NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA

The representatives of the Project Consortium partner universities and organisations from Sweden, Spain, Slovenia and Kyrgyzstan arrived in Yerevan with the aim of participating in the events organised within the framework of the project “ERASMUS+ GeoTAK (617695-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP): Developing Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programmes and Strengthening Research Networks in Geoinformation Technologies in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan”. The host of the event was Armenian National Agrarian University (ANAU). The representatives of National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia also actively participated in the meeting.

            Technical training sessions were organised at ANAU, during which issues related to national geodetic infrastructures, geodetic coordinate systems, as well as flight planning, data acquisition and processing of unmanned aerial vehicles were presented. A meeting was also held at the RA Cadastre Committee, where the participants discussed the opportunities and mission of the National Research Centre for Geoinformation Technologies. On October 13, the management team of the Project met with the Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Karen Trchunyan. During the meeting, reference was made to the academic programmes developed within the framework of the Project, as well as the issue of the implementation of a joint postgraduate academic pilot programme in three universities of the RA (YSU, NUACA, and ANAU) was discussed.

On October 14, NUACA hosted the delegation for a workshop on management issues. The participants were presented with information about the work done and to be expected within the framework of the Project. The management team of the Project also met with NUACA Rector Yeghiazar Vardanyan, discussing issues related to the work process of the Project and new perspectives of cooperation.