UWC Dilijan

UWC Dilijan College
Address
Getapnya Street 7
Dilijan
Armenia
Coordinates 40°44′20″N 44°49′57″E / 40.73889°N 44.83250°E / 40.73889; 44.83250Coordinates: 40°44′20″N 44°49′57″E / 40.73889°N 44.83250°E / 40.73889; 44.83250
Information
Type International Baccalaureate World School
Established 2014 (2014)
Founder Ruben Vardanyan and Veronika Zonabend
Oversight United World Colleges
Headmaster Gabriel Abad Fernández
Faculty 42 (from 16 countries)
Gender Mixed
Medium of language English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Armenian
Houses Riverside, Mountainside
Newspaper Atlas, UWCDigest (internal)
Website www.uwcdilijan.org

UWC Dilijan College is the 14th member of the United World Colleges movement, one of seventeen colleges around the world, and the first international boarding school in Armenia. The college matriculated its first 96 IB1 students (11th graders) in September 2014. Currently, the school offers IB Diploma years 1 and 2 (grades 11-12).

A portion of the school is on the premises of Dilijan National Park.[1]

Mission

UWC Dilijan is a community working towards a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable world through a balanced, challenging and transforming education with people from diverse backgrounds.

The mission of the UWC movement and of the school is to "make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future".

The college aims to be an integral part of Dilijan and to have positive personal, local and global impact.

Governance

UWC Dilijan evolved from the original idea to create Dilijan International School of Armenia, first conceived in 2006 by Ruben Vardanyan and Veronika Zonabend with the support of other Founding Patrons (Gagik Adibekyan from Russia, Noubar and Anna Afeyan from United States, Vladimir and Anna Avetissian from Russia and Oleg Mkrtchyan from Ukraine, as well as 4 anonymous patrons).

The college officially opened on 11 October 2014 for the 2014-2015 academic year, in the presence of the president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, the president of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić, Catholicos Karekin II of Armenia and Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syrian Orthodox Church.

Students

On 28 May 2016, the first graduates of UWC Dilijan, 96 students from around 48 nations worldwide, completed two years of schooling and took part in the inaugural graduation ceremony.

In the academic year 2017-18 UWC Dilijan became home to 213 students from 82 countries.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Key Information." UWC Dilijan. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
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