In a conversation with us, Hayk Petrosyan noted that the goal of the project is to introduce a safe technology for separating biologically active substances (with high pharmacological properties) from the secondary waste of the production of vegetable oils used in traditional medicine as well as organizing a small production of biologically active substances.

The research project was launched in October, 2020 and funded by Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia. The project is implemented by Yerevan State University in cooperation with Dr. Mara Tignino who is a reader and a lead legal specialist at the Faculty of Law and Institute for Environmental Sciences of the University of Geneva.

Olimpia Geghamyan, Director of the Scientific-Educational Center for Environmental Law at YSU Faculty of Law, hosted Marianna Bolshakova, a representative of the UN European Economic Commission's international team of experts, and discussed with her the problems of ecological education and upbringing in Armenia.