Republic of Moldova

Capital: Chisinau
Area: 33,843.5 km²
Population: ca. 3,3 Mio
Official Languages: Romanian, recognized regional languages: Russian, Ukrainian and Gagauz.

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The k-education office in Chisinau has been in existence since November 2003. Together with the k-education office, the Ministry of Education of Moldova and local organisations, KKA is implementing projects focussing on vocational education and training (agriculture, business) and inclusive education.

Key Focuses:

Schools as regional centres of competence
Introduction of the training firm learning method at commercial schools
Special educational needs

Examples

MOL.AGRI Moldova - Agricultural Schools as Regional Competence Centres

The aim of the project is to develop two schools, located in Nisporeni and Leova, as regional centres of competence for agricultural education and training in the fields of “viniculture and enology” and “farm machinery technology and vegetable gardening” and to teach the students the basic principles of running a small or medium-sized agricultural business.
Two new training profiles for viniculture/enology and vegetable gardening, as well as the corresponding curricula and teaching materials, are to be developed by August 2013. In-service seminars on agricultural subjects and agricultural entrepreneurship are to be conducted for teachers, with the object of enabling them to help students at both schools acquire the necessary agricultural and commercial competence for running their own agribusiness: from the planting of a vineyard/vegetables to the production and marketing of wine and vegetables. The project also focuses on strengthening cooperation between the schools and the business sector.
MOL.AGRI is funded by Austrian Development Cooperation and the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
Duration: December 2004 – August 2013

Project Examples:
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ECO NET Moldova

The training firm model is an innovative, practice-oriented teaching method, in which the processes of real business life are made transparent for the learning process by means of “virtual” business firms. The objective of the project is to establish this teaching approach sustainably in Moldova’s education system.
The 30 teachers participating in the project were trained and supervised in their new roles as “firm managers”, a national coordination centre for the training firm network (service centre) was established, and the training firm learning method is now being practiced at seven schools in a total of 28 training firms. By the end of the project in 2013, the training firm learning method is to be extended to five more schools, multipliers are to be trained and a teacher’s handbook for the training firm method is to be published in Moldovan.
ECO NET is funded by Austrian Development Cooperation and the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
Duration: September 2006 – December 2013

Special Educational Needs (SEN) – A School for Everyone

“Teachers teach children with a wide variety of individual needs and abilities in one class and take these differences into account so as to foster and support each child in a highly personal, individualised way.”
This was the determining vision of the project, the aim of which is to support teachers in their daily work with very heterogeneous learning groups and to give them practical tools for individualised teaching. An important aspect was to sensitise the teachers to this issue and make them aware of the possibilities.

During eight seminars held in the context of this project, participants were provided with a platform for professional input, for learning new teaching methods – some of which were quite different from what they were accustomed to – and for peer consulting and detailed discussion. The seminars placed a focus on pedagogical and methodological subjects: inner differentiation, inclusion, social learning and the associated practical possibilities for implementation in class instruction.
Duration: December 2008 – December 2010

Contact
Fabian Mayr (Educational Coordinator)