Mkhitar Hayrapetyan Reviews Progress on Engineering City Construction

On September 13, Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia, visited Engineering City to observe the ongoing construction work.

The Engineering City (EC) project is a joint initiative based on a public-private partnership, implemented with the cooperation and support of the Armenian Government, the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, the World Bank, and the private sector.
The objective of the initiative is to promote the development of Armenia’s engineering and high-tech sectors by establishing Engineering City, thereby enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of the economy.

Minister Hayrapetyan, along with Bagrat Yengibaryan, Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, Aram Salatyan, Chairman of the Board of the Engineering Association of Armenia, and Ruben Simonyan, Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry, toured the premises of EC. The Minister was introduced to the resident companies that have confirmed their presence in the City and was briefed on ongoing collaboration efforts with them.
He was also informed about challenges hindering the effective progress of the project and emphasized that everything should be done to complete the construction of EC as soon as possible.

The leading areas of focus in Engineering City include advanced laboratories for driverless technologies, 5G research, the Internet of Things (IoT), semiconductor testing, radio frequency and microwave technologies, as well as machine and measurement labs.