Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia Araksiya Svajyan participated in the "School-Hamaynq Municipality Nexus" conference, which launched by the program "Support to Armenia's Decentralization and Local Self-Government Reforms".
The meeting was attended by Lena Falkon, director of Eastern Europe, Western Balkans and Latin America programs, representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, RA various communities, schools:
КГМС Deputy Minister Araksia Svajyan gave a welcome speech to highlight the launch of the program, emphasizing the development of school-home cooperation. "The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, as a responsible department, emphasizes the importance of increasing the role of schools in community life: The school, developing its functions, should become a responsible structure around which a number of processes of revitalization of community life can be organized: In this context, we value schools The prospect of functioning as community centers».
According to Araksia Svajjani, the "DeaLog" program will help implement the state policy aimed at decentralization in a more targeted and planned manner, as well as record current problems and ways to solve them: The Deputy Minister also referred to the construction of educational facilities planned as part of the Government's "300 schools, 500 kindergartens" program. "We will have environments that meet modern requirements, infrastructures that will enable us to initiate various youth, cultural, sports events, activities not only for children, but also for other residents of the community: The school can become a resource center, with the help of which the community will be able to solve its problems : I am confident that the schools included in the scope of this program will become pioneers, which will begin to carry out activities in accordance with the needs of the community»:
Araksia Svajyan also answered the questions of the attendees, addressing the content of education, the new standard of public education, ensuring students' involvement in the educational process and other issues:
It should be noted that the purpose of the workshop is to create the foundations for future school-community cooperation, as well as to present the development priorities of the education and local self-government sectors:
The "DeaLoG" program supports the work aimed at the decentralization of education in Armenia in cooperation with schools and communities:
During the workshop, within the framework of the "DeaLoG" project, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between the ten communities of RA and the company "SALAR International" (a subsidiary of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR): According to the memorandum, the municipal governments and schools will create a common development agenda and define roles and responsibilities Taking into account local needs, the preferences of the population and the challenges of the state's development, the priorities: until the end of the current phase, the «ДеаЛоГ» program will provide targeted support to the capacity building of community administrations and schools by organizing training and seminars, exchange of experiences between communities, etc.: