ERASMUS MUNDUS ESTABLISHES EDUCATIONAL BRIDGE FROM ARMENIA

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.06.2009 18:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The purpose of the Erasmus Mundus program is to
exchange graduate students, program coordinator Tanya Papiki told
reporters. Saying that the program started in 2007, Tanya Papiki
stressed, that the program can become an ‘educational bridge’ for
Armenia which recently introduced credit system in education. According
to Tanya Papiki, this program allows to bring the best students into
Europe’ s industry and vice versa. Papiki noted that Erasmus Mundus is
an alternative way of obtaining education abroad. A regular meeting of
partner universities under the EU Erasmus Mundus program took place
in Yerevan. Two best student, studied abroad, have been awarded in
the meeting. Meetings will be also held in Gyumri and Gavar. On June
3 a presentation of a new phase of the program will be organized. The
purpose of the meeting is to strengthen and deepen cooperation between
the Caucasus countries and EU in the field of higher education,
promote exchange of students and teaching staff between partner
universities, promote research. This program is coordinated by the
Technological Institute of Education in Thessaloniki and includes 11
higher educational institutions from Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan,
Italy, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Latvia, and Bulgaria.

Yerevan State University, Yerevan State Economic University, Armenian
State Agrarian University are involved in the program.