ACE Armenia

rmenian Center for Youth and Students International Relations and Exchange is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, which is registered by the RA Ministry of Justice in 1996. This year ACE is going to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The Center implements social, environmental, cultural and educational programs in Armenia and abroad. The main goals of the Center is to establish new relations between Armenian youth and the youth worldwide. As well as to support the youth and students of Armenia to participate in the International programs to get information about International youth and students' organizations. The objectives are: to support the youth and students of Armenia to participate in international youth projects to gather much information about the international youth and student organizations to support the development of open civil society in Armenia to promote the democratic reform & further development of youth and student organizations in Armenia to promte intercultural learning and understanding The main activities of our organisation are promotion of different international exchange programs for students and youth. The activities are but not limited to educational courses, vocational trainings, summer schools, cross cultural seminars. We try to create opportunities for youth to be involved in different projects and promote intercultural learning. We support Armenian students to apply for their Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programs in different European and American Higher Education Institutions, to provide information about different study opportunities they can have ,we try to find suitable courses for them according to their professions , help with their application process and apply to different Educational Funds for getting scholarships, so that they will have opportunity to continue their education abroad. Particularly, last year about 176 students and youth with these programs have participated in the international youth work camps in the USA, Canada and other European countries. The same work camps have been organized in different regions of Armenia where 89 youth from the different parts of the world have participated in the programs together with Armenian youth. Social, environmental, reconstruction works as well as round tables concerning Human Rights and other society problems are implemented in the camps. The Center collaborates with a number of international organizations.