On September 13, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Armenia organized the third meeting of the “Modernizing Vocational Education and Training in Agriculture in Armenia” (MAVETA) project Steering Committee with the aim to discuss the implemented activities and results of the project.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and representatives of the organizations implementing and financing the MAVETA project.
Ms. Ursula Läubli, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Switzerland to Armenia, and Deputy Regional Director of the Swiss Cooperation South Caucasus, Araksya Svajyan, Deputy Minister of the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, as well as Letizia Carnevali, GIZ Armenia, Portfolio Manager gave welcoming speeches.
Ms. Ursula Läubli, noted that close cooperation between state institutions and the private sector is key for effective reforms in professional education, including the agricultural sector.
Ms. Läubli was followed by Lilit Hovhannisyan (SDA), Naira Vardanyan (HEKS) and Aram Babayan (GIZ), who presented the implementation of the past and future activities, challenges, as well as possible solutions within the framework of the project.
Thereafter, during the meeting, the contingency concept for forcibly displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh was presented and discussed.
During the third meeting of the Steering Committee, the challenges that occurred during the implementation of the project and the ways to overcome them were discussed, furthermore the project interventions planned for 2025 were presented.
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).
