The 3rd Baku International Humanitarian Forum has today kicked off in Azerbaijan’s capital.
APA reports that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, members of state and government, MPs, as well as officials, well-known scientists, culture figures, Nobel Prize winners are expected to attend the forum.
The participants will discuss prospects and challenges of the 21st century, urgent humanitarian problems taking into account the realities of the globalizing world.
The roundtables will be organized on 8 directions within the two-day forum: "The convergence of technologies and contours of the future", "The main challenges of the 21st century", "Humanitarian aspects of economic development", "Scientific innovation and their transfer to educational environment", "Multiculturalism and originality: in the search of value consensus in the society," "National self-consciousness in the postmodern period", "Sustainable development and ecological civilization", "Molecular biology and biotechnology achievements: from theory to practice", "Actual problems of media in the globalizing information space."
Guests are expected to visit a number of Azerbaijani regions.