With the support of the “Modernizing Vocational Education and Training in Agriculture in Armenia” (MAVETA) project, the project partner Goris State Agricultural College held a profession promotion event on May 12 at the premises of the project’s other private sector partner, “The Ranch” LLC.
The schoolchildren of the Goris community were welcomed by Lilit Beglaryan, VET consultant of the MAVETA project, and Anna Torozyan, acting director of the Goris State Agricultural College. They presented the advantages of dual education, as well as the demand for professions in the agricultural sector.
The students toured the professions pavilions, learned about the professions taught at the college, and participated in a demonstration of milk laboratory testing, animal temperature measurement, and other veterinary interventions.
The MAVETA project is funded by a broad coalition of international and local organizations led by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), including the Austrian Development Agency, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Government of Armenia, the Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER) NGO, Izmirlian Foundation, the Strategic Development Agency (SDA) NGO and Vanand Agro CJSC.
The project’s implementing partners are the GIZ and HEKS/EPER with the involvement of SDA and the School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (HAFL).