AZG Armenian Daily #103, 07/06/2005

Education

INVESTORS ARE SATISFIED WITH COOPERATION

Visit to Polytechnic University

Zaven Yekavian, head of Galust Gyulbenkian Foundation’s Yerevan office, and
Aramayis Mirzakhanian, professor at the Swedish Royal Technical Institute,
visited the Yerevan State Polytechnic University. The guests visited the
laboratory of automatic electronic equipments that was opened last year.
This laboratory was founded by the efforts of the Swedish Royal Institute of
Technologies and Galust Gyulbenkian Foundation. It is equipped with
electronic technologies and contemporary computers. The press office of the
Polytechnic University informed that the sides decided to continue the
cooperation and purchase more equipment for the laboratory and make
investments in the industry.

The press office also informed that, by the decree of the university
administration, Yuri Sargsian, rector of the University, awarded Zaven
Yekavian with the Golden Medal of the Yerevan State Polytechnic University
that symbolizes his contribution to the development of the University and
the educational system of Armenia. While Aramayis Mirzakhanian, graduate of
the Polytechnic University, professor at the Swedish Royal Technical
Institute, was announced the winner of “The Graduate of the Yerevan State
Polytechnic University 2005” competition.

By Tamar Minasian