Just Dilijan It! team

Veronika

Zonabend

IDEA INITIATOR
President and co-founder of the Scholae Mundi charitable foundation. Acting member of the UWC International Board of Governance, Founding Partner, Chairman of the Board of Directors of UWC Dilijan College. Veronica, together with her husband Ruben Vardanyan, are not only famous philanthropists but also people who create socially significant projects in the field of education, community development, territorial development and the development of humanitarian initiatives. Veronica is the ideological inspirer of the JDI program, a person who sets the agenda in education through the search for new approaches to learning.

Since the inception of the summer educational program, Veronica has laid down the principles of integrating diversity, creating an unforgettable experience for participants based on immersion in the local context, value development of participants and a constant search for the best world practices in education.

Veronica believes in the potential of every child who needs help to open up. And the keys for each may be different.

ADam

Armanski

HEAD OF UWC DILIJAN COLLEGE
With an extensive international career, Adam Armanski took over as Head of UWC Dilijan in August 2023. Prior to this, Adam was the founding Head of School at Gjøvikregionen International School (GIS), Norway, at the helm for eight years since its establishment. He previously taught at schools in China, Kazakhstan, Poland, Switzerland, and Turkey. With over two decades’ experience as International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP) coordinator, Adam has been actively involved with the work of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO).  His educational career has been in IB World Schools all along, UWC Dilijan being his seventh.

From Poland, Adam holds a bachelor’s degree in teaching English and a master’s degree in American literature. Apart from his teaching qualifications, Adam studied art history. He speaks Polish, English, German and Russian.

Adam is in Dilijan with his family.

Veronika

Gevorgyan

FAMILY PROGRAMmes MANAGEr
Veronika has been actively involved in educational projects since 2013 by creating and implementing educational projects in the frameworks of the European Commission’s initiative. She implemented 13 trainings for young people aged 17-30.

She has a certificate in School Management and Leadership from Harvard University and recently completed a course from Yale University on the topic of “Leading and Managing Globally”. She has been certified as a project manager (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.

Veronika has been a part of JDI since 2016 when the project first began.
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