EPIC International Summer School

EPIC is a two-week summer school, which is organized every summer on August 1-15 in resort city Tsaghkadzor, Armenia.

The premise of the project, which is the challenges in creation of interdisciplinary and ideological relationships and bonds between cultures, societies, technologies and young generation, is not only experienced in Armenia, but also in the whole world. Launched in Armenia and later involving the whole world, EPIC aims to establish universal goals in education, science, culture and their perspective development spheres.

Activity

EPIC is a summer school with a unique format both in Armenia and in the region, which is a combination of different types of European and American summer school/camps and other similar projects at one place. EPIC gives students an opportunity to choose from the preferable subjects and courses from the offered list. Participating in the project, students get a rare chance to communicate with students from different countries, as well as with different specialists thus contributing to their personal and professional growth.

EPIC- is an abbreviation which includes four very important and meaningful words for our project.

EPIC - Educate, Play, Inspire, Create

Why educate, play, inspire and create?

You will get a high-quality education in EPIC with the help of leading specialists by improving your knowledge in the preferred fields of interest exploring new spheres of understanding.

You will play various interesting games that will train both your mind and body.

You will be energetic and creative at EPIC, inspired by successful people and inspire each other.

New emotions, knowledge and huge flow of energy that we you get at EPIC will be used for new creations. The final result of each educational platform will be student’s own project /s/ which might be developed into future scientific work.

Mission and goals

The mission of EPIC is to introduce Armenia not only from cultural-historical perspective, but also show that the country has a potential to become a great educational center, where a platform is created for the interaction of representatives of different nations, cultures and worldviews, where students from all over the world come together to deepen their knowledge in various fields.

Given the growing role of education in the world and the relevance of the teaching methods, the organizers pursue the following objectives:

• make education and various teaching methods more accessible for students,
• promote professional growth of students,
• create student platform for their consolidation and exchange of experience,
• give a unique chance to students to meet well-known people,
• to enable talented young people to present their ideas and develop them into projects,
• create an opportunity for young people to combine education with leisure.

Features of the project

The EPIC project is favorably different from other similar projects, since its format is unique not only for Armenia, but for the whole region. Most importantly, EPIC gives great importance to personal preferences and interests of students: this allows students to choose their own training courses. While filling out the application form, all potential participants of the Summer School can choose professional fields, themes, master classes, sport and, finally, a genre of art they are interested in. In addition to educational and professional programs, the participants will have the opportunity to participate in pre-organized sports competitions, entertainment activities, various cultural events and excursions which will let the participants know more about Armenia. Together with you we will create a unique EPIC environment which brings together numerous students from around the world. This will create a platform where students can interact, exchange cultural values and share their worldviews and life experience with others. Moreover, it will also be a great opportunity for students from different parts of the world to present their unique projects and tell each other about their achievements.