| The International relations
of the Institute date back not one decade. Many employees of the Institute
propagandized the Russian language and culture in Poland,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Germany, Finland,
Italy, England, Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia and other
countries took part in Union and international scientific conferences.
Today the collaboration has taken a new trend. In 1991 the Centre of the
French language and Culture was set up with the aim of propagating The
French language and culture. The centre has a rich library, as well as
a record library. The study is designed and equipped with the help of the
Municipality of Leon, the associations “Leon – Yerevan” and Diaspora
of Armenia. A Centre of the German language, where children from 7 to 14
have a chance to study German and the culture of the country, has been
functioning since 1995 and is financed by the Hessen society. The
institute collaborates with educational institutions of CIS,
France, Germany, etc. Every year the best
students and teachers work on probation in countries
of the language they study. At the same time teachers
from abroad come to help our teachers and students to
integrate into the modern system of higher education. The process
is on and we already feel the results.
In 1997 together with the University “Paris-12” in the faculty of Romance – Germanic languages a new department was opened: French and International Trade. The Graduates will get a diploma equal to the one of "Paris-12”. Since 1997 a department for training professional interpreters has started to function within the framework of the programme of the European Union TACIS. This year foreign language courses for managers and businessmen will be organized with the help of the European Union. Direct contacts with the European Centre of Modern Languages attached to the European Council were established. The Institute was the first in Armenia to become a member of Frankophone association AUPELF – UREF in 1998. |