Background: Climate change is one of the most important problems of humanity. The studies performed are indicative of substantial climate variations over the Earth and of its natural variability. In the second half of the 20th century the anthropogenic changes of climate became noticeable, and against the background of natural fluctuations these changes enforce their impact on nature and man.

The three World Climate Conferences (the first in 1979, the second in 1990) held under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) provided an important background for understanding on-going climate changes, for development and approval by the world community in 1992 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol to the FCCC. The third World Climate Conference was in 2003 in Moscow.

The Netherlands Helsinki Committee, Interights and Armenian Institute for Development are pleased to invite applications for an internship for a lawyer from Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan to begin in February 2007.
Duration of internship is 3 months. This internship is part of the project "Strategic Litigation in the Caucasus", which is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and lasts from 2006-2010. Interights will host the internship.

The exact nature of activities will depend on organizational and program priorities at the time of the placement.

The Yerevan internship program was established in 1999, following the popularity and success of the Assembly's Washington program, known as the Terjenian-Thomas Assembly Internship Program. In fact, four of this year's Armenia interns are alumni of the Washington program.

The Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) is organizing its tenth annual Young Professionals Trip to Armenia.  From June 12 to 24, 2006, FAR will take a group aged from 23 to 40 on a journey to all four corners of Armenia and into Karabagh. (Applications for the June 2006 Trip Available Now)

March 22 - The University of Georgia (Athens, GA) is pleased to offer a 3-week study abroad & cultural experience course in Armenia in Summer 2006. UGA Study Abroad in Armenia provides opportunities to young people across US to gain a genuine study abroad experience in Armenia and gain transferable academic credit from the University of Georgia.

Yerevan, Armenia - Nearly 300 9th-grade students across Armenia have recently completed the Global Business Ethics (GBE) program, a 12-week course that links students from around the world via the Internet, giving them the opportunity to discuss ethical issues and interact internationally.  The program is organized each year by Junior Achievement Worldwide (JAW) and administered locally by Junior Achievement of Armenia (JAA), the sixth largest of JAW's 97 foreign affiliates.

New York, NY -- "I'd never actually gone somewhere that felt more like 'home' than home does! To arrive in a country you've never set foot in, yet feel such an amazing 'sense of belonging' is simply overwhelming.

You walk around and you feel like you are from there - you literally feel like you belong there."

This heartfelt appraisal is from 25-year old Los Angeles lawyer Aleen Khanjian, one of 30 young professionals who traveled under the auspices of the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) to Armenia and Karabagh for 14 days in June 2005.

Washington, DC - The Armenian Assembly of America announced this week that it is accepting applications for the 2006 Terjenian-Thomas Assembly Internship Program in Washington, DC and the Summer Internship Program in Yerevan.  Both internship programs provide college students of Armenian descent an opportunity to work in those cities while taking part in a full schedule of educational, cultural and social activities.

Students who are accepted into the Washington program will be placed as interns in various offices including congressional, think tank, media and governmental agencies.  Interns have the opportunity to meet with U.S Representatives, Senators, other government officials and noted academians through the Capitol Ideas and Lecture Series programs.
Students will also take part in a wide variety of social activities and networking opportunities that are planned throughout their eight-week stay.

October 26, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On the initiative of one of the parishioners of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), who wished to remain unknown, the AAC Diocese of the South of Russia has established a special scholarship fund after St. Sahak and Mashtots, Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia reported.

Yerevan, October 21. /Arka/. An annual scientific conference of the State Engineering University of Armenia (SEU) is to be held on October 24-28, 2005.

The SEU public relations department reports that 347 reports will be made in 25 break-up groups, and the best reports will be included in the "SEU annual proceedings."

Yerevan, October 19, Armenpress: The expectations of hundreds of Armenian university graduates have changed greatly since independence, and failing to find work at home they are looking for jobs overseas. At the same time, Armenia is gradually becoming an attractive destination for foreign students from Russia and Georgia, but especially from Middle East countries and neighboring Iran. In these countries, competition for state-run universities is too high, while here in Armenia requirements for foreign applicants are lower than they are for locals. The main requirement is their solvency: once they pay their tuition fees they are students.

Future Leaders of Armenia Spend August in the US & Canada

LOS ANGELES, CA, September 22, 2005– Experiencing the trip of a lifetime, four of Armenia's top high school and college students visited North America as participants of Junior Achievement of Armenia's (JAA) 2005 Summer Study Abroad program. Each year since 1995, JAA has rewarded the cream of the crop among the tens of thousands of students enrolled in its courses with the opportunity to participate in an intensive program of civic and business studies in Southern California and to attend an extraordinary leadership conference.

This year's participants were Narek Abrahamyan, Anahit Grigoryan, Khachatur Matevosyan, and Mariam Nersisyan, all current students or recent graduates of JAA's groundbreaking economics and civics program in Armenia.

JAA Executive Director Armine Hovannisian made the final selection of students following a series of highly challenging and competitive national exams that not only tested the students' knowledge of economics and civics, but also required fluent command of the English language.

Stepanakert, December 3, Azat Artsakh Press: The dental center provided with modern equipment has been operating at Artsakh State University for three months already.

On November 26 the official opening of the dental center took place. In his address, Vice Rector Artem Abrahamian mentioned that the dream of ASU to have a dental center at last came true, for which he thanked the rector of the university.

During his visit to Iran last year the rector of the university Hamlet Grigorian managed to obtain modern dental equipment with the help of the Union of Armenian Doctors of Iran. According to him, education in any field must be practical.