A policy design and evaluation course took place on 8-12 April 2024 with support from the International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea.

The project organised in cooperation with V4 partners (Budapest Institute, Institute for Politics and Society, Res Publica Foundation, and Strategic Analysis Think Tank) introduced a course specially tailored for the Armenian context to a group of Armenian public servants and other experts. Case studies and practical examples taken from different countries’ experience additionally helped the participants to relate to the approaches presented, and to compare policy approaches in Armenia, V4 states and beyond.

On 10 April, the course participants and partner experts had a meeting with the ambassador of the Czech Republic Petr Pirunčík, the ambassador of the Slovak Republic Miroslav Hacek, and the head of the political-economic section of the embassy of the Republic of Poland Marcin Różycki. The needs of the participants’ institutions and the possibilities to expand international expert cooperation and professional training activities were discussed.

The project deepened our already established cooperation with policy experts in both Armenia and V4 states, and let to keep developing the policy dialogue with Armenian state agencies.