We are glad to inform, that Gyumri “Youth Initiative Centre” NGO announces a new French conversational club. The club will be led by European Vountary Service volunteer in YIC Sarah Fawaz from France. If you want to improve your French communication skills, then hurry up to register online through this link. The deadline for registration is April 5, by 11:00. The first meeting of the clubs will take place on April 6, at 12:00 in "Youth House" Open Youth Centre (address: Vazgen Sargsyan 20).   In case of questions call 095 91 91 97 (except Mondays and Sundays).  ...

On March 28, a press conference dedicated to the "Open Youth Work Recognition" project aimed at promoting an open youth work model in Armenia took place in Dialogue Media Center. During the press conference YIC NGO president, youth expert Artur Najaryan, public policy expert Anna Yeghoyan, youth work expert Karen Terteryan and youth researcher Marina Galstyan presented the need for open youth work in Armenia, as well as the overall goal of the project, upcoming actions and preliminary research data. *The project “Open Youth Work Recognition in Armenia” is implemented by Gyumri “Youth Initiative Centre” NGO within the framework of the subgrant of the project “Com...

 On March 27, an info day was held at Gyumri “Youth Initiative Center’’ NGO. During the meeting with the help of human library method attendees had an opportunity to learn about activities and local, international projects implemented by the organization. 18 young people took part in the info meeting.              See more......

Օn Murch 23, Gyumri “Youth Initiative Centre” with “Youth House” Open Youth Center and our volunteers, joined the Clean-up Day. We cleaned the surrounding area of our Youth Centre. The beneficiaries of Emili Aregak Center were also with us. Our good friend EU Ambassador to Armenia Piotr Świtalski also did not stay away from the cleaning work and joined our team.            See more...  ...

Hello, I am Gor Khachatryan. I am 28 years old. I am from Armenia and have a Master's Degree in Linguistics. I would like to share my first impressions with you about my EVS in Craiova, Romania.   I was always wanted to have EVS experience and this project made my dream come true.   In Armenia, we always keep contact with our sending organization YIC, and with the our supportive coordinator, we didn’t have any problems concerning visa and other documentation. After the pre-departure meeting, I had already a complete idea about the project.   The idea to be in a foreign country, where you don’t know anyone is not so difficult for me, ...

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On February 25 and 26, we  signed a Memorandums of Understanding on youth cooperation with “Shirak Regional State College” SNCO and National Polytechnic University of Armenia Gyumri Branch The goal of the memorandum is to support strengthening of partnership between the parties, providing opportunity for students and lecturers to participate in YIC NGO international projects.   ...

On February 28 another ‘’Friday’s Café’’ of Gyumri "Youth Initiatives Center" NGO took place. This time the topic was Love. In the warm atmosphere of “Friday’s café” our EVS volunteers presented customs and traditions of Estonia, Slovakia, Czech and Armenia related with celebration of love. The guests also had an opportunity to taste traditional cookies prepared by EVS volunteers and play quiz the topic of which was songs dedicated to love.                       See more...   ...

  On February 22-23, mentors’ training of UNICEF “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme took place. During the training, 5 mentors of the programme had an opportunity to get acquainted with the styles and key competencies of the mentor, the features of work with adolescents, the steps to develop youth initiatives, and also they identify important methods for supporting and directing adolescents, which will help them to become skilled mentors. It should be noted that from March to August selected mentors will support groups of adolescents formed within the “UPSHIFT Armenia” adolescent development and empowerment prօgramme to ...

On February 23, the head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Piotr Świtalski visited Gyumri "Youth Initiative Centre" NGO. During the visit the Ambassador got acquainted with YIC staff and activities of the organization, as well as the implemented and on-going projects. Later, the Ambassador visited “Youth House” Open Youth Centre, which is the first centre working with the methodology of open youth work in Armenia. During the visit, the Ambassador got acquainted with the activities of the centre, its projects, the daily work carried out with the young people, as well as the youngsters of the centre had an opportunity to ask their questions to the Ambassado...