![Celebrating 25 Years of the Davis UWC Scholars Program]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1750063233/uwcdilijanorg/ngvxgxuhtxpw1qze2646/29_ShelbyDavisandGaleDavis_PicturefromUWCDilijanphotoarchive_11.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1750063233/uwcdilijanorg/ngvxgxuhtxpw1qze2646/29_ShelbyDavisandGaleDavis_PicturefromUWCDilijanphotoarchive_11.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1750063233/uwcdilijanorg/ngvxgxuhtxpw1qze2646/29_ShelbyDavisandGaleDavis_PicturefromUWCDilijanphotoarchive_11.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1750063233/uwcdilijanorg/ngvxgxuhtxpw1qze2646/29_ShelbyDavisandGaleDavis_PicturefromUWCDilijanphotoarchive_11.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1750063233/uwcdilijanorg/ngvxgxuhtxpw1qze2646/29_ShelbyDavisandGaleDavis_PicturefromUWCDilijanphotoarchive_11.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1750063233/uwcdilijanorg/ngvxgxuhtxpw1qze2646/29_ShelbyDavisandGaleDavis_PicturefromUWCDilijanphotoarchive_11.jpg","width":2200}])
During the 2025 graduation ceremony on the theme “Your Raise Me Up” our community celebrated the enormous contribution of Mr Shelby Davis to the UWC movement and, specifically, to UWC Dilijan over 10 years since the school’s establishment.
2024/25 Supporters
We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of our supporters
Founders and Dreamers
- Ruben Vardanyan & Veronika Zonabend
Founding Patrons
- Noubar & Anna Afeyan
UWC Patron
- Shelby Davis
The 10th Anniversary Circle of Benefactors
- Ameriabank
- Ameria Leadership Team
- Ruben Arutyunyan & Anahit Antonyan
- Blavatnik Family Foundation
- Dar Foundation / Nikita Mishin
- Evgeny Demin & Elena Belous
- Dobrov & Family Group
- H. Hovnanian Family Foundation
- ISTOKI Foundation / Vladimir Yakunin
- Karen & Anna Sarkisov
- Sergey Sarkisov & Rousudan Makhashvili
- Star for Life Foundation / Dan Olofsson
- Alexander Tynkovan
Individuals and organisations providing full scholarships
- DeepWhite
- Xenia Frank
- Kakhaber Kiknavelidze
- Svet Foundation / Alexander Svetakov & Ksenia Sharoeva
- ZCMC Foundation
Alumni "Ten for Ten" Circle
-
Thao Van Adjemian
-
Nalina Ali
-
Dalia Atallah
-
Georgiana Illsley Garcia
-
Ani Gevorgyan
-
Maren Fosser
-
Manana Hakobyan
-
Maria Ivanova
-
Lusine Keshishyan
-
Ben Kuyvenhoven
-
Luca Kuziel
-
Sona Markosyan
-
Nour Moussa
-
Maike Pfeiffer
-
Petar Pirizovic
-
Fernanda Pohla
-
Nikola Ranitovic
-
Marcos dos Santos
-
Jeppe Strands
-
Uladzimir Treihis
-
Eliza Vardanyan
Individuals and organisations providing support
- Olufemi Adeyemi
- Binh Adjemian
- Samvel Aghababyan
- Ibikunle Akingbemila
- Suren Amirbekyan
- Artur Amirkhanyan
- Arthur Andreasyan
- Emilia Arakelyan
- Astghik Ararktsyan
- Armenian General Benevolent Union
- Varda Avetisyan / Losh
- Tatevik Ayvazyan
- Azurit
- Tigran Babayan
- Madhuchhanda Banerji
- Andranik Barseghyan
- Arman Barseghyan
- Revin Beeharry
- Alexander Viquez Jimenez & Dannia Bolanos
- Nikolaos Bouterakos
- The Brouwer Family
- Georg Bucher
- Olga Bugaeva
- C Quadrat Ampega
- Alessandra Lenner Ciuti
- Montserrat Garcia Closas & Jeromin Zettelmeyer
- Arzuman Dallakyan
- Megh Dangal
- Thierry de le Court
- José Manuel Cruz & Ana Maria Sierra
- Vicenta Delgado Perez
- Maria Diachenko
- Joshua Diggs
- DigiFence
- Kinley Dorji
- Sophie Dorothea Duncker
- Liesl Eisenbeiss
- Alina Enikeeva
- Okhuozuhilwen Cherry Eromosele
- Renita Esayian
- Azom Faruk
- James Macbeth Forbes
- Gevork Gaboyan
- Ruzan Gabrielyan
- Nyasha Gandawa
- Jhoe ann & Eugene Gerona
- Arpenik Ghahriyan
- Armine Ghazaryan
- Ani Ghazaryan / Pink Berry Armenia
-
Artak Ghukasyan
- Jaime Gonzalez de Chaves
- Anna Gushchina
- Norayr Gyuzalyan & Anna Mazmanyan
- Manana Hakobyan
- Diana Hakobyan
- Lusine Hakobyan
- Rebecca Hakobyan
- Mariam Hambardzumyan
- Artak Hanesyan
- Gudmundur & Katarina Hegner
- Lawrence & Sara Held
- Jacques van Munster van Heuven
- Davit Hovhannisyan
- David Howarth
- Krzysztof Hycnar
- Davron Isakdjanov
- Idomu Ito
- Maria Ivanova
- Sunita Mathew & George Jacob
- Stephanie Jones
- Tigran Jrbashyan
- Vahan Kalayjian
- Alexey & Vera Kalinin
- Smita & Shiv Kaul
- Artashes Kazakhetsyan
- Andranik Khachatryan
- Gohar Khachatryan
- Nune Khachatryan
- Chris Kibarian & Gohar Kuriyan
- Marina Kiseleva
- Artem Konstandian
- Ben Kuyvenhoven
- Isabelle Compagnon & Eric Laforest
- Gianna Fregonara & Enrico Letta
- Ying Liu
- Anastasiia & Timofey Makarov
- Artur Makaryan
- Nieves Mantecon Lopez
- James Martin
- Melante
- Juan Quiros & Angie Mesalles Jorba
- Yari Miniero
- Lernik Mirzakhanyan & Hasmik Agabekyan
- Andrew Mkrtchyan
- Meimei Montan
- Marie Montille
- Gema Gutiérrez Moreno
- Arno Mosikyan
- Karen Mosoian
- Bakur & Gayane Melkonyan / Artlunch
- Zara Melkonyan & Gurgen Narimanyan
- Zhanna O'Clery
- Richard Ogdon
- Narine Okonyan
- Abdullah Olgun
- Adriaan van Otterloo
- Alice & Vahak Petrossian
- Artyom Petrosyan
- Maike Pfeiffer
- Petar Pirizovic
- Luís Miguel Porto Romão Machado
- Movses Pogossian & Varty Manouelian
- Chalermpon Poungpeth
- Petros Protopapadakis
- Imad Qalalweh
- Olivera and Zoran Ranitovic
- Qing Ren
- Alexander Renaud
- Theresa Rice
- Chhomo & Sonam Rinchen
- Olga Fuentes de Rivas
- Arthur Sahakyan
- Gagik Sahakyan
- Satenik Sargsyan
- Sargis Sargsyan
- David Sargsyan
- Yerem Shahbazyan
- Katerina Shakhbazyan
- Elena Sheroziya
- The Skansebakken Family
- Elena Song
- Michael Song
- Hugo Suwito
- The Good Investors
- Andranik Tigranyan
- Hovhannes Toroyan
- Uladzimir Treihis
- Arzhanik Tumanyan
- Eliza Vardanyan
- Anna Vardanyants
- Natalia Voutova
- Prof. Dr. Saad Faik Abbas Al-Wakel
- Paul Nicolas Jeitz & Danièle Wampach
- Agata Wieczorek
- Seonggu Won
- The Zainetdinova Family
- Marianna Khachatryan & Grigori Zakaryan / Dilijazz
- Tina Zhang
- Junhong Zhu
- Xingang Zhu
Special gratitude to our partner organisations providing scholarship funding and considerable in-kind support
- The Afeyan Initiatives for Armenia Foundation
- Aurora Humanitarian Initiative
- IDeA Foundation
- RVVZ Foundation
- Scholae Mundi Armenia
- Scholae Mundi Russia
We also acknowledge the support of the donors who chose to remain anonymous.
![Supporter in Focus: Dr Vladimir Yakunin]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1749457101/uwcdilijanorg/gufjta8ocqkjgzaaeuup/DSC03026.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1749457101/uwcdilijanorg/gufjta8ocqkjgzaaeuup/DSC03026.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1749457101/uwcdilijanorg/gufjta8ocqkjgzaaeuup/DSC03026.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1749457101/uwcdilijanorg/gufjta8ocqkjgzaaeuup/DSC03026.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1749457101/uwcdilijanorg/gufjta8ocqkjgzaaeuup/DSC03026.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1749457101/uwcdilijanorg/gufjta8ocqkjgzaaeuup/DSC03026.jpg","width":2200}])
Dr Vladimir Yakunin has been supporting UWCD scholars over the last five years. During the graduation he met with his two current scholars - Aleksandr Grichenko (Russia, UWCD’25) and Elina Mosoian (Russia, UWCD’26) - and an alum Erdni Mangutov (Russia, UWCD’24). Thank you, Dr Yakunin, for your trust and belief in the power of education.
![Supporters in Focus: Dilijazz Hotel, Art Lunch and Melante]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1743513990/uwcdilijanorg/rhjiphqvwdiu9spbcvqv/4010e095-19d8-f81e-b984-c8c2ce1a342b.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1743513990/uwcdilijanorg/rhjiphqvwdiu9spbcvqv/4010e095-19d8-f81e-b984-c8c2ce1a342b.png","width":512}])
We are grateful to Marianna Khachatryan & Grigori Zakaryan of Dilijazz Hotel, and to Bakur & Gayane Melkonyan of ArtLunch for supporting the TedXYouth event this year. We are also grateful to Melante for their significant in-kind support.
![Supporter in Focus: Alexander Tynkovan]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1733293408/uwcdilijanorg/eshloksyajhiwgtbhbxf/IMG_23532.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1733293408/uwcdilijanorg/eshloksyajhiwgtbhbxf/IMG_23532.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1733293408/uwcdilijanorg/eshloksyajhiwgtbhbxf/IMG_23532.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1733293408/uwcdilijanorg/eshloksyajhiwgtbhbxf/IMG_23532.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1733293408/uwcdilijanorg/eshloksyajhiwgtbhbxf/IMG_23532.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1733293408/uwcdilijanorg/eshloksyajhiwgtbhbxf/IMG_23532.jpg","width":2200}])
Alexander Tynkovan, who established the first-ever scholarship programme for Moldovan and Romanian students at UWC Dilijan two years ago, enjoyed a lively gathering with his scholarship recipients during his November visit. We are deeply grateful to Alexander for his generous gift of education, empowering four young people each year.