Recognizing the importance of a skilled workforce for ensuring the medium and long-term sustainable development of the country, UNDP, in partnership with the Government of Denmark, the private sector, Government and academic institutions aimed to achieve significant change with sustainable results by modernizing the Vocational Education and Training System in Armenia (VET Project).
Started in May 2009, with the total budget of 16 mln. Danish Crones  exclusively financed by the Government of Denmark, the Project has rapidly grown into one of the most ambitious educational projects in Armenia in the Vocational Education sector. As such, the Project has set up two main objectives, leading to the overall aim of rehabilitating country’s vocational education system and consecutively ensuring its sustainability. The objectives are:

Thus, the project is logically splitted into two components: the “hard” one, embracing all reconstruction and rehabilitation activities, including the renovation of premises in and provision of equipment for the selected VETIs, and the “soft” one, referring to VET Policy Development, particularly, to the introduction of the new, competence-based educational system, including the development and further application of competence-based qualification standards for the selected vocational specialties, modernization of the curricula for the vocational subjects’ area, development and production of new training materials/ textbooks for several vocational subject areas and training of the instructors on new curricula.