GLOBAL SHAPERS YEREVAN Annual Report 2014-2015
All illustrations of ornaments used in this report are digital versions of ancient Armenian ornaments used on crossstones, manuscripts and old books, digitized and published by Armen Kyurkchyan in his book “Armenian Ornamental Art�
THE FOUNDING CURATOR’S OPENING REMARK It is my greatest pleasure to register that we are completing the third successful year of dedicated work and commitment at Yerevan Hub of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of World Economic Forum. Since the very establishment of the Hub in 2012, we have been engaging enthusiastic and outstanding individuals by gathering them around our vision and endeavors. . I am very excited that the team’s contributions into the Armenian community have been constantly growing throughout these years. Staying true to WEF motto “Improving the state of the world”, the team has strived to bring positive change into the community we live in. . Around seven significant projects have been effectively conducted in various spheres containing social, cultural and sports purposes. The smooth progress of these undertakings is mainly due to the diverse backgrounds and know-how that our members share throughout their teamwork. Acknowledging the importance of developing sustainability, we extensively raise partnerships for long-term projects. A vivid example of this approach is "TUMOrrow" socio/cultural project that is running already the third year.
Hovhannes Toroyan Founding Curator, Yerevan Hub
In today’s world, challenges and obstacles in daily life are real. Consistency and determination are required to overcome those challenges. I strongly believe that the opportunities to overcome those challenges are even more real. With commitment and collaboration we can open new gateways for these opportunities. Valuing the impact that young and proactive people can have in this development, we try to diversify our support group and include youth at all levels from different regions in our projects. . Looking ahead to 2015/2016, I want to thank once again all our shapers, partners, mentors and volunteers who spend considerable amount of time and resources on changing our community for the better and wish a year full of impactful projects in our Hub. As a Hub we would also like to express our gratitude to the World Economic Forum and peer Hubs for their continuing support, encouragement and goodwill. . It has absolutely been my true pleasure and joy to work with every single member of Yerevan Hub in a healthy and balanced atmosphere of professionalism and fun. I am really blessed to get to know these sharp, active and caring people and even make friends with them. Their strong sense of initiative, solidarity and cohesion has given the Hub the ability to develop new project ideas and successfully implement them. . In the end, I would like to once again express my strong belief that with collective efforts we can challenge the existing problems, create a bright reality, shape a confident and sustainable future for this world. Best regards,
Hovhannes Toroyan Founding Curator, Yerevan Hub
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CONTENTS Global Shapers Community: Yerevan Hub 5 YEREVAN HUB Overview 6 Cooperation Layers and Recruitment 7 Shapers at Work 7 Yerevan Hub Shapers 8 YEREVAN HUB SHAPERS PROJECTS On-going Projects 14 Yerevan Hub Roadmap 29 Partners of Yerevan Hub 31 Get in touch 32
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GLOBAL SHAPERS COMMUNITY: YEREVAN HUB Global Shapers Community is an initiative of World Economic Forum (hereinafter WEF) that has the idea to put together young leaders who work under the motto “Improving the state of the world�. It is a network of city based hubs where members have rather freedom to address local issues and then scale those up and make them global. . Global Shapers Yerevan Hub has been established in 2012 bringing together active enthusiasts, passionate and optimistic young people, who are ready to devote their time and efforts, share professional expertise and leadership skills to reveal different issues existing in the social and economic life of our city, initiating innovative solutions and triggering positive changes both in Armenia and globally. 3 years of uncompromising commitment shaped our achievements:
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Raised almost 100,000 USD fully invested in community development projects.
Almost 20,000 hours invested in improving the state of the world and bringing positive change by creating social good.
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15 More than 15 outstanding young leaders from diverse professional areas, ranging from finance to education, from IT to arts & culture, from health to social policy from business to design & communication, committed to shaping a better future.
10 About 10 sustainable projects implemented.
0 With 0 amount of administrative budget and 0 amount of members’ remuneration.
More than 15 partners engaged from different industries.
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“Be the change you want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
YEREVAN HUB Overview Yerevan is the capital city of Armenia, a country with ancient cultural heritage and interesting geographical location, situated at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Yerevan is an ancient and at the same time a young city with talented young people devoted to shaping a better future and realizing ideas to make our country a better place to live in. Since 2012 the Global Shapers Yerevan Hub has brought together such active enthusiasts, passionate and optimistic young people with different professional and educational backgrounds, who are ready to devote their time and efforts, share professional expertise and leadership skills to reveal different issues existing in the social and economic life of our city, initiating innovative solutions and triggering positive changes both in Armenia and globally. The Yerevan Hub Shapers are from diverse professional areas, ranging from finance to education, from information technologies to arts and culture from health to social policy from business to design/communication. . Despite varying interests and personal characteristics Yerevan Hub shapers are unified and inspired by the common idea: “Committed to Improving the State of the World”. .
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Cooperation Layers and Recruitment Our people are the decisive assets for making the Hub successful. From the very beginning, we decided to form four layers of cooperation with the Yerevan Hub. First layer would be Mentors that is currently comprised of 7 very reputable individuals that have shown excellence in their fields and proved high stand of morale, as well as have experience in working with the youth. We also expect that our most successful alumni will be part of the Mentor group in the future. . Second important circle of cooperation is with Partners, a group of individuals and legal entities that have supported the Hub in organizing various activities. Another important cooperation circle would be Volunteers that have agreed to spend their time in support to the shapers and are asked to help us in the implementation of specific projects, if necessary. And of course the last but obviously the most engaged would be Shapers themselves. .
Shapers at Work Yerevan Hub shapers have one mandatory meeting per month. Shapers engaged in particular projects have more frequent meetings driven by the project urgency, planning and implementation. . Standard projects usually undergo through 5 stages: idea generation, research, action plan preparation, actual implementation and reporting. . Shapers at first present their ideas on topics and issues they would like to work on, offering possible solutions based on their own field of expertise and interest as well as coming from the urgencies of the issues they have identified in the local community. Some of the ideas also come from media or interaction with different leaders. Once the pool of ideas is formulated, they are being discussed at a meeting and prioritized based on the collective decision of all shapers. Shapers then research the topic of interest and present a draft project. . Based on the findings, a project leader is selected, who takes the responsibility for preparing a detailed action plan with specific tasks and deadlines for the shapers involved. Afterwards, the implementation stage starts, when the project is actually brought to life. . Obviously, interim reporting per stage of implementation of the action plan and actual outcomes versus anticipated results helps the team to keep track on the flow of the project and ensure high efficiency of all efforts that Shapers put in. Depending on the project, shapers also meet in smaller groups when needed. This is a fun process where every single member of the team enjoys his/her time and also has some fun. Occasionally we meet to socialize, have a party or spend a nice weekend in the countryside. .
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YEREVAN HUB SHAPERS HOVHANNES TOROYAN Founding Curator Hovhannes is Head of Research and Strategy at Ameria Group of companies, also in charge of the advisory business of the group. Hovhannes has a PhD in Simulation of Economy and MBA with concentration in finance and supply chain management. He has been board member of Armenian Model UN; President of European Students Association at Binghamton University; founding member of Young Economist Group and has a number of awards for academic excellence and leadership. Hovhannes has previously initiated and participated in various projects in support to children in orphanages and vulnerable families. Among his main areas of interest are social injustice, sustainability and education. .
ARMENUHI ARAKELYAN Curator (2015) Armenuhi has graduated from Yerevan State University, faculty of Economics and obtained an MBA degree from American University of Armenia (AUA). She has a professional expertise as an analyst, with profound experience in the fields of business consulting, market research and analysis. Currently, Armenuhi is working in a leading local microfinance company as Portfolio Analyst. She is also a board member of the AUA alumni club using her experience for community development projects with engagement of alumni. . Armenuhi is an optimistic, hardworking person, a perfectionist and achiever in life. Helping to shape a better community in her country, she strongly believes that with joint efforts the Youth can change the world for the better and with hard work, right goals and a little luck each and every initiative undertaken will have success. All of us are able to make changes and a difference in this world. .
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ANNA KHACHATRYAN Vice-Curator (2015) Anna Khachatryan is Executive Assistant to the CEO in Energize Global Services and Gallery Systems. She is also Project Coordinator in “Millennium Communities” Development Foundation. She has graduated from Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University and has a diploma in International Relations. . She has worked as a volunteer in different NGOs and was involved in several projects for children from boarding schools and socially vulnerable families. Anna truly believes that any change starts with the change of a person. Especially, she likes the following words of Gandhi “Be the change you want to see in this world” and works towards what she believes. .
SONA MIRZOYAN Outgoing curator Sona has earned Master's Degree in Linguistics majoring in English and Spanish languages from Yerevan State Linguistic University, and Master of Science Degree in Business Administration from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 2012 she participated in the Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry Program. She is a U.S. Department of State sponsored FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange) and Lehigh University alumna, also a Country (Armenia) Chapter Director of GV Network. . Sona strongly believes that the first step in improving the state of the world starts with our everyday actions and behavior. Being confident that small acts of kindness go a long way in making this world a better place, she encourages and motivates everyone to make a difference through small, individual, selfless actions that will eventually add up to massive changes. .
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SVETLANA VARDANYAN Communication manager (2015) Svetlana works as a Senior Financial Analyst for Vivacell-MTS (the leading mobile operator of Armenia). Previously, she has undertaken the role of a Functional Controlling Specialist at her current company, the role of a Personal Banker at HSBC Bank-Armenia and the role of a Loan Officer at VTB Bank-Armenia. . Her background education includes an MBA degree from American University of Armenia, a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Yerevan State University and an Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting from CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants). As a proactive and result-driven person she hopes to have her input in bringing positive change to our country. The main areas she is interested in are education and economic empowerment. .
MERI POGHOSYAN Meri started her professional career with Habitat for Humanity where, as Resource Development Manager, she raised funds, designed projects and advocated for low income families living in dire housing conditions. . Meri earned a Master of Public Policy Degree and International Development Certificate from Duke University where she completed her Master’s research on the impact of BRAC’S “Targeting the Ultra Poor” project in Bangladesh. She went to work as research analyst in Uganda to assess BRAC program impacts in education, health, finance, agriculture and enterprise development. After returning to her home country, Meri joined UNICEF as Education Officer. She is currently managing programs and initiatives focusing on access of the children with disabilities to education, a special school transformation, monitoring and tracking out of school children and revising special education needs assessment.
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ARTHUR POKRIKYAN An interesting and enthusiastic person with strong sense of responsibility, analysis, team, time and operations management skills shares expertise in successful project design, implementation and evaluation as well as financial management. For the last 7 years, he has been actively involved in social and entrepreneurial community life in Armenia and notably led the national office of the global youth network called AIESEC. . Having earned Master’s in Finance and Banking and Bachelors in Economics from Yerevan State University, he is currently studying PhD at International Black Sea University in Business Administration and Finance program. Apart from studying, he is currently working for the Central Bank of Armenia as Financial Education Expert and as IB Economics teacher at Shirakatsy Lyceum. He loves studying global and local business opportunities, exploring cultures and sports. Professional working proficiency in English and Russian. .
HOVHANNES KHACHATRYAN Treasurer Hovhannes graduated from Yerevan State University as an Economist at the age of 19. From 2002 to 2008 he worked at the Statistics Department the Central Bank of Armenia, holding different positions. In 2008 Hovhannes moved to Ameriabank and currently heads Asset, Liability and Capital Management division. He is an alumnus of School for Young Leaders. Among many other courses and trainings Hovhannes has participated in, Momentum Program on Negotiations organized by Mercy Corps and Conflict Management Group of Harvard University should be highlighted. He was one of co-organizers of Thinking Group providing trainings in Yerevan, regions of Armenia as well as to Armenian Diaspora (Aleppo). Hovhannes is married and has a daughter and a son.
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HOVHANNES AGHAJANYAN Hovhannes holds a Master’s degree in IT Management from Yerevan State University and currently focuses on the field of Information Technology and Digital Management. In addition, he has experience in successfully managing social ventures. In 2012, Mr. Aghajanyan decided to turn the knowledge he had gained into a startup for Social Good called CityBugs, an award-winning citizen-reporting platform and monitoring system. Since 2013, he hass worked as Digital Manager at Ameria Group of Companies, which is a big financial group in the Armenian market with 1$ billion in assets. Prior to that, he worked at X-TECH Creative Studio as a Digital Marketing Manager and Project Manager, including game and web/mobile development and Business Development. Mr. Aghajanyan is a U.S. Department of State sponsored Digital Communication Network fellow. He is also actively engaged in Internet Governance related issues with ISOC AM, an international, non-profit organization founded to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. In addition to these activities, he is Dean for finance at “The Awesome Foundation Yerevan” and a Board Member at the UN Youth Advisory Panel. The board’s mandate is to advocate and advise the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) on strategic opportunities and necessary actions for addressing adolescent and youth issues.
OLYA YORDANYAN Olya Yordanyan is a lecturer of European Governance at the Centre for European Studies, Yerevan State University, and a reporter for the North Caucasus at the BBC Monitoring. . Olya holds Graduate Certificate in Public Policy and Administration from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In addition, she has bachelors and master’s degrees in International Relations from Yerevan State University, and bachelor’s degree in Musical Arts from Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas. .
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MAGDA MARKOSYAN Magda has graduated from Yerevan State University with Bachelors Degree in 2006 in Economics and Master’s Degree in 2008 in International Economic Relations. Same year she won a scholarship from Leehigh University and US Department of State for Global Village for Future Leaders of Business and Industry program at Lee Iaccoca Institute, Bethlehem, PA. Starting from 2002 she has been engaged in social, civic and student organizations, was the Student Council President, then a member of University Council. . Magda started making a living when she was a student by conducting market researches and desk interviews with business executives, professors, and members of the parliament. She was the HR development manager at AIESEC Armenia. From 2006 she started working at Independent Filmmakers Association - South Caucasus as a program coordinator in Yerevan. From 2008 to 2013 she worked at Hayastan All Armenian Fund as a Project Manager and E-Marketing Coordinator for Fundraising events. . In 2011 Magda founded her own company MAROG Marketing and Creative Agency with around 14 employees. In 2014 with newly founded Yerevan based International Marketing Institute she obtained a license to deliver Digital Marketing Institute globally certified digital marketing courses in Armenia. .
LEVON GYULZADYAN Levon has bachelor’s degree in Applied Math and Informatics. Now he works as a Product Owner at BetConstruct, previously working in Orange Armenia as a UX designer for Self Care Systems. . Levon participates in social projects and believes that together and with joint effort the shapers can make some changes for a better future. .
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ANI GHARABAGHTSYAN Ani’s educational background is in Oriental studies. She is trying to combine her scientific research with active social work. Her passion is to learn Middle Eastern culture, traditions and languages. Her main interest is in Jewish, Armenian comparative studies and specifically in Diaspora studies. . In March of 2013 Ani completed the One Year intensive course of Jewish studies at Paideia: The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm. Currently Ani is working at TUMO Center for Creative Technologies. Her motto in life is: "It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you". - Rumi .
EUGENIA EVOYAN Eugenia has graduated from Russian-Armenian University, Faculty of Economics, finished PhD studies in the same university and also has Professional Diploma in Marketing from Chartered Institute of Marketing, London, UK. Currently she studies Visual Arts, Printing and Publishing Dept. at Kyiv Polytechnical University and Art Direction at Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. . Eugenia started her career and professional aspirations from early student years, working as journalist and SME expert. From 2007-2014 she worked at Nasdaq Armenia, growing from specialist to the Head of Marketing & Communications. During these years she also wrote articles on business and capital market related topics for Forbes Armenia and Review Business Magazine, Yerevan, Armenia. . Currently she works as Head of Marketing & PR at renewable energy company and believes that clean energy can build sustainable future for Armenia. She also volunteers in various charitable initiatives with all her skills and believes in power of small steps to change the world. Eugenia is married and has two adorable kids.
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YEREVAN HUB PROJECTS
TUMOrrow: Empowering Teenagers Launched in May 2013 Yerevan Hub, TUMOrrow is implemented in cooperation with UNICEF and TUMO Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan. Through the project around 20 kids from night-care residential institutions and low income families get the opportunity to participate in classes with four focus areas: Animation, Game Development, Web Development and Digital Media. They also collaborate on project-based learning as well as learn new skills and get motivated at lectures and other events, such as TEDX Kids which inspired them a lot.
In 2013 Yerevan Hub won the “Coca-Cola Shaping a Better Future� grant, which gave the opportunity to expand the project involving kids with hearing impairments and another group of kids from socially vulnerable families. Currently the total number of kids who get the opportunity to attend TUMO totally free comprises about 40. Yerevan Hub shapers also initiate various educative and motivational events for the children besides the classes. In year 2014/2015 the following development activities have been organized by the shapers:
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MEETING MY FUTURE Global Shapers Yerevan Hub started a new initiative “Meeting My Future”. Within the initiative we asked the kids from socially disadvantaged families from our "TUMOrrow" project what profession they want to gain and who they would like to meet in that field. The feedback was amazing and the chosen professions varied from dentist and programmer to cook and military servant. The idea is to motivate the children by the people who reached success in their fields of expertise as well as raise children’s awareness about all the aspects of the profession they have chosen. . Afterwards, the Shapers started matching kids with the professionals they wanted to meet with. Below are the stories of some of the kids. We express our gratitude to Robert for the time, effort and motivation he gave to our kid! We are also thankful to everyone who supports our initiative! Edgar Poghosyan – 12 years old, wants to become a Cook, he loves feeding people. Together with Edgar we went to the most famous Cook in Armenia - Grisha Antinyan. Should say that he gave a lot of great advice and recommendations not only for becoming a good Cook, but also for becoming the best person a kid can be. Edgar was so motivated that he decided to start learning other languages and read more.
Villik Grigoryan – 14 years old, wants to become a Programmer, that’s why he was very excited for attending TUMO center through our project. He met his first professional mentor Arman Atoyan – the founder and CEO of X-TECH. Thanks to Arman and his team Villik was very motivated with the world of IT and besides we had a lot of creative fun there. This made him work even harder at TUMO.
Karen Simonyan - 13 years old, adores football and dreams of becoming one of the best players of Armenian National Team. So we organized his meeting with his mentor - one of the players of Armenian National Football Team - Robert Arzumanyan. Karen was very enthusiastic, asking a lot of questions, talking about his dreams and getting valuable advice from his mentor. He also received a great souvenir a ball of FIFA World Cup with a personal message from Robert Arzumanyan.
Shapers engaged: H.Toroyan, H. Khachatryan, S. Mirzoyan, A. Arakelyan Date: May 2014 – present
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A DAY OF CULTURE AND ARMENIAN HERITAGE We organized a cultural and heritage exploring day for the kids from "TUMOrrow" project where children got the opportunity to get introduced to the churches and national and historical monument from the centuries, listen to the history and gain new knowledge about the Armenian cultural heritage of ancient centuries. Also kids got the opportunity to attend horse riding classes, learn national songs, dances and games. On this day we were able to raise the self-importance of kids as well as nurture the national identity and strong spirit of belongingness for the children.
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FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE Global Shapers Yerevan Hub organized another interesting and motivating event for our kids from "TUMOrrow" project. On July 31, 2015 Shapers in partnership with the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) organized the visit of 14 children from socially vulnerable families and boarding schools to the CBA Visitor Centre. During their visit, the children had an opportunity to explore every interesting reflection of field of finance as well as listen to the lecture on “Why to become an Economist”.
The participants were introduced to the financial sector of the Economy and got important tips related to management of their personal finance from WHY to make savings right from childhood to HOW to take loans and know their rights. They had an opportunity to ask questions to the CBA professionals and some of them already decided to become good economists and future leaders to further develop the economy of Armenia.
Shapers engaged: H.Toroyan, H. Khachatryan, S. Mirzoyan, A. Arakelyan Date: May 2014 – present
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ONCE UPON A TIME: FAIRY TALE IN MY LIBRARY On June 15, 2014 Global Shapers Yerevan Hub launched its new project - “Once Upon A Time” - initiated by three young and enthusiastic shapers of the Hub. This is a fairy tale retelling and story-telling project for children aged 7-12 from socially vulnerable families in Yerevan that will expand to other regions of Armenia on later stages. The project idea was based on such current urgent social transformations in Armenia that bring to blurred national identity among the young generation, lack of civil responsibility and acknowledgement of being a change-maker, which is especially vivid within socially vulnerable groups.
ONCE UPON A TIME – when tales come true The goal of the project was both psychological and socio-cultural. It was driven to enhance the development of children’s personality and value system through strong cognitive influence of fairy tales, strengthen the civic identity, nurture the sense of being a change-maker and focus the public attention on the necessity of the book in the children’s education and development, to revive the love and need towards reading. Yerevan Hub shapers, together with the psychologist, designed the detailed methodology and structure of the program.
The core storytelling program consisted of four different sessions, each session aimed at developing children's instant qualities and attitudes through storytelling, discussion, games and other engaging activities. During the sessions children learned to express positive self-attitude, to overcome their fears of failure and be active, to be engaged in different positive activities and develop self-confidence as well as be part of a team. The last session was a parent-child session, when all the children presented their achievements and learning to their parents and got evaluation from the psychologist.
Shapers engaged: A. Arakelyan, A.Gharabaghtsyan, A. Khachatryan
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Date: June 2014 – present
FAIRY TALE IN MY LIBRARY With the success of the project and already developed program module in 2015 Yerevan Hub scaled up the project in partnership with the Orange Armenia Foundation in the scope of their special annual grant directed to unique, sustainable and impactful projects. "Once Upon A Time" project was scaled up to “Fairy Tale in My Library” the goal of which is to create adorable and motivating reading place for kids at the age of 6-10, to boost their interest towards books and reading through fairy tales, as well as increase access to non-formal and creative education of the children. “Fairy Tale in My Library” was implemented in Ijevan which is a border city in Armenia. Ijevan is far from the kids’ alternative and creative development hubs, thus the children as well as educators have limited access to new and advanced alternative education techniques which boost the development, especially for primary school students.
In the first stage of the project a separate beautiful and neat reading room was renovated for children in the local regional library, furnished and equipped with all the necessary goods needed for reading, having enjoyable rest and organizing developing group-works. This will lead to the increase in the flow of primary school children to the library and increase in interest towards reading. On the second stage of the program a 3-day training program for children was implemented driven to boost their personality development through acquiring self-presentation skills, critical thinking, and courage in creating interest towards reading. Also training was organized for 15 local primary school teachers, sharing non-formal education methods to enrich their individual bank of educational tools for working with children and to show them how to use fairy tales to develop a child’s personality, self-esteem and creative thinking. Afterwards, these teachers can share their knowledge with the teachers from neighboring villages encouraging them to do the same, assuring the scalability and sustainability of the project.
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We already have 45 kids from socially vulnerable families from 4 schools of Ijevan who participated in "Once Upon a Time" storytelling session and we can now say for sure that they are going to change their community. With tales, games and a lot of activities implemented through the session during June
we could see how these kids change, becoming more open, proactive, engaged and interested in library. . Yerevan Hub continues engagement in the community activities organizing different events for the local children in their “Fairy Space�. And we intend to create such spaces in every region of Armenia.
Shapers engaged: A. Arakelyan, A.Gharabaghtsyan, A. Khachatryan Date: June 2014 – present
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BE ACTIVE, LIVE HEALTHY Global Shapers Yerevan Hub has initiated new groundbreaking project in partnership with Coca-Cola Armenia. One of our missions is to support the active lifestyle motivating our community to healthy life, which is a serious challenge from youngsters to elders. To address the issue "Be active, Live Healthy" project was launched that will be implemented jointly with the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, "MAROG" creative agency and supported by Yerevan Municipality. With the launch of the program Yerevan Hub shapers aim to raise awareness of people in Armenia about importance of maintaining active lifestyle and balanced diet and trigger interest toward sport through entertainment. The program will involve thousands into regular physical activities and will inform on how to keep balanced and will be implemented both in Yerevan as well as in 2 regional cities Gyumri and Armavir.
During August-October the following activities are to be held: workout fest, cycling classes, outdoor fitness, beach volleyball, student basketball, cycling marathon, sports festival. Various informational and educational materials will be designed with the help of nutritionists and fitness professionals to raise awareness of population on the need for active lifestyle. The project will be implemented in partnership with Basketball Federation, Street Workout Federation, Mybike.am and American Councils Armenia. The program will launch on August 9 and will conclude on October 17 with a sports festival. Global Shapers Yerevan Hub intends to make this a long lasting project in collaboration with Coca-Cola Armenia.
Shapers engaged: M. Markosyan, A. Arakelyan, A. Khachatryan, A. Gharabaghtsyan Date: August 2015-present
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DONATE TIME On October 12, 2014 Yerevan Hub of Global Shapers Community launched its next change-making project –“DONATE YOUR TIME”. The first contribution was made by the United States Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern, who donated his 20 hours of Tennis at Orange Tennis Club. To make the project a reality, Global Shapers Yerevan Hub committed to providing a two-way transportation for all the visits. Within the framework of the project, already 15 kids with hearing impairments or deaf got the opportunity to attend tennis classes for free.
We are grateful to Mr. John Heffern for the great contribution, to the management of Orange Tennis Club for collaboration. Yerevan hub team made open call for everyone to join this amazing initiative! Our team currently is working on expanding the project within active groups and individuals for donating either tennis or swimming-pool hours to socially vulnerable children from low income families and/or with disabilities to take advantage of it, develop their physical health and lead active lifestyle.
Shapers engaged: S.Mirzoyan, H. Aghajanyan Date: October, 2014
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SHAPE NEW YEAR MAGIC On the eve of Christmas and New Year 2015 Saratov Hub launched a very interesting project - "Shape New Year Magic" and Yerevan Hub was one of the first to join the initiative. Project goal was to introduce children to new countries, as well as to show to children of our Global Community that the world is interested in them. Yerevan Hub received presents from Tbilisi Hub and with additional fundraising organized a happy New Year event for the kids in of the boarder villages of Armenia where children do not have access to any kind of New Year Events. Children were singing, dancing, performing and got a lot of presents from GS and from Santa. Yerevan Hub also sent numerous presents to the children from Orphanages in Kazan through Kazan Hub.
Shapers engaged: A. Arakelyan. S.Mirzoyan, A. Khachatryan Date: December, 2014
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GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY IN YEREVAN GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY 2014 was celebrated for the second time in Armenia by the initiative of the Global Shapers Yerevan Hub. On October 15th nine famous and respectful representatives from different fields such as culture, education, business, music and media visited four public schools in Yerevan. The speakers put part of their valuable time to meet and talk to kids, listen and share experience on Dignity. Visiting 4 schools Belinsi N 38, L. Mirijanyan N 155, N. Safaryan
N 164 and A. Navasardyan N 196, they held meeting-discussions with 8th and 9th grade students, talking about dignity principles and values, shared their life stories and listened to the students’ ideas and views. The event was broadcasted by CivilNet.TV. The event was a great success as not only students were eagerly engaged in discussions but also our famous speakers expressed positive experience, recalling that such initiatives need to be done more frequently.
Shapers engaged: A. Arakelyan. A. Khachatryan, H.Toroyan, H. Aghajanyan Date: October, 2014 27
YEREVAN HUB ROADMAP since 2012
Since the establishment Yerevan Hub shapers have been engaged in variety of community building initiatives both locally and globally, contributing to tight collaborative relationship with local as well as global community. 22 April 2013 “GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS AND ROLE OF EMERGING MARKETS” PANEL DISCUSSION Yerevan Hub and one of its partners Ameria Group of Companies, a leading financial group in Armenia, organized and held a panel discussion on “Global Economic Prospects and Role of Emerging Markets.” Robert von Rekowski, Vice-president of Emerging Markets Strategy for Fidelity Investments, and at the same time Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Ameriabank CJSC,NersesYeritsyan, Deputy Chairman of Central Bank of Armenia, and Thomas Lubeck, Regional Manager of South Caucasus, IFC, delivered speeches and discussed various related topics.
24-26 May 2013 “TAIWANESE-ARMENIAN MEDICAL CONFERENCE” AND “TAIWANESE-ARMENIAN BUSINESS FORUM” Yerevan Hub had the honor to work with Armenian Association of Oncology and Hematology to organize the first Taiwanese-Armenian Medical Conference and Taiwanese-Armenian Business Forum in Yerevan. Two shapers of Yerevan Hub acted as moderators for the session entitled “Armenia as an emerging market” at the Business Forum. September 2013 SOCIAL GOOD SUMMIT 2013 Yerevan hub shaper Hovhannes Aghajanyan took part in the Social Good Summit Yerevan. The Social Good Summit is a three-day conference, where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. This year it united a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges. As a professional in the field of Information Technology and a Co-founder/Product Manager at CityBugs.am, Hovhannes presented this very Social StartUp, which is a citizen reporting platform and monitoring system for commodity issues (www.citybugs.am). 31 December 2013 NEW YEAR IN HOSPITAL INITIATIVE On December 31, 2013 Founding Curator of Yerevan Hub Hovhannes Toroyan and Shaper Armenuhi Arakelyan joined "New Year in Hospital" initiative, bringing, joy, smiles and happiness to the sick children at several hospitals in Yerevan, Armenia. The idea was to dress up and together with Santa visit children with severe health problems, who had to spend the New Year Eve in hospitals, giving them small presents, balloons and spreading a beam of sunshine in their lives. The Shapers confess that it was an amazing experience for them. 28
December 2013 SOLAR FOR SYRIA CAMPAINGN Yerevan Hub joined the Solar for Syria campaign in December, 2013. Our gratefulness and deep appreciation goes to Sir Timothy Straight - Knight of the First Order, Royal Norwegian Order of Merit; Royal Norwegian Honorary Consul in Armenia; Finnish Honorary Consul in Armenia; Founder, Homeland Development Initiative Foundation, who sincerely agreed to have a photo with one of the Shapers of Yerevan Hub in support to the WakaWaka initiative. April 2014 UN MDG POST-2015 EVENT Founding Curator HovhannesToroyan was one the 18 selected Shapers to represented Global Shapers Community as a part of GSC Sustainable Development Task Force at the UN MDG post-2015 collaboration in New York City on 8 April, 2014. April 2014 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – WORKSHOP IN TBILISI Five shapers from Global Shapers Yerevan Hub participated in the workshop organized by the WEF in Tbilisi on the World Economic Forum’s Scenarios for the South Caucasus and Central Asia project with the aim to trigger a strategic dialogue about the region’s long-term economic future. The shapers represented Armenia, raising the voice of Armenian youth, having their contribution in shaping the mentioned scenarios and developing a vision for the future prosperity of the region. The workshop was aimed to discover new ideas and provide an important input into developing those scenarios. July 2014 YEREVAN HUB SHAPERS: COMMITTED TO CHANGE Hovhannes Aghajanyan, one of Yerevan Hub's greatest shapers, was selected as a board member of Youth Advisory Panel at the United Nations (UNYAP) Armenia, committing his expertise and efforts to support UN in realizing its mission regarding youth challenges in Armenia. The board is to advocate and advise the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) on strategic opportunities and necessary actions for addressing adolescent and youth issues. Moreover, it will attempt to increase the level and quality of youth participation in planning, implementation and monitoring of UN programs in Armenia, including policy, advocacy, behavior change, livelihoods and other areas related to young people.
September 2014 SHAPE EURASIA: SHAPING GLOBAL SHAPERS AGENDA Two shapers from Yerevan Hub participated in Shape Eurasia 2014 event taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan. During the event the shapers exchanged experiences both professionally as well as regarding Hub activities and projects. The networking opportunities enabled them to present Yerevan Hub projects, exchange ideas as well as develop joint partnership with other Hubs.
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YEREVAN HUB PARTNERS We appreciate partnership with the organizations, which share our values and are willing to have their input in our projects. Yerevan Hub successfully cooperates with leading companies, Armenian branches of International Organization and NGOs, including, but not limited to:
UNICEF Armenia World Vision Armenia TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies
TUMOrrow
Coca-Cola Company X-TECH
Coca-Cola Company MAROG Creative Agency Edit Print Orange Armenia Foundation
US Embassy Armenian Association of Hematology and Oncology Pan-Armenian Media Holding Central Bank of Armenia Civilitas Foundation, CivilNet.TV Ameria Group of companies
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TUMOrrow: Meeting My Future BE ACTIVE, LIVE HEALTHY ONCE UPON A TIME: FAIRY TALE IN MY LIBRARY DONATE TIME NO MELANOMA awareness campaign FINANCIAL EDUCATION GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY Panel discussion on “Global Economic Prospects and Role of Emerging Markets”
GET IN TOUCH WITH US Our Facebook page was created in March 2013 and is a major source of communication through which we share information with all interested parties. We encourage everyone to follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Global.Shapers.Yerevan Get in touch via Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerevanShapers You can always find more information about Yerevan Hub at the official webpage of global shapers: http://www.globalshapers.org/hubs/yerevan
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Global Shapers Yerevan, 2015