You think you have been everywhere and you need another map?

You will change opinion when you appear in the city of rocks, city that rocks.
According to the Bible heaven was in the territory of Armenia. Yes, yes, you are right. You will be immediately convinced when you do your first step in Armenia. Everything is various here, both life and nature and climate. You are in a sunny valley and in a few minutes you are on the top of a snowy mountain. This is unique country for unique people. Only in Armenia you can live on 1,200 meters high and swim in a sweet lake which is the second largest alpine lake in the world, 1,900 meters above sea level and only here you can see the pinkest city in the world Yerevan which is 2794 years old. This SC will give you a unique chance to see the stars from another point of view, to learn graffiti and how to make a city more beautiful.
And there are a lot of myths and secrets that are waiting for you to be discovered.
Let’s mix Armenian and AEGEE spirits!
Let’s DISCOVER it all together!

Type – Summer Course (SC)
Theme – SU in cooperation with Eastern Partnership Project where youth problems in EaP countries will be discussed and possible solutions found.
In cooperation with Eastern Partnership Project
Cities visited – Yerevan, Sevan, Byurakan, Oshakan, Khor Virap, Areni
Dates
From – Tuesday, July 10th
To – Thursday, July 19th
Event fee – 90€
Participants – 24
Optional fee – 40€
Optional fee used for – City Tour by special bus, graffiti lessons, swimming Water World
Alternative programme to the optional fee – Sightseeing, shopping, party, movie screening, paintball
Confirmation – Send copy of the ticket AND pay 100% of the fee in advance
Lodging – Hostel, gym
Provided meals – Breakfast, lunch
Course level – Intermediate
Teachers – Armenak Minasyants (Coordinator of Conflict Resolution Pillar of EaP Project Team), Shushan Khachatryan (Content Manager of EaP Project)
Course – Presentation, round table and question answering
Timetable – 10 hours per week, 10 hours in total.
Contact email events[at]aegeeyerevan.am
Website http://aegeeyerevan.am/
Coordinator phone +374(94)414241
Suitable for disabled participants – No
Required special equipment – Mattress, sleeping bag
Languages used – English, Russian, Armenian

Activities
* Swimming in the biggest sweet lake in Caucasus, which is the second largest alpine lake in the world
* Swimming in pools
* Swimming in rivers
* Learning graffiti
* Dancing
* Singing Armenian song
* Photo shooting
* Doing Armenian BBQ
* Looking at the stars in the observatory
* Playing bowling

Be informed!

You can apply for our Summer University here.

Videos about Armenia

On 11^th of May Student Council of the Center for European Studies and AEGEE-Yerevan NGO organized a conference, devoted to the Europe Day. It’s obvious that cooperation between Armenian and European Union involves more and more spheres. The European Commission puts forward concrete ideas for enhancing its relationship with the Eastern neighbors, including Armenia. The Partnership with EU can promote democracy and good governance; strengthen energy security, promote environment protection, improve the legal area and support economic and social development.

All these are the advantages the countries can get as a result of the deeper cooperation. Does it mean that we can consider the reforms provided by the agreements with EU a path leading to development? Read the rest of this entry »

This winter the Armenian-Turkish Working Group of AEGEE-Yerevan initiated a blog with our teammates from AEGEE-Ankara. And for 4 months our Turkish friends were writing about the places in Armenia and Yerevan, though most of them have never visited Armenia.

AEGEE-Yerevan was much surprised when Mert, Coordinator of Turkish-Armenian WG of AEGEE-Ankara let us know that they were going to be in Yerevan on the 24^th of April. So Kubra, Ali and Mert, members of AEGEE-Ankara, visited Yerevan and AEGEE-Yerevan members and had a unique opportunity to see the places they had been describing before in the joint blog. They visited the Genocide Monument and Museum, the Holy See of Echmiazdin. Most of all, the members of AEGEE-Yerevan were pleasantly surprised that the guests were aware of Armenian culture and even asked to take them to Silva Kaputikyan’s museum. Read the rest of this entry »

On April 21^st AEGEE-Yerevan with the support of the EU Delegation to Armenia and the UN Mission to Armenia organized Rio+20+Yerevan youth conference, which was held at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University.

At the beginning of the Conference, after opening speeches, Mikayel Minasyants, the coordinator of the project, briefly presented AEGEE4Rio project and its concept and emphasized the importance of such youth discussion for the Armenian youth. The key speaker of the conference was Sevan Holemans, the Belgian Youth Delegate to the UN Rio+20 Conference, which would take place on June 20-22 at the capital of the Federal Republic of Brazil Rio de Janeiro. The Speaker presented in details to the participants the ideology of Rio+20 Process, its importance and also global expectations from it. The representatives from the UNDP Office in Armenia and several NGOs, which are implementing regional development projects by the funding of the European Union, also had their positive contribution in the successful implementation of the Conference. In their presentations they focused on the problems of sustainable development in Armenia, as well as they presented to the participants the involvement of Armenia in Rio+20 Process and in regional projects, which are aimed to the provision of sustainable development, establishment of green economy, as well as to the sustainable land management for mitigating land degradation and reducing poverty in the South Caucasus region, enhancing local capacity and regional cooperation for CCA and biodiversity conservation in Georgia and the South Caucasus. Interesting and comprehensive discussions were conducted on the above mentioned topics and the participants of the conference got an opportunity to ask the field experts plenty of questions. Read the rest of this entry »

On March 15, 2012 Youth Unemployment Action day organized by AEGEE Yerevan took place at Russian Armenian Slavonic University. At the beginning of the event Armenak Minasyants, the President of AEGEE-Yerevan, and Syuzanna Shamakhyan, the Head of the Department of International Affairs of the Slavonic University, made the opening speeches and welcomed the participants. Both speakers emphasized the importance of the project and wished to all participants successful event. According to the President of AEGEE-Yerevan such events help students to get some basic knowledge and skills before entering to the work market. He also emphasized that AEGEE-Yerevan always responds to all urgent issues which bother the society and particularly the youth and the Organization always strives to find solutions to the existing problems. Read the rest of this entry »

AEGEE-Yerevan members are not only active citizens involved in various activities, but also young and enthusiastic guys who love playing football once in a while.

On the 4th of March AEGEE Yerevan members, well, the boys, to be exact, took part in a football match. It was even more interesting to watch the game since the members of both teams were from AEGEE Yerevan. Naturally any result would be our win, but the two teams played really well leading to a drawn game. Now let’s find out what the guys think about that historic match. Read the rest of this entry »