On December 30, Sumgayit State University's Student Youth Organization and Student Trade Union organized an event entitled "Volunteering is development" dedicated to the Year of Volunteers 2020. The order of President Ilham Aliyev to declare 2020 the "Year of Volunteers" was voiced at the event. Elmar Khalilov, associate professor of the Faculty of History and Geography, deputy chairman of the YAP Sumgayit city organization for youth affairs, said that the comprehensive development of modern Azerbaijani youth is connected with the name of national leader Heydar Aliyev. The state youth policy, founded by the great leader, and the purposeful work carried out in this area are being carried out under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev. In recent years, the volunteer movement, which has become a way of life for our youth, unites people around a common goal, a successful format of joint activities of society and the state, has expanded. Volunteering has many benefits in society and in the personal development of the individual. Thus, volunteering creates a basis for young people to feel like an integral and useful member of society. Volunteering programs implemented in the country create important opportunities for them. Volunteering is a type of activity based on the will and independent choice of an individual who works without expecting anything in return. Volunteering is unity, friendship, sociality, experience. Associate Professor Elmar Khalilov also noted that our students are very interested in volunteering. They have always been distinguished by their active participation in international sports competitions and other volunteer movements in the country. At the end, the students spoke about the importance of organizing such events, as well as shared with the participants the experience and memories they once gained, when they were volunteers.