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    PRESS RELEASE
    PAN PLAN GmbH
    A-1030 Vienna, Kegelgasse 14
    AUSTRIA
    Contact: Sebouh Baghdoyan, International Consultant
    Phone: +43 - 1 - 718 72 92
    Mobile: +43 - 664 - 526 81 80
    Fax: +43 - 1 - 712 97 02
    e-Mail: [email protected]
    Internet: www.panplan.eu



    AUSTRIAN-ARMENIAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES AND COOPERATION


    For over a decade, Mr. Rainer Stepan of the City Administration of Vienna
    has been eagerly and constantly pursuing tireless efforts and targeted
    lobbying for the intensification of development and business cooperation
    venues between Austria and Armenia. Accordingly, besides involving several
    Austrian consulting groups and companies, a number of projects were also
    launched during these past ten years.

    One such recent successful initiative was the carrying out of a basic study
    by the Austrian PAN PLAN regarding transport-safety in Armenia, as assigned
    by AustriaTech, a company specialised in transport issues, telematics and
    know-how transfer.

    Together with a team of local Armenian experts, this special report was
    finalised and satisfyingly presented in early May 2009.

    Based on the results of the assessed options and needs, AustriaTech decided
    spontaneously to continue its efforts with a cooperation offer to the
    responsible authorities in Armenia.

    Therefore, a working group will visit Armenia at the end of June 2009 to
    define further steps for a sustainable programme towards the steady increase
    of transport-safety in Armenia.

    As a result of a number of successfully undertaken past Austrian initiatives
    in Armenia, the Austrian Control Bank (Oesterreichische Kontrollbank) has
    now declared their preparedness to give Armenia such a ranking status, which
    would enable the Austrian partners to launch soft loaned, non-commercial
    projects in Armenia. This could be a pioneer initiative by a foreign
    international financing institution for Armenia.

    Taking into account the fact that the field of "Renewable Energy and Energy
    Efficiency" represents one of the major focused areas of the Armenian
    Government, it is certainly a sound and instrumental consideration to
    provide this opportunity to a relevant Armenian institution.

    Among other development cooperation activities, an Austrian team
    representing the City Administration of Vienna, ALARIS, PAN PLAN and other
    entities, arranged in summer 2008 for the one-month traineeship in Austria
    of 11 Armenian trainees (mostly from Yerevan) in various areas of expertise.

    Subsequently, assisted by the Agro Service Austria, the Austrian side
    arranged to have three new Armenian trainees taking up as of spring 2009
    three-month traineeships in the fields of agriculture and wellness. They
    come respectively from Djambarak (Gegharkunik), Maralik (Shirak) and
    Yerevan.
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