Education

Innovation is at the core of the Foundation's education strategy which is focused on universities and their links to research and industry.

CONVERGENCE CENTER PROJECT

The Convergence Center will link pockets of academic excellence into a critical mass to promote competitiveness. Based on an innovative model that combines academic and research facilities with industry and commerce, the Center will offer funding and shared resources to universities and will broker their relationships with leading academic centers abroad.

Healthcare

Armenia has the potential to become a regional leader in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological and cardiovascular diseases.

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PROJECT

Armenia has the potential to become a regional leader in nuclear medicine and a center of excellence in oncology and cardiology. The $40 million Nuclear Medicine Project will lay the foundations for realizing this potential by acquiring the latest technology in the field and partnering with foreign investors for the transfer of technology and knowhow to Armenia.

Tourism

Armenia has a significant unrealized competitive advantage in tourism.
Our country is poised to enter its expansion phase in high-value leisure tourism with great opportunities for development.

TATEV REVIVAL PROJECT

A UNESCO World Heritage candidate, the Tatev monastic complex is located in a spectacular natural setting. The $25 million project consists of several components: conserving the complex, reviving its monastic and scholarly tradition, developing tourism products in the adjacent river gorge and villages, and building the world's longest reversible aerial tramway.

Networks

In addition to its sector-specific programs in education, healthcare and tourism, the Competitiveness Foundation develops programs aimed at promoting competitiveness through increased access to knowledge and knowhow.

BROADBAND ARMENIA

The Broadband Armenia Project will extend high-performance internet infrastructure throughout the country. It will strengthen Armenia's linkages with international telecommunications backbones, increase reliability, and lower the price of internet services. The resulting broadband infrastructure will create new opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation.

National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia

The Competitiveness Foundation is an independent entity founded through a partnership between the Government of Armenia and a group of leading representatives of the private sector from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the Middle East. Our mandate is to achieve breakthrough development toward national competitiveness in key areas of economic activity.

The Competitiveness Foundation is focused on Education, Healthcare and Tourism - sectors where there is great unrealized potential for development and a clear competitive advantage in a global and regional setting. It also implements projects designed to create the enabling environment for development across sectors, focusing on the exchange of knowledge and knowhow in the context of global networks.

The Foundation operates through public-private partnerships, mobilizing strategic investments which have the potential of catalyzing development and accelerating progress toward competitiveness. Our board of trustees is composed of six international business leaders, six high level representatives of the Government of Armenia, and one representative of international development organizations.

Recent news

11.01.2010

MoU Signed between the Competitiveness Foundation and the Armenian Museum of History

On December 30, 2009 Pegor Papazian, CEO of CF and Anelka Grigoryan, Director of the Museum of History signed an agreement whereby the museum will provide assistance for the establishment of a Tourism Information Center.

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