UWC Dilijan

UWC Dilijan College
File:UWC Dilijan logo.png
Address
Getapnya Street 7 Dilijan Armenia
Coordinates	40°44′20″N 44°49′57″E
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
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.

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.

Gallery

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  Main entrance to academic building
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  Academic building from the side
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  Inside the main building
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  Walkway between the academic and recreational buildings
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  Recreational building
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  Playing field and part of a village in the background
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  Playing field and lodging area
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  Playing field and lodging area
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  Playing field and lodging area
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  Indoor playing court
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  A Croat enjoying her time in the paddle pond
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  Indoor pool with outdoor playing field
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  Residential area
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  The campus is situated along a flowing river

See also

• Tumo Center for Creative Technologies
• Ayb School

External links

• Official website
• UWC Dilijan Official Facebook Page
• UWC Movement website
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