On 8th of May Strategic Development Agency NGO organized Professions Promotion Day in Stepanavan within the framework of “Modernizing Vocational Education and Training in Agriculture in Armenia” (MAVETA) project.
Lilit Beglaryan, the VET consultant of MAVETA project, along with Ara Chobanyan, the director of Stepanavan State Agricultural College, and other officials, greeted a group of 70 students from the schools of Lori marz upon their arrival to the college.
Lilit Beglaryan, the VET consultant of MAVETA project, presented the professions taught in the college with a dual educational approach. She introduced the benefits and advantages of dual education, the demand for agricultural professionals in the labor market and career opportunities available.
The students observed a laboratory experiment conducted by agricultural college students, focusing on diagnosing infectious diseases and witnessed the process of making a curd.
Then the pupils toured the college, got acquainted with the students’ daily life and met with the representatives of MAVETA project and the college’s partner private companies, who presented them their success stories.
In the second half of the day, one group of pupils visited the “Lorva Kat” dairy processing company, attended the production process of Chechil cheese, while the second group visited to Meruzhan Gharibyan’s “smart” cattle farm, got acquainted with the construction of cattle sheds and dairies using modern technologies, which allow to organize the work in an automated mode without human labor.
