Our Partners

UWC Dilijan has close links with a number of organisations in its ecosystem and is delighted to have an opportunity to work with them for the common good locally and globally.

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Star for Life
  • Stories of Supporters

The Star for Life Foundation, which has been supporting scholarships for South African students since 2014, made a commitment for a UWCD scholarship for a student from Namibia, along with a scholarship for a student from South Africa.

DeepWhite
  • Stories of Supporters

Partners at DeepWhite established the DeepWhite Scholarship for a student from Artsakh. UWC Dilijan is honoured to partner with DeepWhite to provide young people with educational opportunities - the best gift anyone can give.

Christian Maboko's Journey as a Rise Global Winner
  • Stories of Students

Christian Moboko is a Rise Scholar and our second year student from Kenya who spent last summer in London attending the Rise Residential Summit. Here is his reflection on the time he spend in London attending the summit.

Gevork Gaboyan
  • Stories of Supporters

We are very grateful to Mr. Gevork Gaboyan who has been supporting UWC Dilijan and its Armenian students for many years now. Of Armenian origin, Mr. Gaboyan is the founder of a prominent chain of pharmacies based in Russia. We appreciate his commitment to providing educational opportunities for Armenian youth in our school, including students from Artsakh and the Armenian Diaspora.

Levon and Ana Afeyan 
  • Stories of Supporters

Last week we had a visit from Levon and Ana Afeyan, who in 2014 kindly provided the school with an in-kind contribution of chairs made by their company Seatply Products. They were glad to see that the chairs are still in good condition.

Nieves Mantecon
  • Stories of Supporters

Nieves Mantecon is one of the alumni parents who made significant contributions to UWCD. Nieves’s daughter Lucia is a graduate of 2016, our first, and very special, class. Acknowledging the quality of Lucia’s education and eager to ensure that other students have a chance, Nieves made several donations towards the student hardship fund. We are deeply grateful to Nieves for singling out UWCD as a worthy cause to support.

Mr. Alexander Tynkovan
  • Stories of Supporters

We are very grateful to Mr. Alexander Tynkovan who has established and generously supported the first-ever scholarship for Moldovan students in UWC Dilijan. Mr. Tynkovan’s tremendous generosity enables us to maintain ethnic diversity, the cornerstone of the UWC ethos, bringing people together to foster mutual understanding and peace. 

Anano Mgebrishvili
  • Stories of Alumni

Anano who came to UWC Dilijan visit her younger brother Gurami (UWCD’24) shared her reflections on the opportunities afforded to her by the family of Sergey Sarkisov and Rousudan Makhashvili, who supported Anano’s scholarship as well as scholarships of other Georgian students since 2014. Please watch the video.

Dobrov & Family Group
  • Stories of Supporters

Mr. Andrey Dobrov and his family are generously supporting scholarships for students in UWC Dilijan starting from this academic year. In June, Mr. Dobrov visited our campus for the first time to get to know the school and learn about the UWC educational model. This led to Mr. Dobrov and his family establishing a special scholarship programme. We welcome Mr. Dobrov and his family to the UWCD community and are honoured to have them among our donors.

Jazlynn India-Rose Aspin
  • Stories of Alumni

Upon graduation this May, Jazzy (Belgium, UWCD’22) set off on her gap year journey. Reflecting on her experiences so far, she said: “After graduating, I travelled back home to Malaysia where I started to open myself to work opportunities that would help me make and save enough money for the beginning of my gap year.

Anna Afeyan
  • Stories of Supporters

Recently, the Founding Patron of UWC Dilijan Anna Afeyan visited the campus for the first time after the pandemic. "It was exciting to see the school again… I met with students, of course, many times before but I missed them. They are the heart of the school," said Anna Afeyan. 

Katya Guryeva
  • Stories of Alumni

Our alumna Katya Guryeva (Russia, UWCD’17) recently graduated from University College London (UCL) with First Class Honours with a BA in European Social and Political Studies, specialising in Urban Planning with Danish and Spanish.

Dr Grant Pogosyan
  • Stories of Supporters

A UWC Dilijan supporter Dr Grant Pogosyan, a member of the Founding Board and the Honorary Member of the Board of UWC Dilijan, Professor Emeritus at International Christian University in Tokyo, former Ambassador of Armenia to Japan, was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by the Government of Japan at a ceremony in May.

 Global Study Highlights Impact of UWC Education and Key Learnings For Schools Worldwide
  • News

Today, 1 July 2022, marks the publication of Educational Experiences and Outcomes at the United World Colleges (UWC): An Investigation of Impact by a team of scholars at Project Zero, a research centre at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The five-year long research project involved nearly 4,834 UWC students, nearly 6,894 alumni and, for comparison purposes, 1,830 students from 13 non-UWC schools.