Department of Regional Geology/Laboratory of Regional Geology/International Cooperation

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PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL RESEARCH GRANTS 

2018-2020, 18RF-090, “Integrated study of microbiota and lithofacies of Eocene deposits in Armenia as the basis of the palaeogeographic and palaeoecological reconstructions in northeastern Tethys”, Head Sahakyan Lilit,

2018-2019 18A-1e41, “Diatom study of Shirak and Noratus diatomites for reconstruction of Pliocene – Quaternary paleoenvironment”, Head Hovakimyan Hayk, 

2015- 2017 International research group (GDRI) Grant (participant). Theme: Geodynamic evolution of the Lesser Caucasus mountain belt: consequences on the natural resources, active tectonics and risks locations, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia.   

2015-2017, 15T-1E041 financed by financed by Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia (State Committee of Sciences) (participant). Theme: Structural and stratigraphic particularity of the South-Western Sevan basin from the tectonic evolution point of view.   

2015-2017, 15RF-078 Armenian-Russian project financed by financed by Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia (State Committee of Sciences) Head L. Sahakyan. Theme: The elaboration of the Palaeogene integrated zonal scheme of Armenia. 

2012- 2014 International research group (GDRI) Grant (participant). Theme: Geodynamic evolution of the Lesser Caucasus mountain belt: consequences on the natural resources, active tectonics and risks locations, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia.   

2013-2015, National Grant 13-1E214 financed by Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia (State Committee of Sciences) (participant):   Theme: Inherited structures Role on the South-East Mid-Araksian depression tectonic evolution from the plate tectonic approach.   

2013- 2014, 12GE-001 financed by Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia (State Committee of Sciences) and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. (head L. Sahakyan), Theme: Reconstruction of environmental changes based on loess-palaeosol sequences in Armenia   

2011-2012 DARIUS project (participant) Theme: From the Lesser Caucasus to the NW Iran mountain belt: structure, tectonic and geodynamic evolution   01.11.2010-01.07.2011 POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (Lilit Sahakyan):University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, and University of Montpellier 2, financed by French Government (BGF). Theme:Petrology, geochemistry and isotope dating (Ar/Ar, U-Pb) of magmatic rocks of Eocene in Lesser Caucasus (Armenia). A geodynamic scenario for the origin of the Eocene volcanisme.   

2006-2007 Grant ECO-NET n° 12542NB (participant). Bourses de recherches des Ministères des affaires françaises Étrangères (University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris VI). Theme: “Biodiversity and Productivity of siliceous plankton, relations with climate changes”.  

Collaborations

Laboratory staff in frame of ECO-NET, MEBE, GDRI, DARIUS, LIA, DFG, SCS-BMBF projects collaborate with Paris VI, Lille 1, Nice Sophia Antipolis, Montpellier 2, Utrecht (Nederland), Vienne and Graz (Austrian), Ghent (Belgium), Dresden Technological, Justus-Liebig- Gießen (Germany) Universities, Geological Survey of Iran (GSI), State key laboratory of palaeobiology and stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute), Wuhan University of Geosciences (China), V. I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum, RAS .