On July 11, within the  visit of the delegation headed by Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany Jens Brandenburg the meeting with  partners of SEVAMOD2 project took place on Lake Sevan. 
The primary objective of the meeting was to familiarize the delegation with the environmental issues in Lake Sevan and to present selected outcomes of the  project as an example for intense German-Armenian research collaboration. SEVAMOD2 project  was financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Also potential research topics and modes of Armenian-German cooperation were discussed. Both sides agreed that the bilateral cooperation were extremely successful and of mutual benefit. The delegation encouraged the team to proceed this good collaboration between the two countries in order to address the challenges faced by Lake Sevan and its surrounding environment. 
The German side expressed their willingness to support the expansion of Armenian-German cooperation in this context.
Deputy Ministers of Environment A. Meymaryan and T. Gabrielyan,   Karsten Rinke, SEVAMOD2 project leader and  Head of the Lake Research Department of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research of the German Federation , and Project Coordinator Martin Schultz, GIZ EU4SEVAN Water Resource Management Advisor A. Arakelyan, Director of "Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center" SNCO L. Azizyan, Director of Scientific Center of Zoology S. Aghayan and Hydroecology, Director of Center for Ecological Noosphere Studies L. Sahakyan of the NAS-RA have participated in the meeting among other researchers involved in the project team. 
The German delegation that arrived in Armenia included
• Jens Brandenburg, Parliamentary Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research,
• Heide Ahrens, Secretary General of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft),
• Jörg Schneider, Head of the External Relations Department of the aforementioned foundation,
• Oliver Pieper, officerof the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research,
• Saskia Galias, head of the project office of the ministry at the German Center for Astronautics (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt).