OREANDA-NEWS. On August 10, 2009  at the Company’s Headquarters a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Company, represented by its General Manager Ralph Yirikian and six universities of Armenia, represented by their respective Presidents. Those high educational institutions are the Information Technologies Center of Gyumri, Armenian State Linguistic University after V. Bryusov, Yerevan State University of Economics, State University of Gavar, State University of Goris and Cavendish University, reported the press-centre of VivaCell-MTS.

The major directions of mutual cooperation outlined in the Memorandum, are the following: organization of master’s thesis internship for graduate students in VivaCell-MTS, organization of specialty lectures for students delivered by the respective specialists of the Company acting as course instructors, implementation of joint scientific research, master’s thesis research and curriculum development projects jointly with the faculty, involvement of the Company’s specialists as Master’s thesis supervisors and mentors. In their turn, according to the Memorandum, the universities provide VivaCell-MTS with their high-performing students according to the quota and the list of specialties submitted by the Company. The lucky students will have an opportunity to get specialty internship in specific areas such as commercial law, finance and accounting, marketing and sales, information technologies, customer service, etc.

Back in May-July of this year, when hosted as a guest-speaker by some of Armenia’s universities, VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian had a series of meetings with the students, graduates and the faculty in the regions of Armenia and Yerevan, to share with them on the Company’s successful strategy of business development, technical development of network, marketing strategy and Corporate Responsibility agenda. Excited after their meeting with Ralph Yirikian and first-hand information about VivaCell-MTS’ achievements and its operational systems, and enthusiastic about opportunity for their students to start professional experience in VivaCell-MTS, the educational institutions came up with the initiative to organize professional internship of their students in the Company, in the framework of their career-planning effort.   

Signing was followed by a short press conference. “Going beyond the world of theory books – this is what we want to give the young people of Armenia. We want our young compatriots to be ready when confronted with real-world challenge on their career path. On the other hand, in the long-term, our cooperation with high educational institutions will help them develop their professors’ and instructors’ skills and knowledge and develop curricula embedded in and connected to the realities of professional practice”.