On December 14th, 2018, 2nd and 3rd year students of  the Faculty of Humanities, “Armenian Language and Literature” specialty, at the initiative of acting Head of the Department of Armenian Language and Literature V. Avagyan visited the primary school of Lusadzor village. The school director Armen Sardaryan and teachers warmly welcomed the guests.

The purpose of the visit was to organize an event dedicated to the founder of the village and the history of the great tribes of the village, the Yeghanyan, Sardaryan and Ayvazyan.

Shushan in her report, presented one of the influential people of the village, Elizbar Sardaryan, the students presented her poems and her famous poem “33 did not come back”.

The reports were interrupted by recitation and songs.

The school students also performed a recitation.

Guests and representatives of the above-mentioned tribes also made a performance.

The acting Head of the Department of Armenian Language and Literature, Associate Professor, PhD, V. Avagyan and vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor, PhD, V. Aghababyan made the final speech.

In response, the school director and guests thanked them, organizing a small reception.

Due to such meetings, the school-university bilateral cooperation is expanding and deepening.

On December 13th and 14th,2018,at YSUIB event-hall, a 2-day seminar on “Business Skills” was held, implemented by IAB International Academy of Business, within the framework of the three-year  “Youth Empowered” program of  “Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Armenia”.

The seminar was attended by more than 60 young people from Tavush region, including YSUIB students and graduates.

The seminar was conducted by YSUIB staff, namely, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of General Economics, Ph.D. Gayane Avetisyan, Assistant of the same Department Anzhela Aleksanyan, lecturers Hripsime Hayrapetyan, Arpine Yeganyan and Marietta Atabekyan, lecturer of the Department of General Mathematics and Natural Sciences Slavik Alaverdyan.

Slavik Alaverdyan made an opening speech. He thanked Erine Gharayan, coordinator of the work with graduates and External stakeholders, for the participants’ registration, presented “Youth Empowered” three-year program, the activity of IAB International Academy of Business, the modules and trainers of “Business Skills” seminar.

The seminar was accompanied by theoretical materials, questions and discussions, tests and individual assignments and group work.

The agenda of the first day was the Project Management, Time Management and Negotiations. The participants got acquainted with project specificities and restrictions, lifestyle and management processes, WBS, Gantt charts, principles of timely use, the Eisenhower matrix, time management tool, negotiation types and stages. The participants presented the structure of the New Year event program for their organization and completed the Eisenhower matrix.

During the second stage of the seminar, the achievements of the first day were discussed, followed by “Financial Management”, “Business Plan’, and “Sales Skills” Modules. The market and the internal market, the organization’s economic cycle, key accounting concepts, financial outcomes assessment, financial functions, SMART format of business purposes, business plan structure, product, motivation of customers, and the role of competitors were presented. The groups created new products using the given objects and presented their peculiarities and competitive advantages.

Acting Director of YSUIB Artak Tsutsulyan also visited the hall during the seminar.

At the end of the seminar, the trainers thanked the young for their participation and advised them to study the provided guidelines and follow the project activities to present business ideas in the future.

The same seminar will be held for another group of young people of Tavush region in 2019, at the end of January.

All the photos of the seminar are available in the gallery.