For a third consecutive year UniCredit Bulbank and the academic staff of the Italian Lyceum will grant scholarships to students from the school for their excellent performance and achievements; by tradition, they will receive financing for education in Italy.

The only field in which investments should not be spared is education. This is what Levon Hampartzoumian, Chair of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit Bulbank, said before the hundreds of guests and students at the official opening of the school year at the National School Complex of Culture with Lyceum for Italian Language and Culture Studies.

He was invited as an official guest to the event by the Principal of the Italian Lyceum, Velichka Velyanova, together with the Chief Operating Officer of the Bank, Andrea Casini.

"All of the last year's graduates of the lyceum are now university students", Velichka Velyanova announced at the event.

For a third consecutive year UniCredit Bulbank and the academic staff of the school will grant scholarships to selected students from the lyceum for their excellent performance and achievements. They will receive financing for one-month studies in Italy during the summer of 2016.

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