It was founded in 1992 by the association «Arménie, Echange et Promotion» in Grenoble, France. The creation of the center was contributed by the Regional Council of Rhone-Alpes, the General Council of the Isère Department, the City Hall of Grenoble, the French Embassy in Armenia.The training of the trainers was provided by the "French University Training Center" and GREF («Groupement des Retraités Educateurs sans Fronitères»).

For years, the center has been organizing free trainings in different cities of Armenia within the framework of decentralized cooperation between French and Armenian sister cities.

Since its creation the center has made great progress in introducing interactive foreign language teaching methods.