MediaMax, Armenia
Aug 15 2019
Armenia is ready to host STARMUS VI
Yerevan/Mediamax/. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has met organizers and members of the STARMUS Board of directors within his working visit to Spain to discuss the possibility of organizing the festival’s 6th edition in Armenia.
President Sarkissian has said that Armenia highly values the development of science and technologies and is ready to host renowned scientists, Nobel Prize laureates, members of the Apollo mission and famous musicians.
The sides have agreed to create a working group that would coordinate the organizational efforts.
During the meeting, STARMUS signed a memorandum of understanding with Advanced Tomorrow (ATOM), a project of the President.
STARMUS Board includes cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Brian May from Queen, world-famous scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, astrophysicists Jill Tarter and Robert Williams, renowned musician Peter Gabriel, and the founder and chief organizer of the festival, Armenian astrophysicist Garik Israelian, as well as other well-known representatives of art and science.