In Armenia will be created University of Technologies
ArmInfo. University of Technologies will be created in Armenia. The concept of creating the university was submitted to the President Serzh Sargsyan yesterday.
According to the press service of Armenian President, Advisor to the head of the Republic, Father Mesrop Aramyan and Deputy Minister of Education and Science David Sahakyan touched upon approaches and principles of creating a technological university in their reports at the meeting held with the participation of heads of education and other concerned officials. They noted that the work carried out during the last year is, in fact, a continuation of the visit of the President of the Republic to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after which an attempt was made to develop a program aimed at creating a technological university in Armenia corresponding to the highest international criteria, as a result of the formation of partnership and cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other such authoritative universities. The main goal of the university will be the development of breakthrough high-tech areas. Thanks to cooperation with Armenian and foreign universities and research institutes, graduates of the university, according to the speakers, will be able to receive two diplomas - a technological university and a partner university. The concept developers found it necessary to create a similar institution in Armenia with the dictates of the time in today's technological era. When implementing the work, according to the authors, the world trends in the development of high technologies, scientific and technological potential of universities and research institutes of Armenia, as well as Diasporas were studied. The president instructed to finalize the concept and submit the documents in final form to the government.