It was a difficult beginning, actually around all the changes of the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the emerging new independent states including Armenia and Georgia. Strong cultural traditions helped much to cope with the new challenges of modernization. Adult education and its services in community-based learning, skills training, reconciliation projects, and ever growing chances for exchange and networking played important roles.

Today there is a functioning DVV International Office in Yerevan for Armenia which is structurally part of the Regional Office based in Tblissi. In recent years a number of successful projects could be implemented. The website  www.dvv-international.am   provides valuable examples and materials. One of them is  EU4Culture:Stronger Communities and Initiatives   looking into opportunities for local tourism. Helpful for a better understanding of the field is also   Adult Education in Armenia: Study of Policy and Practices. Both examples are attached herewith. 

Colleagues of DVV International and partners are preparing now for a campaign to celebrate the 20 years - close to remembering the past for the future. The translation of the new UNESCO Report on Reimagining our Futures Together into Armenian language is certainly a forward looking signal.