A world-class program,
built for Armenia, with Armenia.
ARCS∙ai brings together scientists, engineers, and educators — in Armenia and across the diaspora — to build an internationally competitive center for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Our mission
ARCS.ai: Advanced Research in Computational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence is an initiative dedicated to the development of Armenia’s potential in the fundamental and computational sciences. ARCS.ai aims to bring together scientists and scholars from outside Armenia and their counterparts in Armenia, develop international collaborations between them, and also facilitate engagements at the institutional level.
ARCS.ai also aims to raise the profile of the sciences and research in Armenian society through public outreach.
Part of the ASOF network.
ARCS∙ai operates under the Armenian Society of Fellows — a global network of scholars and professionals dedicated to raising Armenia's educational and research institutions to world-class levels, and to networking them globally.
Excellence, openness, roots.
Excellence
We hold ourselves to the standards of the world's leading institutes — in research, in teaching, and in operations.
Openness
Science thrives in the open. We build bridges between Armenia and the global research community.
Roots
ARCS∙ai is a partnership between scholars and experts in Armenia and others from the world. Our priorities are rooted in strengthening the Armenian State through education and research.
Functions
⦿ To develop an active visitor program that draws scientists and experts from outside Armenia to Armenia for the purpose of research collaborations with local scientists and to provide teaching and training services at local universities and institutes.
⦿ To organize regular international conferences and workshops that place Armenia on the world stage in key areas of the sciences and technology.
⦿ To facilitate and promote the integration into the local ecosystem of scientists relocating to Armenia.
⦿ To develop world class teaching and training programs that are accessible to all Armenian citizens in collaboration with local universities and institutes.
⦿ To develop services that help local scientists prepare collaborative grant applications with scientists from abroad and submit them to foundations inside and outside Armenia.
⦿ To help integrate the educational and training pipeline in the sciences and technology with local industry needs.
⦿ To help Armenian scientists protect their intellectual property.