We met three Armenian students at Sophianum to talk about the clashes in Karabakh from a very personal point of view.
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The travel account of the Mekhitartist monk Minas Bžškeanc' has been published by Bálint Kovács and Grigor Grigorjan (Halle an der Saale) at Böhlau Verlag under the title Der Reisebericht des Minas Bžškeancʻ über die Armenier im östlichen Europa.
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, one of the world’s and the European Union’s biggest Armenian private foundations, supports the Armenian Studies Programme at PPCU for the fourth time. Its support is annually 25.000 EUR.
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The GWZO Institute of Leipzig publishes a book series of its own with Bálint Kovács as co-editor, at the Böhlau publishing house, entitled "Armenier im östlischen Europa – Armenians in Eastern Europe"
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Prof Szabolcs Szuromi, Rector of PPCU signed an agreement of cooperation involving both research and education in the field of Humanities with UCLA on January 11th, 2019 in Los Angeles.
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Educational and academic cooperation
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Dr. Ruben Mirzakhian, president of Armenian State Pedagogical University received an honorary doctorate certificate from PPCU president Dr. Szabolcs Szuromi on March 10 in Yerevan.