On July 13, the final event of the "UPSHIFT Syunik" cultivating adolescents' growth and engagement in community development project was held at "Impact Hub Syunik" in Goris. The event was attended by Silvia Mestroni, deputy representative of UNICEF Armenia, deputy head of Goris community Irina Yolyan, President of the "Youth Initiative Centre” NGO, monitoring and supervising specialist-advisory of the “UPSHIFT Syunik" project Artur Najaryan, representative of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of RA, representatives of local and regional authorities, local non-governmental organizations and members of the teams that participated in the "UPSHIFT ...

On May 14, within the framework of the "UPSHIFT Syunik" cultivating adolescents' growth and engagement in community development project “Presentation of community youth initiatives” meeting was held at "Impact Hub Syunik". In the beginning of the meeting, the teams briefly presented the current works and decided their teams' mottos. Therefore, the adolescents worked and prepared their projects presentations on innovative approaches to solving community problems. Arus Hayrapetyan, head of youth affairs department of the Goris municipality, Hasmik Aleksanyan, adolescent development officer of the UNICEF Armenia, and Artur Najaryan, chairman of the board of the ...

In the frames of “UPSHIFT Gavar and Ijevan” Cultivating Adolescents Growth and Engagement in Community Development programme a “Project Design” training course took place at 2 school in Gavar. 12-18 years old 50 adolescents from Gavar consolidated community participated in the training. 10 teams, who passed the competition of community development youth projects, selected their mentors by lot. Until May 15th with their mentors teams will work on their projects defining the aim, objectives, actions, responsible persons, existing and required recourses. During the final selection event which will take place in the end of May teams will present their ideas fr...

On June 19 in the frames of "UPSHIFT Spitak” Cultivating Adolescents Growth and Engagement in Community Development programme a “Project Design” training course took place at 8 school in Spitak. 12-18 years old 44 adolescents from Spitak and nearby communities participated in the training. 10 teams, who passed the competition of community development youth projects, selected their mentors by lot. Until July 10 with their mentors teams will work on their projects defining the aim, objectives, actions, responsible persons, existing and required recourses. During the final selection event which will take place in July 10 teams will present their ideas f...

On January 16, Gyumri “Youth Initiative Centre” NGO in the frames of the Info Centre for Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps Programmes in Armenia hosted a one day event of EU4Youth Alumni Network “Idea Lab”. In the frames of the event 120 young people from all 6 Eastern Partnership countries gathered online and offline to develop ideas for positive change in youth life in their communities. In Armenia 10 alumni with their team members from different regions (Charentsavan, Shirak, Masis, Mets Parni, Spitak and Oshakan) took part in the “Idea Lab” during which they generated ideas and worked together to better shape projects which will be the...

"UPSHIFT Armenia" Adolescents Development and Empowerment programme At the beginning of 2018, Gyumri "Youth Initiative Centre" NGO and UNICEF Armenia united their efforts to implement the UNICEF Global UPSHIFT programme in Armenia. AIM "UPSHIFT Armenia" Adolescents Development and Empowerment programme aims at empowering 12-18 years old adolescents in Armenia to be more proactive in practicing civic engagement and in advocating for their rights and positive changes at local and national levels, therefore investing in a more successful future for themselves their and their communities.   TARGET GROUP About 50 adolescents form Gyumri and Spitak will d...

September 11, in the frames of UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme firts graduation event took place in Gyumri Technological Center. Event launched with a photo expo of adolescents, after which 5 teams who won and financed competition of community development youth projects submitted results recorded during the six-month training path. In graduation event was also present governor of Shirak region Tigran Petrosyan, who importance of adolescent participation in community development and wished the program duration and new achievements. The day ended with a concert, that strengthened the impressions of those present. *"UPSHIFT Ar...

On June 4th in the frames of "UPSHIFT Armenia" Adolescents Development and Empowerment programme monitoring visits took place with teams which got financial support. The programme team visited them and got acquainted with the process and the results which they have now. The adolecents also had an opportunity to share their impressions, challenges and positive moments they had during the implementation of their projects, in addition they made suggestions on what kind of changes they want to see in the programme. *"UPSHIFT Armenia" Adolescents Development and Empowerment programme is implemented by Gyumri "Youth Initiative Centre" NGO in cooperation with UNICEF Armeni...

On April 14, in the frames of UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme a “Project Design” training course took place in Gyumri Technological Center. 46 adolescents from Shirak and Lori regions participated in the training. 10 teams, who passed the competition of community development youth projects, selected their mentors by lot. Until May 5 with their mentors teams will work on their projects defining the aim, objectives, actions, responsible persons, existing and required recourses. On May 5 and 6 during the final selection event which will take place in Gyumri the 10 teams will present their ideas from which 5 projects w...

On April 13, mentors’ training of UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme on Project Design took place. During the training course, 5 mentors of the programme had an opportunity to get acquainted with the process of generating ideas, defining goals and objectives of the project, design action and financial plans, and styles of evaluating and monitoring the implementation of the project. The training was conducted by Anna Yeghoyan and Karen Sargsyan. It should be noted that from April to August selected mentors will support groups of adolescents formed within the UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empow...