Pashinyan on creating Academic campus

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YEREVAN, 2 October. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting with students and faculty of Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinema today spoke about the government’s plan to build an academic campus in a Yerevan outskirt./pp

According to him, the centre of Yerevan was originally, if not de jure, then de facto built as an academic campus, but over time Yerevan has changed and what should have been a single whole has become fragmented./pp

The Prime Minister also noted that the idea of academic campus implies a change not only in buildings and logistics, but also in the pace of the educational environment.’/pp

According to Pashinyan, the goal is to double the number of foreign students in Armenia, to have four Armenian universities in the top 500 of the four international rankings, and to provide a modern environment for the development of higher education and science./pp

He also spoke about the importance of public education, the necessity of conducting scientific research in parallel with education, providing sports activities for healthy lifestyle, creating cultural centres and in general creating all infrastructures necessary for human development./pp

The Prime Minister also noted that the idea arose when it became clear that the authorities were not sufficiently financing the education sector, and the government set the task of more specific and targeted financing./pp

According to Pashinyan, it is planned to build a new national stadium in accordance with international standards, lay a railway and provide a ring railway for the campus./pp

Speaking about the art cluster, the Prime Minister noted that it is planned to build a hall, which will be designed for film screenings, opera performances, concerts and exhibitions./pp

The concept of the master plan of the campus, which will house all universities and scientific institutes of Armenia is being developed by German company gmp International GmbH Architects and Engineers./pp

The main site of the campus will be the 17th quarter on the north-western outskirts of Yerevan. From there it will spread further outside the city and occupy a vacant lot in the territory of Sasunik village in the Aragatsotn region of Armenia, as well as to the east towards Ashtarak highway./pp

The 580-hectare territory, where modern ‘green’ technologies will be introduced, will accommodate 8 public and 8 international/private universities, about 44 thousand teachers, scientists and students from Armenia and abroad./pp

According to the schedule, design work will start this year, phased construction from 2025, and the first students will start their studies in 2030. -0-/p