Armenian State Pedagogical University hosted on Friday Ms Virginie Artot, Director of the EU-funded project Targeted Initiative for Armenia, and Project Officer Inna Moreno.
The guests met with Ara Yeremyan, ASPU Vice-Rector for Personnel and International Cooperation, and Professor Melanya Astvatsatryan, Coordinator of the project Reintegration Center Armenia (RECEA), Head of the Chair of Foreign Language Teaching Methods, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, ASPU. The interlocutors discussed avenues for cooperation with the ASPU and reached an agreement to start the program in September 2013.
The Coordinator of the project Reintegration Center Armenia (RECEA), Melanya Astvatsatryan, introduced to the guests the forms of conducting courses of mother tongue and foreign languages, as well as implementation of the initiative. In this context, she highlighted the importance of holding cultural, historical and cognitive events with the aim of promoting integration of foreigners into society, and referred to the collaboration experience with Germany, Russia and Belarus.
Vice-Rector Ara Yeremyan stressed, in turn, that the University has all necessary resources for arranging language courses and rendering psychological support to all those who wish to repatriate to Armenia.
The project Targeted Initiative for Armenia is funded by the European Union, with a total budget of 3 million EUR and duration of 3 years. It is implemented by the French Office for Migration and Integration (OFII) together with EU member states and Armenian governmental agencies. The project is aimed at strengthening of Armenia’s migration management capacities with special focus on reintegration activities by increasing the capacities of competent authorities and civil society in Armenia to actively support return and reintegration of migrants, addressing the challenges posed by irregular migration, facilitating safe and legal migration and strengthening the impact of migration on Armenia's social development.
The project Reintegration Center Armenia (RECEA) is carried out under the trusteeship of AWO Bremerhaven.
RECEA aims to support and assist Armenian immigrants who voluntarily return to their homeland. Building-up the Heimatgarten Adaptation Centre Yerevan in the Armenian capital, an adaptation centre for conducting reintegration measures for children, youth and families is at the heart of the project.
The tasks of the adaptation centre include, in addition to pedagogical and psychological care, social counseling and language courses.
