Eurasian Economic Union Leaders, including Putin, Rouhani, Visit TUMO


Managing Director Marie Lou Papazian presents TUMO’s educational program and its future plans to Eurasian Economic Union leaders at TUMO, Yerevan.

A delegation of world leaders as part of the Eurasian Economic Union Summit today visited TUMO centre for Creative Technologies.

Attendees included Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, and Moldovan President Igor Dodon.

TUMO Managing Director Marie Lou Papazian presented the TUMO educational program and the Centre’s plans to expand in the region in the future.

TUMO has become the envy of the education and tech worlds. Since its inception 8 years ago the center has become a model which countries and foundations from Sweden to South Korea are desperate to replicate. 20,000 students are enrolled at its Yerevan campus, with many more in other locations.

Recently an agreement was signed between TUMO and Gakken, one of Japan’s largest publishing and educational companies to open a TUMO centre in Tokyo.

TUMO Center for Creative Technologies is a free of charge digital media learning center in Yerevan. It was founded in 2011 by Sam and Sylva Simonian who fully fund its educational program through the Simonian Educational Foundation. TUMO is a free of charge digital media learning center in Yerevan.