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Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) has launched a new project which is financed by the International Visegrad Fund (IVF). The latter is the sole institutionalized body for cooperation in the Visegrad Group (V4), comprising the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, which aims to foster closer collaboration through funding projects in culture, science, education, and youth exchanges as well as in public policy.
From 2 to 5 September, an ASPU delegation led by Marianna Harutyunyan, Vice-Rector for HR Management and International Cooperation, was in Prague for a working visit within the framework of the "Enhancing Literate Reading Skills through Integrated Information Recognition and Processing" program.
The delegation included Tigran Mikayelyan, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Lusine Poghosyan and Gayane Harutyunyan, Associate Professors at the Chair of Pedagogy, and Alla Harutyunyan, Marketing Specialist at ASPU. During the visit, the ASPU representatives had meetings with their colleagues from partner universities: The parties had discussions and video seminars.
The program aims to develop and improve reading comprehension in both native and foreign languages, to identify trustworthy sources of information and spot fake news, to critically analyze it for the purpose of interpreting and evaluating it which is important in the modern education system.
Activities continue within the framework of the project: with the help of the developed materials and methods, teacher training courses are planned which will help solve one of the most important problems of the modern education system.
Let us add that representatives of Slovakia and the Czech Republic are due to visit Yerevan on September 25-26. Within the framework of the visit, training will be held at ASPU, which will feature more than 40 teachers and lecturers.
The project coordinator is Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, and the partners are the Prague University of Economics and Business (PUEB), the University of Bielsko-Biała (Poland), Eszterházy Károly Catholic University (Hungary), Aleksandër Moisiu University (Albania) and and the Armenian State Pedagogical University.
