The development of the international relations has always been in the center of attention since the very first days of the foundation of Quantum College. Quantum has an effective collaboration with international donor organizations, particularly, in the aspects of working out new subjects and innovative educational technologies. Today the College has a huge number of partners and friends from different countries all over the world.
The College collaborates with the Moscow Institute of New Educational Technologies, Moscow Teachers' Training Institute, UNESCO's Moscow Institute for Information Technologies in Education, as well as with a number of schools in Moscow, Saint Petersbourg and the USA. The scientific relations of Quantum founders could but affect the international relations of the college. Today an international symposium Community Telecommunication Centers at School was organizeed within the framework of the programme East-East. The symposium was attended by representatives from 11 countries. And in September 2010, with the collaborative efforts of Quantum College and Rome Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics the second international school of nanophotonics and photovoltaics was held, attended by about 83 participants from 12 countries worldwide.
We are proud of the fact that our guests not only visited us but also gave new bright ideas which later led Quantum to new ways of development full of new opportunities and achievements.
In its years of existence Quantum has had numerous visitors from different educational institutions, organizations aimed at the development of information technologies, international corporations which have represented their projects, helped us to develop our own ones or visited us to study our experience in some spheres. For already a few years, Quantum has been successfully collaborating with the Canadian LOGO COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC. As a result of this collaboration today we have the LOGO MicroWorlds computing educational enviroment translated and localized for introducing into schools in Armenia and the Diaspora.
Quantum has developed very close relations with various Armenian schools in the USA, Lebanon and other countries, as well as some IB schools in Russia, Poland, Georgia, Estonia, Romania, Sweden, the USA, etc.
Exchange programs for students and teachers have become a common phenomenon in the College experience. Our students actively participate in the FLEX programme of IREX, summer schools organized in Great Britain, Germany and other countries. Some of our staff members have been winners of the TEA (Teaching Excellence Awards) programme and were given the opportunity to take part in professional trainings in the USA. Our visits to some leading schools in countries like Georgia, Russia, England, the USA, Italy, etc., helped us to gain new partners and exchange the successful experience in the educational sphere. From 2010 on we have been collaborating with Lincoln Universities in Rome and Nebraska. We are also actively collaborating with Lincoln High East and Northern Star schools which is profitable for both parties.
From June 26 to Autust 9, 2010, two highly qualified specialists (Timothy Bane and Mike Mucil) from the above mentioned schools visited us to work with our teachers and students. This kind of experience exchange programs are planned to become a nice tradition. In October-November 2010 Anna Jil-Garcia (Illinois University professor) visited Quantum and held trainings on the topic Research Work and New Teaching Methods.
Quantum currently collaborates with the IB school European College in Poland by the student exchange programme which is mainly aimed at developing teaching skills for working out projects of community service implementation.
Quantum is the first and only school in Armenia which participates in the programme One World, One Classroom. This gives us an opportunity to represent our culture in more than 100 countries all over the world, as well as to have other countries represented in Armenia through picture, graph and photo exhibitions the exchange of which is supervised by the headquarter located in Boston.
Quantum also collaborates with the Canadian CESO organization. The volunteers of this organization are good specialists in their professions and are trying to have a positive impact on the world. Quantum has implemented a number of projects with this organization. Due to these projects we have had numerous guests, namely: Fred Spicken, who has visited us twice (helped in administrative-organizational issues and conducted consultations on the organizational process necessary to enter the IB), Barbara Old who helped in creating the electronic materials in English, taking part in the recordings of some materials, as well as Ivet Gattas who was here to consult us on the fundraising issues.
Our teachers have participated in international conferences, seminars and trainings. Only in the 2010-2011 academic year 11 teachers were sent to Great Britain and Italy in order to participate in teachers' training seminars organized and conducted by the world leading teachers' training company IBICUS.
Quantum is a member of the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP was founded in June 2010) which is registered in Brussels. This organization is a forum of researchers working in different fields of physics, a means of adverdisment, information exchange, etc.
Quantum has gained a lot of friends due to the summer schools organized in the college camp in Aghavnadzor (e.g, One Yurga in 2002, the International School for Informatics in 2006, etc.).