On November 27^th, 2018, a group of YSUIB representatives, assistant to the director A. Yeganyan, M. Zakaryan, acting dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, A. Margaryan, acting dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, and seven students, visited the Dilijan Central School and Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory, “intelligent” laboratory), equipped with innovative technologies that enables to create “almost everything” from “almost nothing”.

The university representatives walked around Dilijan central school classrooms, equipped with modern technology, got acquainted with the history, mission and problems of the school.

It was presented that in 2013, Ayb Educational Foundation, in partnership with the Central Bank of Armenia, opened Dilijan central school, which belongs to the Ayb School and the first school project implemented by Ayb external order and funding. It is a model of a city school, accessible not only to employees of the CBA, but also to other children from Dilijan. The central school is a primary school, with its elemental and secondary components. The school’s ideology, physical environment and educational content (namely, student curricula, including psychologist and logopedist curricula, teaching methodology, teacher and student admission policy, evaluation criteria, etc.) are designed according to Ayb standards.

It was emphasized that the mission of the school was to become an environment for a full and competitive education and upbringing by creating a generation that has strong spiritual values, virtue, high aesthetic taste and aspiration for a healthy lifestyle.

In its first year of activity, the Dilijan Central School had an impact on several related areas: educational, cultural, social, community-based. The school regularly organizes community-based initiatives and cooperation with other Dilijan schools.

The next stop of the Branch representatives was the Dilijan Fab Lab, where students got acquainted with the activities of the “smart” laboratory, witnessed the processes at that very moment, the 3D modeling, the woodworking device, and the modeling of unmanned aerial vehicles projected by children.

The university representatives also got acquainted with the activities of the Dilijan Fab Lab, presented its purpose, mission, trainings and so on.

In particular, it was presented that, in 2015, The Central Bank of Armenia established the first regional Fab Lab in Dilijan, a platform for technical prototyping for innovation and inventions and promotes local entrepreneurship. It is also an innovative and educational environment for creating, learning, and teaching.

The Dilijan Fab Lab aims at providing residents of Tavush with appropriate means and environment, which will enable the development of creative thinking, science and engineering.

Its mission is to:

• Form a creative community
• Promote interest towards design and projecting
• Encourage ideas, projects, knowledge, equipment and resource sharing within the community
• Provide an opportunity for new knowledge acquisition
• Encourage innovative entrepreneurship among young people of the region

In order to encourage interest in innovation, the following training courses are being held in Dilijan Fab Lab:

• Programming training course, during which students learn about microcontroller programming (age group 15 and more)
• Game making and robot collection, programming training course for children aged 8-13, during which they learn how to make games through Scratch. After the program training, they learn the robot collection and programming through the Vex constructor
• During the “Basics of Electronics” training course, students learn to design analogue, digital and combined systems, power electronics systems, power electronics basics, Altium PCB design (for age group 15 and more)
• The basics of telecommunications and mechanics (age group 15 and more)
• Design and modeling (Autocad, Solidworks, Fusion, Corel Draw)
• Design and preparation of unmanned aerial vehicles for teenagers
• The Basics of architecture (age group 15 and more)
• RF and synthesis for the most advanced students
• Project management, product development, entrepreneurship, intellectual property and other trainings.

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 On November 27^th 2018, the 2nd annual Management and Leadership Forum was held in Yerevan aimed at boosting creative sectors. The Forum has been organized by the IAB International Academy of Business with the support of the British Embassy and the British Council in Armenia. The 2nd annual Management and Leadership Forum was attended by nearly 200 specialists, 15 local and international experts and lecturers who represent different creative areas, such as advertising and marketing, architecture, arts, TV, design and etc. The forum was attended by YSU Ijevan Branch Dean of the faculty of Economics, Assistant of the Department of General Economics, Ph.D. G. Avetisyan, lecturers of the same department A.Saribekyan and A. Yeganyan, lecturer of the Department of English Language and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities Sh.Grigoryan and Assistant of the Department of General Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ph.D. K. Hovsepyan. Acting minister of economic development and investments of Armenia Tigran Khachatryan made a welcoming speech mentioning that the event was of great importance and was aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the Armenian economy.UK Ambassador to Armenia Judith Farnworth said Armenia has respective talents in this sphere. “Armenia must be able to “export” its capacities in this field. I believe that these abilities can turn into a very successful business in this creative environment. We want to share our experience with Armenia”, she said.

IAB International Academy of Business founding director Araksya Martirosyan said there are numerous challenges facing the management and the leadership especially in creative sectors. “Our mission is to provide young specialists, who already passed a path or are on the path to professional development, with an internationally-recognized educational and experience sharing platform. It will enable to raise the competitiveness of the creative sectors”, said A. Martirosyan.

Keynote speakers: Ms. Anamaria Wills (Leadership in Creative and Cultural Sector), writer, artistic director, director of Northern Lines Javaad Alipoor (“Balancing creativity and financial imperatives”) and director of Inspired2Learn Barri Smale (“Why and How to Become a Chartered Manager in Armenia”).

A number of participants, who completed the management and leadership forum  initiated by the IAB International Academy of Business  and the British Inspired2learn, received a CMI qualification of management and leadership.

Then, panel discussions took place on four different professional spheres (Strategic Management and Leadership, Project Management and Finance, Marketing, Branding, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Innovations). After the discussions, workshops were organized, and the trainers shared their best experience, practical situations and offered modern solutions.

At the end of the 2nd Annual Management and Leadership Forum, the participants received certificates.

Please find below attached the Forum agenda: 

 On November 23th,2018, headed by Anush Saribekyan, lecturer of the Department of General Economics, fourth-year students of the Faculty of Economics, “the theory of economics” specialization, within the framework of “marketing” “enterprise economy” course, visited the “Bacon Product” of Arzni Village, Kotayk region, to get acquainted with the specifications of production processes and organization of marketing activities.

The students got acquainted with the company work, the production process itself and its successive stages. Witnessing the production process, the students was assured that the production environment was in high hygienic conditions.

Afterwards, the Marketing officer of the company presented the history, brand development and marketing and risk management strategy of the company, as well as available and upcoming products.

At the end of the visit, the students took part in the reception and received some gifts from the “Youth collection”.