VivaCell-MTS, Synopsys Armenia, EREA sign cooperation agreement

PanARMENIAN.Net - On June 23, VivaCell-MTS, Synopsys Armenia CJSC and European Regional Educational Academy Foundation (EREA) signed a cooperation agreement aimed to promote education in Micro-electronic circuitry and communication systems in Armenia.

According to the educational model driven by Synopsys Armenia, after acquiring a basic education in the 2nd year of Bachelorhood, top-performing students of EREA IT Department will be selected to participate in the program. The selection of students will be made by leading Synopsys and VivaCell-MTS technical experts and first-rate professors of the Academy.

The goal of the program is to create, technically re-equip the University-wide Sub-Department of “Electronic Boards and Systems”, which is the part of Bachelorhood and Magistracy having the specialty in “Micro-electronic circuitry and systems of the communication means”, provide it with educational programs, ensure proper qualification (training) of the academic staff, provide up-to-date software means, educate the students.

In the frames of Agreement VivaCell-MTS allocated AMD 15 million to rehabilitate the respective auditorium area specified by EREA to bring it into correspondence with the state-of-the-art education standards and requirements, will pay the salaries and other amounts equalized to the faculty of the Sub-department and assure of the auditorium with computers.

Synopsys Armenia will provide EREA Electronic Design Automation Educational Design Kit (EDA EDK) 20 licenses of free - aimed to prepare high quality specialists of respective professions, re-qualify the faculty Sub-department, at least once per three years.

EREA will establish the University-wide Sub-department - holding of daily educational activities, select the bachelorhood students that graduated the second course of the respective Faculty of the University, who meet the criteria set by the parties for further continuation of their study for respective profession at the Sub-department.

The best students that graduated bachelorhood education program at the Sub-department shall be granted an opportunity to continue their study at the magistracy of the Sub-department.