“START” INTERUNIVERSITY WORKSHOP WAS HELD AT ASUE
On October 18-19, 2014, an interuniversity student workshop entitled “START- more intelligent students: start today” was held at Armenian State University of Economics. 60 students from various universities participated in the workshop.
ASUE SC informed that the Vice-Rector on Students and Alumni Affairs, Sevak Khachatryan, and the President of Students Council, Sergey Kharatyan, opened the conference.
Both ASUE lecturers and representatives of Armenian leading organizations presented reports, exchanged their experience during a two-day-workshop.
The Vice-rector of Science and International Relations, Gagik Vardanyan, visited the working groups and got acquainted with the working process of the workshop.
In the interview with ASUE Media and Public Relations Division the Vice-rector mentioned that the two-day-workshop enabled the students to identify their abilities and to make recommendations, which were practically important for both organizing academic process and students’ working progress. “I am glad for the students enthusiasm to be involved in working groups: they asked important questions and prepared good speeches. I think that such workshops should be continued and gradually more and more students will be involved, as such initiatives contribute to development of students’ communication and creative skills”; mentioned Gagik Vardanyan.
The Vice-rector on Students and Alumni Affairs, Sevak Khachatryan, said that students were greatly interested in the workshop, the participants were impress by both the invited experts’ speeches and individual group work. “This workshop provided an opportunity for the students to study such topics which they don’t deal with during lectures. It also enabled to strengthen the teamwork concept, which is necessary for each student’s further learning process. I welcome this kind of student projects and hopes that in the future we will be witnessing such kind of scientific and academic projects. I think that the workshop served its purpose and the selected slogan, that’s, more intelligent students”, mentioned the Vice-rector.
The workshop was summarized on October 19 by solemn ceremony of awarding certificates to participants.
Note, that the workshop was one of the events devoted to the 20th anniversary of ASUE Students Council, and it was initiated by the Student Council’s Academic Committee joint with Youth Foundation of Armenian.
ASUE Media and Public Relations Division
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