On March 11, 2016, a visiting professor from the University of Łódź (Poland) delivered the first lecture for the course entitled “Vegetarianism. Philosophical Aspects.”

The course is offered to students of Khazar University during the month of March by Dr. Janusz Ciuciura of the University of Łódź in the framework of the EMBER (Erasmus Mundus Broadening Educational Opportunities) project funded by the European Commission. Dr. Ciuciura holds a PhD in Philosophy (2005, University of Łódź) and has extensive teaching experience.

The EMBER project is a consortium that is comprised of twenty partner higher education institutions and four associated partners from Western/Central/Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. The focus areas of the project are the fields of economics, business, languages, and sociology.