Team Telecom Armenia to be partner of STARMUS Festival 

ArmInfo.Team Telecom Armenia, the leading telecommunication company announces cooperation with the STARMUS international festival in order to promote science,  technology and art in Armenia.

According to the press service of the company, this year the festival  will be held under the title STARMUS VI. 50 years on Mars, and will  be dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first landing of the  Mars-3 space station on Mars. It is noteworthy that the first Mars  rover in the world called "PROP-M" was designed and worked out by a  team of 150 engineers led by world-famous Armenian engineer Alexander  Kemurjyan. 

According to CEO of the Team Telecom Armenia Hayk Yesayan, by  supporting the festival, the company supports the popularization of  science in Armenia and inspires young people to take more active and  bold steps. "I hope that this festival will become one of the  symbolic events of the revival of science in independent Armenia,  restoring the existing reputation in the field of astronomy in the  future," he said.  In turn, co-founder of the STARMUS festival Garik  Israelyan noted: "I welcome Team Telecom Armenia within the framework  of our festival, and as an Armenian, I am glad to have among the  international partners the first Armenian company that joined the  festival as one of the main partners, thereby attaching importance  popularization of science in Armenia>.  According to the source,  about five dozen world famous scientists, Nobel Prize winners,  engineers and astronauts, world stars of music and art will take part  in the events of the festival in Armenia.  The festival program  (starmus.com/Armenia) includes congresses and conferences,  multidisciplinary cultural events, scientific camps that will present  science, art and music to the public in a unique way, including  outside of Yerevan.

The STARMUS festival was founded by astrophysicist Garik Israelyan  and guitarist of the legendary rock band Queen, astrophysicist Brian  May in 2011, and was held in Spain, Norway, Switzerland.  This year  the festival will be held in Armenia from September 5-10. Armenia  will host world famous astronauts Charles Bolden, Chris  Hadfield,  James Bagian, George Nield , Charles Duke, Nobel Prize  winner Edvard  Moser, Kip Thorne, Emmanuelle Charpentier; scientists:  Tony Fadell,  Brian Greene, Donna  Strickland ; artists: Sons of  Apollo an  American progressive metal supergroup, Rick Wakeman, Serj  Tankian,  Tigran Hamasyan, Andrey Makarevich, Derek Sherinyan and a  number of  other world famous artists and scientists.