NA Chairman visits TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies in Armenia
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man directed the consideration of establishing similar creative technology centres in Vietnam, based on Armenia's TUMO Centre model, to create an educational environment that helps Vietnamese youth promote self-learning and enhance their skills, particularly in science and technology, innovation, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and the Vietnamese NA delegation visit TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies (Photo: VNA)
Yerevan (VNA) - Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tran Thanh Man visited the TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies – a free-of-charge educational centre that helps young people in Armenia learn and enhance their skills by their own, during his official visit to the West Asian nation on April 2.
Man and the NA delegation were introduced to the centre, where training programmes are conducted through self-learning, workshops, and project experiments with 14 learning targets. Through a unique blend of exploration, self-study, practical workshops, and expert-led labs, young people develop practical skills in areas ranging from programming and robotics to music, graphic design, and others.
To date, TUMO has expanded its networks with centres in several cities around the world. Armenia is currently building 16 fully equipped TUMO Centres in major cities and has set up 110 "TUMO Boxes" – compact, high-tech learning spaces – for young people in remote areas. In June, TUMO plans to launch its first centre in Asia, located in Japan.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man (R) welcomed by TUMO centre leaders (Photo: VNA)
Speaking highly of the TUMO model, the top legislator of Vietnam required Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha to direct the consideration of establishing similar creative technology centres in Vietnam, based on this model, to create an educational environment that helps Vietnamese youth promote self-learning and enhance their skills, particularly in science and technology, innovation, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.
This is considered one of the essential condition🃏s for training digital human 𒁃resources in a new era, the era of the nation’s rise, he stressed./.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man attended a Vietnam - Armenia Business Forum in Yerevan on April 2, as part of his ongoing official visit to Armenia.
Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man, his spouse and the high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly arrived in Yerevan on late April 1 (local time), starting an official visit to Armenia at the invitation of President of the Armenian National Assembly Alen Simonyan.
More than 30 years after establishing diplomatic ties (July 14, 1992 – July 14, 2025), the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Armenia has continued to grow through both bilateral and multilateral cooperation, bringing tangible benefits to the people of both countries.
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