On December 4-11^th,2018, within the framework of 2018-2019 academic year internship, the 4th-year students of YSUIB Faculty of “History” (part-time training) visited historic-cultural places of Ijevan and Dilijan and other institutions, accompanied by the Head of Internship, lecturer of the Department of Armenian History and Social Sciences A. Mkrtumyan.

On December 4th, they visited Ijevan Historical-Cultural Museum. Within the framework of the internship, students got acquainted with the museum’s activities, collection of samples and exhibits, and asked questions to the museum researcher.

On December 5^th of the same year, students visited  Tavush branch of RA National Archive. They got acquainted with the history of the archive, funds and  Mr. R. Vardumyan, head of the archive, answered students’ questions.

On December 6 and 7th, within the framework of the internship, the fourth-year students of “History” specialty visited St. Nerses Shnorhali, St. Amenaprkich churches of Ijevan, got acquainted with the history of churches, church holidays and rituals.

On December 11th, the students visited Dilijan Folk Art Museum named after H. Sharambeyan and Dilijan Geological Museum. They first got acquainted with the history of museums, activities, then went through sections and got acquainted with the items and pictures of the museums.

On the same day, the students also visited  Haghartsin and Goshavank churches. After getting acquainted with folklore materials and history of its creation, the students toured the territory of the churches and got acquainted with its architectural features.

On December 8^th, 2018, YSU Ijevan branch hosted an intellectual game Branch competition, attended by 6 teams from different faculties of YSUIB.

Unlike the previous competition, where the teams were mostly composed of the same course or specialty students, this championship provided an opportunity to form teams from different faculties.

The first-year student of “History” faculty Arpine Martirosyan conducted the intellectual game, jury members were Margarit Tamrazyan, 2nd year student of “History” specialization and Susanne Shahnazaryan, 4th year student of “English Language and Literature” specialization.

The competition included 15 questions (each; 1 point) that tested logic and overall knowledge.

After a consistent competition, “History 3” team became the winner with 12 correct answers from 15 possible. The winners were awarded with souvenirs, a cup and diplomas.

The rest of the teams were awarded with certificates.

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

 In the first semester of 2018-2019 academic year, PhD, assistant of YSUIB Department of General Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Smbat R. Davtyan donated around 300 books to the Branch library.

YSUIB Library personnel express their contentment and gratitude for the attention towards the university and the donation of books.

The library personnel are convinced that the donated books will be of great interest to the wide range of readers of the Armenian and world literature, history and philology, and separate branches of natural sciences.

YSUIB Library also expresses readiness to continue cooperation with Mr. Davtyan within the framework of joint events, discussions.

On December 7-8^th, 2018, Gyumri Technology Center hosted the Second Forum entitled “Empowering Regions through High-Tech”.

The forum was aimed at identifying opportunities and challenges from education to business, determining the role of the government in creation of business environment in the regions, presenting successful experience of Shirak region in the processes of high technology, engineering and education related fields, promoting business environment development in the regions as well as encourage networking, knowledge exchange among young people from all Armenian regions and tech communities in Armenia The Forum was attended by 10 young people from each region of the Republic of Armenia, representatives of state bodies and a number of local and international organizations.

Head of Tavush region group was Slavik Alaverdyan, lecturer of the Department of General Mathematics and Natural Sciences of YSU Ijevan Branch, president of “Creative Youth Union” NGO.

The third-year students of YSUIB Faculty of Informatics and Applied Mathematics (Full-time training) Gerasim Alaverdyan, Argishti Margaryan and Vazgen Paytyan, 5^th-year student of “Service” specialty (Part-time training) Gevorg Amirkhanyan, YSUIB graduates, coordinator of “Jinishyan” Memorial Foundation Ijevan office, Harutyun Alikhanyan and Tavush Tourism Research and Development Center coordinator Narek Sardaryan, as well as Narine Danielyan and Nane Gasparyan, ‘Armat” Laboratory Officers and 3D animator Roman Abovyan took part in the Forum.

Amalya Yeghoyan, regional high-tech development manager at Enterprise Incubator Foundation and the executive director of Gyumri Information Technologies Center made an opening speech. The presenters paid tribute to the victims of 1988 Spitak earthquake with a minute of silence.

Director at Enterprise Incubator Foundation, Bagrat Yengibaryan, RA Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia Piotr Antoni Switalski, German Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Bernhard Matthias Kiesler, Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technology Hakob Arshakyan, Head of World Bank Armenia office, Sylvie Bossoutrot, USAID Armenia Mission Director Deborah Grieser, Deputy Coordinator of UNDP Armenia Dmitry Mariyasin, made a welcoming speech.

The memorandum was signed between the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Armenia, the “YEA Engineering Association” NGO and the Union of Employers of Information and Communication Technology for the development of the technology sector in the regions.

The memorandum was also signed between 4 private companies and Gyumri N4 state art school.

On the first day of the Forum, three panel discussions were held on the following agenda: the challenges of international business in regions, promotion of entrepreneurship ecosystems in regions and the role of technologies in the development of those spheres. Some of the participants of the previous Forum presented their achievements and successes.

During the first panel discussion, Director of “National Instruments”, Director of “YEA Engineering Association” Aram Salatyan, Head of “Philip Morris International” Research and Development Ecosystem Mariam Davtyan, Director of “Synergy Armenia” Anna Stepanyan and “VOLO” Company co-founder and director Armen Kocharyan, and CEO of “SME DNC” of Armenia, Arshak Grigoryan, made a speech and answered the participants’ questions.

The speakers of the second panel discussion were “UEICT” Executive Director Eduard Musayelyan, “ISTC” Director Areg Gevorgyan, Director of “Blue Idea” Polish Company Tigran Amatuni, and Founder of “IT Space” company Karen Gasparyan, Co-founder of “Luseen Technologies” company Varazdat Avetisyan, Vanadzor Technological Center business development manager Patvakan Hakhinyan. Director of Synopsys Armenia Hovik Musayelyan also made a speech during the Forum.

The “FAST” Foundation Acceleration and Incubation program officer, David Becket, “Brainforce” CEO Gurgen Gharibyan, “D-Link” Quality Assurance Consultant Aram Khachatryan and Mariam Babayan, the program manager of “Support to SME Development” in Armenia took part in the final discussion.

The first day of the Forum ended with a dinner in “Di Napoli” pizzeria, where  the participants from different regions had an opportunity to communicate with each other, to establish contacts and to discuss the upcoming plans, wishing success to the Forum and the process of empowering the regions through high-tech in Armenia.

On the second day, the work of the Forum continued with parallel workshops and seminars. The participants were willing to choose which seminar they would like to attend.

Director of “ISTC” Areg Gevorgyan presented how successfully create the start up.

Director of “Deworkacy”company Julia Tumasyan held a seminar on “Design Thinking”.

Director of “SHEMM” Center Tigran Minasyan thoroughly presented the issues of finance and business management.

After the workshops and seminars, the guests of Gyumri were divided into four teams (Kumayri, Alexandrapol, Leninakan, and Gyumri) and through the game consisting of 3 dozens tasks (building names, information, pictures with cultural monuments, etc.) got acquainted with the city. The first was the team of “Alexandrapol” consisting of youth from Tavush and Syunik regions.

Taking advantage of the Forum, representatives of Tavush region got acquainted with Gyumri Technology Center and a number of organizations operating in its territory, accompanied by the Forum volunteer Ara Gevorgyan.

Bella Harutyunyan, Gyumri Technology Center Business Development Manager, made the final speech and handed the certificates to the partisipants.

During the Forum, an agreement was reached to organize meetings with representatives of IT sphere in RA regions and summarize the results at the next Forum.

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