination held at the 2nd academic building (address: Baku, Hasan Aliyev street 135, near the "Ganjlik" metro station, Azerbaijan Teachers Institute) of Azerbaijan State Economic University on June 16, 2015. The interviews will be held at the same address on June 17, 2015 for teachers who won the right to change the workplace by taking part in the examination. It is possible to become familiar with the necessary legislative documents, the instruction for answering test questions, the test samples and interview program by entering the website www.miq.edu.az. Upon the completion of replacement of teachers, the acceptance of electronic application for the recruitment of teachers on the specified vacancies will be held on July 1-15, 2015.

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The main goal of the contest is to stimulate writing the literary works, instilling spiritual wealth, patriotism, national and universal values, emotional and cognitive skills in young schoolchildren and contributing to the development of their artistic taste, by taking into account the age psychology. The works submitted to the contest must be prepared as a collection. The number and the total amount of works to be included in collections should be as follows: • A collection of prose works - 15 works (1.5-2 printed pages); • A collection of poetry works - 20 works (1-1.5 printed pages); • A collection of drama works - 5 works (2-2.5 printed pages). The collections presented to the contest should be sent to the Ministry of Education within one month starting from June 1, 2015 together with the printed 3 copies and the electronic version written to disk (in PDF format). It is not allowed to include authors` works, published so far, in the collections. The works in the collections will be reviewed by expert groups and if 12 of prose works, 15 of poetry works and 3 of drama works have been evaluated positively, these collections will be admitted to the competition. The first, second, and third place winners will be awarded 5000, 3000 and 1500 manat respectively in the competition. The collections admitted to the competition will be sent to general education institutions, renowned educators, advanced teachers in an electronic version in order to assess them in accordance with the prize places and will be placed on the website of the Ministry of Education in order to determine public opinion. The opinions and considerations should be sent to this email address: eser.musabiqe@edu.gov.az. Results of the competition will be finalized by the end of 2015. It is planned to publish the winning works in book (ontology) form.   "The best prose, poetry and drama works for young schoolchildren" contest

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A total of 50 pupils from the Physics, mathematics and information science lyceum and the Republican lyceum with chemistry and biology bias (25 people from each of them) were involved in the camp. The camp was organized in order to create favorable conditions for pupils, completed the academic year with excellent marks, to spend their summer holiday effectively. During this time, in addition to the entertainment and participation in a variety of sports games, children were informed about interesting topics - team building, leadership, presentation skills, public speaking, ecology and other fields. In addition, pupils have made various rockets, robots in 8 lessons on STEM organized by "Engineering for Kids" company and have become direct participants of their practical application, as well as have demonstrated their worldview in intellectual games such as "Debate", "Hamsa", "Brain Ring", "The Da Vinci Code". As a continuation of the theme of ecology, pupils organized subbotniks on the territory of school and made bird-nests and hung them from trees in the area. The regular survey carried out among children, the opinions of parents who had come to visit their children and the final evaluation give reason to say that the organization of the camp gives positive results. As a continuation of the successful pilot project, it is planned to organize the summer camp for other pupils in the future.

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The camp, attended by more than 30 pupils from Gakh and Sheki regions, was organized in Ilisu village of Gakh region on June 10-12. The main goal of the summer camp is to enlighten the younger generation, living in areas considered for reintroduction of gazelles, about this species. The camp participants were informed in detail about the lifestyle of gazelles, the areas inhabited by them and their role in nature. Children also took part in various small ecological studies, quizzes and competitions. It should be noted that the "Reintroduction of gazelles to their historical habitat areas in Caucasus" program has been successfully carried out since 2010 within the framework of joint cooperation with the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, IDEA Public Union and the representative office of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in Azerbaijan. Over the years, more than 150 heads of gazelles have been reintroduced from Shirvan National Park to their historical habitat areas. The permanent monitoring and protection of gazelles are being implemented in these areas.

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Our team won the bronze medal of the European Games. It should be noted that the artistic gymnastics competitions, held at the National Gymnastics Arena, were attended by 180 gymnasts representing 37 countries. The rhythmic gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics, aerobic gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics competitions will be launched on June 17. These competitions will be attended by 4 athletes of the Specialized Olympic Reserves Child-Youth Gymnastics School of the Ministry of Education.

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5612 volunteers, participated in the opening ceremony of the first European Games, will also attend the closing ceremony. 12,247 operating volunteers are supporting other events related to the European Games. SABAH volunteers have been actively participating in the Volunteer Movement since March of this year. The festival entitled “SABAHFest” was held in an interactive style in order to demonstrate the support of volunteers studying at SABAH groups of the Education Ministry for the Baku-2015 first European Games within the framework of "SABAH Volunteer" Program.   We present you a video of “SABAHFest” organized with the aim of demonstrating the support of volunteers studying at SABAH groups for the Baku-2015 first European Games.

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The existing experience gives reason to say that regardless of citizenship, necessary measures are being taken to ensure the safety of all participants in the international events held in Azerbaijan. For this reason, during the period when the athletes representing Armenia are participating in the Baku 2015 First European Games in a fully secure environment, the statement of Minister of Education and Science of Armenia is surprising and regrettable. As it is known, the Regulations for the 47th International Chemistry Olympiad don`t intend to provide specific security guarantees for the participating countries. This rule is applied to the International Chemistry Olympiad to be held in Baku with the organizational support of Baku branch of the Moscow State University on July 20-29 of this year. It is the right of any country to choose to participate or withdraw from participation in each international competition. It is not the first time that Armenian official circles give way to abuses on the issue of participating in various competitions. The attempts to politicize this competition, which was attended by students, are regrettable. The Republic of Azerbaijan completely fulfills all obligations for the implementation of the 47th International Chemistry Olympiad.

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So, Haji Aliyev, a graduate of Absheron region Children's and Youth Sports School, overcame Valodia Frangulyan, the Armenian wrestler, in the first meeting by a score of 7-0 and won the right to continue his participation. Haji Aliyev also won the next meeting. Our athlete, competing in 61 kg weight class, gained a victory over Mikola Balotnyuk, the Slovakian athlete, with a high score of 11:0 and reached the semi-final. It should be noted that Haji Aliyev, fighting for the first place, has been the winner of the World and European championships so far.

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