From March 2019, Inter-University Student Debate Championship for all students of Higher and Secondary Vocational Education Institutions of the Republic of Armenia has been launched. YSU Ijevan Branch students take part in the Inter- University Student Debate.

The participants first went through a two-week qualification training courses by experienced, competent specialists, followed by the competition stage.

Three qualification training courses were held.

On March 25th, “Jinishian Memorial Foundation” hosted the first training course for the University Student Debate Championship on “The Structure and Skills of Debate”. The speaker was Zaruhi Hambardzumyan, Youth Engaged in Society – YES Program responsible, who briefly introduced the debate format developed by “Jinishian Memorial Foundation”.

On March 27th, the second training course for the Inter-University Student Debate Championship was held on “Critical Thinking”. The speaker was Mikayel Hovhannisyan, Eurasia Partnership Foundation Program manager. The discussion was in an engaging and interactive atmosphere.

On March 29th, the last training course for the Inter-University Student Debate Championship was held on “Media Literacy”. The speaker of the training was editor-in-chief of media.am, Gegham Vardanyan. An interesting discussion was held during which Mr. Vadanyan answered all the questions of the teams.

21 teams, more than 120 participants from educational institutions of different regions of Armenia will take part in the Inter-University Students Debate Championship.

YSU Ijevan Branch, “Believers” team will compete against YSU “Slizerin” team. “Believers” will act as an opponent.

We wish a successful, interesting and meaningful debate to all the participants, especially to YSU Ijevan Branch “Believers” team.

Within the framework of the visit to France (Valence) of March 27, the members of YSUIB delegation visited the editorial office of “Le Dauphiné Libéré” provincial daily newspaper.

Journalist Clarisse Abattu familiarized the guests with the work of various departments of the editorial staff, and then had a conversation with the students.

Head of YSU Ijevan Branch delegation A. Mardanyan introduced the purpose of the visit, underlining that the students’ internship at “Maestris” University was well organized. She conveyed her gratitude to  Abattu for warm reception.

The universitarians introduced YSU Ijevan Branch, the recent changes in the country. Clarisse Abattu , expressing his satisfaction with French good knowledge of YSUIB students, offered to send articles from Armenia every month in order to publish them in the French “Le Dauphiné Libéré” provincial daily newspaper. He added that they were planning to publish an article and photograph about the visit of YSUIB students to Valance on March 31.