STEPANAKERT. – Sixteen schools of Stepanakert and Shushi cities of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will receive computers in the near future, program director Sebastian Arias Duval told the journalists on Tuesday during the international conference “Fruitful Armenia-7: instruments.”

They will be distributed by Fruitful Armenia company within the framework of Nur (Pomegranate) project.

According to Duval, school teachers also participated in trainings within the project. The project will be first launched in two cities of Karabakh which have Internet access.

In response to the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent question whether schoolchildren will no longer take books to school, Duval responded that they will, but the world trend is that books are replaced by electronic equipments.

Pupils of the elementary schools will receive computers by the end of this year. The project intends to include other regions of Karabakh as well to provide schools with 22000 computers. A total of $1.5 million was invested this year for the realization of the project.