From November 26 to December 2, 2019 inclusive, the "Business and Education Partnership" Foundation took place in Hamburg, Germany The second educational visit organized within the framework of the German "Vocational Education and Training - Cooperation in the South Caucasus" regional program implemented by
At the invitation of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Federal Regional Economic Training Center of the German Federation, the director of Gyumri No. 4 Vocational State School Knarik Aharonyan, the director of Vayots Dzor Regional State College Argam Dovlatyan, the director of Yerevan State Informatics College Robert Abrahamyan and the Armenian-Greek of Yerevan Tourism, Service and Food Industry participated in the program. Artur Ghazaryan, director of the state college, under the leadership of Marine Zhamkochian, president of the "Business and Education Partnership" Foundation.
Through the organized meetings and various seminars, the principals got acquainted with the different models of "Student Organizations" operating in the German educational system.
"Student/Student Organizations" are groups of students of different /age/classes studying in an educational institution, where all activities - accounting, purchasing, preparation and sales - are performed by the students. Financial investments are also organized by students with the help of parents or with the funds of various investors. With the small income received, they carry out social and other various events or use it for the purpose of developing their "Business". Student organizations are created as a result of ideas proposed by students and joint discussions.
Through the creation of these organizations, students acquire various skills and important elements of entrepreneurial activity from school age.
The study of the German experience will make it possible to select the best elements, localize and apply it in the primary and secondary vocational education system, as well as in schools, solving one of the most important problems of the time: encourage vocational education and the development of an entrepreneurial mindset among young people.
