Currently, there are 624 Armat engineering laboratories in Armenia, with about 17,000 children studying there. It is planned to open 150 more laboratories in 2024. Sargis Karapetyan, acting executive director of the Union of Advanced Technologies Enterprises (UATE), said this in a conversation with journalists.

According to him, Armat is one of the best, if not the best, examples of cooperation between the state and the private sector. According to him, over the course of ten years, more than 6 billion drams were invested in this project, of which 3.7 billion were from the state, and 2.3 billion were from private companies and member companies of the State Enterprise.

Thanks to these investments, the 624 laboratories operating today were launched. Moreover, the project was also exported to seven countries, including USA, France, Kuwait, etc.

"Fortunately, during all the governments of Armenia, there were people who understood the importance of this project and tried to help in every way, at all levels," he said.

According to him, thanks to state funding, 300 new engineering laboratories were launched in 2019.

However, in the following years, against the background of the coronavirus epidemic and the 2020 war in Nagorno Karabakh, attention to the project decreased. However, in spite of this, UATE plans to aggressively develop this project and open 150 new Armat laboratories next year.

According to Karapetyan, a memorandum was signed with the government of the Republic of Armenia, by which it is planned to introduce Armat laboratories in all schools of the republic. In addition, with this memorandum, the state has no financial obligations, but until now, as Karapetyan mentioned, the state has financed the salaries of the teachers teaching in the laboratories.