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For 20 years
ARMAN HOLDING has been developing technical and robotic solutions, predictive technologies, design and integration of industrial and telecommunication systems in Russia, the CIS countries, India, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates.
R:ED company is an educational project/structural unit of ARMAN HOLDING corporations
R:ED Mission «Accessible educational environment»
Formation of not only self-sufficient, but also financially independent and successful young professionals who, from an early age, do what they love, fulfil themselves, earn money and reach great heights in their field.
Aims in sustainable development field
In 2015 the UN developed 17 aims in the sustainable development field as an achievement plan of a better future for everyone.
R:ED’s contribution to sustainable development
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R:ED – ROBOTICS EDUCATION supports international principles of business social responsibilities.
We consider sustainable development as an integral part of our activity. It is not only a contribution to our society, but also to our children's future.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for everyone
Getting an education provides a basis for understanding the socio-economic conditions of people's lives and plays a key role in solving the poverty issue. Significant progress has been made over the decade in scaling up and expanding school enrollment at all stages, particularly, for girls
Objectives:
By 2030, ensure that all women and men have equal access to affordable and quality vocational and higher education, including university education.
By 2030, substantially increase the number of young people and adults with in-demand skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent work and entrepreneurships
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but also an essential basis for achieving peace, prosperity and sustainable development. Progress has been made in recent decades with more girls going to school, fewer girls being forced into early marriage, more women serving in parliament and in leadership positions, and with an establishment of law reform to ensure gender equality.
Objectives:
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
Adopt and improve sound policies and binding laws to promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
Goal 8: Promote progressive, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for everyone
Sustainable and inclusive economic growth can contribute to progress, create decent jobs for everyone and improve living standards.
Objectives:
Promote development-oriented policies that are focused on productivity, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the recognition and development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including giving them access to financial services
Throughout the period until the end of 2030, progressively improve global resource efficiency in consumption and production systems and strive to ensure that economic growth is not accompanied by environmental degradation, as provides in the 10-Year Action Strategy for the Shift to Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, and developed countries should be the first to do it.
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and innovation
Inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, along with innovation and infrastructure, can unleash dynamic and competitive economic forces that create employment and income. They play a key role in introducing and promoting new technologies, assisting in international trades and ensuring the efficient use of resources.
Innovation and technological progress are key to finding long-term solutions to both economic and environmental problems, such as improving resource and energy efficiency. Globally, investment in research and development (R&D) as a percentage of GDP increased from 1.5% in 2000 to 1.7% in 2015 and remained virtually unchanged in 2017, but in developing regions it was only less than 1 %.
Objectives:
Intensify scientific research, build the technological capacity of industrial sectors in all countries, especially developing ones, including by stimulating innovation till 2030 and a significant increase in the number of employees in R&D per 1 million people, as well as public and private spending on R&D.
Support development, research and innovation in domestic technologies in developing countries, including by creating a policy environment which is conducive to, inter alia, industrial diversification and increase in value added in the primary industries.
Goal 11: Ensuring openness, safety, resilience and environmental sustainability of cities, towns and villages
The world is becoming more and more urbanised. More than half of the world's population has lived in cities since 2007 and this share is projected to rise to 60% by 2030.
Objectives:
Maintain positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, suburban and rural areas through improved national and regional development planning
By 2020, significantly increase the number of cities, towns and villages that have adopted and are carrying out comprehensive strategies and plans to remove social barriers, increase resource efficiency, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and resilience to natural disasters, also, develop and adopt integrated disaster risk management at all levels, according to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
Goal 17: Strengthen the means of sustaining and strengthening the work of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
The SDGs can only be realised through strong global partnerships and cooperation. Successful realisation of the sustainable development agenda is not possible without the development of inclusive partnerships at the global, regional and local levels, built on principles and values, a common vision and common Goals, focused on the interests of people and the planet.
Objectives:
Strengthen the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships who mobilise and share knowledge, experience, technology and financial resources to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, especially developing ones.
Stimulate and encourage effective partnerships between government organisations, between the public and private sectors and between civil society organisations, drawing on the experience and strategies for using partners' resources
4. Quality education
Aims in sustainable development field
R:ED actively takes part in accessible robotics development all around Russia and the CIS.
Educational and methodological complexes will be developed together with other companies for forming children’s engineering competency of primary school age.
Aims in sustainable development field
R:ED has 46% of girls who are involved in the development of robotics, from methodologists to heads of areas.
More and more girls are going into engineering professions. In September 2021, the R:ED team took a train from Moscow to Vladivostok, along with young passengers of the All-Russian competition "big change", where a large number of girls were among the winners. Along the way, the children had a number of exciting workshops from our teachers in robotics and programming.
Accessible education for girls and boys. Creation of equal conditions allows to achieve demanded and effective learning outcomes. R:ED creates an environment where everyone can express themselves and be heard.
R:ED promotes the availability of continuing education courses. After all, the main goal is to expand access to quality education, improve the students’ education quality, as well as increase their competitiveness in the labour market.
R:ED invites you to take part in initiatives aimed at developing the human resources potential of Russia and the CIS countries and nurturing a generation of engineering and IT specialists.
Aims in sustainable development field
Support scientific research, increase the technological potential of industrial sectors in all countries, especially developing countries, including by stimulating innovation.
9. Industrialisation, innovations and infrastructure
R:ED is the winner of the competition for the field development "Technology and robots in production" NTO Junior in 2022.
Realised projects:
R:ED is the winner of the competition for the field development "Technology and robots in production" NTO Junior in 2022.
R:ED is the winner of the competition for the field development "Technology and robots in production" NTO Junior in 2022.
11. Sustainable cities and towns
Aims in sustainable development field
R:ED promotes the availability of continuing education courses. After all, the main goal is to expand access to quality education, improve the students’ education quality, as well as increase their competitiveness in the labour market.
Aims in sustainable development field
This aim calls for partnership at all levels, built on principles and values, a common vision and common goals, focused on serving humanity and the planet's interests.
17. Partnership development interest
Our educational project is aimed at the building of not only self-sufficient, but also financially independent and successful young professionals who, from an early age, do what they love, fulfil themselves, earn money and reach great heights in their field.
No single organisation or government can achieve sustainable development alone. Together we create capacity, expand interaction and exchange knowledge, provide access to quality education, not only to students in cities, but also to students in rural areas and nomadic peoples.
Within the project’s framework, such assistance is provided in the form of training, internships, competitions, popularisation of robotics in the world, equipment development, expert recommendations, etc.
Natalya Kravchenko (Commission Chairman of the Russian Federation Public Chamber, on the development of preschool, school, secondary vocational education and educational activities) presented students of a nomadic school in Yakutia with an R: ED robotic kit.
Realised projects:
In the city of Kamysty, training for teachers of the school was conducted.
With the support of R:ED, Seribkai Biseekev 2 schools in the city of Kamysty were equipped with classroom sets for fellow villagers in 2021
Charitable project "Қазақстан халқына" (“To people of Kazakhstan”) and R:ED Robotics Education (holding "Arman") signed a cooperation memorandum on the project "Future Engineers".
R:ED project’s aims
R:ED’s voluntary contribution to SDA (Sustainable Development aims)
Equipping, training and launching children's educational robotics on R:ED kits
Human resources training for enterprises
Realisation history of social projects with R:ED over the past year
IV quarter 2022
– MCC EuroChem JSC, A. Melnichenko Foundation and R:ED equipped 13 schools (in Nevinnomysk, Kingisepp, Barnaul and 10 other Russian cities) – "Қазақстан халқына" (“To people of Kazakhstan”) and RED Robotics Education (Arman holding) equipped 187 schools in Khazakhstan, including 160 district schools and 27 monotown schools.
III quarter 2022
– In creativity and science centre "Bilim-Park" launched robotics courses – Orphanage in the Republic of Belarus received R:ED kits – Kamysty schools №1 and № 2 received R:ED kits thanks to philanthropist Serikbay Bisekeev
II quarter 2022
Yakutian Nomadic schools study robotics thanks to the Commission Chairman of the Russian Federation Public Chamber, Natalia Kravchenko
I quarter 2022
Robotics courses opened at Russian House in Baku
IV quarter 2021
SOS Children's Villages received 40 certificates for R:ED kits
III quarter 2021
– 70 kits were sent to schools in the Sverdlovsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Ryazan, Kaliningrad, Kirov regions, the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic as part of the "Teacher of the Year 2021"
Why children’s educational robotics?
Robotics has become part of the compulsory school curriculum within the subject "Technology" in new federal educational standards (FSES) for primary and secondary schools, which came into force on September 1, 2022.
Issues
Robotics at school introduces students to modern technologies, contributes to their communication skills development, forms interaction skills, independence in decision-making, and reveals their creative potential.
Robotics is an important component of STEAM education, a learning model designed for the joint study of science, mathematics and technology, where practice goes over theory.
Lack of opportunities for educational institutions to purchase equipment due to high cost;
Lack of experts in the field of robotics.
Robotics
Our solution
R:ED covers the costs of teachers training, educational process organisation, adaptation of educational and methodological complexes to the school’s educational process and implementation of educational programs that meet the methodological requirements.
The partner company assists in equipping.
And together to provide assistance and support to educational institutions.
We invite you to take part in the project "Accessible educational environment"
Partners
Project members, etc.
Educational institutions in remote regions of Russia and the CIS;
Quantoriums;
Private educational institutions;
Houses of children's creativity;
Boarding schools.
Every socially responsible business member can become a partner.