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SOROS FOUNDATION-MOLDOVA 

2000 ANNUAL REPORT 

2000

Editor 

Varvara COLIBABA 

DesignMihai BACINSCHI 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Introduction 7 

Higher Education Support Program 9 

Invisible College Moldova 15 

Educational Advising Center 20 

Scholarships 22 

Pro Didactica Educational Center 24 

Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Program 30 

Step by Step 31 

National High School Debate League 34 

Youth Development Center 35 

Youth Initiative Fund Program 37 

Secondary School Student Exchange Program 38 

East East 38 

Library Program 45 

Internet Program 50 

Publishing Program 53 

Public Health Program 55 

Economic Development Program 60 

Arts and Culture 62 

Visual Arts Program 67 

Center for Contemporary Art 68 

The Independent Journalism Center 71 

Local Government Program 76 

Law Program 83 

Women’s Program 89 

Civil Society Program 92 

Participation at Scientific Conferences 98 

2000 Expenditures 101 

Auditor’s Opinion 102 

SFM Boards 104 

SFM Staff 105 

Contact Information 106 

List of Abbreviations 108

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In 2000, the Foundation continued to focus its activity on the priority directions aimed at developing 

an open society in the country. 

The term “open society”, introduced by the philosopher Karl Popper, is based on the recognition 

that we are all different, have different views, interests and that no one is in possession of the 

ultimate truth. Consequently, each of us has the right to a personal opinion, which may be 

expressed freely and openly. In these terms, the mission of the open society and its institutions -- 

which are based on a democratic political system, market economy, the rule of law, separate powers, 

and a developed civil society -- is to take into account and ensure respect for this diversity. 

Soros Foundation-Moldova 


Unfortunately, the end of the millennium was not a turning point in the economic development of 

the country. The year 2000 was marked by a political feud between the Parliament and the 

President, whose confrontation resulted in the modification of the governance system in the country 

-- from a semi-presidential into a parliamentarian one. Probably the most significant feature 

of this transformation was the fact that it took place within conditions that we would like to call 

democratic, i.e. dictated only by the rule of law. The mounting parliamentary crisis, followed by 

the anticipated elections, whose results are still to be analyzed, were held according to the same 

democratic rules and principles. 

On the other hand, the lively political activity had no positive effects on the economic development. 

The economic growth was too insignificant to influence the living standards of the population. The 

living conditions are progressively deteriorating and this fact has profound social consequences. 

In this context, the Foundation concentrated its efforts on the areas that, in our opinion, are 

decisive for the future of the country. A special focus was put on the support for educational 

activities in a broader sense -- to include not only educational programs as such but other programs 

that have an educational or training component as well. We believe that under present 

conditions human capacity development is a crucial factor in ensuring the future of the country. 

Programs targeting support for local government reform, building of a state based on the rule of 

law, development of a thriving civil society, which could guarantee sustainable democratic reforms, 

were set as priority areas by the Foundation. A whole series of projects were focused on support for 

agricultural reform and rural economic development. 

The anticipated presidential elections, as confirmed by the international election monitoring missions, 

met the international standards. It indicates the establishment of a democratic election 

system in the country and a democracy building process in progress. Although it is difficult to 

invent a tool, which could evaluate with great precision the Foundation’s contribution to this 

democratic process, I would like to believe that this contribution is substantial. 

I would like to acknowledge the efforts of all the Foundation’s beneficiaries, employees, the subboards, 

and the National Board, whose contribution proved invaluable for making all these activities 

possible. 

Arcadie Barbãroºie 

National Board Chair

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT 

PROGRAM 

The mission of the Higher Education Support Program is 

to contribute to the advancement of higher education in 

the humanities and social sciences in Moldova. The Program 

aims at influencing systemic changes in higher 

education by launching innovative programs and supporting 

initiatives of the academic community towards 

democratization of the educational system. 

To implement this mission, the following program priorities 

were set up: 

— support for the conceptual reform in education 

— curriculum reform – design and implementation of 

alternative programs, syllabi, etc. 

— implementation of new teaching/learning technologies 

— support for innovative institutions - pilot-departments, 

pilot-chairs, etc. 

— support for institutional reform of teaching/learning 

— faculty development and capacity building in higher 

education 

MODERNIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION 

CURRICULUM 

The program supported projects on restructuring the 

existing university curricula, on the introduction of new 

disciplines, and projects that focused on new methods 

of teaching/learning according to international standards. 

All the grants were offered on a competitive basis. 

Third Tier Grants $300 

Loretta HANDRABURA, SPU, Folk Art and Mythology 

Liudmila PASCARI, SUM, Institute of Natural Sciences, 

Certification, Audit and Administration of Quality Cost 

Lidia ILAªCU, SUM, Institute of Natural Sciences, Urban 

Ecology 

Eugen SAVA, FIUM, Sources and Historiography of Roman 

and Greek Antique History 

Serghei PORTÃRESCU, AESM, Strategic Management 

Total grants syllabus projects: $5,700 

Internship Program for University Lecturers 

and Visiting Professors 

The Program offered financial support to university faculty 

members from Moldova for their participation in 

programs of different universities from abroad or for 

their research in the archives and libraries. The aim of 

this program was to help professors to develop new 

courses or to restructure the existing ones and to implement 

new teaching technologies, etc. At the same time, 

this program supported the invitation of prominent faculty 

from abroad and important personalities from the 

academic community. 

Internships 

Participation in the course “Applied Economic Policy”, 

The United Institute of Vienna, Austria, January 31– May 

26, 2000 

Elena MARCOVA, senior lecturer, FIUM $391 

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Syllabus Design Projects 

The program supported the efforts of university faculty 

members that aimed to introduce new courses in the 

curriculum or restructure the existing ones in the field of 

social sciences and the humanities. 

15 grants were offered for syllabus projects design. 

First Tier Grants $500 

Ion GURGHIª, SPU, Pedagogical Conflict 

Angela CAMINSCHI, SPU, Evaluation of the Educational 

Activity 

Second Tier Grants $400 

Timofei ROªCA, SPU, The Analysis of the Literary Text 

Eugen SAVA, FIUM, The Balkanic Palaeolithic Civilization 

Marin DOLINÞÃ, FIUM, Philosophy of Law 

Valentina URSU, SPU, Mythology 

Rodica URSACHI, SPU, Psychology of Creativity 

Dragoº CUCEREANU, FIUM, Issues of Legal Settlement 

of the Internet 

Ion GUMENÂI, SUM, Medieval Diplomacy 

Marcela DILION, SUM, Adoption and Foster Parents 

Internship at the Georg Eckert International Institute of 

Scientific Research of School Textbooks, Germany, February 

14 – 27, 2000 

Gheorghe GONÞA, Ph.D., professor, Chair of Romanian 

History, SPU $492 

Internship at the Department of Classic Philology, Philology 

Department, Al.I.Cuza University, Romania, March 

25 – April 24, 2000 

Claudia CEMÎRTAN, Ph.D., professor, Chair of Classic 

Philology, SUM $636 

Internship at the University of Warsaw, Poland, History, 

March 27 – May 29, 2000 

Vladimir MISCHEVCA, Ph.D., scientific researcher with 

the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the 

Republic of Moldova $499 

Internship at the Psychology and Education Sciences 

Department, Al.I.Cuza University, Iaºi, Romania, April 3 – 


Ina MORARU, lecturer, Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy, 

FIUM $260

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Internship at the Paris – III University, Sorbonne, Nouvelle, 

The Higher School of Translators and Interpreters, 

May 1 – 31, 2000 

Ana GUÞU, Ph.D., professor, Chair of French Language 

and Literature, Director of the Foreign Languages Department, 

FIUM $432 

Internship at the Philology Department, Bucharest University, 

June 12 – 26, 2000 

Vasile PAVEL, Ph.D., professor, Chair of Romanian Language 

and Classic Philology, SPU $429 

Internship at the International Center of Pedagogical 

Studies, Sevres, France, July 24 – August 2, 2000 

Ina POPCOV, senior lecturer, Chair of French 

Language and Literature, Department of Foreign 

Languages, FIUM $500 

Internship at the Sociology and Social Assistance Department, 

Bucharest University, Romania, June – July, 2000 

Tatiana SPÃTARU, lecturer, Chair of Sociology and Social 

Assistance, SUM $496 

Internships at the K.Ohridsky University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 

June 15 – August 15, 2000 

Nadejda POPAZ, assistant lecturer, Chair of Bulgarian 

Philology, State University of Comrat $698 

Maria DELIBALTOV, assistant lecturer, Chair of Bulgarian 

Philology, State University of Comrat $700 

Participation in the Romanian - French Colloquium of 

Information and Communication, Bucharest, Romania, 

July 6 – 9, 2000 

Ala BELOSTECINIC, professor, Department of Political 

and Administrative Sciences, SUM $28 

Participation in the Laboratory “Media, Communication 

and Culture”, Bucharest University, Romania, July 6 – 9, 

2000 

Constantin MARIN, Ph.D., professor, SUM $28 

Internship at Duke University, North Carolina, USA, August 

3 – 30, 2000 

Valentin ARION, Ph.D., Chair of Economy and Management 

in Energetics, TUM $1,007 

Internship at the National Institute of Research and Development 

in Tourism, Bucharest, Romania, July 20 – 

August 20, 2000 

Elena TURCOVA, Ph.D., professor, Chair of Business, 

Tourism and Hotel Services, AESM $378 

Participation in the Summer School in Applied Economic 

Modeling, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, August 7 

– 13, 2000 

Lilia CARAªCIUC, Ph.D., professor, Academy of Economic 

Studies, expert with the Center of Reforms and Strategic 

Investigations $417 

Participation in the Seminar “The Policy of Family: Practice 

and Problems. The Experience of Samara Region”, 

Samara, July 10 – 15, 2000 

Iulia IURCHEVICI, lecturer, SPU $426 

Internship at the Regional Center of Social Rehabilitation 

of Minors, Samara, Russia, July 10 – 15, 2000 

Valentina STRATAN, deputy dean of the Department of 

Psychology and Psychopedagogy, SPU $426 

Internship at the Archives of Foreign Policy, MFA’s Library, 

Moscow, Russia, July 15 – August 1, 2000 

Liudmila ANTONOVA, lecturer, Department of History 

and International Relations, FIUM $500 

Participation in the International Seminar of Bulgarian 

Language and Culture, Bulgaria, August 7 – 26, 2000 

Elena RAÞEEVA, Professor of Bulgarian Language, SPU 

$48 

Internship at the Geography Department, Spiru Haret 

University of Bucharest, Romania, December 1 – 30, 


Igor CODREANU, lecturer, Department of Geography, 

State University of Tiraspol (located in Chiºinãu) $300 

Internship in the Field of Italian Language and Literature 

at the University of Studies, Genoa, Italy, November 1, 

2000 – January 31, 2001 

Radu MELNICIUC, lecturer, Chair of Italian and Spanish 

Philology, SUM $517 

Participation in the Conference “Alliance of Universities 

for Democracy”, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 5 – 8, 2000 

Elena MARCOVA, senior lecturer, Chair of Economics 

and International Economic Relations, FIUM $340 

Internship at the University of Studies, Milan, Italy, January 

1 – March 31, 2001 

Olga IRIMCIUC, lecturer, Master of Philology, Chair of 

Universal Literature, Department of Modern Languages 

and Literatures, SUM $418 

Internship at the Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, 

Germany, January 2001 

Nina PETROVSCHI, Ph.D., professor, SPU $477 

Internship at the Max – Planck Institute, Heidelberg, 

Germany, January 2 – June 30, 2001 

Constantin LAZARI, Ph.D., lecturer, SUM $461 

Internship at the University of Studies, Padova, Italy, 

January 1 – April 30, 2001 

Lidia CAZACU, professor of Italian Language and Civilization, 

SUM $486 

Internship at the Institute of Academic and Educational 

Studies of Rome, Italy, January - February 2001

Svetlana TÎRÞÃU, Ph.D., Chair of Theory and History of 

Theater, State University of Arts $596 

Internship at the University of Warsaw and the Adam 

Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, January 8 – April 

7, 2001 

Eduard BAIDAUS, Ph.D., professor, Chair of Universal 

History, Department of History and Ethnopedagogy, SPU 

$524 

Visiting Professors 

Andre SIROTA, Ph.D., Paris 10 University 

Courses in Clinical Social Psychology for the students 

and professors of the Psychology Departments from the 

universities of Chiºinãu, March 23 – 27, 2000 

Project director: Ion NEGURÃ, Ph.D., professor, Chair of 

Psychology, SPU $420 

Andrei BREZIANU, Ph.D., professor with the Catholic 

University of America 

Summer school for students “A World in Change: through 

Communication, towards Integration”, Vadul-lui-Vodã, Republic 

of Moldova, July 23 – August 6, 2000 

Project director: Mihai GUZUN, Dean, School of Journalism, 

SUM $1,300 

Traian DIACONESCU, Ph.D. and Vasile ARVINTE, Ph.D., 

Al.I.Cuza University, Iaºi, Romania 

Courses in Antique Rhetoric and Cultural and Linguistic 

Greek - Romanian Relations, for the students of Philology 

and Political Sciences Departments, SUM, Chiºinãu, 

September 18 – 29, 2000 

Project director: Claudia CEMÂRTAN, Ph.D., professor, 

Chair of Classic Philology, SUM $400 

Robert NEWLEN, Ph.D., Chief of Service with the Library 

of Congress of USA, invited for the summer school “Methods 

and Techniques of Political Analysis”, Chiºinãu, 

August 14 – 25, 2000 

Project director: Oleg SEREBRIAN, deputy rector, Free 

Independent University of Moldova $500 

Professors from Schools of Psychology, Universities of 

Iaºi and Bucharest, Romania, professors from A.Russo 

State University of Bãlþi, Moldova, a professor from the 

Pedagogical University of Moscow, Russia, a psychologist 

from the Center of Psychological Assistance, Paris, France 

Organization of the conference “Training of Professionals 

in the Field of Psychological Assistance of Population”, 

Chiºinãu, September 29, 2000. 

Project director: Lucia SAVCA, Ph.D., professor, SPU 

$895 

Total grants for internships for university lecturers and 

visiting professors $16,425 

Institutional Grants for Projects on Restructuring 

the University Curricula 

The University Laboratory “Applied Managerial Psychology 

– Development and Research for Students”, 2000 - 

2001 

The aim of the project is creating the appropriate conditions 

for developing the managerial abilities and competencies 

of students related to their social performances. 

Project director: Larisa STOG, Ph.D., professor, senior 

researcher, A.Russo State University of Bãlþi $18,651 

Curriculum Development of the State University of Cahul, 

2000 - 2002 

The aim of the project is development of courses and 

subjects offered within the State University of Cahul 

through co-operation with university centers from the 

Republic of Moldova and Romania. 

Project director: Elena ªIªCANU, Ph.D., Dean of the Department 

of Social and Humanistic Sciences, State University 

of Cahul 

Project budget: $60,000 (for a three-year period) 

2000 Budget $27,000 

Professional Education for the Global Informational Infrastructure 

The focus of the project is the modernization of the 

training process in the field of librarianship and informational 

assistance. 

Project director: Nelly ÞURCAN, Chair of Librarianship 

and Informational Assistance, State University 

of Moldova $14,670 

Other expenses $1,997 

Total expenses curriculum development 

program $84,443 

Development of Teaching Materials for Higher 

Education 

The program supported the development of teaching 

materials for higher education institutions by offering 

grants for textbook writing and by publishing original 

works of local authors in the field of social sciences and 

the humanities. Thus, the program aimed at the overcoming 

the lack of teaching materials in the Romanian 

language and building the capacity of local authors. 

Grants ranging between $800 and $1,200 were offered 

for textbook writing to the following project authors: 

Angela SOLCAN, “Management of Small Business” 

Constantin MARIN, “Civil Society: Classic Approach and 

Redefinition” 

Ion CHIRTOAGÃ, “The Ottoman Empire and South East 

Europe“ 

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Veronica PÃCURARU, “A Semantic, Morphological and 

Syntactical Dictionary of Romanian Verbs” 

Irina CONDREA, “Communication through Translation“ 

Maia MORÃRESCU, “The Pedagogy of Higher Education“ 

Sabina CORNICIUC and Alexandra GHERASIM, “Romanian 

Language for Translators and Foreigners“ 

Alina TOFAN, “Romanian Literary Press“ 

Tatiana TURCHINÃ, “Fundamentals of Psycho-therapy” 

Victoria MELNIC and Galina VARTAN, “Harmony“ (1st 

volume – The Theory of Harmony) 

Victoria DAVIDSON-PASECINIC, “The Technology of 

Image Creation” 

The following teaching materials for higher education 

were published within the program: 

PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS, 

GRADUATE STUDENTS AND YOUNG FACULTY 

MEMBERS 

The aim of the program is professional development of 

young faculty members and teaching assistants, by encouraging 

their motivation to develop new courses and 

to implement curriculum reform. 

Participation of Young Faculty Members in International 

Universities and Summer Schools 

Summer School (WSL), Warsaw, Poland, June 26 – July 15, 


Elena IACHIMOV, assistant lecturer, Chair of Universal 

History, SUM $329 

Constantin EÞCO, “The Economics of Health Protection“ 

$2,650 

Vasile DULGHERU, “Manual of Creativity“ $999 

Valeriu ZBÎRCIOG and Natalia ZBÎRCIOG, 

“Microeconomics” $2,000 

Ala COJOCARU – ZAVADSCHI et al., “Romanian Language 

for Foreign Students Specializing in Economy” 

$1,050 

Group of authors, “A Grammar Usage of the Romanian 

Language“ $1,118 

Dumitru OLÃRESCU, “The Film. The Values of Poetics” 

$800 

Gheorghe COLÞUN, “The Phraseology of the Romanian 

Language. Teaching Material” $2,000 

Summer University “Democracy and Diversity”, Krakow, 

Poland, July 11 – 29, 2000 

Evelin GOROBEÞ, FIUM $1,571 

Summer School Organized within the Rene Cassin International 

Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, 


Elvira LEAHU-POªTARU, senior lecturer, Economy Department, 

FIUM $593 

Seminar “From Here to There”, Amsterdam – Maastricht 

Summer University, Holland, August 21 – 24, 200 

Victoria TCACENCO, Ph.D., university professor, 

Chair of Music and Composition Theory, State 

University of Arts $503 

Courses of the 3rd School of Theory of Knowledge, Warsaw, 

Poland, August 1 – 15, 2000 

Adelina ªTEFÂRÞÃ, lecturer, Chair of Music History, 

A.Russo State University of Bãlþi $410 

Ana SIMAC, “Tapestry Evolution in the Republic 

of Moldova” $3,100 

Total grants for participation of young faculty members 

in international universities and summer schools $3,406 

Leonid CEMORTAN, “The National Theater 

of Chiºinãu” $1,250 

Demir DRAGNEV, Ion VARTA, “The History 

of Romania. Modern Period” $1,375 

Iraida CONDREA, “Communication through 

Translation” $910 

Grants for Postgraduate Students 

The project’s aim was to provide grants to support research 

projects of postgraduate students in social sciences 

and the humanities by covering expenses related 

to research and documentation activity at different universities 

and scientific centers in Moldova and abroad, 

thus facilitating their theses’ writing. 

Except for the textbook “Romanian Language for Foreign 

Students Specializing in Economy” by Ala COJOCARU – 

ZAVADSCHI, which was printed in 400 copies, all the 

other textbooks had a print run of 500 copies each and 

were distributed to university libraries through the Book 

Foundation. 

First Tier Scholarships $800 

Diana CHEIANU 

Natalia MATEEVICI 

Natalia CHERADI 

Second Tier Scholarships $600 


Total expenses $30,078 

Elena ÞURCANU 

Angela BÎRCÃ

Liliana RUSU 

Eduard POTÂNGÃ 

Victoria FONARI 

Pavel MORARU 

Third Tier Scholarships $500 

Maria DILION STRECHIE 

Ludmila NAMOLOVAN 

Victor PANUª 

Svetlana ROVENSCHI 

Vitalie DOGARU 

Eugen CERNENCHII 

Valentin CONSTANTINOV 

Total grants for postgraduate students: $9,500 

Grants for Young Faculty Members 

The program encouraged the process of attraction of 

young lecturers and graduate students into the teaching 

activity. Grants were offered to young faculty members for 

scientific research projects. Sixteen grants were offered 

on a competitive basis in 2000. The competition was 

announced for the following subject areas: pedagogy, 

philosophy, sociology, arts and sciences. In the case of 

young faculty members teaching in the universities from 

Cahul, Comrat and Bãlþi, the fields comprised the entire 

university disciplines specter. 

First Tier Grants $500 

Adelina ªTEFÂRÞÃ, lecturer, Chair of Conducting and 

Theory, SUB 

Victor PALANCIUC, lecturer, Chair of Law, SUB 

Olga COVALGIU, lecturer, Chair of Mathematics in Economy, 

FIUM 

Second Tier Grants $400 

Oleg BONTEA, lecturer, Chair of International Law, SUB 

Veaceslav PÎNZARI, lecturer, Chair of Law, SUB 

Diana POSTU, lecturer, Chair of Pedagogy and Psychology, 

SUM 

Tatiana BATÂR, lecturer, Moldavian-American University, 

Chiºinãu, Chair of Philosophy 

Ruslan ÞÂRNÃ, lecturer, Chair of Engineering and Management 

in Transport, TUM 

Third Tier Grants $300 

Olga IRIMCIUC, lecturer, Chair of Universal Literature, 

SUM 

Angela GÎRA, lecturer, Chair of French Language, SUM 

Ina MOLDOVEANU, lecturer, Chair of Psychology and 

Pedagogy, FIUM 

Ina POUSTOVAN, lecturer, Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy, 

SUM 

Svetlana PROZOROVSCHI, lecturer, Chair of Humanistic 

Sciences, FIUM 

Valentin ARAPU, lecturer, Chair of Universal History, SUM 

Ruslan BELOUSOV, lecturer, Chair of Philosophical Sciences, 

SUA 

Gheorghe RAÞÃ, lecturer, Perspectiva Institute of International 

Relations, Chair of History 

Total grants for young faculty members: $5,900 



HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM 

The general aim of the program was to foster the reform 

in the higher education system of Moldova, thus contributing 

to the synchronization and connection of the Moldovan 

educational system to the education development 

tendencies of the European countries. 

The international seminar “Conceptual Strategies of Reform 

in the Higher Education of Moldova: the Credit 

System – Pros and Cons” was organized within this program 

during April 10 – 11, 2000 in Chiºinãu. The research 

results and the implementation techniques of higher 

education reform were discussed within this seminar. 

$7,865 

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS 

The aim of this program was to involve the youth in the 

process of democratization of the society and to facilitate 

their integration in the international academic community. 

This program contributed to raising the awareness 

of the role of the young generation as a multiple 

factor of democratic experiences and concepts for the 

promotion of social and humanistic development processes 

by means of exchange of ideas and experiences 

and by establishing contacts with students abroad. This 

program provided financial support to students for the 

participation in international summer schools in social 

sciences and the humanities. 

Participation in the Courses of the American Institute for 

Political and Economic Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 


Victoria PLÃMÃDEALÃ $817 

Victor MUNTEANU $826 

Alexandru TRIFÃUÞAN $852 

Alexandru COJOCARU $326 

Participation in the 3rd Edition of Summer Courses on 

Refugees, International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, 

France, June 19 – 30, 2000 

Mihaela GODOROZEA $259 

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Participation in the Summer School of the University 

College of Federalist Studies, Aoste, Italy 

Andrei COVALI, July 9 – August 5, 2000 $547 

Valentin BURUIANÃ, July 9 – 29, 2000 $516 

Participation in the International Competition “Prix de la 

Paix”, France, July 14 – 31, 2000 

Violeta RUSU $515 

Participation in the Jean Monet Summer School of the 

European Integration University of Limerick, Ireland, July 


Ludmila ªARGOV $917 

Participation in the Summer Courses of the Superior 

Pedagogical School, Center of Polish Language and Culture 

for Foreigners, Rzeszow, Poland, July 2000 

Tatiana DRÃGUÞAN $46 

Victoria DRÃGUÞAN $63 

Participation in Summer Courses “Environmental Policy 

and Law in Germany and Europe”, Free University of 

Berlin, Germany, July 22 – August 18, 2000 

Lucia LAVRIC $605 

ons and different forms of collaboration and co-operation 

among institutions from Moldova and abroad. We 

also supported projects concerning students’ social life, 

their work in scientific and interest groups, student associations, 

and formal and informal meetings. In 2000, two 

contests were organized and 14 projects were selected: 

Alternative Student Conference “Current Issues of the 

Political Process in the Republic of Moldova”, Institute of 

Political Studies and International Relations, March 25 – 

June 12, 2000 

Project director: Cornel CIUREA $490 

Participation in Summer Courses “Public International 

Law and the Human Rights”, Castellan, Spain, September 


Marcela JALBÃ $880 

Participation in the Summer School “Economic Co-operation 

in the Region of the Baltic Sea”, University of 

Helsinki, Finland, July 22 – August 13, 2000 

Alina GÃGÃUZ $469 

Participation in the Summer University of Koln, a Course 

in German Language, Koln, Germany, August 6 – 20, 2000 

Ludmila MARTALOG $469 

Participation in the Summer International School “Nations 

and Regions in the Process of European Integration. 

European Security”, Opole, Poland, August 21 – 

September 2, 2000 

Iulia POSTICÃ $242 

Other expenses $255 


Student Conference “Culture and Civilization in the South 

Eastern Europe”, May 10 – 13, 2000 

Project director: Olga PUªCÃ, 4th year student, SPU 

$1,400 

Ecological Education of the Population of the Villages of 

Rediul Mare and Ciutuleºti Situated in the Valley of the 

River Rãut 

Project director: Ionel GONÞA, 4th year student, 

Geography, State University of Tiraspol located in Chi- 

ºinãu $600 

Scientific symposium for students “Students in Archaeological 

Research – 1999: Achievements and Prospects 

for the Future” 

Project director: Liliana GAIVAS, 2nd year student, History 

and International Relations, FIUM $800 

Research Project in the Field of Educational Technologies 

“Modern Technologies of Teaching/Learning of History”, 

April – December, 2000 

Project director: Ala BUCEAÞCHI, 5th year student, History, 

SUM $450 

Scientific Symposium for Students “Anthropological Perspective 

in the Romanian Space on the Conjunction of 

the Millenniums”, October 12 – 14, 2000 

Project director: Victor COJOCARU, 4th year student, 

SUM $1,000 

Sociological Research “Youth and Cinematography”, September 

2000 – February 2001 

Project director: Ludmila PARASCHIV, 3rd year student, 

SUM $300 

STUDENTS’ INITIATIVES PROGRAM 

The aim of the program is to support the extra-curricular 

initiatives of the students. A special attention is being 

paid to students, as they are a force able to promote 

changes in the society and university life by their involving 

into the process of democratization of the educational 

system and by stimulating inter-university co-operation. 

The program supported research projects, seminars, student 

conferences, summer schools, research expediti- 

Symposium “The Dynamics of Student Identity in Central 

and Eastern Europe in XX Century”, October 26 – 28, 2000 

Project director: Marcela NEAGU, 2nd year student, History 

and International Relations, FIUM $1,200 

Publishing of the Papers of the National Debate “Demystification 

and Re-mystification of History”, July – August 


Project director: Vitalie SIMINICÃ, 4th year student, History 

and Ethnopedagogy, SPU $350

Research Project “Regional Collaboration”, July 1 – 15, 2000 

Project director: Valentin BUTNARU, 4th year 

student, SUM $900 

Research Project “Extracurricular Activity 2000”, July 1 – 


Project director: Dorin CIBOTARU, 4th year student, Ecology 

and Environment Protection, SUM $423 

Summer Camp “2000 Images of the Year 2000 Related to 

the World Image”, July – August 2000 

Project director: Adrian MORARU, 3rd year student, Visual 

Arts, State University of Arts $1,000 

Research Project “Students for Legality and Rule of Law”, 

September 5, 2000 – July 5, 2001 

Project director: Victor ZAHARIA, 5th year student, Law, 

SUM $700 

INVISIBLE COLLEGE MOLDOVA 

The Invisible College Moldova (ICM) is a non-governmental, 

non-profit educational institution, committed to reviving 

the tradition of quality education in the country. 

The emerging democracy and civil society in the postcommunist 

Moldova, the steady integration of the country 

in Europe need highly qualified and open-minded 

professionals in social sciences and the humanities. 

The Invisible College Moldova was launched in February 

1996 by the Soros Foundation-Moldova in partnership 

with the Open Society Institute, Budapest, and three 

universities from Chiºinãu as a special International HESP 

pilot-program. The College activity focuses on the following 

priority areas: Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, 

Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Anthropology. 

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Student Competition “Be the Best in Programming”, September 

11 - 25, 2000 

Project director: Loredana AFANASIEV, 3rd year student, 

Mathematics and Information Science, SUM $300 



FELLOWSHIPS FOR YOUNG FACULTY MEMBERS 

AT THE CURRICULUM RESOURSE CENTER, CEU, 

BUDAPEST 

Elena VACULOVSCHI, IIM $216 

Marcela ÞÎRDEA, AESM $383 

Cornelia GRIGORIÞÃ, SUM $216 

Ludmila COJOCARI, FIUM $216 

Virgiliu BÂRLÃDEANU, FIUM $216 

Igor MARDARI, SUM $216 

Stelian MANIC, FIUM $331 



Participation in the symposium “Role of Students in Building 

Open Societies in South Eastern Europe”, American 

University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, July 27 – 30, 


Serghei GULCEAG, student, International Economic Relations, 

CCU $599 

Alexandru OPRUNENCO, Political Studies 

graduate, CEU $599 

Valeriu POPOVICI, student, SUB $599 

Andrei RUSU, senior lecturer, Mathematics in Economy 

Chair, FIUM $600 


Total HESP Expenditures: $166,077 

The principal target group of the Invisible College of 

Moldova’s activity is a group of 70 outstanding students 

in social sciences and the humanities from different 

universities of Moldova, who are selected by the way of 

publicly advertised competitive exams. 

The College curriculum consists of several components, 

identified to address the following objectives: 

— to provide students with advanced scientific knowledge 

as well as practical skills in social sciences and 

the humanities in addition to their regular university 

studies that are not available to them in mass education, 

by inviting lecturers and experts from Western, 

Central Europe and USA 

— to ensure students’ proficiency in English by means of 

mandatory intensive courses in order to facilitate their 

access to foreign academic resources in social sciences 

and the humanities (periodical publications, 

textbooks, conferences, summer schools) and to establish 

academic contacts for cooperation with students 

and academics from abroad, as well as to be 

competitive for post-graduate studies in the best university 

centers around the world 

— to train students in computer operating for the efficient 

use of modern information technologies in their research 

work — the Internet and e-mail communication 

— to create conditions for exchanging and transferring 

the advanced knowledge and experiences in Political 

Science, Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy and 

Cultural Studies within the academic community in 

the South-Eastern Europe by means of common training, 

international seminars, summer schools, and 

publications 

During 2000, about 90 persons were involved in the 

Invisible College activity (70 students and 20 professors). 

Teaching staff is recruited from the best professors of

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higher education and research institutions of Moldova. 

Additionally, visiting professors from the countries of 

Central and Eastern Europe, the European Community 

and USA are involved in the College activities. Visiting 

professors are an important component of the program 

as they bring new ideas, research results and best teaching 

practices. 

The academic training and research work of the students 

occur in the framework of specialized laboratories for 

research and professional training housed on the following 

addresses: 

Sociology Laboratory: Invisible College Moldova, 16/1 

Puºkin St., Chiºinãu MD 2012 

Philosophy, Anthropology, Cultural Studies Laboratory: 

Invisible College Moldova, 16/1 Puºkin St., Chiºinãu 

MD 2012 

Political Science Laboratory: Free International University 

of Moldova, 52 Vlaicu Pîrcãlab St., room 216, 

Chiºinãu MD 2012 

Psychology Laboratory: Ion Creangã State Pedagogical 

University, 1 Ion Creangã St., room 60, Chiºinãu MD 2039 

Computer Classroom: Ion Creangã State Pedagogical 

University, 1 Ion Creangã St., Chiºinãu MD 2039 

Internet Classroom: Invisible College Moldova, 16/1 

Puºkin St., Chiºinãu MD 2012 

Sociology Laboratory 

Valentin ÞURCAN, Laboratory Coordinator, Ph.D., Senior 

Lecturer, Sociology and Philosophy History Department, 

SUM, Head of the scientific laboratory “The Sociology of 

Politics” 

Diana CHEIANU, Professor- tutor, Lecturer, Sociology Department, 

SUM 

Eduard MIHAILOV, Professor-tutor, President of Sociological, 

Psychological, and Political Analysis and Investigations 

Center (CIVIS) 

Ana PASCARU, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Senior Scientific 

Worker, Institute of Philosophy, Law and Sociology, ASM 

Tatiana SPÃTARU, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Senior Lecturer, 

Sociology Department, SUM 

Psychology Laboratory 

Ion NEGURÃ, Laboratory Coordinator, Ph.D., Head of 

General Psychology Department, SPU 

Igor RACU, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Dean, School of Psychology, 

SPU 

Carolina PLATON, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, associate professor, 

Head of the Psychology Chair, SUM, academic 

counselor, ICM 

Tatiana TURCHINA, Professor-tutor, lecturer at the Department 

of Psychology and Pedagogy, SUM 

For the detailed description of the Invisible College 

Moldova’s activities, please visit the web site: http:// 

www.ic.soros.md 

TUTORIAL PROGRAMS 

The main format of the academic program consists of 

regular meetings between students and their professorstutors. 

Each student follows a tailored curriculum worked 

out with the professor-tutor, who then supervises the 

student’s work through regular meetings and consultations. 

The goal of this activity is to develop students’ 

analytical capacity, the capacity to perform independent 

work and conduct scientific research in the field. The 

research topics are focused on the most important issues 

related to the transition period. 

Philosophy, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies 

Laboratory 

Gheorghe BOBÎNÃ, Laboratory Coordinator, Ph.D., Head 

of Esthetics and History of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, 

Law and Sociology, ASM 

Virgil BÎRLÃDEANU, Professor-tutor, Head of Cultural Anthropology 

Laboratory, FIUM 

Corneliu POPOVICI, Ph.D., Professor- tutor, Senior Lecturer, 

SUM 

Eudochia SAHARNEANU, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Associate 

Professor, SUM 

Claudia CRÃCIUN, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Professor, Cultural 

Studies, IIM 

Computer Science Laboratory 

Professors of the Invisible College 

Iurie GUZUN, Ph.D., Technical Sciences, associate professor, 

SPU 

Political Sciences Laboratory 

Mihai CERNENCO, Laboratory Coordinator, Ph.D., Head 

of Social Sciences Department, FIUM 

Oleg SEREBRIAN, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Political Science, 

vice-rector, FIUM 

Igor MUNTEANU, Professor-tutor, Vice-president of the 

“Viitorul” Foundation 

Valentin BENIUC, Ph.D., Professor-tutor, Political Science, 

Head of Political Science Department, SUM 

VISITING PROFESSORS AND GUEST SPEAKERS 

The College organizes short visits to Moldova of outstanding 

lecturers from Euro-Atlantic countries. They 

deliver lectures and work with students on specific topics 

of their special interest and concern. 

The following local and foreign professors presented 

courses at the Invisible College during 2000: 

Michael ANDERSEN, Denmark

Victor BÂRSAN, Ambassador of Romania in the Republic 

of Moldova 

Valentin BENIUC, State University of Moldova 

Iurie BODRUG, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic 

of Moldova, Head of Department 

Trevor BOYD, USA, CEP lecturer 

Mihai CERNENCO, Head of the Political Sciences Laboratory 

Nicolae CHIRTOACÃ, Director ICM 

Aurel CODOBAN, Babeº-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 

Romania 

Barbara DEGUZIS, USA, CEP lecturer 

Cristopher DONNELLY, NATO, Brussels 

Catherin DURANDIN, France 

Gilles FERREOL, Poitiers University, France 

Mihai GHEORGHIU, School of Higher Studies in Social 

Sciences, Paris, France 

Vasile GUÞU, SUM 

Petru IOAN, A.I. Cuza University, Iaºi, Romania 

Andres JEFFNER, Linkoping University, Sweden 

Olga KUCHINSKAYA, Minsk University, Belarus, CEP lecturer 

Ovidiu LUNGU, A.I. Cuza University, Iaºi, Romania 

Valeriu MATEI, Deputy Member of the Parliament of the 

Republic of Moldova 

Silvestru MAXIMILIAN, Free International University of 

Moldova 

Igor MUNTEANU, vice-president of the “Viitorul” Foundation 

Ion NEGURÃ, SPU, Head of the Psychology Laboratory 

Norbert NEUHAUS, Trier Universiry, Germany 

Aliona NICULIÞÃ, Director, CONTACT Center 

Janusz ONYSZKEWICZ, Poland 

Vitalia PAVLICENCO, Deputy Member of the Parliament of 

the Republic of Moldova 

Mihai PATRAª, FIUM 

Mihai PETRACHE, Head of the Administration Office of 

the President 

Simon PITTERMAN, Brussels 

Igor RACU, SPU 

Arkady ROVNER, Moscow University 

Sondra RUBENSTEIN, USA 

Marie-Louise SANDEN, Linkoping University, Sweden 

Oleg SEREBRIAN, vice-rector of FIUM 

André SIROTA, University Paris-X, France 

Jean Francois SOULE, France 

Elizabeta STANCIULESCU, A.I. Cuza University, Iaºi, Romania 

Ion STAVILÃ, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of 


Tatiana TURCHINÃ, Lecturer, SUM 

Gary WILLIAMS, Arlington, USA 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING 

The Invisible College students are offered mandatory 

English language training. By the end of their studies at 

the College, students are to pass successfully the TOEFL 

examination. 

The English teachers for 2000 were: 

Liliana RÎLEA, State University from Moldova 

Rodica COSTIN, Free International University from Moldova 

Elena BEÞ, Free International University from Moldova 

COMPUTER SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 

The Invisible College students have compulsory computer 

training in computer science the end result being 

the efficient use of modern electronic equipment in their 

research work, the use of the Internet and e-mail communication. 

Two computer classrooms are available for 

students: 

Internet Classroom: Invisible College, 16/1 Puºkin 

Street, Chiºinãu MD2012 

Computer Classroom: SPU, 1 Ion Creangã Street, Chi- 

ºinãu MD 2039 

TRAINING COURSES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, 

AND SUMMER SCHOOLS 

The College organizes international seminars and workshops 

dealing with interdisciplinary issues concerning 

the humanities and social-political studies. Students are 

encouraged to take part in various similar activities which 

take place abroad or are organized by the College locally. 

They also have the opportunity to be involved in training 

and development courses within summer schools, discussion 

clubs, study visits to neighboring countries, mobility 

grants etc. All these activities help students to 

become open-minded and to acquire good communicative 

skills. 

During 2000 the most important activities were: 

International seminar “Practice of the Sociological Poll in 

the Society in Transition” (February 25-26, 2000) — organized 

by the Laboratory of Sociology with the financial 

support of the Civil Society Program, Soros Foundation- 

Moldova and administered by the Invisible College Moldova. 

The objectives of the seminar were: identification 

of problems in the activity of sociological services, development 

of methods to overcome the lack of correct 

procedures, fairness and application of international standards, 

establishment of international cooperation in the 

mentioned field. The beneficiaries of the seminar were 

students in sociology, professors and representatives of 

sociological investigation centers. 

Alternative student conference “Current Issues of the 

Political Process in the Republic of Moldova”, Chiºinãu, 

April 21-22, 2000, organized by the Moldovan Association 

of Students in Political Sciences in cooperation with 

the Institute of International Relations and the financial 

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support of the Soros Foundation-Moldova. Participants: 

Victor COJOCARU, Veronica BOHANÞOV and Doina IE- 

PURAª (Philosophy Laboratory) 

Scientific student conference “Young Researchers versus 

Life Challenges”, May 22, 2000, Chiºinãu. Participants: 

Alina BUDECI, Natalia COJOCARI, Veronica PEEV, Svetlana 

PRODAN, Stela SUHAN, Doina MACARU, students 

of the Psychology Laboratory 

“The Crisis of Identity of Political Parties in the Republic 

of Moldova” in “Contemporary Problems of Political Process 

in the Republic of Moldova”, Chiºinãu, 2000, by Igor 

BUCÃTARU 

“Politosphere”, Chiºinãu, 2000, by Oleg SEREBRIAN 

“Regional Developments in the Republic of Moldova” 

Chiºinãu, 2000, by Igor MUNTEANU 

Annual evaluation student conference “Young Researchers 

Facing the Problems of Transition to an Open Society”, 

June 9-10, 2000. Participants: all students and professors 

of the Invisible College. The particularity of this 

conference was that famous professors from Romania 

and Moldova were invited to moderate the meeting and 

the interesting discussions initiated by them. 

“The Development of Local Democracy: General View” 

in “The White Book. The Situation of Local Autonomy in 

the Republic of Moldova”, Chiºinãu, 2000 by Igor MUN- 

TEANU 

“The Condition of the Child in the Society in Transition” 

(SUM, Chiºinãu), by Aliona CHIHAI 

Scientific symposium of students “Anthropological Perspectives 

in the Romanian Area at the Conjunction of 

the Millennia, October 19-21, 2000, Chiºinãu. This Symposium 

was organized with the financial support of the 

Soros Foundation-Moldova. The students of the Philosophy 

Laboratory participated in the organization of 

this symposium and made presentations. Invitees — 

students from Bucharest University, Babeº-Bolyai University 

(Cluj-Napoca), Al.I Cuza University (Iaºi) 

PUBLICATIONS 

Invisible College members share their knowledge with 

the academic community of Moldova through published 

articles in mass media, presentations at seminars, debates, 

conferences and summer schools, etc. The most 

important publications in 2000 were: 

“The Republic of Moldova: Political History (1989-2000)” 

by Mihai CERNENCO, Andrei GALBEN, Gheorghe RUS- 

NAC, Constantin SOLOMON 

“The Republic of Moldova: The Geopolitics and the Geoeconomy 

of the Energy Dependents” in “Energy and the 

Transformation Process in Southeast Europe”, Giitersloh, 

2000, by Oleg SEREBRIAN 

“Contemporary Issues of the Political Process in the 

Republic of Moldova”, Chiºinãu, 2000, by Mihai CER- 

NENCO 

“Multicriterial Analysis of the Foreign Policy of the Republic 

of Moldova” in “Contemporary Issues of the Political 

Process in the Republic of Moldova”, Chiºinãu, 2000, 

by Sergiu RUSU 

“The Republic of Moldova in NIS: Advantages or Illusions” 

in “Contemporary Issues of the Political Process in 

the Republic of Moldova”, Chiºinãu, 2000, by Victor ZA- 

HARIA 

“The Genesis of Political Myths”, “Reflecþii”, #5, September 

2000, by Veronica BOHANÞOV 

“Contemporary Political Myths in the Republic of Moldova”, 

Reflecþii”, # 6-7, February-March 2000, by Veronica 

BOHANÞOV 

“The Semantics of Political Language”, “Reflecþii”, #5, 

September 2000, by Ion CRÃCIUN 

STUDY VISITS OF STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS 

ABROAD 

Linkoping University, Sweden. As a result of the established 

relations with the Sociological Department of the 

Linkoping University (Sweden) four students of the Sociology 

Laboratory: Alexandru NARTEA, Violeta MAHU, 

Ludmila CENUªÃ, Ruslan SINÞOV, performed a study 

visit to Linkoping University in the period April 5-15, 

2000. The Swedish Institute, Sweden, covered the expenses 

related to the visit. 

Stockholm, Uppsala, Linkoping Universities, Sweden, Study 

visit of Eleonora DEPOUY, program coordinator, February 

2000. The Swedish Institute financed this visit. 

Al.I. Cuza University of Iaºi, Romania, Psychology Department. 

Participants: members of the Psychology Laboratory 

Bucharest University and Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, 

Romania. Participants: members of the Philosophy 

and Sociological Laboratories 

CRC Session “Medieval Studies”, CEU Program. Participant: 

Virgiliu BÎRLÃDEANU, professor-tutor of the Philosophy 

Laboratory 

Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from St. 

Petersburg. Participant: Veronica BOHANÞOV, member of 

the Philosophy Laboratory (HESP Mobility Grant 2000)

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND EXTRA-CURRICULUM 

ACTIVITIES 

Students and professors participated in the activity of 

various non-governmental organizations: 

Igor ANDREI took part in conducting the study “Attitudes 

and Political Practices”. 

Tatiana GAUGAª participated in a qualitative investigation 

“Study of the Phenomenon of Women Trafficking”. 

Anastasia BARBÃRASÃ participated in the study “Violence 

in Modern Family — the Republic of Moldova - 

2000”. 

Galina GHERÞESCU and Natalia GRAMA were volunteers 

in the National Center of Child Abuse Prevention. 

Valentin ÞURCAN, Ph.D., is expert in issues related to the 

implementation of the “Public Opinion Barometer” in 

the Republic of Moldova, Institute for Public Policy. 

Diana POPA participated in the project “Republican Center 

of Homeless Children”. 

Ruslan SINÞOV, Alexandru NARTEA, Ludmila CENUªÃ, 

Aliona CHIHAI participated in the work of the “Perspectiva” 

Sociological Center as interviewers. 

Mihai CERNENCO, Ph.D., participated during the year as 

a political analyst with a series of presentations at the 

“CATALAN” TV station, in the framework of the “Colocvium” 

TV program. 

Center for European Education Moldova: Oleg SERE- 

BRIAN, Ph.D., and Mihai CERNENCO, Ph.D., organized a 

series of activities related to European integration. Conferences, 

round tables and other activities took place, in 

which students of the Political Sciences Laboratory participated. 

Well known persons, representatives of the 

Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, ambassadors of 

Poland, Romania, Germany in the Republic of Moldova 

were invited to participate in these meetings. The Center 

succeeded in forming a Confederation of 14 Pro-European 

oriented NGOs, thus making a more considerable 

impact on public life. 

Veronica BOHANÞOV, member of the International Association 

of the Francophone Women and the Lacanian 

Forum of Psychoanalytic Clinics, was involved in different 

conferences, debates, etc. 

Ioniþa PÃCURARU is a volunteer in “Save the Children” 

NGO. She also works as a music and piano teacher at 

Aºchiuþã Center of Resocialization and Reintegration for 

Street Children. She participated at the National Radio 

and Antena C Radio musical and social programs. 

TEACHING MATERIALS ACQUISITION 

Invisible College has a library specializing in social science 

and the humanities literature (textbooks, dictionaries, 

books, and periodical journals), open to all university 

students. A lot of American periodical scientific journals 

in social sciences and the humanities were bought 

through The East & Central Europe Journal Donation 

Project (New School for Social Research, New York, USA). 

Through the support of the HESP and Library Program of 

the Soros Foundation-Moldova, in 2000 Invisible College 

obtained subscriptions to the electronic library of international 

magazines, which are accessible via the Internet 

and on CDs. 

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Students of the Political Sciences Laboratory took part 

in the activity of the Center of Political Analysis of the 

“Ignes” NGO. Within “Ignes”, students took part in various 

discussions and published 8 issues of the newspaper 

„Reflecþii”. 

The Moldovan Association of Political Science Students 

(MAPSS) is formed by a group of CIM students: Cãlin 

BULIBUC, president, Dumitru TITICA, vice-president, Sergiu 

RUSU, member of the Coordination Council. They 

developed a new project “Lyceum Course in Democracy” 

to be presented to the Soros Foundation-Moldova 

for review. 

Association of Young Economists and Lawyers. Participant: 

Valeriu PROHNIÞCHII. He published a newspaper 

— „Curentul Nou”, where students from the Political 

Science Laboratory published their articles. 

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS 

The College ensures the financial support of its students 

(50$ per month), making feasible their aspiration to devote 

extra time exclusively to studies. The scholarships 

are aimed also to reward students for their academic 

activity and to ensure that students will not have to work 

during their studies in order to earn a living. 

Students-members of the Invisible College in 1999 - 

2000: 

Laboratory of Philosophy, Anthropology, and 

Cultural Studies 

Alumni 

Ecaterina ALBU, SUM 

Daniela BÃCESCU, SUM 

Aurelia MIHALAª, SUM 

Second year 

Veronica BOHANÞOV, SUM 

Victor COJOCARU, SUM 

Ion CRÃCIUN, SUM 

Doina IEPURAª, TUM

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Ioniþa PÃCURARU, AUM 

Veronica SEREBRIAN, SUM 

First year 

Olesea BOTNARU, SUM 

Tatiana DOMINTEANU, SUM 

Dumitru LAZUR, SUM 

Mihai POPOVICI, SUM 

Iurie PROHNIÞCHI, SUM 

Sergiu TOMªA, SUM 

Psychology Laboratory 

Alumni 

Alina BUDECI, SPU 

Natalia COJOCARI, SUM 

Alina DRUÞÃ, SPU 

Svetlana MARDARI, SUM 

Victor PARLICOV, AESM 

Veronica PEEV, SPU 

Svetlana PRODAN, SPU 

Stela SUHAN, SUM 

Second year 

Ana CALINIONOC, SPU 

Gabriela GHERMAN, SUM 

Doina MACARU, SPU 

Livia ROªCA, SPU 

First year 

Diana BOTNARU, SPU 

Ludmila CIBOTARI, SPU 

Galina GHERÞESCU, SPU 

Corina RAILEANU, SUM 

Olga ROªCA, SUM 

Tatiana ÞUGUÞCAIA, SUM 

Natalia GRAMA, SPU 

Tatiana RABEI, SUM 

Political Science Laboratory 

Alumni 

Igor BUCÃTARU, SUM 

Sergiu BUªCÃNEANU, SUM 

Alexandru MELENCIUC, SUM 

Valeriu PROHNIÞCHI, AESM 

Victor ZAHARIA, SUM 

Second year 

Cãlin BULBUC, SUM 

Elena GAMARÞ, SUM 

Irina RURAC, SUM 

Sergiu RUSU, SUM 

Dumitru TITICA, SUM 

First year 

Lucia CIOCÎRLAN, FIUM 

Ion DIBREANSCHI, SUM 

Andrei ILAªCIUC, SUM 

Victor MUNTEANU, SUM 

Iulian POSTICÃ, FIUM 

Gheorghe STAMATE, SUM 

SELECTION OF STUDENTS 

Students are recruited to the Invisible College Moldova 

on the basis of an open competition among the third 

and fourth year university students. The criteria for admission 

to the Invisible College are maintained by a 

thorough procedure. Ability, academic potential and performance 

are measured in a multi-stage competition. 

The final decision regarding the admission to the College 

is based on the total scores received by students. 

SFM Partial Grant for Invisible College: $20,000 

Sociology Laboratory 

EDUCATIONAL ADVISING CENTER 

Alumni 

Ludmila CENUªÃ, SUM 

Aliona CHIHAI, SUM 

Violeta MAHU, SUM 

Second year 

Anastasia BARBÃRASÃ, SUM 

Daniela PLATON, SUM 

Diana POPA, SUM 

Ruslan SINÞOV, SUM 

First year 

Igor ANDREI, SUM 

Mariana CHIHAI, SUM 

Petru CULEAC, AESM 

Tatiana GAUGAª, SUM 

Vitalie MIHALAª, SUM 

Parascovia MUNTEANU, SUM 

Mariana NICOLÃESCU, SUM 

Vadim PISTRINCIUC, SUM 

The major objective of the the Educational Advising 

Center in Moldova (EAC) is to provide all the necessary 

information concerning the opportunities of degree and 

non-degree, college and post-graduate education in the 

United States by means of attending specialized courses 

and obtaining grants, to everyone who is interested in 

education, research or training in the US. 

During 2000, the EAC offered informational support to 

about 2,500 visitors, mostly students and university graduates. 

The most popular topics were those concerning 

the opportunities of studies at a graduate level in the 

following fields: Business Administration, Economics, 

Medical Studies, Education, Law, Journalism, Public Administration 

and Foreign Languages. The EAC also continued 

to provide various services that are free of charge, 

such as Internet access and copying of available re-

sources, as well as the use of the library. The EAC Library 

contains university catalogs, textbooks for the standardized 

tests TOEFL, SAT, GMAT, GRE, USMLE, and other 

information materials related to education in the USA. 

During 2000, the EAC was constantly updating its web 

page making it more accessible and rewarding to all the 

Internet users. The number of web visitors has grown to 

approximately 230 per month. The Center offered assistance 

to almost 10,000 phone callers and e-mail messages. 

Graduate Study in the US: Lecture and Video Presentation 

for the Moldova State University graduate students 

and teachers (February) 

Workshop for the US Sponsored Programs Alumni: Graduate 

Study Opportunities in the U.S.A. (March) 

Student seminar “How to Prepare for a Student Visa 

Interview”, May 2000 

Student seminar “On-line and CD-ROM Search for US 

Study Purposes”, October 2000 

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Since 1994, EAC has been administrating the Edmund 

S. Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship 

Program. The Muskie/FSA Program provides opportunities 

for graduate studies in American universities within 

degree and non-degree programs in the following 

fields: Business Administration, Economics, Law, Education, 

Public Policy, Library and Information Science, 

Journalism and Mass Communications, Public Administration. 

The Center’s activity consists of program’s advertising 

campaign, the distribution of the application forms, as 

well as testing, interviewing, and pre-departure orientation. 

Last year several promotion trips were made within 

the advertising campaign, which included various academic 

institutions as well as private organizations. 

One of the most important parts of the Program includes 

test administration and interviews. The following tests 

were administered within the 2000 Muskie/FSA Program: 

GRE — February 1, 2000 with 14 participants, GMAT — 

January 1, 2000 with 11 participants and TOEFL — February 

26, 2000 with 44 participants. The next stage of the 

program consists in organizing the interviews. A special 

team arrived from the USA to interview the Muskie/FSA 

semifinalists, which in 2000 was represented by Gregory 

Alan Hastings, Debra Anne Felix and Kristina Jean 

DeWees. The interviews took place between January 18- 

19, 2000. 

During 2000, the EAC was represented at several events, 

such as: 

—The Annual Scholarship Conference, June 29 - July 2, 

2000 in Prague, Czech Republic 

— Moscow Educational Fair and Intern Training Program, 

Moscow, Russia, April 5-9, 2000 

— Pre-departure Orientation for the Edmund S. Muskie/ 

Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program 

— The Edmund S. Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate 

Fellowship Program coordinators conference 

The EAC participated in the organization of several 

events: 

Seminar with lectures and EAC presentation dedicated 

to the International Education Week, November 13 - 17, 


Besides the Muskie/FSA Program, the EAC also participated 

in the coordination of other exchange and scholarship 

programs like: 

— The Virtual University Undergraduate Exchange Program 

— The Central European University Program 

— International Management Center MBA Program (Budapest, 

Hungary) 

— Community Connections (USIS) 

— FSA in Contemporary Issues (IREX) 

— Regional Scholar Exchange Program (ACCELS) 

— FSA Undergraduate Exchange Program 

— American University in Bulgaria Program 

— The Fulbright Program: Advanced Research and University 

Lecturing Awards in the United States 

— The University of Warwick Graduate School 

— Prague Summer School 

— Fulbright Summer Institutes 

— Humphrey Fellowships 

By the end of the year, the EAC received various information 

materials, such as: catalogues and information booklets 

of the top universities from the US: TOEFL, GRE, 

GMAT, SAT I, SAT II and LSAT preparation materials, 

Colleges and Universities Catalogs for 2001 and other 

useful resources. 

During the year 2000, the Educational Advising Center 

collaborated with many local and international organizations: 

— Soros Foundation-Moldova 

— The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the 

United States Department of State 

— ACTR/ACCELS: The American Council of Teachers of 

Russian/ American Council for Collaboration in Education 

and Language Study 

— IREX: International Research and Exchanges Board 

— Alumni Resource Center 

— USIS Information Resource Center

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— NAFSA: National Association for Foreign Student Affairs 

— CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange 

— Moldova — Pennsylvania organizations 

— TACIS 

— Pro Didactica Educational Center 

— The Invisible College 

— The B.P. Haºdeu Library 

— International Management Center (Budapest, Hungary) 

The EAC operating budget for 2000 was estimated at 

$16,000, including: 

Grant from the Soros Foundation-Moldova: $10,000 

Grant from US State Department: $6,000 

Andrei CERVONEASCII 

Andrei PANICI 

Program administration expenditures $1,861 

Undergraduate Exchange Program, USA 

Scholarships for an academic year for second year students 

in social sciences and the humanities 

Angela DUMITRAªCO 

Roosevelt University, International Relations 

Camelia CRACAN 

Brandeis University, International Relations 

Dumitriþa BUTNARU 

The University of Montana, Journalism 

Program administration expenditures $2,775.23 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

Central European University, Budapest, 

Hungary 

In 2000, the Soros Foundation-Moldova administrated 

several network scholarship programs: American University 

in Bulgaria, The Undergraduate Exchange Program, 

Central European University, including CEU Summer 

School, The University of Warwick, University of Oxford, 

Soros Supplementary Grants Program, Supplementary 

Grants for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies, 

Global Supplementary Grants Program, Supplementary 

Grants for Doctoral Studies, as well as three national 

scholarship programs: Les Ecoles Normales Superieures 

in France, International Management Center, and Merit 

Scholarships. 

The network and national scholarship programs were 

designed to give the young generation of Moldova the 

possibility to obtain adequate and necessary studies for 

the future prosperous development of the country. 

These programs led to the increase of local capacity in 

different fields as well as to the improvement of scholarship 

recipients’ professional training level. 

NETWORK SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 

(In collaboration with the Open Society Institute of New 

York and Budapest) 

American University in Bulgaria 

Complete four-year scholarships leading to a BA degree 

in social sciences and the humanities 

Alexei ANDRONIC 

Alexandra YAROVA 

Alexandru BIVOL 

MA, MSc, LLM and PhD, SJD programs in social sciences, 

the humanities, economics and environmental 

policy 

Ludmila VASILOV 

Environmental Sciences and Policy Modular Program, 

MSc 

Mariana BERBEC 

Legal Studies Program, LLM 

Mariana SIREÞEANU 

Political Science Program, MA 

Mircea COJOCARU 

Environmental Sciences and Policy Program, MSc 

Ecaterina ZATUªEVSCHI 

Gender Studies Program, MA 

Nadejda HRIPTIEVSCHI 

Legal Studies, Human Rights Program, MA 

Olga POATO 

History Program, MA 

Program administration expenditures $4,784.48 

CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary 

Scholarships to attend specialized courses for university 

professors, administrators and other professionals 

Oleg UNGUREANU, Ala PETROVICI 

“The Political Economy of an Eastern Enlargement of the 

EU” 

Andrei FIODOROV 

“Business and Ecology” 

Olga POATO 

“Gender, Nation and Identity: Cross-Cultural and Cross- 

Disciplinary Perspectives”

Tatiana BATÎR 

“Cultures of Capitalism in Late Modernity” 

Marin DOLINÞA 

“Oriental Religions in Central-Eastern Europe — Religious 

Multiculturalism and Renaissance” 

Mariana HARJEVSCHI 

“Digital Literacy for Open Societies; Networked Information 

and Libraries” 

Stela ONU 

“Ritual and Commandment in Jewish Thought and Philosophy 

in the Modern Period” 

Nadejda MAZUR 

“Human Rights and Forced Displacement: An Interdisciplinary 

Approach” 

Program administration expenditures $2, 819.84 

Soros Supplementary Grants Program, Budapest, 

Hungary 

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 

Les Ecoles Normales Superieures, 

Paris, France 

Scholarships awarded in cooperation with the “Alliance 

Francaise” in Moldova, designed for fifth year students 

for a two year period, leading to a Master’s degree 

Georgeta CÎªLARU $11,168.86 

International Management Center, Budapest, 

Hungary 

To students accepted at IMC, the Soros Foundation- 

Moldova offered financial support covering travel and 

visa expenses. 

Ion GHILESCU 

Valentin CRASNIÞCHI 

Other expenses $839.23 

Program administration: $115.24 

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Partial scholarships for students pursuing their studies in 

Central and East European countries and ex-URSS 

Ecaterina FEDOREACA 

Istropolitana Nova Academy 

Aurelian LAVRIC 

University of Bucharest 

Natalia MAXIMENCO 

Odesa State University 

Victor PANUª 

Academy of Sciences, Moscow 

Corneliu PLOPA 

Babeº-Bolyai University, Timiºoara 

Olga ªIªKOVA 

St.Kliment Ohridsky Sofia University 

Galina ªINTOVA 

Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia 

Veaceslav TUHARI 

University of Arts in Bucharest 

Program administration expenditures $612 

Global Supplementary Grants Program, New York, 

USA 

Partial scholarships for Ph.D. students pursuing their 

studies in West European, North American, Asian and 

Australian universities 

Oleg BURUIANÃ 

Bremen University, Germany 

Program administration expenditures $589.28 

Other program expenses: $1,646 

Merit Scholarships 

In 2000, the Soros Foundation-Moldova organized the 

fifth edition of the annual Merit Scholarships Program for 

students of higher education institutions from Moldova. 

The value of a scholarship was established at 200, 300 and 

500 USD. Two hundred and one students from sixteen 

Moldovan higher education institutions participated in 

the competition. Eighty seven students were awarded 

Soros Foundation-Moldova Merit Scholarships in 2000. 

First Tier Merit Scholarship ($500) 

State University of Moldova 

Vitalie GERU 

Academy of Economic Studies 

Petru MALERU 

N.Testemiþanu State Medical University 

Petru CEPOIDA 

Second Tier Merit Scholarship ($300) 


Natalia-Maria-Vlada BUGA 

Andrei CUªCO 

Marcela JALBÃ 

Viorica OLARU 

Sergiu VERLAN 

Victor ZAHARIA 

I.Creangã State Pedagogical University 

Mariana SPÃTARU-FUIOR 


Teodor TOCAN 


Larisa CEBAN

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A.Russo State University, Bãlþi 

Viorel MORARI 

Sergiu POVOROZNIUC 

Iraida STARAªCIUC 

Third Tier Merit Scholarship ($200) 


Loredana AFANASIEV 

Ghenadie ANGHEL 

Veronica BOHANÞOV 

Igor BUCÃTARU 

Eugenia CERBA 

Larisa CIORNEI 

Ruslan CIURCÃ 

Natalia COJOCARU 

Angela GÎRA 

Nadejda HRIPTIEVSCHI 

Adelina LABIC 

Natalia LUCHIAN 

Nadejda LUCHINA 

Svetlana MARDARI 

Alexandru MELENCIUC 

Alexandru POPA 

Valeriu SAVCENCO 

Ruslan STAVER 

Stela SUHAN 

Olga UNTILÃ 

Rita URSALOVSCHI 

I.Creangã State Pedagogical University 

Angela BULGARU 

Elena CARTALEANU 

Alina DRUÞÃ 

Lilia GAªCIUC 

Elena LEVCENCO 

Lilia NACU 

Veronica PEEV 

Technical University of Moldova 

Nadejda BLAJE 

Natalia DULGHERU 

Vitalie LAZARIUC 

Cristina MARIN 

Daniela OLARU 

Dina ÞURCANU 


Stela BIVOL 

Viorica COTICI 

Liliana MUNTEANU 

Natalia PREGUZA 

Diana REVENCO 

Eugen RUSU 

Cristina SOCOLOVSCHI 


Leonidas CRISCIUNAS 

Ion GADIAC 

Stanislav RUSU 

Iulian VOLOªIN 

Free International University of Moldova 

Andrei COVALI 

Irina RURAC 

Alexandru ZGARDAN 

Cooperatist-Commercial University 

Viorica ARABADGI 

Sergiu GULCEAC 

Elena CRUPOVNIÞCHI 

State University of Tiraspol 

Alina ARNAUTOVA 

Valentina GUÞU 

ªtefan cel Mare Police Academy 

Vadim SLONIN 

Gheorghe BOTNARU 

Ghenadie ASTRAHAN 

State University of Arts 

Adrian JAVGUREANU 

A.Russo State University of Bãlþi 

Aliona MANEA 

Nelli AMARFII 

Rodica BOGATU 

Marina BOLOGA 

Oxana CAZACU 

Ion CHIRIAC 

Tatiana CRUGLIÞCHI 

Oleg MIRONCIUC 

Corina POPA 

Doina POPA 

Valeriu POPOVICI 

Tatiana ROTARU 

Nina URSATÎI 

Natalia VARVARIUC 

State University of Comrat 

Natalia LAZAREV 

Total Merit scholarships Program $23,897.82 

Total Scholarship Programs Expenditures: $51,754 

PRO DIDACTICA EDUCATIONAL CENTER 

The mission of the PRO DIDACTICA Educational Center 

is to become a leading organization in promoting essential 

changes in education that will ensure the development 

of personalities that share the values of an open 

society. We envisage the accomplishment of our mission

only through providing high quality educational services, 

offered by a team of dedicated professionals. 

The areas of activity within the programs implemented 

by the Center in the year 2000 were targeting: 

— facilitation of access to the recent information in the 

areas of modern teaching methodology and pedagogy 

— promotion of contemporary approaches to curricular 

development 

— promotion and sharing of successful innovative experiences 

— promoting of public awareness towards educational 

issues 

— support of the pre-service and in-service training 

process for school teachers and managers through 

modern training approaches 

— promoting qualitative change and decentralization of 

the teacher training system within the national educational 

system 

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT 

Supporting and Facilitating the Lyceum Curriculum 

Implementation 

Development of Methodological Guides 

Objectives: 

— to familiarize teachers with the new curricular approaches 

of the subjects taught in lyceum 

— to facilitate the implementation of the curriculum in 

its structural integrity 

— to formulate suggestions for organizing and implementing 

the educational process based on the new 

curricula 

— to facilitate teachers’ professional development according 

to the new curricular requirements, to form a 

respective teaching approach 

Teams of experts — lyceum and university teachers — 

participated in the development of the guidebooks. The 

following guides were published at the Cartier Publishing 

House: “Language and Communication” (three volumes), 

“Sciences” (two volumes) and “The Humanities” (one 

volume). The guides were distributed to institutions with 

the help of the General County Departments for Education, 

Youth, and Sports. 

Conference: “The National Lyceum Curriculum: Conclusions 

after One Year of Implementation”, June 22, 2000 

Objectives: 

— summative evaluation of the teaching process based 

on the new curriculum 

— preliminary evaluation of the impact of the curriculum 

— recommendations for a better curriculum implementation 

in the next academic year 

Participants: representatives from the MES, trainers, curriculum 

designers, county inspectors, teachers and vicedirectors 

responsible for teaching (a total number of 30 

persons) 

School Managers’ Meetings, Seminars, Training Programs 

Two meetings of lyceum directors, including private lyceums, 

from the city of Chiºinãu were organized to present 

the new curriculum and to suggest practical recommendations 

for its implementation. A mobile group of trainers 

from the Center prepared a 20-hour module of interactive 

training. In June, the inspectors and methodology 

experts from all counties were involved in a field activity 

in order to develop the necessary knowledge and abilities 

for new curriculum implementation and evaluation. 

350 lyceum teachers participated in professional development 

courses with the focus on the new curriculum. 

Methodological Workshops “Recommendations for Lyceum 

Curricula Implementation” 

August 20 – November 10, 2000 

Objectives: 

— to offer several practical recommendations for tenth 

and eleventh grade curriculum implementation 

— to continuously evaluate the impact of the curriculum 

on lyceum teachers 

— to ensure continuity in the instruction of school managers 

and teachers involved in the curricular reform 

Participants: county inspectors and methodology experts, 

teachers from lyceums, colleges, and general 

schools that had lyceum classes, teachers who participated 

in the courses organized by the PRO DIDACTICA 

Educational Center. 

53 workshops with training elements, eight-hour modules, 

were organized, from which over 900 teachers from 

all the counties benefited. 

The workshops were designed for the following subjects 

(the trainers’ names are included): 

Romanian Language — Olga COSOVAN, Tatiana CAR- 

TALEANU 

Physics — Tatiana IACUBIÞCHI, Viorel BOCANCEA 

Chemistry — Silvia LOZOVANU, Larisa BOTEZATU 

Mathematics — Lidia BEZNIÞCHI, Roman COPÃCEANU 

French — Iurie MELINTE 

Psychology — Aglaida BOLBOCEANU, Viorica COJOCARU 

Biology — Nina BÎRNAZ, Otilia DANDARA 

Professional Development for Authors and Publishers of 

Teaching Materials 

Objectives: 

— a larger scale of bringing up to date and promoting of 

the requirements for modern teaching materials 

— development of new professional knowledge and 

skills for teaching materials production and publishing 

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Beneficiaries: textbook authors, teaching materials developers, 

editors and publishers 

A questionnaire designed to identify the needs in the 

respective field was offered to publishers. In the first 

semester of the year 2001, the PRO DIDACTICA Educational 

Center will organize two training programs for 

schoolbook authors from Moldova with the participation 

of foreign experts. 

Dissemination of Current Information, Advanced 

Experiences, and Research Results in the Field of 

Pedagogical Theory and Practice 

PRO DIDACTICA 2000 Pedagogical Conferences 

Objectives: 

— to address several compelling problems in the educational 

field 

— to raise public awareness concerning priorities in 

education and its rehabilitation in this European region 

— to raise the interest of decision-makers for active 

involvement in the discussions 

— to stimulate teachers to solve different problems 

— to enhance cooperation with respective institutions 

from the country and abroad 

— to intensively promote the burning issues in the field 

Conference “School Performance Evaluation — Achievements 

and Issues” 

Speaker: Adrian STOICA, the director of the National 

Service for Evaluation and Examinations, Bucharest 

Members of the Department for Evaluation at the MES, 

school and university teachers, representatives from the 

General County Departments for Education, Youth, and 

Sports, and teachers participated. The conclusions concerning 

the achievements and issues on how to redress 

the evaluation process, as discussed by the participants, 

were published in the “Didactica Pro…” magazine. 

Conference: “Key-concepts in Pedagogy: Changing the 

Focus and the Nuances” 

October 25, 2000 

Speaker: Sorin CRISTEA, Ph.D., professor, University of 

Bucharest 

Participants: 35 persons, including trainers from the PRO 

DIDACTICA Educational Center, school and university 

teachers, inspectors from the General County Departments 

for Education, Youth, and Sports and from the 

MES. The conference was anticipated by the presentation 

of the “Dictionary of Pedagogy” by the same author, 

an activity done in collaboration with the Litera Publishing 

House. 

Conference: “Educational Values: Conflicts and Conflict 

Resolution” 

November 20, 2000 

Speaker: Simona CRÃCIUN, Ph.D. candidate, lecturer, 

Al.I.Cuza University, Iaºi 

Participants: 40 experts from different educational system 

levels interested in the respective problem 

Total Curriculum Development Program $78,657.59 

TEACHER TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Developing and Improving the Activity of the 

Training Laboratory of the PRO DIDACTICA 

Educational Center 

The activities provided to achieve this goal were guided 

by the objectives of the School Improvement Program 

and by the current needs for professional development 

of trainers. 

During the year, several professional development courses 

were offered on subjects and themes of maximum interest 

for the participants. 

In the year 2000, 30 trainers worked in the Training 

Laboratory in 13 teams: Educational Management, Romanian 

Language, French, History, Geography, Psychology, 

Pedagogy, Philosophy, Computer Instruction, Physics, 

Mathematics, Biology, and Chemistry. 

Summer School: “Education for Diversity” 

June 29 – July 2, 2000 

Trainer: Constantin CUCOª, Ph.D., Al.I.Cuza University, 

Iaºi 

Participants: 34 trainers and program coordinators 

Topics concerning intercultural education, religious education, 

educational values and conflicts, postmodernism 

in education, and others were discussed. 

Supporting Professional Development 

of Lyceum Teachers 

Scholarship Competition: “Education for an Open Society” 

for science teachers 

January- April, 2000 

Participants: 91 teachers — contest winners 

80-hour professional development modules were organized 

with the following topics: teaching methodology of 

mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. 

Scholarships Competition “Education for an Open Society” 

for rural area teachers 

November 1 – December 10, 2000 

An analysis of the candidates’ applications for the previous 

contest, according to both qualitative and quantitative 

criteria, revealed that the participation of gymnasium 

and lyceum teachers from rural areas was limited. A 

supplementary scholarship contest “Education for an 

Open Society” was announced for this category of teachers 

and 85 participants were selected.

Intensive Short-term Training Courses in General Teaching 

Methodology 

August – October, 2000 

Participants: 146 teachers and school managers 

A survey of needs for professional development and 

discussions of the issue with participants helped to 

identify a series of subjects of a maximum interest. As an 

immediate response to this fact, the Center organized 

short-term intensive courses (modules of 30 hours each). 

Training programs on the topics “Necessity of Change” 

and “The Development of Professional Competencies 

for Educational Process Organization” were developed 

and provided. 

Intensive Short-term Courses in Teaching Methodology 

of Different School Subjects 

October 23 – December 15, 2000 

Participants — 233 gymnasium and lyceum teachers 

Intensive short-term courses were offered for the following 

subjects: Romanian Language, French, History, Geography, 

Psychology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and 

Biology. In order to study the market, but also to stimulate 

the motivation and responsibility of beneficiaries, 

the enrolment to these courses was done on a symbolic 

fee basis of 100 lei. 

— professional development of managers and staff from 

County Educational Departments 

— facilitation of sharing of experience and information 

— improvement of trainer’s knowledge and skills 

Professional Development for School Managers 

Seminar “Team Work Management” 

March 29 – 30, 2000, Liviu Deleanu Lyceum, Chiºinãu 

Organizers: PRO DIDACTICA, Department of Education 

of the Municipal Office, Liviu Deleanu Lyceum, Chiºinãu 

Participants: school directors of gymnasiums and lyceums 

from the city of Chiºinãu, representatives of the Department 

of Education of the Municipal Office, and vicedirectors 

from the Liviu Deleanu Lyceum — over 120 

persons 

Seminar “Team Work Management: Leadership Styles” 

April 12, 2000, Theoretical Lyceum, Teleneºti 

Organizers: PRO DIDACTICA, County Department for Education, 

Youth, and Sports from Orhei, and the Theoretical 

Lyceum, Teleneºti 

Participants: school and lyceum directors from the Orhei 

county, representatives of the County Department for 

Education, Youth, and Sports, Orhei — 40 persons 

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Courses for Teachers of English with the Participation of 

Foreign Experts 

January 2000 – January, 2001 

Participants: teachers of English from schools’ methodological 

centers, lyceum teachers from Chiºinãu 

Discussion topics: 

“Efficient Teaching and Learning Methods”, May, Trainers: 

Aaron CARLSON, Hugh CRUMLEY 

“Stimulating Creativity in the English Class”, September, 

trainer: Kevin MCCAUGHEY 

“American Literature”, January 2000 – January 2001, trainer: 

Hamilton BECK 

Total Teacher Training and Professional 

Development $98,286.88 

Teacher Training within the “Junior Achievement — 1999 

– 2000” Program 

Continuing a several year cooperation, the Center supported 

teacher training activities and development of 

teaching materials for the “Applied Economics” and “Personal 

Economics. The Economics of Staying in School” 

programs, implemented by the Junior Achievement Moldova. 

Total Junior Achievement Moldova $14,725 

EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT 

Objectives: 

— professional development assistance for school managers 

Seminar “Time Management” 

March 29 – 30, 2000, Iulia Haºdeu Lyceum, Chiºinãu 

Organizers: PRO DIDACTICA, Department of Education 

of the Municipal Office, and Iulia Haºdeu Lyceum 

Participants: school directors of gymnasiums and lyceums 

from the city of Chiºinãu representatives of the City 

Department for Education, Youth, and Sports, and vicedirectors 

from the Iulia Haºdeu Lyceum — over 120 

persons 

Seminar “Leadership Styles” 

November 30, 2000, Theoretical Lyceum, Susleni 


Youth, and Sports, Orhei, and the Theoretical 

Lyceum, Susleni 

Participants: 70 vice-directors of schools and lyceums 

from Orhei county, representatives of the County Department 

for Education, Youth, and Sports, Orhei 

Workshops: “The Art of Leadership” and “Personal and 

Public Efficiency” 

December 1-2, 2000, County Department for Education, 

Youth, and Sports, Cahul 


Youth, and Sports, Cahul 

Participants: 30 representatives of the County Department 

for Education, Youth, and Sports, Cahul 

Workshops: “The Art of Leadership” and “Personal and 

Public Efficiency”

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December 7-8, 2000, County Department for Education, 

Youth, and Sports, Lãpuºna 


Youth, and Sports, Lãpuºna 

Participants: 30 representatives of the County Department 

Developing the Consulting and Training Services 

in the Fields of Organizational Development, 

Human Resource Management, and Personal 

Abilities Development 

This program was directed toward assistance for educational 

institutions’ managers and NGO leaders. 

Production of Support Materials 

During the year 2000, support materials related to organizational 

development were produced, with the focus 

on educational unit management issues. Training materials 

for the following courses were developed: 

“Team Work Management” 

“Organizational Culture”, 

“Organizational Communication” 

“Staff Motivation” 

“Communication Abilities” 

“Instruction Abilities (Working with Adult Trainees)” 

“Presentation Skills” 

“Negotiation Skills” 

“Delegation Abilities” 

“Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills” 

Training of Trainers Program for instructors of the “Street 

Law” Project 

January – June, 2000 

Organized upon request from SIEDO (Independent Society 

for Education and Human Rights), Corina LECA, coordinator 

Participants: trainers from the “Street Law” project, 20 

persons 

Training: “Team Work Management” 

May 13, 2000 

Organized upon request from the Youth Development 

Center, Iulia MOLDOVAN, executive director 

Participants: Youth Development Center staff, 9 persons 

Program for instructing the potential trainers of the Center 

for Professional Development affiliated to the University 

from Orenburg, Russia 

October 8 –16, 2000 

The trainings “Adults Teaching Abilities” (five days) and 

“Team Work Management” (three days) were provided. 

Organized upon request from the University from Orenburg, 

Russia, Galina EPANCINÞEVA, vice-dean of the Department 

for Teacher Training and Development 

Participants: a group of teachers and Ph.D. candidates 

(potential trainers) from the State University of Orenburg, 

13 persons 

Total Educational Management $7,556.20 

SCHOOL EVALUATION. SCHOOL 2000 + 

In the year 2000, the program concentrated on a single 

aspect: school self-evaluation. 

Objectives: 

— to develop a model for school self-evaluation in accordance 

with the particularities and necessities of 

education in the Republic of Moldova 

— to train a group of local trainers 

— to disseminate the model through instructional and 

consulting activities 

Participants at the preparatory stage: local trainers, representatives 

of the MES, school directors and vice-directors, 

school inspectors, directors and vice-directors from 

the County Departments for Education, Youth, and Sports 

— 15 persons 

The visit of the expert involved in the program, Paul 

CLARKE, Ph.D., professor at Leeds Metropolitan University, 

Great Britain, expert in school evaluation and development 

(September 22-27), had the following results: 

— priorities for the implementation of a common collaboration 

project were established 

— the cooperation plan as part of the “School Evaluation” 

program was designed 

— the terms for organizing a workshop with the topic 

“School Self — evaluation and Development” were 

determined 

— cooperation possibilities with the MES for the project 

implementation were identified 

Workshop “School Self-Evaluation” 

November 27 – 30, 2000 

This workshop was organized, as a result of the expert’s 

needs assessment visit. 

Participants: trainers and coordinators from the PRO 

DIDACTICA Educational Center, school inspectors, representatives 

from the County Departments for Education, 

Youth, and Sports and the MES 

Moderator: Paul CLARKE, Ph.D., professor, Leeds Metropolitan 

University, Great Britain 

Objectives: 

— to identify the mechanism for a school self-evaluation 

project implementation 

— to establish priorities for the cooperation with the 

County Departments for Education, Youth, and Sports 

and the MES 

— to develop a general theoretical framework for school 

self-evaluation, according to the specifics of the educational 

system in Moldova

— to identify possibilities for co-financing in order to 

implement the next steps of the project 

Total School Evaluation. School 2000+ $16,088.40 

INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION IN THE 

FIELD OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES 

Supporting Schools’ Resource Centers and 

Libraries 

From January to December 2000, the 35 school methodological 

centers were subscribed to newspapers and magazines 

from Moldova, Romania, and Russia, including: 

“Contrafort”, “Fãclia“, “Limba Românã“,“Limba ºi Literatura 

Românã“, “Literatura ºi Arta“, “Tribuna Învãþãmîntului“, 

“Welcome“, “Äèðåêòîð øêîëû“, “Ïåðâîå ñåíòÿáðÿ“, 

“Ó÷èòåëüñêàÿ ãàçåòà“. The books on teaching 

funds were enlarged — each of the 35 schools received a 

set of 1505 books. 

Support for the Information and Documentation Center 

“Education Sciences”, Ion Creangã State Pedagogical 

University 

Project Director: Raisa CÂLDARE, Director of the SPU 

library 

$ 36,598 (matching funds of the Network Library Program 

($18,299) and the Pro Didactica Educational Center 

($18,299) 

Developing the Informational Resources of the 

Pro Didactica Educational Center 

The Center’s library offers information and documentation 

services to Center’s trainees and their trainers in the 

following fields: general pedagogy, educational management, 

teaching methodology of different subjects, literary 

history and criticism, interactive methods and techniques 

for teaching, learning and evaluation, etc. In the 

year 2000, teachers — participants in professional development 

training courses and their trainers were able 

to consult 70 different newspapers and magazines from 

the Republic of Moldova, Romania, and Russia. 

Facilitating the Exchange of Information and 

Experience in the Educational Field 

Experience exchange and familiarization with the educational 

system in Denmark 

March 29 – April 8, 2000 

Co-financing: The Denmark Fund for Democracy 

Participants: 21 experts in the educational field from the 


Vladimir PÂSLARU, director, Institute for Educational Sciences 

Tamara CAZACU, senior expert, Ministry of Education 

and Science 

Eugen MARTIN, Department Head, Ministry of Culture 

Alexandru ONOFREI, vice-rector, State University from 

Comrat 

Ion ªIªCANU, rector, State University from Cahul 

Larisa STOG, lecturer, Alecu Russo State University from 

Bãlþi 

Ludmila PAPUC, chair, Ion Creangã State Pedagogical 

University from Chiºinãu 

Ivan OGURÞOV, chair, State University from Chiºinãu 

Mihai CERNENCO, chair, Free International University 

from Moldova 

Aurelian SILVESTRU, director, Prometeu Lyceum 

Larisa SILVESTRU, educational counselor, Prometeu Lyceum 

Valentina CHICU, vice-director, general school, Horodiºte 

Margareta DUªCEAC, teacher, Mircea Eliade Lyceum 

Mariana KIRIAKOV, coordinator, PRO DIDACTICA Educational 

Center 

Rodica DAVID, librarian, PRO DIDACTICA Educational 

Center 

Lilia STÂRCEA, coordinator, PRO DIDACTICA Educational 

Center 

Victor EFRIM, system manager, PRO DIDACTICA Educational 

Center 

Mariana ALECSANDRI, coordinator, Soros Foundation - 


Iulia MOLDOVAN, executive director, Youth Development 

Center 

Varvara COLIBABA, deputy director, Soros Foundation - 


Total Information and Documentation in the Field 

of Educational Sciences $22,458 

THE “DIDACTICA PRO…” PEDAGOGICAL 

MAGAZINE 

Objectives: 

— design, publishing, and distribution of the magazine 

of educational theory and practice, a press publication 

of the PRO DIDACTICA, intended for gymnasium 

and lyceum teachers and for all those interested in 

the educational process 

— promotion of public awareness on current educational 

issues 

Four issues were published, in a print run of 5000 copies 

each. 

The Advisory Editorial Board established two major directions 

for the magazine’s activities: 

— to illustrate the advanced research results in the field 

of educational sciences 

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— to promote successful pedagogical experiences from 

the Republic of Moldova and abroad 

The authors of articles are teachers, experts, and researchers 

in the pre-university and university educational 

fields. The guests of certain columns, discussion 

tables and conferences are recognized scholars from the 

field of educational sciences in our country and abroad. 

Among them are: Constantin CUCOª, university professor, 

(Al. I. Cuza University, Iaºi), Sorin CRISTEA, university 

professor, (Bucharest University), Vlad PÂSLARU, Ph.D., 

(Institute for Educational Sciences, Chiºinãu), Adrian 

STOICA, Ph.D., (National Evaluation and Examination 

Service, Bucharest), Paul CLARKE, university professor, 

(Leeds Metropolitan University, Great Britain), Mioara 

AVRAM, Ph.D., (Institute for Linguistics, Romanian Academy 

of Science), etc. The Ministry of Justice of the 

Republic of Moldova registered the magazine on October 

27, 2000. The first issues were distributed for free 

(through the County Departments for Education, Youth, 

and Sports) to all schools, gymnasiums, and lyceums 

from Moldova and also to the trainers and trainees at 

PRO DIDACTICA. 

Total “Didactica Pro…”Pedagogical Magazine 

$38,079.77 

ACQUISITION AND DONATION OF REFERENCE 

BOOKS AND BOOKS ON TEACHING 

The book funds of the PRO DIDACTICA Educational Center 

were enlarged with 828 new reference editions in the 

following fields: general teaching methodology and pedagogy, 

teaching methodology of the humanities and 

sciences, educational management, evaluation. 

Training participants, scholarship recipients, and their 

trainers were offered important donations of books on 

teaching. The teachers who received the “Education for 

an Open Society” scholarship were donated sets of methodological 

books and the “Illustrated Encyclopedic 

Dictionary”. The Center, in collaboration with MES, distributed 

the guides for lyceum curricula implementation 

to all the schools, through the General County Departments 

for Education, Youth, and Sports. 

Total Acquisition and Donation of Reference 

Books and Books on Teaching 

$12,345.64 

Operational expenditures: $78,392.6 

Total expenditures: $366,590.03 

($57,570 out of the 2000-year budget) 

Commitments for 2001(on-going projects): $262,430 

READING AND WRITING FOR CRITICAL 

THINKING PROGRAM (RWCT) 

Program’s goal: contribution and support of the improvement 

of the teaching / learning process at secondary 

and higher education levels through promotion and implementation 

of methodologies that foster independent 

and cooperative learning, as well as development of 

critical thinking 

Objectives: 

— to adapt the RWCT methodology to the needs of the 

national educational system and curricula 

— to develop teaching materials incorporating RWCT 

methods and techniques 

— to develop a national team of trainers in RWCT methodology 

at the secondary level of education 

— to develop a team of trainers at the university level 

— to promote and disseminate program methodology 

among the professional community 

Activities Organized to Promote Program’s 

Philosophy and Methodology 

Promotion workshops for university professors 

January 13-15, April 20-22, 2000 

Participants: 30 professors, chairs and deans from Moldova 

State University and I. Creangã State Pedagogical 

University 

Trainers: Jerome B. ZUTELL, Jr., Ph.D., Timothy SHA- 

NAHAN, Vitalie POPA, Alvina GROSU 

Objectives: 

— presentation and promotion of the RWCT methodological 

framework 

— overview of the RWCT teaching strategies with a focus 

on pre-service teacher training 

Promotion Workshop for Secondary School Teachers 

March 17, 2000 — workshop for American Peace Corps 

Volunteers in Moldova 

June 6-9, 2000 — 3 workshops for teachers of Iulia 

Haºdeu Lyceum, in cooperation with the “Step by Step” 

Program 

June 27, 2000 — workshop for educators from Lãpuºna 

County Educational Department 

Objectives: 

— presentation of the RWCT methodological framework 

— overview of the RWCT teaching strategies, with a 

special focus on adapting them to the national curricular 

requirements 

Training Courses for Secondary and University 

Teachers 

All training programs were implemented by the national 

team of trainers.

RWCT workshops: “Strategies for Developing Critical 

Thinking within the Framework of the “Street Law” Program” 

January 29, March 11, May 14, June 30, 2000 

Participants: teachers and teacher trainers involved in 

the “Street Law” Program, SIEDO 

Objectives: 

— Presentation of the RWCT methodological framework 

— Overview of the RWCT teaching strategies, with a 

focus on adapting them to the “Street Law” program 

components 

— Development of training skills of the participants 

Complete RWCT Training Program (120 hours) 

January – April 2000, ªtefan Vodã Regional Educational 

Inspectors’ Office 

Partners: Tighina County Educational Department, “Step 

by Step” Program 

Participants: 21 teachers and methodology specialists 

from the Tighina County 

Lesson Planning and Evaluation Issues. Strategies for 

Developing Critical Thinking 

(48 hour course) 

June 18 – 25, 2000, Chiºinãu 

Participants: 20 secondary teachers, 3 university teachers 

The RWCT Methodological Academy 

(48 hour summer school for university teachers) 

August 13-20, 2000 

Participants: 14 university professors 

Training Workshop: “Introduction to the RWCT Methodology 

— Preliminary Course” 

(30 hours) 

January – December 2000 

Objectives: 

— Presentation of the RWCT methodological framework 

— Development of knowledge and skills for implementing 

the RWCT strategies into the teaching process, 

with a focus on adapting them to the national curricular 

requirements 

— Stimulation of trainees’ interest for further development 

and participation in more advanced training 

programs 

A total number of 21 workshops were organized upon 

request from schools and County Educational Departments. 

Participants: over 400 teachers from primary, secondary 

and university levels 

Schools and County Educational Departments contributed 

to the program costs, covering meals and transportation 

for the participants, as well as offering the use of 

facilities. 

Partners and beneficiaries: General School, Mereni, A. 

Ursu General School, Chiºinãu, Republican College of 

Informatics, “Step by Step” Program, Theoretical Lyceum, 

Mereni, General School, Cioburciu, Theoretical Lyceum, 

Teleneºti, B. P. Haºdeu Theoretical Lyceum, Chi- 

ºinãu, Educational Department of the Chiºinãu Municipal 

Office, County Educational Departments from Ungheni, 

Bãlþi, Orhei, Tighina, Lãpuºna, I. Creangã State 

Pedagogical University, Moldova State University 

Workshop: “Strategies for Developing Critical Thinking in 

Teaching the Humanities” 

(28-30 hours) 

October – December, 2000 

Objectives: 

— adapting RWCT methodology framework to the specifics 

of teaching the humanities 

— developing lesson plans and teaching materials incorporating 

strategies for the development of critical 

thinking 

Participants: 58 teachers from primary and secondary 

school levels 

The 4 workshops were organized upon request from G. 

Asachi Theoretical Romanian-French Lyceum, Chiºinãu, 

and Theoretical Lyceum, Mereni. 

Participants and beneficiaries of the RWCT training programs 

pointed out the functionality of the content presented, 

the practical use of the methods and techniques, 

and the extremely stimulating working atmosphere 

created in the learning groups. 

Total RWCT Expenditures: $40,000 

STEP BY STEP 

In 2000, the Step by Step Educational Program (SbS) had 

the following strategic directions of development: 

— training of teachers serving infants and toddlers, preschool 

and primary school children to foster a childcentered 

educational model in partnership with families 

and community 

— monitoring program quality 

— ensuring continuity of child-centered methods to SbS 

children while they move into middle school 

— ensuring program sustainability on-site 

— training faculty from pedagogical colleges and universities 

to revise practices of training prospective teachers 

— implementing the project “Integrating Children with 

Special Needs into Regular Classrooms” 

— ensuring on-going professional development of SbS 

trainers 

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— providing an arena for continuous sharing of experience 

inside the national SbS network and co-operating 

with ISSA (International Step by Step Association) 

TRAINING TEACHERS 

The major accomplishment of the Program in this focus 

area was that the Ministry of Education Experts Board 

recognized the certificates issued by SbS as valid for 

teachers’ accreditation. 

Throughout the year, about 2280 teachers and administrators 

from 210 institutions attended initiation, basic 

and follow-up trainings. All these teachers and administrators 

are at different levels of advancement in SbS: 

some completed in 2000 one whole primary school cycle 

implementing SbS, others are still at the initial stage of 

familiarizing with this methodology. The basic training of 

a SbS teacher takes 18 days, within a two-year period of 

guided observation in demonstrational classrooms and 

interactive workshops. 

The whole course is divided into modules offered at a 

several month interval. This makes it easier for the trainees 

to better interiorize what was offered in the training, 

make sense of this knowledge while applying it in the 

classroom and formulate questions for the next session. 

This system of training proved to be more efficient than 

a longer one-time training: it helps the trainees develop 

reflective skills and have a feedback on their classroom 

practices. 

Besides the basic course, those interested can apply for 

follow-up courses offered by the Program to ensure an 

extended network of demonstrational classrooms, with a 

good geographical coverage, that represent best childcentered 

practices and which are aligned to the national 

curriculum standards while using collaborative methods, 

following each child’s learning style and pace of development. 

It is hard to overestimate the value of these 

demonstrational classrooms both for in-service and preservice 

teachers and faculty. All in all, throughout the 

year, the Program offered teachers and administrators a 

total of over 270 days of training. 

In 2000, SbS witnessed the largest expansion ever 

through its partnership with the Moldova Social Investment 

Fund (SIFM): 40 schools and 9 kindergartens — 

from communities that applied for grants to develop 

mini-projects and managed to make a contribution of 

15% of its value — were renovated by SIFM. The latter 

also contributed furniture and educational materials to 

SbS classrooms in these schools. It is worth mentioning 

that all these educational institutions are in the rural 

area, where the situation in education is most disastrous. 

Besides training teachers for these classrooms, 

the Program provides them with sets of books extremely 

needed, particularly in the rural area. 

MONITORING PROGRAM QUALITY 

The quality of the SbS program in pre-school and primary 

classrooms is ensured by SbS experts through individual 

consultations with teachers and administrators 

both at the training centers (kindergartens # 216 in 

Chiºinãu and # 43 in Bãlþi, Educational Center in Chi- 

ºinãu, M.Eminescu Lyceum and school # 20, Bãlþi) and 

also on-site, when visiting schools to observe and assess 

the program implementation. Decisions regarding further 

investment in specific schools are made on the 

basis of program quality in the classrooms, administrative 

support, flexibility and eagerness to promote change 

within the whole institution, co-operation with families 

and community. 

TRANSITION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL 

The year 2000 was remarkable by the fact that the first 

generation of SbS children, that started the program in 

1994 in kindergarten, finished primary school. The first 

half of the year in fifth grade was decisive for the attitude 

of middle school teachers, parents, and internal and 

external evaluators towards SbS. It dismissed their fears 

related to the eventually insufficient academic preparedness 

of these children for middle school, possible discipline 

problems they might generate, etc. Middle school 

teachers came to appreciate children’s independent 

thinking, communication skills, and their eagerness to 

learn. These teachers came also to realize the need in 

additional training to meet the expectations of their 

students. 

The Program met this need through the new training 

module meant to ensure continuity of the methodology 

used in SbS and to facilitate children’s transition to 

middle school. Further on, the Reading and Writing for 

Critical Thinking Program took over the training of teachers 

within these institutions. 

ENSURING PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY ON-SITE 

Classroom walls do not limit the educational goals of the 

SbS Program: the changes started through it can become 

durable and sustainable only if they are supported 

by similar changes at the level of the whole institution 

and community at large. The trainings for kindergarten 

and school administrators, as well as for the administrators 

of the new mixed-type institutions, focused on developing 

skills they need as change agents, facilitative 

leaders promoting team work and community building in 

their institutions. Special emphasis was also put on problem 

solving skills that would help them consider new 

opportunities and find fresh solutions to problems existing 

in their schools, on efficient management. Here the 

SbS objectives have many tangencies with SIFM objectives: 

to train human resources so that they ensure a 

self-dependent and efficient functioning of the institu-

tions it was invested in. Some institutions are becoming 

centers for community development. 

HIGHER EDUCATION 

2000 witnessed a greater awareness of faculty from pedagogical 

colleges and universities of the need of change. 

This is due to the fact that teacher training practices are, 

in many respects, lagging behind the classroom teaching, 

particularly with the considerable number of SbS 

classrooms throughout the country. 

Faculty training was done through 2 seminars: in Bãlþi, 

for the faculty of A.Russo State University, Bãlþi (BSU), 

Bãlþi Pedagogical College (BPC), Soroca Pedagogical College 

(SPC), and in Chiºinãu, for faculty from I.Creangã 

Pedagogical University (SPU), A.Mateevici Pedagogical 

College, Chiºinãu (CPC) and Tiraspol State University 

(TSU). Faculty found the seminars very useful and inspiring 

and mentioned the observable impact of these trainings: 

— the greater diversity of teaching techniques used by 

faculty in the classroom, as well as a greater variety of 

evaluation tools 

— new interactive techniques are being used — as a 

result some changes occurred in faculty-students relationships, 

students ask that monotonous lecturetype 

courses be replaced by ones in which they can 

actively participate, their opinion is listened to, they 

have a chance to debate issues, to work in groups so 

that everybody can contribute 

— students are more likely to develop reflective skills: 

they reflect more thoroughly on what they do and 

why, which is absolutely indispensable for a good 

teacher, particularly a child-centered one 

— faculty that attended SbS courses are willing to offer 

public presentations to their colleagues. 

In some institutions, like A.Russo State University, Bãlþi, 

the Departments of Pedagogy and Psychology made some 

dramatic changes in their curriculum: 

— regardless of the students’ major, a compulsory course 

in “Modern Educational Technologies” was introduced 

that includes the module “Child Centered Curriculum” 

— all the students of the Pre-school Department have 

their practicum in SbS classrooms, which is also true 

of the bigger part of the Primary School Department 

students 

— for their optionals, students would choose from the 

following SbS modules: Individualized Teaching, 

Learning through Play and Discovery, Observation 

and Recording, Children from 0 to 3, Partnership with 

Family 

— the new Master’s degree course in Pedagogy and 

Psychology included, besides the above modules, the 

new one — “Integrating Children with Special 

Needs”. 

In summer, faculty from various higher educational institutions 

had a chance to attend 2 international trainings: 

— Integrating Children with Special Needs (Sinaia, Romania) 

— Anatol DANII (MOE), Galina PETCU, Lidia 

STUPACENCO, Valentina PRIÞCAN, Maria PERETEAT- 

CU (SUB), Valentina BUTNARU, Maria VASILIEV (TSU), 

Ion NEGURÃ (SPU), Ana HÂNCU, Cornelia REVENCU 

(CPC), Nadejda NEGARÃ (SPC) 

— Classroom- Based Research (Constantin and Elena, 

Bulgaria) — Vladimir GUÞU (MOE), Lidia BERGHIA, 

Ion NEGURÃ (SPU), Lidia STUPACENCO, Maria PERE- 

TEATCU, Galina PETCU, Valentina PRIÞCAN (SUB), Valentina 

BUTNARU, Maria VASILIEV (TSU), Valentin GO- 

LOBCIUC, Nadejda NEGARÃ (SPC), Cornelia REVEN- 

CU (CPC). 

The latter module was appreciated as a very timely and 

useful one by all faculty, both in their position of scientific 

advisors to students’ papers and mentors for inservice 

teachers who, according to the new accreditation 

requirements, have to write applied research papers. 

INTEGRATING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS 

This project, which is an extension of the concepts of 

individualization and developmentally appropriate practices 

for all children, focuses specifically on children with 

special needs, whose number in regular kindergarten and 

primary classrooms is, regretfully, increasing while the 

teachers are not prepared to meet their needs. 

The project began with training a group of future trainers 

from among SbS pre-school and primary teachers (Romania). 

Later, several workshops meant to raise the awareness 

of SbS classroom teachers of the integration 

issue were held. The next stage is to identify the optimal 

strategy, given the specific economic situation in Moldova, 

that will bring together mixed support groups to work 

jointly with the classroom teachers and train these 

groups. 

PROVIDING ON-GOING PROFESSIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT FOR SBS TRAINERS 

Increasing the number of trainers to meet the growing 

needs, as well as their on-going professional development, 

constitute top priorities of the Program. For these 

purposes, the core team kept identifying new trainers, 

assessed the needs of different groups of trainers and 

organized special trainings both locally, including in 

them the American experts that were on an evaluation 

visit, and internationally (in Romania), through ISSA network. 

The Program offered its trainers various opportuni- 

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ties for professional growth, including those through cooperation 

with the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking 

Program. 

All Program components are in continuous development. 

Total SbS Expenditures: $267,000 

the year included public debates, the participation of a 

team of Moldovan students at the European Championship 

in Aberdeen, Scotland, and the organization of a 

series of workshops to increase the quality of judging 

techniques. A booklet on “Youth for a Cleaner Environment,” 

which contains debate elements, was also published. 

Debate activities specific to regions are highlighted below. 

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE 

LEAGUE 

In 2000, the National High School Debate League continued 

to raise the awareness and standards of the program. 

Throughout the past year, the main objectives of 

the debate program were threefold. First, to improve the 

quality of debates practiced by high school and university 

students. Second, to standardize judging techniques. 

And third, to improve the methods which trainers 

used in conducting curricular and extracurricular activities. 

The objectives of the program were met through a 

variety of activities. For example, a total of 50 workshops 

were held on debate techniques for both the beginner 

and advanced levels. Moldovan high school and university 

students (financially supported by the National Debate 

Program) participated at the three debate camps 

organized locally and at international events which took 

place in Poland, Great Britain, Hungary, Romania and 

Macedonia. 

The Debate Program continued to expand in 2000. 

Throughout the past year, new debate clubs were formed 

in different rural and urban localities. At present, a debate 

club exists in every district in Moldova, and Roma 

clubs exist in two localities. In 2000, several debate clubs 

appeared in Transnistria and debate activities were held 

in minority languages such as Russian, Bulgarian, and 

Gagauz. 

In order to maintain and improve the quality of the 

Debate Program throughout the year, alternative funding 

sources were sought and support from international organizations 

was received which helped the program 

meet its objectives. 

The revival of the University Debate Program is one of 

the main accomplishments during the year 2000. The 

number of university participants doubled during the 

year and in Chiºinãu and Bãlþi, where the bulk of the 

student body was located, many students also served as 

volunteers. Other university debate activities throughout 

THE CHIªINÃU REGION 

The Debate Program continues to thrive in Chiºinãu due 

to the low cost of expenses, an increase in participation, 

and strong financial support. Competitions held in Chiºinãu 

require participation fees, and many high schools do 

not charge the National Debate League a rental fee to 

hold competitions at their school. Individual clubs have 

also started to maintain their own budgets. Teachers in 

Chiºinãu continue to support the debate program by 

locating alternative funding sources and by incorporating 

some elements of debate into their curriculum. Chiºinãu 

students also presented debates on several TV shows 

that raised the awareness of the program. 

THE CENTRAL REGION 

The majority of the activities in the central region took 

place within several strong debate clubs. The overall 

number of participants in regional competitions increased 

in 2000. Competitions were held in Chiºinãu and 

Ialoveni. In some schools, the director and staff provided 

financial support for the activities. In Cãlãraºi, the success 

of the clubs’ activities was largely due to the contributions 

of parents. Several new clubs were formed due 

to the interest of teachers in the region. The quality of 

the debate techniques used by teachers and students 

greatly improved during the year 2000. In Cãlãraºi, debate 

activities continued to expand as a group of Roma 

students began practicing debate and teachers started 

to use elements of debate in such subjects as English, 

Romanian, History and some others. Trainers in this 

region submitted several projects during 2000 to secure 

financial aid, which helped support the activities in the 

secondary school in Cãlãraºi. 

THE NORTHERN REGION 

Like in the other regions, support at the local level was 

the key to the success of the Debate Program in the 

northern region during the year 2000. The cooperation 

and assistance from the A.Russo State University in Bãlþi 

was essential in enabling the debate clubs to conduct 

activities, which involved a large number of people. The 

University also provided rooms for the debates at a 

reduced price. One of the buildings of the Bãlþi State

University is presently housing the Northern Debate Center. 

In Northern Moldova, parents and the community 

financially supported many of the clubs. The majority of 

teachers in the region have been using different elements 

of debate to teach a variety of subjects in the 

classroom and in some schools. Debate is offered as an 

optional subject. At present, there are numerous clubs in 

the north that hold their activities in the Romanian, 

Russian and English languages. 

THE SOUTHERN REGION 

Sustainability is a critical issue in the southern region. 

Representatives from different clubs have begun to collaborate 

in order to ensure the Program’s success. The 

remarkable performance of teen debaters, (students in 

grades 5-8) has played a crucial role in continuing the 

program in this region. Parents, who routinely encourage 

students to participate, support a number of clubs and 

debate activities in this region through financial contributions. 

Debaters in this region participated in several 

TV shows, started using several methods of mediation, 

and facilitated local seminars that fostered cooperation 

between beginner and advanced level debaters. 

STATISTICAL DATA 

Students who practice debate in the region — 2429 

Students who joined the program this year — 680 

Regional workshops — 6 

Local workshops — 44 

Workshops in judging — 6 

Regional competitions — 21 

Local competitions — 10 

Interclub meetings — 19 

Public debates — 19 

Total Program Expenditures: $113,757.3 

Funding sources: 

Soros Foundation - Moldova: $74,509 

Youth Initiatives Fund — “Debating for 

Integrity and Cooperation” Project $19,690 

OSI IDEA — Senior People Debate Project $3,720 

OSCE — “Debating for Peace and 

Democracy” Project $4,990 

REC — “Youth for a Better Environment” 

Project $1,250 

USA Embassy — Roma-kids Debate 

Program $1,376.34 

UNDP — TV Public Debates $2,000 

UNICEF — Children’s Rights Debates $2,000 

Community, Parents — Alternative Summer 

Debate Camp $2,500 

Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova — 

Alternative Summer Debate Camp $1,700 

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER 

The objectives of the Youth Development Center are: 

— to provide youth with general and practical knowledge 

that promotes positive physical, psychological, 

social and moral health 

— to help youth develop leadership skills 

— to assist youth to form effective communication skills 

— to promote teamwork, tolerance towards the opinions 

of others, and conflict resolution among youth 

Throughout the year 2000, based on a well-defined strategy, 

the Youth Development Center (YDC) completed a 

large number of activities in a variety of areas which 

contributed to: 

— educating and forming the personality of youth in the 

spirit of human values 

— preparing teenagers for a life of decency that adequately 

meets the demands of the new millennium positively 

changing the mentality of the new generation 

THE YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEPARTMENT (YLD) 

Young Leaders’ School Program (YLS) has established 

the following basic objectives: 

— to prepare youth for life and integration into society 

while maintaining their individuality 

— to encourage youth to learn and respect the moral 

norms of human co-existence 

— to educate youth on self-esteem and respect for 

oneself, others and humanity as a whole 

— to help youth develop conflict solving techniques and 

decision making skills 

These objectives were met through instructional seminars, 

workshops and TV programs. The YLS volunteers 

were also involved in organizing five instructional meetings 

at the Debate Summer School in Vadul-lui-Vodã (100 

students). 

In addition, twenty volunteers of the YLS actively participated 

in the Volunteers’ Caravan in schools and lyceums 

throughout the districts of Orhei, Lãpuºna and Ungheni. 

The US Embassy, Soros Foundation-Moldova and UNI- 

CEF financially supported this project. 

90 teenagers were instructed within the Young Leaders’ 

School Program and a total of 25 volunteers were involved 

in it. 

THE MASS MEDIA EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAM 

Program director: Emilia MORARU 

The objective of the Mass Media Extracurricular Program 

is to involve the YDC’s volunteers in preparing and publishing 

of two editions of the YDC’s bulletin “Tînar ºi Unic 

— T&U”. 

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TRAINING DEPARTMENT 

Program director: Melania MIHAILOV 

The objective of this department in 2000 was to promote 

the general ideas of the YDC and the most efficient 

modern methods of conducting extracurricular activities 

for teenagers. 

To achieve this goal, three regional seminars were organized 

in the Northern, Central and Southern regions of 

the Republic, where 105 educators, who work in creative 

centers and clubs for children, were instructed. In order 

to develop practical skills in communication, cooperation 

and the mobilization of youth, eight seminars with 

the topic “Conflict and Communication” were organized 

for 224 beneficiaries. These seminars continue to have a 

significant impact on primary and secondary school teachers 

throughout the country. Twenty-two seminars were 

conducted to instruct the participants of the “Samanta” 

and “Rada” Roma clubs on promoting hygienic culture 

and on improving interpersonal relations among Roma 

kids, based on conflict resolution principles. 

participate in the European Festival held during May 1-5, 

2000 in Hambachtal, Germany. In addition to touring 

other places in Germany, the students had the opportunity 

to visit Luxembourg, Paris, Strasbourg, Vienna, Budapest 

and Braºov. 

The Odyssey of the Mind Program was able to carry out 

its activities due to the financial support of the following 

sponsors: 

Youth Development Center $ 6,976 

The German Embassy in Chiºinãu — complimentary visas 

for 31 persons 

“Nefis” biscuit factory in Floreºti $ 1,000 

Community and parents, Spiru Haret Lyceum administration 

(Chiºinãu) $ 1,560 

U.S. Peace Corp Volunteers: Nicky Orr, Melissa Pasteris, 

Kimmi McMinn and Robert Hartwig $ 7,000 

Total: $ 16,536 

OUT-OF-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES DEPARTMENT 

“Enigma” Psychological Club 

Moderator: Ludmila MAZILU 

Odyssey of the Mind (OM) 

Program director: Nina AMBROCI 

The purpose of this program is to support the extracurricular 

activities of students. The program’s activities 

help students develop creativity, logical thinking and 

promote the concept of teamwork. 

OM’s general objective for 2000 was to increase the 

awareness of the program, particularly among teachers. 

This objective was reached through instructional seminars. 

Throughout the year, 61 teams with a total number of 

427 pupils were involved in OM activities and 38 new 

teams with 266 pupils were created with Romanian and 

English working languages. 

In addition, 270 teachers from five districts benefited 

from 10 instructional seminars. 

District competitions were held in: 

Cãuºeni — 9 teams (63 participants) 

Cimiºlia — 7 teams (49 participants) 

Bãlþi — 8 teams (56 participants) 

Ungheni — 7 teams (49 participants) 

A total of 30 teams (210 pupils) participated in the 

annual National Competition. Enough funds were raised 

for the four top teams (a total of 28 participants) from 

the village of Sãlcuþa, Tighina district, the towns of Cimiºlia 

and Floreºti, and the capital city of Chiºinãu to 

The basic objectives of the Club are: 

— to gain a better understanding of human conflict 

— to identify the priorities of constructive conflict for 

society 

— to form practical skills through the conflict resolution 

process 

— to apply and practice the communication skills necessary 

in the mediation stage of conflict resolution 

The following activities were accomplished: 

— creation of two volunteer clubs “GNM” and “Step by 

Step” (78 volunteers) 

— development of teaching materials for the participants 

of the Youth Summer Camp in Transnistria 

— organization of the “Club Rookies” party for the teenagers 

from schools and lyceums in Chiºinãu (250 

persons) 

— publishing monthly booklets 

— organizing and participating in the “International Volunteers’ 

Day” in schools and lyceums in Chiºinãu 

(120 children) 

— collaborating with the “Street Youth” Program team 

— conducting instructional seminars in the “Rada” club 

(Cimiºlia), “Peace Cupids” (Orhei), and “Eurika” (Vadul-lui-Vodã) 

— participation of the GNM club members at the “Council 

of Europe — 50 years” conference with the reports: 

“Human Rights Violations in Conflict Situations” 

and “Interethnic Conflicts: between Myth and 

Reality.”

Roma Clubs 

Moderators: Lilia OLOG, Petru BUNÃCALE 

Reality shows that in most countries Roma communities 

are socially marginalized and discriminated. Taking into 

consideration the decisions of the Council of Europe 

regarding these issues, the YDC created two clubs for 

Roma kids: 

“Samanta” club — School # 6, Slobozia Mare, Orhei 

district 

“Rada” club — theoretical lyceum, Cimiºlia, Lãpuºna 

district 

The basic objectives of the Roma clubs in 2000 were: 

— to familiarize Roma kids with the new concepts of 

social life and integrate them into the education process 

— to involve Roma kids in social life 

— to create a free, creative and unique personal image 

and the ability to overcome social conflicts and difficulties 

in a civilized manner 

— to leave behind all of the old concepts of isolation, 

thus creating a new social status for Roma kids, without 

stereotypes and complexes 

40 meetings were organized for the members of Roma 

Clubs. 

Basic club activities included: 

— thematic lessons on cultural, historic, and aesthetic 

topics 

— creative lessons in poetry, essay writing, etc. 

— instructional seminars and meetings to promote the 

concepts of living a healthy lifestyle, effective communication 

and conflict resolution 

— preparation of materials for the “Tînar ºi Unic” YDC 

bulletin 

— creation of materials for the publication of the “Volunteer’s 

Paper” 

Total Program Expenditures: $122,268 

Funding sources: 

Soros Foundation - Moldova $53,200 

Soros Foundation - Moldova (other projects) $20,923 

Open Society Institute - New York, Youth 

Initiative Fund $27,985 

USA Embassy $5,760 

Dutch Consulate $3,600 

Other sources $10,800 

YOUTH INITIATIVE FUND PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Open Society Institute 

of New York) 

Financed by the Open Society Institute, New York, the 

program is addressed to youth organizations, institutions, 

NGOs, educational institutions (schools, lyceums, 

universities), public institutions, and has the goal to 

support cross-border cooperation or regional activities, 

by financing activities that would foster dialogue and 

cooperation among young people in South-East Europe. 

In the first round of the competition the following projects 

were approved: 

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“Krug” Psychological Club and “YES!” 

School of Volunteers 

Moderators: Serghei CARTAªEV and Ala CARTAªEV 

Throughout the past year, the following activities were 

accomplished: 

— selection of the 4th class of participants in the “Krug” 

Psychological Club 

— development of a questionnaire to determine the 

main directions and optimal forms for instructing volunteers 

— participation of the members of the “Krug” Psychological 

Club and “YES!” School of Volunteers at organizing 

the “Golden Autumn 2000” International Youth 

Camp for Democracy in Transnistria 

— organizing the initial team of the “YES!” School of 

Volunteers and conducting a seminar on the history, 

principles and forms of the volunteer activity 

— organizing an essay competition for the “Krug” Club 

members 

— reflection of the club’s activities in the “Curier” TV 

program of the NIT TV Channel 

“Caravan of Youth” Project 

“Moºtenitorii” NGO, Bãlþi 

Project director Irina MOSCALU $5,562.79 

“Youth-Messengers of Peace and Understanding” Project 

Youth Development Center, Chiºinãu 

Project director Iulia MOLDOVAN $27,985 

“Debating for Peace and Democracy” Project 

National High School Debate League, Chiºinãu 

Project director Sergiu LÎSENCO $19,690 

South East Europe Debate Initiative “ Senior Debate 

Program” 

National High School Debate League, Chiºinãu 

Project director Margareta Duºceac $3,742 

Participation of Sergiu MUSTEAÞÃ in the Helsinki Youth 

Summit, February 8-10, 2000, Helsinki, Finland $812 

Program administration expenditures $5,400 

Total: $63,192

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SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT 

EXCHANGE PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Open Society Institute of 

New York) (Assist, Rotary, CCI Year, West Chester, 

Olomouc — Czech Republic, HMC British Schools) 

This program awards scholarships to 10th grade students 

for study in British and American high schools, and 

also summer programs in the US and the Czech Republic. 

The goal is to improve English language skills and cultural 

awareness through classes, trips, and extracurricular activities. 

Students become actively involved in the school 

community and quickly begin to know and appreciate 

people of different national backgrounds, as well as exchange 

ideas with peers and adults, thus forming friendships 

that cross national and cultural boundaries. 

The effectiveness of the program can be seen as pupils 

return with improved language skills, new ideas and experiences, 

and new insights into the attitudes and values 

of other cultures. Additionally, participation in the program 

promotes self-confidence, social responsiveness 

and other skills essential to the development of a society 

centered on democracy, intellect and mutual acceptance 

among citizens. 

In 2000 there were 19 scholarship recipients: 

ASSIST Program (USA — 1 year) 

Vladislav DARVAY 

Iulia PARINIUC 

Sergiu LAIU 

Rotary Program (USA — 1 year) 

Elena BANARU 

CCI Program (USA — 1year) 

HMC Program (United Kingdom — 1 year) 

Corina BÂRSA 

Nicolina BORDIAN 

Ion MARTEA 

Iuliana ONOFREICIUC 

Alina ªNAIDRUC 

Total Expenditures: $10,900 

EAST EAST 

In 2000, the East East Program organized various projects 

targeting issues of societal development and its 

deficiencies in economic, political and cultural fields, 

public health, local government reform, media, youth, 

confidence building among societies and individuals, 

etc. An important topic that found a further development 

within the East East Program was searching for 

strategies to overcome the consequences of post-totalitarian 

societies. To this end, various experiences of the 

Central and East European societies in building new 

democracies were examined, sharing ideas and opinions 

concerning barriers that persist within societies and various 

communities, encouraging decision-makers and NGOs’ 

representatives to establish partnerships and constructive 

dialogue enabling them to enforce changes within 

society. Thus, during the year ten hosting and bilateral 

projects were completed, which brought to Moldova 

about sixty valuable experts from Central and Eastern 

Europe who shared their knowledge and experience with 

a large public audience. At the same time, more than 180 

participants from Moldova — scholars, professors, students, 

representatives of mass media, NGOs, and public 

authorities, were granted support to participate at 56 

international events that addressed the emerging issues 

concerning the future developments in Europe. 

Natalia FURCULIÞÃ 

Diana IACHIM 

Olesea KOJUªKO 

Elena LETOVA 

Tatiana ROªCA 

Serghei VORNIC 

West Chester (USA — summer program) 

Victoria DUªENCOVSCHI 

Marin ROMAN 

Olomouc (Czech Republic — summer program) 

Diana CASAPU 

Cristina PLÃMÃDEALÃ 

EAST EAST HOSTING PROJECTS AND BILATERAL 

INITIATIVES 

Study Visit in Slovakia: Best Practices in Local Government 

Development 

April 2-13, Bratislava 

Organizers: Local Government Development Center, Slovakia 

and ADRAL (Agency for Regional Development 

through Local Autonomy), Moldova 

Participants from Moldova: 

Victor MOCANU, executive secretary, ADRAL, project director 

Nicolae ANDRIEª, member of the Tighina County Council, 

ADRAL member 

Ivan BURCIU, mayor, vice-president of the National 

League of the Mayors’ Associations of Moldova

Dumitru HODOROGEA, mayor, president of the Soroca 

County Mayors’ Association 

Mircea MARTÎNIUC, vice-president of the Soroca County 

Council, ADRAL member 

Nicolae MÎRZA, mayor, president of the Bãlþi County 

Mayors’ Association 

Oleg MUNTEANU, mayor, president of the Ungheni 

County Mayors’ Association 

Nicolae RADU, mayor, president of the Cahul County 

Mayors’ Association 

Valeriu RENIÞÃ, mayor, National League of the Mayors’ 

Associations of Moldova 

Dusea VIZIR, adviser, Ungheni County Council, ADRAL 

member 

$6,628 

Local Development Initiatives and Cultural Preservation: 

Common Efforts of Poland and Moldova 

Organizers: Rural Foundation of Poland, Center for Archaeological 

Research of Moldova, Soros Foundation- 


First stage: Moldovan Experts’ Visit to Poland 

May 8-15, Warsaw 


Virgiliu BÎRLADEANU, Center for Archeological Research 

of Moldova, project director 

Eugen SAVA, lecturer, FIUM, Center for Archeological 

Research of Moldova 

Tudor MORARU, mayor of the Trebujeni District, Orhei 

County 

Vasile BALAN, president of the Orhei County Mayors’ 

Association 

Ion BUZILÃ, householder from Trebujeni 

Ion MORARI, manager, Butuceni Village, Trebujeni District 

Vladimir MOªOI, businessman in rural tourism, Continent-M 

Company 

Second stage: Visit to Moldova of Polish Experts and 

Roundtable Discussion 

July 19-24, Chiºinãu, Orheiul Vechi 

Participants: 5 Polish experts and 40 local participants, 

representatives of NGOs, local authorities, academic community, 

experts in the field related to the issues in discussion 

$8,648 

A World in Change: through Communication towards 

Integration 

Summer Course for Young Leaders from Central and 

Eastern Europe 

Organizers: School of Journalism of the State University 

of Moldova and the East East Program of the Soros 

Foundation-Moldova 

Project director: Mihai GUZUN, Dean of the School of 

Journalism of the SUM 

July 23 -August 6, Vadul-lui-Vodã, Moldova 

Participants: 40 students and 8 professors from Moldova, 

Romania, Hungary, USA, Ukraine, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, 

Poland, and the Czech Republic 

$13,967 

Religion, Society and Education in the Post-totalitarian 

Countries of Central and Eastern Europe 

Organizers: ANTIM Association of Young Historians of 

Moldova and Soros Foundation - Moldova 

October 26 -28, Chiºinãu and Curchi 

Project director: Sergiu MUSTEAÞÃ, President of the 

ANTIM Association 

Participants: 10 experts from Romania, Russia, Ukraine, 

Croatia, and Hungary 

Total number of project participants: 45 

$5,053 

Documentation Visits and Workshops on Conflict Resolution 

Strategies in Georgia and Moldova 

First stage: Visit to Georgia of Moldovan Experts 

Organizers: Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy 

and Development of Tbilisi, Foundation for Political Culture 

of Moldova and “Viitorul “ Foundation of Moldova 

October 8-14, Tbilisi 


Igor MUNTEANU, President of the “Viitorul” Foundation, 

project director 

Gheorghe COJOCARU, President of the Foundation for 

Political Culture 

Sergiu GUÞU, Head of the Strategic Research Department, 

Ministry of Defense of Moldova 

Constantin CHIROªCO, journalist, Novoie Vremea Newspaper 

Alexandru CANTÎR, journalist, BASA Press Agency 

Viorel CIUBOTARU, coordinator, Institute for Public Policy 


Igor KLIPII, head of the Analytical Center of the Parliament 

of the Republic of Moldova 

Second stage: Visit of Georgian Experts to Moldova 

November 27 - December 1, Chiºinãu 

Participants from Georgia: six representatives of the 

Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, 

NGOs and journalists 

$7,844 

Strengthening NGOs and Public Authorities’ Capacity to 

Sustain the Democracy 

Study Visit in Romania 

Organizers: ECOSENS Association Romania and Soros 

Foundation-Moldova 

October 23 - November 3, Galaþi, Braºov, Targu-Mureº, 

Cluj, Bucharest 

Project directors: Daniel Fistung, ECOSENS Association 

and Vasile Cioaric, president of the “Raza Soarelui” Association, 


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Participants: 10 experts from Moldova 

Vasile CIOARIC, Academy of Public Administration of 

Moldova, president of the ‘Raza Soarelui’ Association 

Valentin BÃLAN, coordinator, Center for Social Innovations 


Ion ªARBAN, Mayor of the Orhei Municipality, member of 

the Orhei County Mayors’ Association 

Ion ALEXÃNDREANU, Mayor of Cimiºlia, member of the 

Pro-Vita Association 

Lidia IONAª, president of the Rusticum Association, program 

coordinator, Costeºti, Chiºinãu County 

Ion MORARU, main specialist at the Economic and Reform 

Department, Chiºinãu County Council, president of 

the Terra Association 

Petru ROTARU, vice-director at the PR Department of the 

Chiºinãu Municipality, member of the ‘Raza Soarelui’ Association 

Virginia SCOBIOALÃ, main specialist at the Public Administration 

Department of the Bãlþi County 

Ion ÞURCANU, mayor of Tîrnova, Edineþ County 

Savelie RUSULEAC, head of the Public Relations Department 

at the Cahul County Prefecture 

$1,561 

Asylum and Border Control: Romania 2000 

Organizer: Romanian National Council for Refugees 

Co-partners: Soros Foundation-Moldova and UN Higher 

Representative for Refugees in Moldova 

November 15-17, Iaºi 


Vasile BATCU, program coordinator, “Save the Children- 

Moldova” 

Nicolae GÎRBU, deputy head, Border Police Department, MIA 

Alexandru CHEPTEA, head of department, Border Police 

Department, MIA 

Corneliu MOÞOC, deputy head of department, Border 

Police Department, MIA 

Iurie MOÞPAN, deputy head of department, Department 

for Foreign Citizens Documentation, MIA 

Alexandru DONI, inspector, Department for Foreign Citizens 

Documentation, MIA 

Oleg PALII, lawyer, Law Center of University Lawyers 

Irina CONOVALI, law assistant, Association for Refugees 


Diana CIUBOTARU, program assistant, UN Higher Representation 

for Refugees in Moldova 

Anca SOMANDROIU, intern, UN Higher Representation 

for Refugees in Moldova 

Vasile GODOROJA, General Prosecutor’s Office, Republic 


Nicolae CHIORESCU, head, Frontier Guard Department 

$432 

Independent Journalism and Social Behavior in a Multicultural 

Environment 

Study Visit of Moldovan Journalists in Bulgaria 

Organizers: ACCESS Association, Bulgaria and Independent 

Journalism Center of Moldova 

November 19-25, Sofia and Soumen Region 


Nicolae NEGRU, Independent Journalism Center, team 

leader 

Rodica MAHU, Jurnal de Chiºinãu Weekly 

Iulian BERCU, reporter, PRO-TV 

Alexandru BARBOV, journalist, Moldavskie Vedomosti 

Weekly 

Nina ªERBAN, journalist, Flux Weekly 

Gheorghe BARBAROV, Cultural Association of Bulgarians 

of Moldova, journalist at the State Tele-Radio Moldova 

Company 

Arcadie GHERASIM, director of the Municipal TV- Chi- 

ºinãu 

Marcel ZATUªEVSCHI, journalist, BASA-Press News 

Agency 

$3,843 

Total EEP Hosting Projects: $47,976 

PARTICIPATING PROJECTS 

Volunteer Centers Network in Central and Eastern Europe 

January 26-30, Bratislava 

Stela MOCANU, coordinator, Volunteer Center Project 

Director, CONTACT Center, Chiºinãu 

Aliona NICULIÞÃ, director, CONTACT Center, Chiºinãu 

$550 

Local Public Concern Issues: from Public Awareness to 

Public Action 

February 8-13, St. Petersburg 

Vladimir CATLABUGA, coordinator, “Viitorul” Foundation, 


$475 

Access to Information: Human Rights and Interests of 

the State 

March 16-17, St. Petersburg 

Antonina BERZOI, Director of the National Archives of 


$421 

Development of Political Parties and Party Systems in the 

Baltic Countries and CIS 

March 22-27, Kaunas 

Corneliu CIUREA, lecturer in Political Sciences, State 

University of Moldova, Chiºinãu 

$649 

International Legal Studies on Human Rights Protection 

April 11-26, Kiev 

Valentin BURUIANÃ, law student at the State University 

of Moldova

Veronica BRÃDUTEANU, law student at the State University 


Corneliu BOBEICÃ, law student at the State University of 


Elena EªANU, law student at the State University of 


Nicolai JURAVSCHI, law student at the State University of 


Veaceslav SLUTU, law student at the State University of 


$766 

NGOs in Local Community Development 

April 21-22, Simferopol 

Vasile BALAN, mayor, President of the Orhei County Mayors’ 

Association 

Grigore MOTRESCU, member of the Lãpuºna County 

Council 

$419 

Regional Cooperation and Responsibilities in Sustainable 

Development 

April 25-28, Olomouc, Poland 

Eduard MUªCATEROV, director, Pro-Business Nord, Bãlþi 

Ilie TROMBIÞKI, Member of Parliament, vice-president of 

the Biotica Association 

Tatiana SINEAEVA, member of the Biotica Association 

Svetlana ARIONESCU, director, Counterpart Center in 


$1,420 

European Higher Education: Reality and Student Visions 

May 4-8, Tallinn 

Serghei GULCEAC, law student, State University of Moldova 

$601 

Comparison of Ethnic and National Minorities in Changing 

Societies 

May 12-15, Krakow 

Igor CAªU, lecturer, Faculty of History, State University of 


Lilia CRUDU, lecturer, Faculty of Political Sciences, State 

University of Moldova 

$240 

Children and Elderly as Groups at Risk: Social Work in 

Transition Society 

May 15-17, Samara 

Iulia IURCHEVICI, lecturer of psychology at the State 

Pedagogical University, Chiºinãu 

Vitalie MELENTI, “Viitorul” Association from Bãlþi 

Lilia TIHON, Chief of Social Assistance, Buiucani Department, 

Chiºinãu 

$1,214 

The Role of Professional Library Associations in the Community 

May 18-19, Tver 

Angela DRÃGÃNEL, Deputy Director, Library Association 


$263 

Multicultural Education: Policy and Planning 

May 20-22, Almaty 

Valeriu CULEV, Deputy Director, State Department for 

Minority Issues and Functioning of Languages 

Silvia BARBAROV, coordinator, Pro-Didactica Educational 

Center 

$1,366 

Third Party Arbitration in Post-Privatization Rural Areas 

May 24-26, Astana 

Valeriu GHERCIU, team leader, Mills Management Consultants, 

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Pilot Project in 


Ana CONSTANTINOV, expert, National Land Program 

Zinaida GUÞU, expert, National Land Program 

Ivan CERNIOGLO, expert, National Land Program 

$2,710 

Adult Education: Challenges and Innovations 

May 24-28, Sofia 

Oleg BURSUC, expert, Pro Didactica Educational Center 

$518 

Cultural Traditions and National Minorities Rights: Policy 

Development at the Local Level 

May 25-26, Lviv 

Alexandru BARBOV, journalist, Cultural Community of 

Bulgarians 

Agnesa EFTODI, deputy head of the Department for 

National Minorities, Ministry of Education and Sciences 


$178 

Best Practices in Child Abuse Prevention 

May 26-28, Bishkek 

Diana POSTU, psychologist, Center for Socio-psychological 

Assistance of Child and Family, Ciocana District, 

Chiºinãu Municipality 

Natalia GRAMA, volunteer, National Center for Child 

Abuse Prevention 

$1,140 

Preventing Sexual Abuse and Violence 

May 26-31, Cluj-Napoca 

Lilia NACU, director, National Center for Child Abuse 

Prevention, 

Liliana DALTÃ, National Center for Child Abuse Prevention 

Aurelia ªINCARENCO, National Center for Child Abuse 

Prevention 

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Valentina COJOCARU, National Center for Child Abuse 

Prevention 

Tatiana CUMATRENCO, National Center for Child Abuse 

Prevention 

Lucia GASPAR, National Center of Information and Documentation 

for Women 

Liuba PRUTEANU, National Center of Information and 

Documentation for Women 

Angela CRUDU, City Department of Children’s Rights 

Protection 

Angela BULAT, Department of Family Rights Protection, 

Ciocana 

Elena MORARU, Crisis Center from Bãlþi 

$835 

Overcoming Social Exclusions in Transition Societies 

May 29-31, Novosibirsk 

Nadejda KRASNOPOLSKI, director of the Gestalt Center 

for Socio-Psychological Assistance 

Andrei RUSU, student, State University of Moldova, 

member of the Youth for the Right for Life Association 

$1,200 

Best Practices in Fundraising for NGOs 

June 6-8, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 

Igor GROSU, coordinator, CONTACT Center, Moldova 

$1,445 

Higher Education for Disabled Students 

June 19-23, St. Petersburg 

Natalia BARGAN, student, Association of Disabled Students 


Natalia BUGA, student, Association of Disabled Students 


Maria MATUªCENCO, Association of Disabled Students 


Elena SUÞKAIA, lecturer at the State University of Moldova 

$1,414 

Working Group Meeting of the Environmental Law Association 

June 21-25, Budapest 

Pavel ZAMFIR, Director of the Ecolex Association 

Victor STRÃTILÃ, Deputy Director of the Ecolex Association 

Iurii PÎSLARU, coordinator, Ecolex Association 

Peter GORBUNENKO, President of the Biotica Ecological 

Society 

Mihai GHEORGHITÃ, Vice rector, Institute of Sciences 

Victor COTRUÞÃ, Regional Ecological Center of Moldova 

Mihai ALEXEI, President of the Law Environment Association 

$2,195 

World Forum on Democracy 

June 25-27, Warsaw 

Nicolae NEGRU, coordinator, Independent Journalism 

Center of Moldova 

Oazu NANTOI, coordinator, Institute for Public Policy 

Alexandru CANTÎR, journalist, president of the Committee 

for Independent Press 

$1,106 

East European Partnership for Children and Adults with 

Special Needs: Active Rehabilitation Camp 

June 26-30, Comorova, Romania 

Maria TONU, Association of Persons with Myopathy 

Disease, Chiºinãu 

Vitalie TONU, president, Association of Persons with Myopathy 

Disease, Chiºinãu 

$229 

International Models of Community Safety Strategies 

July 3-7, Iaºi 

Steliana BURLACU, coordinator, CONTACT Center, Chiºinãu 

Office 

Victor GÃINÃ, coordinator, CONTACT Center, Bãlþi branch 

Sorin HANGANU, assistant, CONTACT Center, Chiºinãu 

Lilian CIPCIRIUC, coordinator, National Federation of 

Farmers of Moldova 

Clara BORTÃ, European Youth Exchange, Chiºinãu 

Olga GRAUR, Non-commercial Law Center of Moldova 

Elina PETROVICI, Center for Social Innovations of Moldova 

Vitalie KIURKCIU, Center for Socio-Cultural Development 

from Comrat 

Dinu COJOCARU, Ozon Environmental Association from 

Bãlþi 

Oxana GORCIACOV, “Viata e un Miracol” Association 

from Cahul 

Octavian IONISIE, Center for Associative Life Development 

from Fãleºti 

Viorel MÃRGINEANU, “Maecenas” Literature Promotion 

Union from Bãlþi 

Cristian ZILBERBERG, Youth for the Right for Life Association 

from Chiºinãu 

Tatiana MUNTEANU, ADSISTO Association 

Anatol NEBUNU, president, Regional Development 

Agency from Cahul 

Stefan TIRON, adviser to the Minister of Education and 

Sciences of Moldova 

$950 

NGO Coalitions in Local Government Decision-Making 

Processes 

July 20-22, Yaremche, Ukraine 

Petru JITARU, president of the Center for Transparency 

and Democracy 

$42 

Evaluation and Monitoring of Social Development Programs 

September 25-29, Novosibirsk 

Ala PÎNZARI, liaison officer, World Bank Office in Moldova 

$552

Privatization and the Role of Co-operatives: New Codification 

of Commercial and Co-operative Law 

September 29-October 1, Prague 

Varvara DULGHIERU, Head of the Law Department, 

MOLDCOOP 

$405 

Issues and Future Prospects of Social Sciences and the 

Humanities Journals 

October 1-3, St. Petersburg 

Mihai CERNENCO, Chair of Social Sciences, FIUM 

Gheorghe BOBÎNÃ, vice-editor of the “Revista de Filosofie 

ºi Drept” Journal, ASM 

$636 

Integration of Disabled Children in Society: Active Recreation 

and Rehabilitation 

October 3-7, Slavsko, Ukraine 

Alexandru TUTUNARU, president, “Arborele Ecologiei 

Spiritului” Association 

Renata POPESCU, physician, “Arborele Ecologiei Spiritului” 

Association 

Virginia RUSNAC, psychologist, Association for Disabled 

Children Assistance 

$230 

Education Programs and Teaching Methodologies for 

Gifted and Talented Children 

October 6-8, Rovinj, Croatia 

Victoria ISAC, deputy director of the Romanian-Turkish 

Lyceum for gifted children 

Mircea MIGLEI, professor at the Technical University of 


$1,359 

Cooperation and Partnership among Young People: Romania 

and Hungary 

October 8-16, Sovata, Romania 

Vlad BOLOCAN, student in journalism, SUM, National 

Debate League 

Ludmila CENUªÃ, student in sociology, Department of 

Philosophy, SUM 

$169 

Community Schools and Education Policy in Transition 

October 9-13, Omsk 

Nichifor IONCU, head of the Department for Education, 

Orhei County 

Valentin UNTURÃ, Education Management Department, 

Ministry of Education and Sciences 

$1,060 

NGOs in Decision-Making about Water Resources 

October 16-17, Almaty 

Nelli GOREACEVA, member of the Terra Nostra Association 

Valentin GARABA, vice-president of the Ecological Movement 


Valeriu ROPOT, president of the Water Quality Association 


$1,962 

Local Government, NGOs and Business Community: Poland, 

Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia 

October 17-21, Warsaw, Kielce, Bilgoraj, Nidzika 

Lilia MELNIC, member of the Ungheni County Local Council 

Elina PETROVICI, coordinator at the Center for Social 

Innovations of Moldova 

$902 

Human Rights Concerning Gays & Lesbians: Cooperation 

among Gay & Lesbian Organizations in the Post- 

Soviet States 

October 19-21, Kyiv 

Alexei MARCIKOV, President of the Gender — Doc Association 

Maxim ANMEGHICEAN, coordinator, Youth for the Right 

for Life 

$152 

Women’s Organizations in Social Partnership to Economic 

Revival 

October 19-21, Kharkiv 

Liuba ZAMA, director, “Ora Implinirilor” Club from Rezina 

County 

Angela CHICU, president, Association of the Professional 

Women of Moldova 

$538 

Empowering Education: Strategy for Leadership for Tomorrow 

October 24-26, Kyiv 

Margareta DUªCEAC, coordinator, Youth Development 

Center of Moldova 

Emilia MORARU, coordinator, Youth Development Center 


Lilia GLADCHIH, professor at the Dumitru Cantemir Lyceum 

from Edineþ 

Ludmila GORCIACOV, president, “Viata-i un Miracol” Association 

$819 

Civil Society in the Caucasus: Solutions for “Frozen” 

Conflicts 

October 28-November 7, Baku 

Radu GORINCIOI, president, Association for Civic Culture 

and Politics 

Victor MUNTEANU, Association of Students in Political 

Sciences 

Corneliu CIUREA, lecturer, Institute for International Relations, 

SUM 

Victor ZAHARIA, president, Demo-Lex Student Association 

$1,805 

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Role of Supporting Organizations and Federations in 

Building the Third Sector Image 

November 11-14, Warsaw 

Aliona NICULIÞÃ, director, CONTACT Center 

Ina GUTIUM, coordinator, IFES-Moldova 

$730 

Central and East European NGO Network: Monitoring 

Children’s Rights 

November 22-26, Sinaia 

Claudia COADÃ, Information and Documentation Center 

for Children 

Natalia MORARU, Information and Documentation Center 

for Children 

$150 

Building Information and Documentation Centers 

November 16-18, Zagreb 

Galina PRECUP, director, Information and Documentation 

Women’s Center of Moldova 

Carolina TRIGUB, expert, Information and Documentation 

Women’s Center of Moldova 

$973 

Regional Center of Conflict Analysis 

November 20-23, Nijnii Novgorod 

Elena GAMARÞ, student, Political Sciences Laboratory, 

Invisible College of Moldova 

$359 

Health Care System Reform: Moldova, Poland, Hungary, 

and Romania 

November 15-19, Sinaia 

Project Director: Oleg BARBÃ 

A team of 15 experts from Moldova, representatives of 

the Ministry of Health, local health departments, professors 

of the State Medical University of Moldova 

$903 

Fighting Corruption: Experts, Politicians, Journalists, and 

NGO Leaders 

December 6-7, Warsaw 

Leonid ROªCA, independent expert on corruption issues 

$414 

The Role of Arts in the Process of Social Change 

December 14-17, Budapest 

Veaceslav REABCINSCHI, art manager at the Eugene Ionesco 

Theater 

$343 

SUBPROGRAM FOR SOUTHEAST EUROPE 

Confidence Building Measures and Conflict Regulating 

Strategies in Divided Societies: Comparative View Macedonia-Moldova 

First stage: Study Visit in Macedonia and Roundtable 

Discussion 

June 7-13, Skopje, Tetovo, Gostivar, Struga, Macedonia 

Organizers: Euro-Balkan Think-tank Organization and Faculty 

of Law — Postgraduate course on International 

Politics and International Law, Law School in Skopje and 

East East Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova 


Ana COREÞCHI, EEP Program Director, Soros Foundation-Moldova 

Oleg SEREBRIAN, political analyst, Free International University, 

Center for European Education 

Ana PASCARU, senior researcher, Institute of Philosophy, 

Sociology and Law, ASM 

Oazu NANTOI, political analyst, “Incredere” Foundation, 

Institute for Public Policy 

Andrei MUNTEANU, economic analyst, Center for Reform 

and Strategic Studies 

Ion COREÞCHI, editor-in-chief, Delovaia Gazeta, Chiºinãu 

Andrei SAFONOV, editor-in-chief, Novaia Gazeta, Tiraspol 

Ion STAVILÃ, expert in international relations, Academy 

of Public Administration of Moldova 

Dumitru TITICÃ, League of the Students in Political 

Sciences 

Alexei MELNICIUK, Piligrim Youth Club, Tiraspol 

Iulian ROBU, journalist, Independent Journalism Center 

$6,884 

Confidence Building Measures and Conflict Regulating 

Strategies in Divided Societies: Comparative View Macedonia-Moldova 

Second stage: Study Visit in Moldova and Roundtable 

Discussion 

December 6-11, Chiºinãu, Tiraspol, Comrat, Albota 

Participants: 15 experts from Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, 

Hungary 

$16,028 

New Technologies of Employment Search: Central and 

Regional Employment Centers 

December 11-16, Simferopol 

Svetlana ªMIGALIOVA, director of the VECTOR Center 

for Unemployed Assistance and Consulting 

$90 

Total EEP Participating: $36,897 

Regional Training Seminar for Newly Established and 

Currently Emerging NGOs to Promote Transparency 

April 8-9, Sofia 

Lilia CARAªCIUC, coordinator, Center for Strategic Investigations 

and Reforms, UNDP 

Petru JITARU, director, Center for Transparency and Democracy 

Ion CUHAL, coordinator, “Viitorul” Foundation 

$2,136 

Children Born out of a Secret 

May 11-12, Zagreb 

Nicolae BEªLIU, coordinator, Child Abuse Prevention 

Center

Svetlana RIJICOVA, lecturer in psychology, State University 

of Bãlþi, Moldova, 

Mariana LUPAªCO, Department for Protection and Family 

Integration, Chiºinãu Municipality 

Claudia COADÃ, student, volunteer at the Child Abuse 

Prevention Center 

$1,754 

Suburban Brakes: Graffiti Gathering 

May 19-20, Ljubljana 

Vladimir US, student, University of Arts of Moldova 

$772 

Labor Emigration from Southeast Europe 

October 27-30, Sofia 

Ion EªANU, head of the Consular Department, Ministry 

of Foreign Affairs of Moldova 

Lucia CONDRATIUC, head of the Department for Labor 

Migration, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of 


$896 

Total Subprogram: $33,597 

Total EEP Expenditures: $118,460 

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Southeast Europe Policy Institute Network SEEPIN 

Nicolae CHIRTOACÃ, member of the Subprogram for 

Southeast Europe Board 

First Meeting: February 21, Ljubljana 

Second Meeting: April 28-30, Zagreb 

$1,430 

Southeastern Europe in a New Europe: NGOs in Regional 

Development and Stability Pact 

September 29 - October 3, Ohrid 

Lilian CHISALIÞÃ, Association for Civic Education and 

Politics, Cimiºlia County Branch 

$602 

Stability Pact: Matching Expertise for Southeast Europe 

October 6-8, Ohrid 

Victor CHIRILÃ, expert in international relations, Ministry 

of Foreign Affairs 

$615 

The Image of the Other in Literature Education in Southeast 

Europe 

November 3-5, Sofia 

Olga COSOVAN, expert, Pro-Didactica Educational Center 

Tatiana CARTALEANU, expert, Pro Didactic Educational 

Center 

Eugen COROI, head of the Department of Textbooks and 

Teaching Supplies, Ministry of Education and Sciences 


$1,304 

Challenges of EU Enlargement 

October 27, Sofia 

Nicolae CHIRTOACÃ, director, Euro-Atlantic Center, National 

Coordinator for the Stability Pact Implementation 

Svetlana PRODAN, project director, CONTACT Center 

$948 

Sociological Expertise as a Mediator between Civil Society 

and State 

October 27-28, Bistritza 

Ludmila MALCOCI, deputy director, Social Investment 

Fund of Moldova 

$228 

LIBRARY PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Network Library 

Program, OSI Budapest) 

The Library Program’s aim is to support library activity 

and develop customer oriented services in a world of 

continuos flow of information and growth of advanced 

informational technologies, thus ensuring an efficient 

user access to the first source information regarding 

human development. 

The main directions of the Library Program development 

in 2000 were determined by the following prerequisites: 

— the role of the library as a cultural, informational and 

knowledge center in an open society 

— the growing importance of municipal libraries as information 

centers in supporting the community 

— the necessity of interlibrary co-operation 

— the integration of libraries and librarians from Moldova 

in the international information community 

— the necessity to meet the international information 

standards 

The Program priorities were set to represent an interaction 

of the main elements of the librarianship activity: 

— Collection development 

— Professional development of librarians 

— Access to information 

— Preservation, conservation and access to collections 

— Library automation 

— The Book Foundation 

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT 

The program has the aim of ensuring a permanent and 

secure access of library users to the first source information 

regarding human development. The program fostered 

library co-operation in co-ordinating the book acquisition 

activity and subscription to periodicals. It also 

supported the collaboration between libraries, publishers 

and book distributors.

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The program welcomed projects developed by central 

and university libraries aimed to create and develop 

specialized collections and to subscribe to foreign scientific 

periodical press. Also, the program granted free 

subscriptions to local periodical press in culture and art 

fields and children journals for public and school libraries 

from outside the capital. 

Science Journal Donation Program (SJDP) 

The aim of the program is to provide access to the most 

recent scientific information in the field of basic and 

biomedical sciences. 

Within SJDP, in collaboration with OSI Assistance Foundation 

NY, the Academy of Science Library, the National 

Library and the Scientific Medical Library received free 

subscriptions to scientific journals in the field of basic 

and biomedical sciences from internationally renowned 

scientific societies: 

The Academy of Science Library — 33 titles 

The National Library — 5 titles 

The Scientific Medical Library — 12 titles 

Development of the Higher Anthropological School Library’s 

Collection 

Project director: Iulia GONCIAROVA, Director of the Library 

of the Higher Anthropological School 

$1,000 

Development of the National Library for Children’s Collection 

Project director: Galina JARUC, Chief of acquisition service, 

I.Creangã National Library for Children 

$952 

Creation of the collection “Sciences and Techniques of 

Democracy”, Analytical Information Center of the Parliament 


Project director: Alexandru PETKOV, Chief of the Analytical 

Information Center 

$325 

Acquisition of Documents in the Field of History and 

International Relations, FIUM Library 

Project director: Olga VACARCIUC, Chief of Acquisition 

and Collection Development Service 

$700 

Soros Foundation-Moldova’s contribution $14,215 

Subscription of Public Libraries from Outside the 

Capital to National Journals of Art and Culture 

Public libraries from outside the capital, penitentiary 

institutions and orphanages received 250 subscriptions 

to each of the “Contrafort”, “Sud-Est” and “Basarabia” 

journals. 

$2,230 

Subscriptions of schools, disadvantaged persons, minorities, 

persons with disabilities to “Alunelul”, “Noi” and 

“Florile Dalbe” journals for years 2000 - 2001. 

$7,630 

Acquisition of Books for Central, University, Public 

and County Libraries 

The program supported the acquisition of 150 copies of 

the book “The Crisis of Global Capitalism” by George 

Soros for central, university and public libraries. 

$236 

The program also supported the acquisition of 600 copies 

of the book ”Guguþã’ s Father When He Was a Child: 

Adventures”, by Spiridon Vangheli for the county libraries. 

$2,004 

Following the competition regarding specialized collection 

development, the program offered grants (up to 

$2,000) for book acquisition to the following libraries: 

Development of the Technical University Library Collection 

Project director: Georgeta GHENGHEA, Chief of Acquisition 

and Literature Record 

$500 

Collection Development of Reference Literature, Special 

Republican Library of the Society for the Blind of Moldova 

Project director: Tatiana CHIPER, Director, Special Republican 

Library of the Society for the Blind of Moldova 

$623 

Development of the Library Collection, AESM Library 

Project director: Silvia GHINCULOV, Director of AESM 

Library 

$1,760 

Development of the Library Collection of the Agency for 

Enterprise Restructuring and Assistance 

Project director: Ludmila DABIJA, Chief of AERA Library 

$1,866 


Total $22,571 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

The aim of the program is professional revitalization, 

dynamic and creative development of the library staff, 

familiarization of library professionals with the most advanced 

achievements in librarianship and information 

technologies through:

— support for establishing of a local infrastructure for 

continuos training of librarians 

— implementation of modern management and marketing 

methods in library activity 

— encouragement of relations of collaboration between 

local and foreign countries’ libraries in order to initiate 

an exchange of ideas and experiences in various 

important fields of the library activity 

The program’s objectives were carried out with the support 

of the Network Library Program, OSI Budapest, as 

well as in collaboration with other organizations that 

were interested in co-financing the projects of professional 

development of Moldovan librarians. 

Participation in International Conferences 

In co-operation with the Network Library Program, OSI 

Budapest, librarians received grants for participating in 

the most prestigious international professional meetings: 

PLA, ELAG, CRIMEA 2000 and IFLA. 

Participation in the Conference of the Public Libraries 

Association of USA (PLA), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 

March 28 - April 2, 2000 

Mariana HARJEVSCHI, Chief of Information Service of the 

B.P.Haºdeu Municipal Public Library 

$1,049 

Participation in the Annual Conference of the European 

Libraries Automation Group (ELAG), Paris, France, April 

11-15, 2000 

Iraida DIGODI, responsible secretary of the National Librarianship 

Council 

$714 

Participation in the IFLA 2000 Conference, Jerusalem, 

Israel, August 13 - 18, 2000 

Natalia CHERADI, deputy director, AESM Library 

$724 

Participation in the CRIMEA - 2000 International Conference, 

Sudac, Ukraine, June 5 - 13, 2000 

Nadejda PÃDURE, director, County Public Library of Chi- 

ºinãu 

Tatiana CHIPER, director, Specialized Republican Library 

of the Association for the Blind of Moldova 

Valentina FRUNZE, Chief of Professional Assistance Service 

of Orhei County Public Library 

$555 

Participation in the International Conference “International 

Standard Book Number 13”, Berlin, Germany, October 

21 - 24, 2000 

Valentina CHITOROAGÃ, director, National Book Chamber 

$547 

Continuous Training Activities 

Several activities regarding the continuous training of 

Moldovan librarians were financially supported in cooperation 

with the French Embassy and French Alliance. 

Internship within the “Currant” Program at the National 

School of Information Sciences and Librarianship (ENSSIB), 

Villeurbanne, France, March 15 - 27, 2000 

Ludmila PÎNZARI, manager of the Chiºinãu Information 

and Documentation Center of the B.P.Haºdeu Municipal 

Public Library of Chiºinãu 

$435 

The project “Managing the Changes within the County 

Libraries” aimed to familiarize the county library managers 

with the experience of the departmental lending 

libraries of France, orientated towards providing new 

information services to community. The project included 

the organization of a seminar in Chiºinãu, September 26 

-28, 2000. Denise POUGET, director of the Departmental 

Lending Library of Gard, and Cristiane IMBERT, director 

of the Municipal Public Library of Carpentras, Hero, were 

invited to facilitate this seminar. The seminar was followed 

by the organization of a study visit of 10 Moldovan 

librarians and directors of county public libraries to the 

public libraries of Gard and Hero Departments, France, 

during October 15 - 22, 2000. 

$6,340 

One of the priority directions of the Library Professional 

Development Program is to sustain the efforts of creating 

an infrastructure of continuous training for the professionals 

in the field. 

In partnership with the Network Library Program of OSI 

Budapest, the program supported the Librarians Association’s 

effort to create a Librarianship School in Moldova. 

This project aims to establish a permanent system 

of continuous training for librarians from all types of 

libraries of Moldova. 

Project director: Ludmila CORGHENCI, vice-president of 

the Librarians Association of Moldova, deputy director 

of FIUM Library 

$37,160 

Participation in the seminar organized by the Network 

Library Program of OSI Budapest within the program 

“Training Center Initiatives”, intended for project directors 

of continuous education centers, Budapest, Hungary, 

September 12 -15, 2000 

Ludmila CORGHENCI, director of the Librarianship School 

of Moldova, vice-president of Librarians Association of 

Moldova, deputy director of FIUM Library 

$367 

Participation in the International Conference “Prospects 

for the Continuous Education of Librarians and Documentalists”, 

Moscow, Russia, December 5 - 7, 2000 

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Nelly ÞURCANU, Chief, Librarianship and Information 

Assistance Chair, SUM 

Iraida DIGODI, responsible secretary of the National Librarianship 

Council 

$432 

National seminar “Bibliographic Description of Documents: 

Alignment with the International Standards”, Chi- 

ºinãu, December 20 -21, 2000. The aim of the project is 

the alignment of the national information system to the 

international principles and rules of documents’ identification. 

The project was initiated within Tempus — 

Tacis project “Library Training in Moldova”. 30 librarians 

working in cataloguing services of central, university, public 

municipal and county libraries were invited to participate 

at this seminar. 

Project director: Zinaida SOCHIRCÃ, director of FIUM 

Library 

$450 

types of public libraries were invited at this seminar: Lars 

Peter MUNKOE, director of Viborg County Library, Hans 

Ulrih HANSEN, director of Municipal Library for Children 

of Hobro and Niels Borg AAJAARD, director of Village 

Library of Karup. 35 librarians from public and school 

libraries from the capital and counties were invited to 

participate at this seminar. 

$960 

The 4th Congress of Librarians of Moldova “Libraries and 

Professional Associations of Librarians in the Perspective 

of 21st Century”, Chiºinãu, December 6 - 7, 2000 

The Congress was organized by the Librarians Association 

of Moldova and assembled 500 representatives of 

all the libraries from the republic. 

$2,000 


Total $59,735 

Pilot project “English for Librarians” 

Launched in 1998, the project offered grants to librarians 

from Chiºinãu libraries to take English language 

courses. In 2000, the project was extended and a group 

of 24 professionals from library institutions of Bãlþi benefited 

from this program. The English courses were 

organized by the faculty members of Bãlþi University. 

Project director: Faina TLEHUCI, director, A.Russo State 

Scientific University Library of Bãlþi 

$4,070 

Organization of International Seminars and 

Conferences 

Symposium “The Library of the 3rd Millennium for Young 

Generations”, Chiºinãu, April 13 - 14, 2000 

Organized within the 4th edition of the Book Chamber 

for Children, the symposium completed the series of 

professional meetings of librarians directed to promote 

reading among children. At this symposium, librarians 

from public libraries for children, school libraries, as well 

as experts from Romania, Russia, Lithuania and Yugoslavia 

were invited to participate. 

Project director: Claudia BALABAN, president of the National 

Section of the International Book Board for Youth 

(IBBY), director of the Ion Creangã National Library for 

Children 

$2,500 

Seminar “Public Libraries from Denmark: Services Provided 

for Users”, Chiºinãu, May 16, 2000. 

The aim of the project was the acquaintance of the 

public and school library managers with the Danish model 

of organization of the library activity. The seminar was 

organized in co-operation with the Pro Didactica Educational 

Center. 3 experts from Denmark, representing three 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION 

The aim of the program is to encourage libraries’ initiatives 

orientated towards the diversification of services, 

offered to various categories of users and the extension 

of users’ access to information sources. 

Project “Creation of the Electronic Shared Catalogue of 

the Bio-medical Resources and Publications”. 

This project was initiated by a consortium constituted 

from the Library of the N.Testemiþanu State Medical 

University, the Scientific Republican Medical Library and 

the MedNet National Center of Medical Information. The 

project’s aim is the development of the bio-medical 

information resources. 

$6,950 

Project “Extending the Access to Information”. The goal 

of the project is the improvement and extension of the 

information network of the Scientific Library of A.Russo 

State University of Bãlþi, to provide access to the electronic 

catalogue, multimedia resources and the Internet. 

Project director: Faina TLEHUCI, director of the Scientific 

Library of the A.Russo State University of Bãlþi 

$8,519 

Within the competition “Improving Services to Public 

Library Users”, in co-operation with the Network Library 

Program, OSI Budapest, the following projects were selected 

and supported: 

Project ELRERO (Electronic Resources Room) 

The goal of the project is to create within the I.Creangã 

National Library for Children a special room, electronically 

equipped, necessary for the study of the multimedia 

information resources and for teaching the Internet 

to children.

Project director: Eugenia BEJAN, deputy director of the 

I.Creangã National Library for Children 

$8,000 

Project “Creation of a Multimedia Room for Children” 

The aim of the project is providing access to the multimedia 

information resources to the users of the I.Creangã 

Public Library for Children of Orhei. 

Project director: Zinaida ADAMACHI, director of the 

I.Creangã Public Library for Children of Orhei 

$6,500 

Project “Ludoteca” 

The project aims at the creation, within the Transilvania 

Public Library, of a special room for access to the multimedia 

information. 

Project director: Parascovia ONCIU, director of the Transilvania 

Public Library, affiliated to the B.P.Haºdeu Municipal 

Public Library, Ciocana district, Chiºinãu 

$5,000 

Project “Library Services for Disadvantaged People: in 

Objective — the Golden Age” 

The goal of the project is to create an efficient system of 

informational service for the elderly users of the Onisifor 

Ghibu Public Library. 

Project director: Elena VULPE, director of the Onisifor 

Ghibu Public Library, affiliated to the B.P.Haºdeu Municipal 

Public Library 

$5,000 

Project “Information Services for the Penitentiary Institutions”. 

The goal of the project is providing access to the information 

resources for the Cricova penitentiary detainees. 

Project director: Angela OLÃRESCU, director of Cricova 

Branch of the B.P.Haºdeu Municipal Public Library of 

Chiºinãu 

$5,000 


LIBRARY AUTOMATION PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Network Library Program, OSI 

Budapest) 

The program aims at library automation by supporting 

projects on creating local automated networks that will 

enable library connection into a national automated library 

system, as well as the connection of all the functioning 

local networks to the Internet. 

Library automation ensures that Moldovan libraries will 

meet the requirements of modern information technologies 

in order to provide a quick and efficient access of 

the users to information and to facilitate their integration 

into international information community. 

In this view, the program supported: 

— automation of university and scientific libraries 

— projects of establishing local information networks of 

libraries from regional centers in order to develop a 

new important aspect of the library activity — the 

creation of Information and Documentation Centers 

for community service 

The financial support is matched on a 50/50% basis with 

NLP of OSI Budapest. 

The Integrated Automated System of the Central Scientific 

Library of the Academy of Sciences from Moldova 

Project Director: Elena COROTENCO, Director of Central 

Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences from Moldova 

$ 47,170 

The following projects were implemented with the financial 

support of other Foundation’s Programs — Medical 

Internet Program and Pro Didactica Educational Center: 

Automation of the Library of the Nicolae Testemiþanu 

State Medical University 

Project Director: Elena BOLGANSCHI, Director of library 

of SMU 

$ 39,234 

(matching funds of NLP — $19,617 and Medical Internet 

Program — $19,617) 

Information and Documentation Center “Education Sciences”, 

Ion Creangã State Pedagogical University 

Project Director: Raisa CÂLDARE, Director of the SPU 

library 

$ 36,598 

(matching funds of NLP — $18,299 and Pro Didactica 

Educational Center — $18,299) 

The following projects are in progress: 

Information Network of the Technical University of Moldova 

Library 

Project Director: Maria CIOBANU, Director of TUM Library 

Orhei Information and Documentation Center, A.Donici 

Public County Library from Orhei 

Project Director: Lidia SITARU, director of A.Donici Public 

County Library from Orhei 

Total expenditures $ 85,086 

PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND ACCESS TO 

COLLECTIONS 

The aim of the program is collection preservation and 

conservation, the transfer of information to other informational 

support, thus assuring the users’ access to 

worthy collections and unique information. 

In collaboration with the Network Library Program of OSI 

Budapest, the program supported the project of the 

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National Library of Moldova “Technical Center of Conservation 

and Restoration”. The project aims at creating 

a national center of restoration and conservation of the 

documentary heritage from all Moldovan libraries collections 

(rare books of bibliophilic value and old maps). 

Project Director: Alexe RÂU, director of the National 

Library of Moldova 

$65,000 

Total expenses program $65,000 

THE BOOK FOUNDATION 

The activity of the Book Foundation was orientated with 

preference towards the establishing of relationships with 

local and Romanian publishing houses in order to organize 

books commercializing activity at accessible prices. 

The Book Foundation received a grant of $5,000 for book 

acquisition from Romanian publishing houses, which were 

then commercialized, the obtained income being used for 

new acquisitions. Thus, in 2000, as a result of the contracts 

with publishers, the Book Foundation purchased 

4325 books for about $9,000 with a maximum discount. 

The Book Foundation continued its traditional activity of 

distributing books published through the support of the 

Soros Foundation-Moldova to university, central and public 

libraries from outside the capital and donations of 

books offered by publishers. Over the year, more than 39 

titles were distributed through the Book Foundation to 

about 40 library institutions. 

In 2000, the Book Foundation continued to co-ordinate 

the activity of the Regional Program “Puºkin Project” for 

Moldovan libraries. The participating libraries had the 

possibility to purchase universal literature in social sciences 

and the humanities, translated into Russian, at 50% 

from its price value, the rest of 50%, as well as the postage 

expenses being covered by the “Puºkin Project” Program. 

The following libraries are participating in this project: 

— National Library 

— I.Creangã National Library for Children 

— B.P.Haºdeu Public Municipal Library 

— Academy of Economic Studies Library 

— Agricultural University Library 

— Free Independent University of Moldova Library 

— Central University Library of the State University of 


— A.Russo State Scientific University Library of Bãlþi 

— I.Creangã State Pedagogical University Library 

— State University of Comrat Library 

— Public County Library of Comrat 

— Commercial Cooperatist University Library 

— Slavic University Library. 

$6,080 


INTERNET PROGRAM 

The mission of the Internet Program is to contribute to 

Moldova’s integration into the informational community 

of an open society by using the opportunities provided 

by communication electronic technologies and free access 

to informational resources. 

The Internet Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova 

(SFM) supports projects that have as their objective 

creation of WWW servers, web page development, and 

training in the area of electronic technologies of communication 

and electronic publications. The implementation 

of these projects will contribute to the development 

of the informational content of the Internet network in 

Moldova. 

The Internet for Moldova project was established at the 

beginning of 1995. The project was brought forth as a 

response to the poorly developed telecommunications 

infrastructure and to projects submitted by universities 

to the Foundation related to Internet access. 

In order to implement the Internet for Moldova project 

and develop the academia network, Soros Foundation - 

Moldova established a public institution — the DNT 

Association, registered at the Ministry of Justice on May 

20, 1998. 

PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN COLLABORATION 

WITH THE DNT ASSOCIATION 

With the financial support from the Soros Foundation, 

throughout the year 2000, the DNT Association offered 

access to the Internet (free or at considerable discounts) 

to mass media organizations, NGOs in the capital and 

different regions of Moldova, high schools and lyceums 

around the whole country, the Ministry of Science and 

Education, the Center of New Information Technologies, 

universities in Chiºinãu, the Academy of Science, the 

Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, the Quality Assessment 

and Accreditation Board, the Republican Center 

for Advanced Training of the Ministry of Justice and the 

Public Prosecutor’s Office, and other legal institutions. 

Aimed at developing informational resources in Moldova 

throughout year 2000 of its activity, the DNT Association 

implemented the following Internet projects with the 

financial aid from the Soros Foundation -Moldova and in 

partnership with various organizations: 

Catalog of Theaters in Moldova (http://teatre.art.md) and 

Internet access for the theaters in Moldova. As part of 

this project, computer and Internet training was organized 

for representatives of theaters responsible for presenting 

theaters in the catalog. Project coordinator Constantin 

CHEIANU

Internet Presentation of the Contrafort Journal (http:// 

www.contrafort.md), the site of the Journal representing 

its full on-line version provided with a search engine. The 

site also contains an archive and useful links by subject. 

CREATION OF A LOCAL CISCO ACADEMY 

“Cisco Networking Academy Program”, developed 

by the Cisco Systems, is an educational program with 

3000 centers around the world — in the United States 

and 52 other countries of the world. This program uses 

the most efficient methods of training: distance learning 

and computer-assisted learning (E-Learning, Web-Learning, 

Internet Learning). 

The main objective of the program is to ensure an adequate 

training for students and graduates that addresses 

prospective professionals in the field of designing, 

installing and administration of networks. Another objective 

of the program is to support commercial entities 

by offering trained work force, particularly those with 

proper specialization in the field of computer networks. 

Last but not least, Cisco Networking Academy aims at 

supporting government initiatives of introducing information 

technologies into the educational system. 

In May 2000, the DNT launched the first Cisco Academy 

in Moldova, as part of the Cisco Educational Program 

(http://netacad.dnt.md). The DNT Association set up a 

special laboratory with access to the Internet and installed 

Cisco equipment necessary for practical classes 

in the laboratory as part of the courses. These courses 

became very popular. In 2000, 67 students signed up and 

started courses. 

$20,000 

With its own resources, the DNT Association continued 

support for the following projects initially launched with 

the assistance of the Soros Foundation - Moldova: 

Moldova Internet Resources (http://www.ournet.md) — 

an Internet directory of Moldova sorted by categories 

and provided with a powerful search system. Now this 

portal also contains programs of instant messaging and 

communication services such as Odigo and Short Message 

Service for mobile telephone users. Programs of 

TV channels accessible in Moldova can be found In the 

TV Guide. 

OurNet Free Web Hosting (http://www.ournet.md/hosting/), 

the only server in Moldova offering free hosting for 

personal Web pages and thus creating a virtual community 

in Moldova. 

OurNet Moldova News (http://news.ournet.md/). The 

most interesting and important news in Moldova and 

about Moldova selected and placed on the web page of 

OurNet. This project is implemented in co-operation 

with the Independent Journalism Center that is responsible 

for selecting the news from the flow of news available 

from local agencies. 

Free e-mail server accessible from any part of the world — 

mail.md (http://www.mail.md). The server has a threelanguage 

interface: Romanian, Russian and English. As of 

December 2000, the server was providing and supporting 

43,000 e-mail accounts. 

AD.MD and 1ha — Moldova Banner Exchange (http:// 

www.ad.md and http://1ha.ad.md), a system of banner 

exchange of different standards, is a widely practiced 

method of advertising in the Internet. It offers free advertising 

of web pages in Moldova, thus promoting informational 

resources in Moldova. 

OTHER PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THE INTERNET 

PROGRAM IN 2000 

Summer School in Computer Science – 2000 

Center of New Information Technologies (CNIT) 

Project director Grigore VASILACHE 

From August 7 to August 20, 2000, CNIT organized a 

summer school in computer science — 2000. Students 

attended this summer school from pre-university institutions 

who got high scores at nation-wide contests in 

mathematics and computer science. 8 groups of students 

were created. All the groups were offered theoretical 

and student-tailored practical courses. 

$5,476 

Ensuring Transparency of the Activity of the Parliament 


The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova 

Project director Igor KLIPII 

The goal of the project is to promote the dialog between 

the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova and 

civil society. 

Project’s objectives: 

— to include the information on the activity of permanent 

and special commissions of the Parliament of 

the Republic of Moldova into the Internet site 

— to launch a “Questions and Answers” interactive system 

related to the Parliament’s activity that will provide 

the representatives of the civil society with the 

possibility of addressing questions directly to the 

various parliamentary divisions. Analysis of the questions 

and issues addressed to the Parliament and its 

divisions as well as the answers are to be published 

and stored in the Parliament’s Internet site 

— to develop and publish an informative and explanatory 

publication entitled “Parliamentarism in the Republic 

of Moldova” within the Parliament’s Internet site 

— to publish the draft laws and expert reviews of these 

laws that represent a major interest to the society. 

This will allow the public at large to learn about the 

content of the legislation documents in the process 

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of their development and thus influence the legislative 

process 

— to connect the computers of the Parliament of the 

Republic of Moldova into a network and to create an 

Intranet network, placed in the premises of the Parliament 

$10,810 

Moldovan Business Information Net (MBI Net) 

Agency for Enterprise Restructuring and Assistance 

Project director Sergiu GANDEA 

Although communications on the web between international 

organizations, governments, civil society and private 

sector have improved a lot during the recent years in 

Moldova, several key challenges still remain. The challenges 

are: uncoordinated and ineffective aid, low access 

to reliable knowledge, untapped opportunities for private 

sector development, a need for better networking among 

developing organizations and a low degree of usage of the 

Internet for economic and social development purposes. 

MBI Net project aims to respond to some of these issues 

by creating a centralized web site, offering knowledge 

and technology to bridge the gap in reliable, up-to-date 

economic information, analytically processed and presented 

in a user-friendly form. It will help to develop the 

existing capacities and present the best practices of 

Moldovan business community and, at the same time, 

promote a positive image of Moldova in the world. 

Project objectives: 

— to develop and place on the web a structured analytical 

site containing at least 400 web pages 

— to submit at least 15 industry analyses for key Moldovan 

industrial sectors 

— to create a separate web page for every sector (or 

links to already existing pages) for the main actors 

within the sector with all relevant company information, 

contacts and proposals for co-operation 

$18,000 

Small Business On-line 

Moldovan - American Center for Private Initiative 

Project director Elena CHIªLARI 

The project’s goal is to create and launch the WEB server 

“Small Business On-line” that will be regularly updated 

and will contain normative documents, guidance, recommendations, 

studies, analysis, etc., related to performing 

an efficient small business. Thus, a free and unlimited 

access to economic and legislative information from the 

small business area will be provided to current and potential 

entrepreneurs, students, professors, etc. 

$6,098 

Database on Scholars of Moldova 

Research and Development Association of the Republic 


Project director Lidia ROMANCIUC 

The project’s goal is to create a database on scientific 

researchers of the Republic of Moldova, to create an 

Internet site including these data and to attract the 

scientific community of Moldova to developing and implementing 

projects required for the country’s nationwide 

economy. 

Objectives: 

— to develop and complete the list of all organizations, 

institutions, associations and foundations related to 

the scientific research area (state, mixed or private) of 


— to create intermediate databases on personnel, 

amount, performances of all scientific research workers 

of these organizations, and separate institutions 

— to create a general database, based on the lists of 

institutions and scientists, that will include a list of all 

the scientists from Moldova, their CVs, area of activity, 

experience, title and scientific degree, accomplishments, 

inventions, monographs, published works, 

current projects in progress, awards and decorations 

for merits in the research field 

— to develop a site in order to familiarize the international 

scientific community with the scientists from 

the Republic of Moldova and their accomplishments 

$5,000 

Transnistria Conflict: Information Resources 

Independent Journalism Center 

The project’s goal is to promote the values of a multicultural 

society in Moldova by presenting the events 

covered by the mass media during the conflict in Transnistria 

objectively and exhaustively. The project also 

aims at conducting two comparative studies on the economic 

impact on the situation on the both banks of the 

Nistru River that will be carried out by two experts who 

held key-positions in both governments during the armed 

conflict. 

Objectives of the project: 

— to present impartial information to researchers, journalists, 

students, etc. 

— to classify the available information that was not used 

and is hard to find 

— to create an Internet resource in Romanian, Russian 

and English languages 

— to create a database on CD in Romanian, Russian and 

English 

— to perform a study of the conflict coverage in mass 

media 

— to carry out two comparative studies on the economic 

impact of the war on the two banks of the Nistru River 

by two experts who held key positions in both governments 

during the conflict 

$1,612

PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 

“Internet-Education-Science” 2000, Vinita, Ukraine, October 


Iurie MALAI $134 


PUBLISHING PROGRAM 

Arc Publishing House 

Richard STUTELY. The Definitive Business Plan 

Charles KING. The Moldovans. Romania, Russia and Politics 

of Culture 

Richard LYNCH. Corporate Strategy 

Cartier Publishing House 

Michel FERBER. A Dictionary of Literary Symbols 

Enzo TRAVERSO. Le Totalitarism 

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Soros Foundation - Moldova’s programs in this area 

continue to be the only systematic programs in the 

country and have the purpose to support publishing 

houses from Moldova in their effort to invest in professional 

development of their employees and reward authors 

in book development and publishing. 

The objectives of the program are: 

— to support publishing of valuable books related to 

open society values 

— to encourage the creative potential, professional development 

and specialization in certain fields of knowledge 

and to offer training for publishing staff 

— to contribute to the implementation of modern publishing 

technologies, in particular in the field of electronic 

publishing, and to increase the input into the 

intellectual component of the publishing activity 

— to encourage collaboration among publishing houses 

from the country and abroad, especially from Romania, 

and participation in professional associations 

— to contribute to the establishment of an independent, 

efficient, and viable publishing industry within 

market economy conditions 

THE REGIONAL TRANSLATION AND PUBLISHING 

PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with Center for Publishing Development 

of the Open Society Institute, Budapest) 

Implementation mechanisms, partners, selection principles 

have remained the same as in previous years. 

The program has been functioning since 1996 on a competitive 

basis. Unlike previous years, in 2000 the Foundation 

conducted an active policy concerning the establishing 

of direct contacts of our publishers with the copyright 

holders from abroad and a more focussed attitude 

towards professional development of national translators. 

In addition to the basic criteria of the Translation Program, 

the applicants were requested to submit arguments 

to support their printouts and distribution schemes. 

In this year competition, 9 publishing houses participated 

with 21 titles and ten of these titles were granted support: 

Epigraf Publishing House 

Patrick DUNLEAVY, Brendan O’LEARY. Theories of the 

State: The Politics of Liberal Democracy 

Tehnica Info Publishing House 

Albert BORGMAN. Holding on to Reality: The Nature of 

Information at the Turn of the Millennium 

Allucquere Rosame STONE. The War of Desire and Technology 

at the Close of the Mechanical Age 

Prut Internaþional Publishing House 

Richard ROSECRANCE. The Rise of the Virtual State 

Museum Publishing House 

Nelly HAUDEGAND, Pierre LEFEBURE. Le Dictionnaire 

des Questions Politiques 

At the request of the Cartier and ªtiinþa Publishing Houses, 

which have faced difficulties in obtaining the copyright, 

two titles — Clifford GEERTZ. The Interpretation of 

Cultures and Michael WALZER. Spheres of Justice, approved 

and financed from the 1996 and 1998-year budgets, 

were replaced with the other four new titles within 

the limits of the same grants: 

Cartier 

Michel BEAUD. Histoire du Capitalisme (1500-2000) 

ªtiinþa 

Christian THUDEROZ. Negociations. Essai de Sociologie 

du Lien Social 

Claude DUBAR. La Crise des Identites Jean-Marie 

SCHAEFFER. Adieu a l’Esthetique 

In 2000, the following three books financed in previous 

years were published: 

William H.McNEIL. The Rise of the West (Arc) 

Loukas TSOUKALIS. The New European Economy Revisited 

(Arc) 

Barry BUZAN. People, States and Fear (Cartier)

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Agreements on translation and publishing of the following 

4 books approved in 1999, were signed: 

Jean-Michel GAILLARD, Anthony ROWLEY. Histoire du 

Continent Europeen de 1850 a la Fin du XXe Siecle 

Skinner QUENTIN. Machiavelli (Arc) 

Marcel MAYOZER, Laurence ROUDART. Histoire des Agricultures 

du Monde (du Neolithique a la Crise Contemporaine) 

(Museum) 

Michael WINOCK. Les Siecle des Intellectuels (Cartier) 

Total Regional Translation Project $46,102 

PUBLISHING INFRASTRUCTURE AND 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 

The participation of six Moldovan publishers at the 52nd 

edition of the International Frankfurt Book Fair was supported 

with the aim to establish links with international 

publishing communities, October 16-25, Germany. 

$6,999 

The Chronicle of Privatization: 1998-2000. The Game of 

Decisions, Viorel CIUBOTARU (Museum Publishing House) 

$1,000 

Journal. The Way to Independence, Vladimir BEªLEAGÃ 

$650 

Translation into English of the book “The Basic and 

Applicative Aspects of the Homogenous Catalysis Using 

Metal Complexes” by Gheorghe DUCA was supported 

within the Program. (Arc Publishing House) 

$3,000 

The manuscript “The Eternal Tragedy” by Mihai LEANCÃ 

was multiplied and donated to some public libraries. 

$800.54 

The linguists Liubovi CIMPOEª, Peotr CEBOTARI, Ion 

DRON, Elena COLÞA, were provided support for the 

development of an updated Gagauz-Russian-Romanian 

Dictionary. 

$2,000 

Total Authors’ Support Grant Program $7,933 

A seminar aiming at bridging the information gap regarding 

copyright and electronic publishing legislation was 

organized at the request of publishers and web-designers 

from Moldova. Lynette OWEN, international expert, 

chief of Rights and Contracts Department at the Longman 

Publishing House from the United Kingdom, facilitated 

the seminar. 

$1,905 

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING PROGRAM 

The Program was launched in 1999 to foster co-operation 

among publishing houses in developing the Electronic 

Publishing market, as well as electronic publishing 

technology standardization. 

In 2000 financial support was granted to support the 

implementation of the following projects: 

A group of 13 persons — publishers and representatives 

of the “Pro-Noi” Book Distribution Association, were granted 

support by the Foundation to participate with bookstands 

at the “Gaudeamus 2000” International Teaching 

Book Fair held in Bucharest, November 22-26, 2000. 

$2,676 

Total Publishing Infrastructure and Professional Development 

Program $11,580 

AUTHORS’ SUPPORT GRANT PROGRAM 

The program offers support for book development. The 

idea behind it is to grant support for creative laboratories 

to be established by publishing houses in order to 

produce new books on paper or electronically. In alignment 

with the general mission of the Foundation, the 

creative laboratories are to support book development 

in the following fields: economic analysis, European integration, 

and civil society. 

Project proposals were reviewed on a competitive basis. 

During the first round, 8 projects from 5 publishing houses 

were presented and two of them were awarded financial 

support: 

The “Tacol-Lex” Association’s project regarding the creation 

of an electronic “Art Guide” was supported aiming 

to create an easy bilingual (Romanian, Russian) searching 

system of arts and culture information. 

$2,630 

Support for the ““Literatura ºi Arta” magazine 

$1,699 

Support for the “Sud-Est” quarterly art, culture and civilization 

magazine 

(To be carried out in collaboration with the DNT Association) 

$4,320 

Support to create a database of “The Fixed Patrimony of 

the Republic of Moldova”, to be placed on the web-site 

“Cultural Patrimony of the Republic of Moldova. Historical 

and Architectural Monuments”. The implementation 

agency is the “Museion” Cultural-Scientific Association. 

The project was partially supported from the Museum 

Support Program budget. 

$2,910 

Total Electronic Publishing Program $11,717

PUBLISHING LOANS FUND PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Soros Economic 

Development Fund, OSI, NY) 

A gradual transition from a grant system to the bank loan 

financial mechanism goes in alignment with the Foundation’s 

strategy to foster efficiency and market economy 

relationships. 

The Program started in 1999 in collaboration with Victoriabanc 

Joint-Stock Commercial Bank by establishing a 

loan fund to grant credits to publishing houses on a 

short-term basis. The Foundation stimulates this process 

both by facilitating publishers’ access to bank loans 

and by establishing, in agreement with Victoriabanc, favorable 

interest rates. 

As the first stage proved to be successful, the decision 

was taken to increase the value of the granted loans from 

$25,000 to $50,000 and to decrease the Foundation’s 

guarantee from 50 to 40 per cent. 

Like in previous years, Cartier, ªtiinþa, Litera and Prut 

Internaþional Publishing Houses participated in the Program. 

The guarantee fund granted in 2000 was $40,000 (financially 

supported by the Economic Development Program). 

Total Publishing Program Expenditures $110,897 

PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM 

MEDICAL INTERNET PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Open Society Institute of 

New York) 

OSI, NY and SFM launched the Medical Internet Program 

in August 1997. The goal of the Program is to improve 

public health decision making through the development 

of an information infrastructure for the medical community 

of the Republic of Moldova. In 1999 the MedNet 

National Center of Medical Information NGO was created. 

The Program objectives are: 

— to facilitate the access of medical community from 

the Republic of Moldova to modern medical information 

— to ensure the communication of Moldovan medical 

community members with their colleagues from 

abroad through modern electronic means 

— to contribute to improving the quality of undergraduate, 

graduate and postgraduate curricula process in 


— to contribute to the creation and development of a 

national network of medical information exchange 

— to take part in the development of informational 

systems in the field of Public Health 

The following priority goals in the activity of the MedNet 

Center were identified for the year 2000: 

— to create the necessary conditions for the access of 

republican and municipal institutions, as well as of 

individual users to the resources of the MedNet Center 

— to organize training in the field of local network administration 

for the responsible persons in health 

care institutions, which are connected to the MedNet 

Center 

— to establish collaboration with local and international 

organizations with the purpose of informational system 

development in the field of Public Health in 


— to take over and continue the implementation of the 

Medical Internet Program of the Soros Foundation- 


Projects Implemented by the MedNet Center 

in Partnership with Other Organizations 

The computerized communication network of medical 

institutions was developed and access to the Internet of 

all the users of the MedNet Center was significantly 

improved. The Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, 

the National Center of Blood Banking, the Institute of 

Cardiology, the Institute of Oncology, the Clinical Emergency 

Municipal Hospital, the Institute of Scientific Research 

in Mother and Child Care, the Municipal Clinical 

Hospital No.3, the Republican College of Medicine, and 

the Institute of Pediatrics were connected to the network. 

The Salzburg Seminars’ materials on Cardiology, Epidemiology, 

Neurology, Tuberculosis, Psychiatry, Histology 

and Anatomy, OVID Medline and OVID Full Text Core 

Biomedical Collection were renewed. A new medical 

EBSCO database was installed, which could be accessed 

by the MedNet users on line. 

A 60-hour training course in the field of the global Internet 

information system for the employees of the National 

Pharmacy Institute was organized. 

The web page of the MedNet Center was accessed by 

more than 100,000 times from about 80 in and out of the 

country domains. At present, the number of appeals is 

over 500 per day. The electronic lecture hall of the 

MedNet Center was visited 15,800 times by 30-50 persons 

per day. 

The project PHARMAPLUS was launched and a large 

database of pharmacy was created within it. The MedNet 

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Center took part in the MOLDMEDZIN 2000 Exhibition 

with the purpose of establishing relations with potential 

clients. Many collaboration agreements with pharmaceutical 

companies were signed during the exhibition. 

The project Medical Informational Resources was launched, 

in the framework of which a medical information 

Internet portal of Moldova was formed. The MedNet 

Center, together with the Independent Journalism Center 

and the World Health Organization, created a medical 

press review. 

“Mother and Child Care”, March 4 - 10, 2000 

Marcel BEJAN, Valentina BALTAG, Victoria BÎZGU 

$1,990 

“ENT”, July 23 - 29, 2000 

Andrei ANTOHI $605 

“Bone and Joint Surgery”, July 23 - 29, 2000 

Ala ADAMIA, Mihai CHIHAI $1,255 

“Infectious Diseases”, August 20 - 26, 2000 

Tiberiu HOLBAN $631 

A consortium for the development of a shared catalogue 

of the medical libraries was created. The MedNet National 

Center of Medical Information became a member 

of this Consortium, along with the National Scientific 

Library and the State Medical University’s Library. The 

project is financially supported in partnership with the 

Library Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova 

The MedNet Center, together with the National Center of 

Preventive Medicine, is implementing the project on monitoring 

the infectious diseases and immunizations in 

Moldova. In the framework of this project, all the County 

Centers and the centers in health management of the 

country are connected to the network of monitoring 

diseases through the MedNet Center. 

“Oncology”, August 20 - 26, 2000 

Aliona ACULOV $638 

“Imaging”, August 27 - September 2, 2000 

Tatiana CUZOR, Lilia CIGRINA $1,202 

“Obstetrics and Gynecology”, August 27 - September 2, 


Patricia ZOTA $618 

“Urology”, October 1 - 7, 2000 

Anatolie MUSTEA $605 

“Anesthesiology”, October 1 - 7, 2000 

Vadim GULCA $644 

The MedNet Center, together with the Institute of Scientific 

Research in the field of Mother and Child Care and 

the Institute for Public Health and Management take part 

in the establishing of the National System of Mother and 

Child Care Surveillance. The project plans to connect all 

the County Perinatal Centers to the surveillance network. 

Study visit and participation in the workshop “Informational 

Systems in Public Health”, USA 

Dmitrii VOLCOV, Viorel SOLTAN 

Program expenses: $211,686 

“Neurology”, October 28 - November 3, 2000 

Radu BALTAG, Ina LISNIC $1,447 

“Psychiatry”, October 28 - November 3, 2000 

Sergiu GROZAVU $621 

“Family Medicine”, December 10 -16, 2000 

Natalia ZARBAILOV, Ludmila BÃLTEANU, Lilia VLASOV, 

Ecaterina PROCOPCIUC $2,775 

Internship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Gratz, Austria, 

March 6 - 31, 2000 

Tudor RUSNAC $500 

Internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vienna, Austria, 

April 1 - 30, 2000 

Alexandru MUSTEA, Dragomir LUPAªCU $1,118 

Internship in Anesthesiology, Vienna, Austria, April 1 - 


Andrei PERCIUN $700 

SALZBURG SEMINARS FOR PHYSICIANS 

(In collaboration with the American Austrian 

Foundation and the Open Society Institute of New York) 

The purpose of the program was to improve the quality 

of medical services through financial support for professional 

studies in Salzburg, Austria. 

“Pediatric Gastroenterology and Child Nutrition”, January 

16 - 22, 2000 

Aurel CRÃCAN, Gheorghe POPUªOI, Liliana CEAUª, Liliana 

CÃLDARE, Rodica PASCAL $3,947 

“Adolescent Medicine”, February 13 - 19, 2000 

Andrei LEªCO $737 

“Emergency in Pediatrics”, February 13 - 19, 2000 

Marcelina CEBANOVSCHI, Victor ZAPOROJAN $1,448 

Internship in Neurology, Salzburg, Austria, April 3 - 30, 2000 

Oleg PASCAL $851 

Internship in ENT, Salzburg, Austria, September 3 -30, 


Lucian DANILOV $845 

Internship in Anesthesiology, Salzburg, Austria, October 

1 - 28, 2000 

Larisa REZNEAC $591

Internship in Pediatric Endocrinology, Salzburg, Austria, 

October 30 - November 24, 2000 

Olga BERBECA $624 

Internship in Imaging, Vienna, Austria, October 30 - November 


Petru GURÃU $466 

Internship in Hematology, Innsbruck, Austria, September 

30 - October 29, 2000 

Vasile MUSTEAÞÃ $725 

Internship in Pediatric Pulmonology, Gratz, Austria, November 

26 - December 22, 2000 

Marcelina CEBANOVSCHI $751 

Internship in Internal Medicine, Vienna, Austria, January 

2 - 29, 2001 

Gabriela BOTNARI $254 

The MedNet Center, together with N. Testemiþanu State 

Medical University, launched the project “Salzburg Program 

Spin Off”. The MedNet Center will further administrate 

the program “Salzburg Seminars for Physicians”. 

$24,000 

SCHWEITZER SEMINARS PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Open Society Institute, 

New York and Albert Schweitzer Institute) 

International Conference “Improving the Quality of Reproductive 

Health”, Moscow, Russia, April 25 - 27, 2000 

Boris GÎLCA, Simion SÎRBU 

$621 

International Conference “Hospice and Palliative Care”, 

Budapest, Hungary, October 11 - 14, 2000 

Victor ROTARU, Silvia STRATULAT, Vasile SURUCEANU, 

Irina BAICALOV 

$1,469 

Regional Conference “Screening of Breast and Cervical 

Cancer”, Budapest, Hungary, December 4-7, 2000 

Aura CIORNII, Elena GORINCIOI, Nadejda GODOROJA, 

Roman BALAN 

$1,799 

HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES PROGRAM 


New York) 

“Development of the Family Medicine Specialty in Moldova”, 

N. Testemiþanu State Medical University, project 

director Grigore BIVOL. The project was launched in 

1999 for a three-year period. The purpose of this project 

is to facilitate the process of reform of primary care in 

Moldova. 

(1998 year budget) 

The project “National Health Communication Network” 

is implemented by the Independent Journalism Center in 

collaboration with the World Health Organization. Project 

director Irina ZATUªEVSCHI. The purpose of the 

project is creation and registration of the National Network 

of Communication in Health as an equal member of 

the European Health Communication Network. 

$24,000 

“Participation in Health Care System Reform through the 

Reinforcement of Administrative Staff”, N. Testemiþanu 

State Medical University, project director Liviu SICINS- 

CHI. The project is scheduled for 2000-2001 and carried 

out in collaboration with the Saint Augustin Hospital 

Group (France) and the Moldova-Yvonne-Aimee Association. 

The purpose of the project is to improve the administrative 

system and to modify the health administration 

policy through organization of development courses for 

administrative staff. 

$24,000 

“Evaluation of the Reform Process in Health Care System”, 

Project Coordination Unit / Health Investment Fund, 

project director Victor VOLOVEI. The purpose of this 

project is to conduct a baseline study for the evaluation 

of the reform process of the health care system in the 

Republic of Moldova. 

$22,000 

Fellowship program: Master of Public Health, Hebrew 

University, Israel 

Dumitru MAXIMENCO 

$807 

Participation in XII ASPHER Annual Conference, Aarhus, 

Denmark, October 13 - 18, 2000 

Dumitru TINTIUC, Valeriu SAVA 

$1,440 

Program administration expenditures: $200 

MENTAL DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAM 


New York) 

The goal of the program is to improve the quality of life 

of the mentally disabled by supporting mental disabilities 

advocacy in the Republic of Moldova. The following 

projects were selected for funding on a competitive basis, 

which are to be implemented during 2000-2001: 

“Daily Center for the Persons with Mental Disabilities”, 

SOMATO NGO, project director Jana COªULEAN 

$17,524 

“Psycho-social Day Center”, Moldovan Mental League, 

project director Mihail HOTINEANU 

$7,976 

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“Access of Children with Special Needs to Equal Rights”, 

“Woman and Child — Protection and Support” NGO, 

project director Alexandra GRÃJDIAN 

$14,500 

Program administration expenditures: $306 

PALLIATIVE CARE PROGRAM 


New York) 

The goal of the program is to raise the overall quality of 

life of the terminally ill people and their families by 

supporting the development of palliative and hospice 

care in the Republic of Moldova. The following projects 

were selected on a competitive basis for funding, to be 

implemented during 2000-2001: 

“Development of National Standards of Palliative Care 

for Persons Living with AIDS”, National Center of Preventive 

Medicine, project director Silvia STRATULAT 

$9,960 

Anesthesiology Fellowship in the Field of Palliative Care, 

Lille, France, March 29 - July 31, 2000 

Viorel COTELNIC 

$948 

Anesthesiology Fellowship in the Field of Palliative Care, 

Leicester, United Kingdom, March 29 - July 31, 2000 

Vadim POGONEÞ 

$957 

The following activities were organized in 2000: 

“Network of Psycho-Social Assistance for Abused Children, 

National Center of Child Abuse Prevention, project 

director Daniela Popescu. The goal of the project is to 

develop professional services for abused children. 

$37,014 

CAP Conference, Budapest, Hungary, January 22 - 24, 2000 

Tudor PETROV, Viorel SOLTAN, Daniela POPESCU 

$850 

CAP Network Conference, Scopje, Macedonia, January 


Daniela POPESCU, Lilia NACU 

$1,256 

CAP Conference for Balkan Strategy, Zagreb, Croatia, 

May 5-7, 2000 

Elena VOVC, Daniela POPESCU, Diana POSTU, Svetlana 

CALIMAN 

$1,256 

The First Seminar on CAP and Family Protection, Bucharest, 

Romania, May 3 - 6, 2000 

Maria BOICO, Larisa ROIBU, Ecaterina PEREAN 

$541 

The Second Seminar on CAP and Family Protection, Bucharest, 

Romania, May 31- June 3, 2000 

Tatiana CUMATRENCO, Larisa ROIBU, Ecaterina PEREAN 

$418 

The Third Seminar on CAP and Family Protection, Bucharest, 

Romania, July 4 - 8, 2000 

Tatiana CUMATRENCO, Larisa ROIBU, Ecaterina PEREAN 

$714 

CAP Police Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 3 

- 6, 2000 

Sergiu CRUDU, Radu DANII 

$1,088 

CAP Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, October 19 - 


Diana POSTU, Rodica VÎHOVÃNEÞ, Tatiana TURCHINA 

$1,250 

PRIMARY CARE REFORM PROGRAM 

The Soros Foundation-Moldova has become the founder 

of the Foundation for the Development of Primary Care 

(PC Foundation). The main goal of the PC Foundation is 

to raise the quality of primary care services in Moldova 

through securing the necessary financial support based 

on community participation. The PC Foundation, with 

the financial support of UNICEF, participates in the implementation 

of the project of rehabilitation of primary 

care services in the Lãpuºna county, Hîncesti sector. 

$338 

PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL ADDICTION PROGRAM 

“Prevention of Alcohol Addiction”, National Narcological 

Dispensary, project director Anatol MARANDICI. The goal 

of the program is to raise the awareness of a public 

health approach to alcohol control by contributing to a 

national alcohol addiction prevention program development 

in the Republic of Moldova. 

$7,220 

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM 


New York) 

CAP Conference, Warsaw, Poland, October 11 - 14, 2000 

Jana COSTACHI, Svetlana CHIFA, Svetlana RÎJICOV, Maria 

BOICO, Viorel SOLTAN 

$1,747 

Commitments: 

Promised Childhood Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, April 

28 - May 5, 2001 

Vitalie POPESCU, Ion NEGURÃ 

$3,310 

Program evaluation and administration 

expenditures: $3,038

GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY PROGRAM 


New York) 

The project “ Second Breath for Elderly People”, Bãlþi, 

continued. The project is implemented by the “Second 

Breath for Elderly People in the North of the Republic of 

Moldova” NGO, project director Irina BAICALOV. The 

goal of the project is to develop professional services of 

care for elderly people. 

$30,195 

The Conference “Standards of Care for Elderly People” 

with international participation was organized. “Second 

Breath for Elderly People in the North of the Republic of 

Moldova” NGO, project director Irina BAICALOV. 

$5,000 

Participation in the Regional Conference “Standards of 

Care for Elderly People”, Budapest, Hungary, April 12 - 


Irina BAICALOV, Svetlana RÎJICOV 

$861 

Participation in the International Seminar “Age and 

Health”, Porto, Portugal, August 1 - 6, 2000 

Irina BAICALOV 

$350 

HARM REDUCTION PROGRAM 


New York) 

The goal of the Program is to reduce the impact of health 

and social harms related to illegal drug use by preventing 

the rapid and extensive spread of HIV infection among 

injecting drug users in the Republic of Moldova. 

The Program priorities are: 

— support of harm reduction projects in the strategic 

areas of Moldova — Soroca, Bãlþi, Orhei, Fãleºti, Chi- 

ºinãu 

— support of harm reduction projects within the penitentiary 

institutions 

The projects of the following organizations were selected 

on a competitive basis to be funded during June 2000- 

June 2001. This is a partnership project between the Soros 

Foundation - Moldova and UNAIDS/UNDP Moldova. 

“Alcohol and Drug Addiction” Educational Center, Soroca, 

project director Ion MARCOCI 

$10,570 

“Medical Reforms in Penitentiaries” NGO, project director 

Dumitru LATÎCEVSCHI 

$23,000 

“Youth for the Right to Live” NGO, Bãlþi, project director 

Irina BIRIUCOVA 

$6,390 

“Together to Save the Future” NGO, Fãleºti, project director 

Iurie OSOIANU 

$3,490 

“Adolescentul” Center of Education and Rehabilitation, 

Orhei, project director Tatiana SOROCOVICI 

$4,990 

National Center of Preventive Medicine, project director 

ªtefan GHEORGHIÞÃ 

$9,560 

“AntiHIV” National Center, project director Ruslan DAVID 

$5,000 

The participation to the following activities were organized 

within the program: 

Seminar-training “HIV/AIDS Prevention among IDUs”, Poltava, 

Ukraine 

Tatiana SOROCOVCI, Mihai IVANOV, Nicolae BORDE- 

NIUC, Anredi CORLÃTEANU, Valeriu POSTOLACHI, Inna 

BIRIUCOVA, Ecaterina IOVU, Sabina FINCIUC, Iurie OSO- 

IANU, Octavian ªTIRBU 

$1,087 

Study visit for the development of the project “HIV/AIDS 

Prevention in Penitentiaries” 

Moghileov, Belarus, May 28 - 31, 2000 

Larisa PENTILEI, Nicolae BODRUG, Alexei LEORDA 

$600 

Conference “Health in Penitentiaries”, Budapest, Hungary, 

May 17 - 22, 2000 

Larisa PENTILEI, Dumitru LATÎCEVSCHI 

$660 

Training for the Methadone Substitution Project, Vilnius, 

Latvia, June 18 - 21, 2000 

Gabriela IONAªCU, Ilie JECICOV, Liubov ANDREEVA 

$1,884 

Study visit in “Harm Reduction Initiatives in Penitentiaries”, 

Oldenburg, Germany, July 3 - 8, 2000 

Dumitru LATÎCEVSCHI, Alexei LEORDA 

$2,306 

Training in Harm Reduction, Moghileov, Belarus, July 30 - 

August 3, 2000 

Valeriu ONICI, Iurie OSOIANU, Ala SNIGUREAC, Eduard 

NENESCU, Nicolae BODRUG, Mihai IVANOV, Tatiana SO- 

ROCOVICI, Ecaterina IOVU, Silvia STRATULAT 

$2,306 

Training “ Capacity Development of Organizations in the 

Harm Reduction Program”, Budapest, Hungary, October 

24 - 28, 2000 

Ruslan DAVID, Viorica SÎRBU, Inna BIRIUCOVA, Ala SNI- 

GUREAC, Mihai IVANOV, Tatiana SOROVOCICI 

$2,510 

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Visit of the experts Andrei PROTOPOPOV and Alexandr 

BUSEL to provide technical assistance to harm reduction 

projects 

$1,380 

Training “ Needs of People Living with AIDS”, Warsaw, 

Poland, December 11 - 13, 2000 

Nicolae BODRUG, Dumitru LATÎCEVSCHI 

$828 

Program administration expenditures: $2,180 

Total Public Health Program 

Expenditures: $583,335 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 

The program’s goal is to contribute to the development 

of the agricultural sector in Moldova in the post-privatization 

period. The program activities were focused on 

the support for private initiatives of service provisions 

for small and medium-sized enterprises in agriculture. 

The program also aimed to facilitate access to economic 

information and improvement of economic education. 

Projects implemented in 2000: 

Technical Assistance for Farm Stores 

ACAI – INFORM 

Project director Iurie HURMUZACHI 

As part of the agribusiness development strategy, the 

Soros Foundation-Moldova and Citizens’ Network for 

Foreign Affairs Inc. (co-financed by USAID) implemented 

the Farm Stores Program. ACAI-Inform NGO contributed 

to the implementation of this program by providing business 

consulting and cooperative development for the 

created farm stores. 

According to the agreement between SFM and CNFA 

Inc., in the villages where farm stores were created (Rãciula, 

Peresecina, Nisporeni, Recea) demonstrative plots 

were set up in collaboration with village schools (0.4 – 

0.12 ha). The plots are located near the farm stores. The 

agricultural advisor from the farm store offers assistance 

in planning the works on the plot, the crops, chemicals 

and fertilizers. The training premises at the farm store 

hosts training for school pupils. 

A series of training sessions were held to improve the 

qualification of farm stores personnel and their beneficiaries. 

Four one-day nation-wide seminars were organized 

for farm stores’ managers, agricultural advisors, 

sellers, assistants, and accountants. Sixty seminars - 5 in 

each of the 12 villages where farm stores had been 

opened, were organized for farmers and other agricultural 

small and medium-sized producers, small rural businesses. 

The training covered the following areas: legislation on 

plants protection, transportation means required, keeping 

and selling chemicals and biological products, using 

new chemicals, using packages for evidence of stock and 

production. 

$21,211.42 

Information and Education Materials for Agricultural Producers 

to Support the Agricultural Sector Development 

“Agro-Inform” National Federation 

Project director Aurelia BONDARI 

The aim of the project was to support farmers by enlarging 

the package of available information and education 

materials. A number of brochures, posters, databases 

were developed and published, providing useful information 

on agricultural issues in a simple way which facilitated 

the access of a larger number of farmers to information 

- an important factor in increasing the efficiency 

of the production in agriculture. 

$15,000 

Organizing Entrepreneurs’ Cooperatives and Developing 

Activities in Rural Areas 

Alliance for Cooperation in Agriculture 

Project director Valentina CATANOI 

The project plans to create the mechanism for establishing 

entrepreneurs’ cooperatives and the methodological 

scheme for running business activities in a village. The 

project implementation scheme includes preliminary assessments 

in villages, promotion and information, identifying, 

choosing and training members of future cooperatives, 

review of investment projects proposed by farmers, 

assistance for cooperative members in preparing 

business plans for getting credits. ACA provides assistance 

to entrepreneurs’ cooperatives at all these stages. 

$12,826 

Developing the Network of Savings and Credits Associations 

in Moldova 

Moldova Microfinance Alliance (MMA) 

Project director Igor PÃDURE 

The Soros Foundation-Moldova supported the Moldova 

Microfinance Alliance’s activity in providing services, training, 

institutional development, management and technical 

assistance to SCAs, cooperatives, farmers associations 

and other organizations involved in developing the 

business and rural finance sectors. 

The MMA’s activity in 2000 was focused on strengthening 

SCAs through upgrading their democratic governance 

and effective management capacities, diversifying 

its work in rural areas, developing MMA’s technical and 

institutional capacities.

The outcomes of MMA activity in 2000: 

— 38 SCAs were established 

— 5 milk collection cooperatives established 

— 150 SCAs benefited from consulting and continuos 

training 

— a number of materials were published: textbooks “The 

SCA Organization, Functioning and Management”, 

“Accounting and Financial Administration”, “Internal 

Control”, the brochure “Cooperatives Organization 

and Functioning”, the flyer “Organizing the General 

Meeting”. 

$179,238 

The Pilot Program for Offering Credits to Cooperatives in 

Rural Areas 

Moldova Microfinance Alliance 

Project director Igor PÃDURE 

The program provides direct support for entrepreneurs’ 

cooperatives – support and strengthening of the existing 

organizations, which work or intend to work in procurement 

of resources, raw materials, supplies or service 

provision. 

The program will be carried out in 2001 as an open grant 

competition. The selection criteria will be the project 

design, feasibility, economic impact, the beneficiary’s 

contribution, capacity and commitment, as well as the 

financial sustainability of the enterprise. 

$93,679 

“The Distribution of Land Titles to Land Owners” Study 

The Center for Strategic Investigations and Reforms (CSIR) 

Project director Anatol GUDÎM 

The project aimed at assessing the current situation in 

land titles distribution to landowners and identifying 

related problems. 

A study was carried out in the whole country among 500 

settlements, which participate in the National Land Program, 

through interviews with local administration and 

cadaster engineers responsible for the distribution of 

titles. The final report included processed data, charts 

and tables which revealed the existing situation. 

$5,867 

Setting up Centers for Business and Economic Information 

in Cahul and Bãlþi 

Cahul Library 

Project director Rodica DERMENJI 

Bãlþi Library 

Project director Zinaida DOLINÞÃ 

The Centers were established as part of the Cahul and 

Bãlþi libraries and will offer access to economic books 

and other publications to interested persons in a reading-hall 

scheme, as well as access to a foreign resource 

database. The Centers’ mission is to offer the community 

the opportunity to access information resources in 

the economic field, contributing to the maintenance and 

development of the economic information network needed 

for the public and private sector. 

$40,000 

Economic and Entrepreneurship Education Program 

“Junior Achievement” Association 

Project director Adela SCUTARU 

The program’s mission is to improve the knowledge of 

market economy and entrepreneurship in middle and 

high-school education. 

The JA Moldova Program in 2000 was considerably expanded 

and diversified, including high school students 

(X-XII grades), and middle school (VII-IX grades). Teaching 

materials were published for the program “Personal 

Economics: Economics of Staying in School Program” in 

Russian and Romanian languages, for 3500 students. 

The materials of a career building program – JA Connections 

– were translated and tested as pilot. 

The long-term impact which we anticipate for the Applied 

Economics program is not only solid knowledge about 

market economy and entrepreneurship offered to students 

and teachers, to the family and the community as a 

whole, but also creating a background for a long-term 

partnership between the school and business community. 

$18,000 

INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION STUDY 

TOURS AND PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES 

Study Visit to Finland, Estonia and Latvia, June 25 – July 


Alliance for Cooperation in Agriculture 

Project director Sergiu BOTEZATU 

$4,800 

The aim of this visit was documentation and information 

on the rural sector institutions’ evolution in these countries, 

at national and local levels (extension networks, 

farmers’ organizations, the institutional framework for 

the vertical integration from producers to exporters, the 

establishment and maintenance of technical services’ 

provision, the evolution of other economic infrastructure 

units.) 

Participants: 

Dumitru COªULEÞ, Ministry of Agriculture 

Gheorghe BARBÃROªIE, National Federation of Farmers 

Ion GANGURA, Rural Finance Corporation 

Igor GORAªOV, Sergiu BOTEZATU, UCIPA , ASSP 

Conference “Extension Services in Central and Eastern 

Europe”, May 13-19, Eger, Hungary 

The conference included important presentations on 

rural sector extension services and visits to extension 

centers at national, regional and local levels. 

Participants: 

Corneliu RUSNAC, MARS 

Aurelia BONDARI, Agro-Inform 

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Gheorghe CAINAREAN, IMATA 

Valeriu CEBOTARI, Ministry of Agriculture 

Efim LUPANCIUC, Rural Finance Project 

Valentina CATANOI, MARS 

Dumitru HOLBAN, Agrarian State University 

Gheorghe BARBÃROªIE, National Federation of Farmers 

$3,816 


ARTS AND CULTURE 

of artistic education, in training and educational programs 

abroad, as follows: 

Graduate Study Course at the Theater and Music Highschool, 

Violin Department, Hamburg, Germany, April 2000 

- April 2002, Beatriz PAVLICENCO, violinist in “The Violinists 

of Moldova” Ensemble 

$2,550 

Seminars in Management, Marketing and International 

Relations in Culture, Tbilisi, Georgia, May 20-25, 2000, 

Sergiu BARCARI, responsible for production issues, and 

Zinaida PLÃMÃDEALÃ, responsible for international relations 

at the Eugene Ionescu Theater 

$1,604 


— to ensure the continuity of the artistic innovative 

process 

— to support the establishment of non-governmental 

entities of artistic management 

— to stimulate the potential for the creative process and 

professional development in the field 

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING IN THE 

PERFORMING ARTS 

The basic activities of the Program involve the development 

of training courses, studios, workshops in the field 

of theater, new music, dancing and modern choreography, 

with the invitation of experts, artists, and professors 

from abroad. 

The following projects were supported within this Program: 

Workshop: “Ways of Artistic Expression in Puppet Performances 

”, facilitator Stanislav JELEZKIN, professor, Theater 

Institute, Ekaterinburg, director of the International 

Course on Acting-directing at the State Theater Institute 

from Iaroslavl, Chiºinãu, May 2000, project director Victoria 

ANGHELOV, New Alternative Association 

$2,707 

Workshop “From the Neutral to the Human Mask”, with 

the participation of the students of the Acting Department 

from the State University of Arts, facilitator Allain 

MOLLOT, performance director, director of “ La Jacquerie 

” Theater, professor at “Jaques Lecoq” International Theater 

School, Paris, France, Chiºinãu, September 10 - 

October 12, 2000, “Coliseum” Art Center 

$2,748 

“Contemporaneity — Puppet Theater — The Child”, October 

7 - 14, 2000, Chiºinãu, Licurici Puppet Theater 

$5,000 

The Foundation supported with supplementary grants 

the participation of artists, professionals and students 

Performing Arts Project: “The Young Piano-players of Europe” 

(Mladi pianisti Evrope), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 

20-July 15, 2000, Alexandra MELEªCENCO, xth grade 

student at the S.Rahmaninov Music Lyceum 

$1,241 

The Festival of Texas Music “Immanuel and Helen 

OLSHAN”, Houston, USA, June 4-July 1, 2000, Diana 

CANGAª, 5th year student at the State University of Arts, 

Strings Instruments Department (Violin) 

$1,172 

Training for Specialization in Theater Directing within the 

Academy of Art, Culture and Tourism, Moscow, Russia, 

September 10, 2000 - March 10, 2001, Victor CAZA- 

CENCO, actor at the Cehov Drama State Russian Theater, 

master in art 

$1,534 

Training in Organ Tuning at the Reiger-Kloss Enterprise, 

Krnov, Czech Republic, July-August, 2000, Nicolae RO- 

MAªCO, master-tuner at the Organ Hall from Chiºinãu 

$1,700 

Studies at Mannes College of Music-New School University, 

New York, USA, Eugen URSU, 3rd year student, graduate 

of the E. Coca Music School and S.Rahmaninov 

Music Lyceum 

$2,540 

Studies at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Holland, 

Theory Faculty, September 1, 2000 - January 1, 

2001, Octavian EªANU 

$1,109 

In addition to the activities of the current year, a seminar, 

financed in 1999 and supplemented from the 2000-year 

budget, took place. The theme of the seminar was “Project 

Design and Evaluation” and it was held for artists 

and art managers. Facilitator - Boris STRECANSKY, consultant 

and program manager at the ETP Agency from 

Slovakia, October 3-6, 2000, Chiºinãu 

$4,691

Total Workshops and Training 

in the Performing Arts $32,235 

GRANTS FOR ART PROJECTS 

This Program supports the development of modern forms 

of artistic expression and original ways of collaboration in 

theater, music, literature, visual arts, choreography, experimental 

works, alternative artistic products etc., making 

its contribution to defining the role of the performing 

arts in an open society. 

The Program continued the support of young theater 

directors on a competitive basis. The following projects 

of theater directing were supported: 

“Prince Charming from the Tear”, based on M. Eminescu’s 

poem, Licurici Puppet Theater, March-May, director 

Claudia LEONTE, project director Titus JUCOV 

$1,553 

“Miss Anastasia”, based on Gh. Zamfirescu’s play, V. 

Alecsandri National Theater, Bãlþi, April-August, director 

Anatol RÃCILÃ 

$1,500 

“The Bigamist” by Ray Cooney, Eugene Ionesco Theater, 

June-September, director Mihai ÞÃRNÃ 

$3,500 

“Bernarda Alba’s House”, based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s 

play, V. Alecsandri National Theater, Bãlþi, director 

Dumitru GRICIUC, June-November, project director Anatol 

RÃCILÃ 

$2,500 

“Bloody Crime at the Violets’ Station” by Dumitru Crudu, 

December 2001, director Mihai FUSU 

$3,500 

“On the Dead Line”, author and director Gheorghe URS- 

CHI, Satiricus Theater, June, 2001, project director Alexandru 

GRECU 

$2,598 

Total Grants for Art Projects $26,695 

OPEN SOCIETY CULTURAL LINK NETWORK 

PROGRAM 

The Cultural Link Program is of special interest for Moldovan 

artists who have been constrained to work for 

years in an almost airtight isolation. The Program helps 

them to show their own performances, to find out new 

formulas, styles, and schools, and to discuss common 

issues. The program also gives incentives for the art 

management to develop, new ideas to spread, ample art 

events to be initiated, organizational and managerial 

experience to be gained. 

The mechanism of program development envisages the 

co-operation within the entire Soros network in the implementation 

of the approved projects. 

The Program promotes professional arts and culture 

events (festivals, exhibitions, performances, workshops 

and master-classes), involving the collaboration and participation 

of individual artists of arts groups from two or 

more countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This enables 

the Foundation to strengthen its ties with other 

Soros Foundations and identify common regional concerns 

in the field of arts and culture. 

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Radio Theater Play “In Front of the Jeweller’s Shop”, 

based on Karol Voitîla’s play, “Antena C” Radio, July - 

December 2000, director Vitalie ÞAPEª, project director 

Ion BUNDUCHI 

$1,500 

Mono theater performance “The Contrabass”, based on 

Patric Zuskind’s play, January- June 2001, director Ilia 

ªAÞ, project director Igor CARAS, New Alternative Association 

$2,700 

“Frankie and Johnny in the Midnight” by Terrence McNelly, 

Satiricus Theater, January - June 2001, director Nelly 

COZARU 

$3,314 

“People and Mice”, based on John Steinbeck’s novel, 

May 2001, director Efim ELIÞA, Diligenþa (The Carriage) 

Theater Institution 

$2,781 

In 2000, two projects were hosted: 

“Impulse to Development” Festival-Workshop of Contemporary 

Dance in Improvisation, facilitator Benno 

VOORHAM, Sweden, professor, dancer and choreographer, 

Chiºinãu, May 19 - 29, 2000, organizer: the Association 

for the Development of Contemporary Dance in 

Moldova, program director Alexandra SOªNICOV 

$10,481 

(Including co-financing by the SFM Performing Art 

Program ($1,909), OSI Cultural Link Network Program 

($8,009), and Pro Helvetia Cultural Foundation, 

Switzerland ($563)) 

“New Improvised Music Feast” — music performances 

put on with the aim to consolidate different music styles 

of musicians - jazz, folk Moldovan music and contemporary 

music, Chiºinãu, September 18-24, project director 

Victoria TCACENCO, organizer Unlimited Music Association 

$6,629

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Participation in International Events 

“The Agony of Bosporus” International Theater Festival 

on Antique Themes, Kerch, Ukraine, July 1-5, Satiricus 

Theater, project director Alexandru GRECU, artistic director 

of the Theater 

$632 

“EUROPARTRAIN” - Workshops, Exhibitions, Contemporary 

Art Presentations, Krakow, Poland, September 21- 

26, Vladimir BULAT, art critic 

$449 

International Conference “The Censorship in Visual Arts 

and Media”, Parnu, Estonia, August 10-12, Irina GRA- 

BOVAN, “Art Aorta” Gallery director 

$589 

Cinema Workshop “The Summer of Zero”, August 12-20, 

Karosta, Latvia, Oleg BREGA, graduate of the Film Academy 

in Bucharest 

$594 

Contemporary Art Exhibition “Communication. Experience 

of Interaction”, Almata, Kazakhstan, September 

22-26, ªtefan RUSU, Mark VERLAN, Lucia MACARI 

$2,254 

International Seminar “Museum + Theater”, Sankt-Petersburg, 

Russia, December 18-21, Ilia ªAÞ, Vladimir SU- 

HOMLINOV, Iurii HARMELIN, theater professionals, Livia 

GÂNCUL, head of PR Department at the National Museum 

of History 

$1,238 

Total Open Society Cultural Link Network Program 

$20,394 

CONTESTS, FESTIVALS, CONFERENCES AND 

WORKSHOPS 

The Foundation supported programs pursuing to raise 

public awareness of the artistic and cultural processes in 

Moldova, organizing contests and ample public events. 

The Program targets only professional communities and 

the students of schools of arts. 

The Second Edition of the Soros Foundation — Moldova’s 

Fellowships in Arts was held in 2000 with the aim 

to support excellence in arts. Twelve winners, recipients 

of the Soros Foundation’s Fellowships in Arts, were selected 

out of 61 participants at the competition. 

Theater 

Nelly COZARU, actress 

Mihai FUSU, director 

Andrei MOªOI, actor 

Music 

Ilona STEPAN, singer 

Vladimir ANDRIEª, violinist 

Ilian GÂRNEÞ, violinist 

Literature 

Vasile VASILACHE, writer 

Emil GALAICU-PÃUN, writer 

Val BUTNARU, playwright 

Visual Arts 

Irina FILIP, ceramist 

Violeta ZABULICA-DIORDIEV, book designer 

Mircea PUªCAª, sculptor 

CULTURAL POLICY NETWORK PROGRAM 

The Program is run on a competitive basis and is held at 

the regional level with the aim to promote systemic 

changes in the field of arts and culture and development 

and implementation of different cultural actions and 

decentralization models. 

In 2000, two projects were partially supported out of the 

four proposed by Moldova: 

“Restructuring the Activity of Cultural Institutions in the 

Republic of Moldova. Defining of Principles”, August 2000 

- March 2001, New Alternative Association, project director 

Veaceslav REABCINSCHI 

$8,019 

“A Conceptual Model for Culture Development and Protection 

in the Republic of Moldova during Social, Political 

and Economic Changes in the Society”, September 

2001, Ministry of Culture of Moldova, project director 

Eugen MARTIN 

$2,000 

Total Cultural Policy Network Program $10,019 

Program expenses $18,035 

The Foundation offered partial support for the E.Coca 

VIth Edition of the International Contest of Young Interpreters, 

June 23-30, 2000, project director Verginia GOª- 

CINA, deputy-director of the Ciprian Porumbescu Lyceum. 

$832 

The Foundation offered assistance to people of art and 

culture to participate in international festivals, contests, 

conferences and seminars: 

The 9th Edition of the International Music Contest (TIM), 

CANTO, Rome, Italy, March 21, Natalia MARGINE, student, 

D.Alighieri Lyceum 

$750 

The First World Olympiad of Choral Music, Linz, Austria, 

July 7-16, Credo Choir of Hora Moldovei Dance and 

Songs Ensemble of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, project 

director Valentina BOLDURAT, choir conductor 

$1,540

The International Contest of Young Players at Wind Instruments, 

Lvov, Ukraine, March 26-April 2, a group of 11 

young musicians, project director Eugen VERBEÞCHI, 

professor 

$1,220 

The Fr. Chopin 3rd International Contest of Young Piano- 

Interpreters, Moscow, Russia, April 9-17, Alexandr CULI- 

COV, 11th grade student at the S. Rahmaninov Lyceum 

$334 

The Jeunesses Musicales 7th Edition of the International 

Music Contest, Bucharest, Romania, May 9-15, Vitalie 

GAVRUC, student at S.Rahmaninov Music Lyceum and 

Toni RUDENCO, student at C.Porumbescu Music Lyceum 

$1,158 

F. Gregora International Contest of Contrabass-players, 

May 10-16, Kromeriz, Czech Republic, Mihai ICHIM, student, 

University of Music, Bucharest 

$356 

The First International Festival of Accordion Orchestras, 

Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-25, Accordion Orchestra 

of the 3rd Music School for Children from Chiºinãu, 

project director Valentin TUHARI, director of the School 

$1,400 

The 3rd Edition of the Tuganlic International Festival of 

Turkish Theaters, Ufa, Bashkorkostan, May 26 - June 3, 

National Gagauz Theater from Comrat, project director 

Valentina TERZINOVA, director of the Theater 

$1,500 

The 67th Edition of the World Congress of the International 

PEN Club on the theme “The Freedom of Critics. 

The Critics of Freedom”, Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg, 

Russia, May 22-28, Vasile VASILACHE, Serafim SACA, 

writers 

$416 

The World Theater Festival in Edinburg, Scotland, United 

Kingdom, August, Eugene Ionescu Theater 

$6,820 

The 14th Edition of the International Festival of University 

Music (FIMU), Belfort, France, June 6-16, UNIVOX 

Vocal Band and BAROCCO Ensemble 

$2,000 

Literature Express - 2000, June 2-July 17, Vitalie CIOBA- 

NU and Vasile GÂRNEÞ, writers, Contrafort Magazine 

$1,313 

K. Lipinski and H. Wieniaswski International Contest of 

Young Violinists, Lublin, Poland, September 12-24, Ilian 

GÂRNEÞ, 11th grade student at C. Porumbescu Music 

Lyceum 

$424 

Est-Ouest Festival, Die, France, September 8-22, Petru 

VUTCÃRÃU, artistic director of the E. Ionesco Theater 

$466 

The World Festival of Puppet Theaters in Charleville- 

Mézicres, France, September 15-24, Victoria ªTEFANIUC 

and Dumitru ANGHELOV, actors at Guguþã Republican 

Puppet Theater, members of the Demilun Association 

$1,039 

National Theater Festival in Bucharest, Romania, November 

12-19, Maria DONI, actress at Luceafãrul Theater, 

Valentina TÃZLÃUANU, director of Sud-Est Magazine, 

Irina NECHIT-POPA, chief of the culture section at the 

“Literature and Art” Magazine, Mihai FUSU, professor at 

the State University of Arts 

$107 

Seminar “Decentralization: Investing in Cultural Processes 

in the Region”, Bistritsa, Bulgaria, January 18-20, 

2001, Veaceslav REABCINSCHI, New Alternative Association 

$690 

Christmas Tour in Germany, December 24, 2000 - January 

8, 2001, The National Opera Theater (a group of 118 

persons — choir and orchestra) 

$3,451 

Total Contests and Festivals Program $44,022 

MUSEUM SUPPORT PROGRAM 

The main objectives of the Museum Support Program are 

to break through the information blockade that surrounded 

the cultural centers of Moldova, including museums, 

to purchase and donate a minimum set of equipment 

for the creation of an internal computer network 

within one of the museums of Chiºinãu, to provide access 

to the Internet, and to promote information exchange 

and contacts with similar international entities 

by participating at study and training courses in the field. 

The following projects were provided with support: 

Catalogue of the Exhibition of Restored Art Pieces, the 

National Museum of Visual Arts 

$4,246 

Mobile exhibitions devoted to the 150th birthday of 

Mihai Eminescu which were temporarily placed in the 

museums of Bãlþi, Orhei and Cahul counties, September 

10-October 10, 2000, Ana GRIÞCO, member of the Museion 

Cultural-Scientific Association 

$2,710 

Exhibition devoted to the 150th birthday of Mihai Eminescu, 

March - April 2000, National Museum of History, 

project director Elena PLOªNIÞÃ 

$3,200 

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Conference: “The Museum Initiative Support Program — 

Ways of Implementation“, June 22, 2000, Tatiana TIHMA- 

NOVSCHI, member of the Museion Cultural-Scientific 

Association$605 

Participation at the seminar “Restoring and Preserving 

Process of Wooden Pieces”, Brãila, Romania, October 

16-20, 2000, Ludmila VELIXAR, Lidia ISTOMIN, Ana GOL- 

DUR, Zinaida HOMLAC, Museum of Cahul $314 

Participation at the scientific meeting “National Minorities 

Phenomena in Museum Collections”, The Museum 

of Village, Bucharest, October 9-14, 2000, Veronica BOD- 

RUG, Tatiana TIHMANOVSCHI, National Museum of Ethnology 

and Nature History 

$207 

Design and creation of “The Fixed Patrimony of the Republic 

of Moldova” database, to be placed on the website 

“Cultural Patrimony of the Republic of Moldova. 

Historical and Architectural Monuments”. The implementation 

agency is the Museion Cultural-Scientific Association. 

$6,425 

(The project was partially supported 

from the Electronic Publishing Program budget) 

the general principles followed by the Foundation in the 

publishing area. 

“Modern Visual Arts in Basarabia. 1870-1940”, author 

Tudor STÃVILÃ, art researcher, director of the Art History 

and Theory Institute of the Academy of Science, ªtiinþa 

Publishing House 

$3,452 

Translation and publishing of “Lecciones de Linguistica 

General“ by E. COªERIU, Arc Publishing House 

$4,000 

Album “Monasteries of Basarabia”, author Pavel BALAN, 

Arc Publishing House 

$9,931 

“Following Mihai Sadoveanu’s Steps: Historical Reference 

Points and the Present”, August-October, project director 

Nicolae POPA, chief-editor of the Basarabia Magazine 

$600 

Total Cultural Journals and Publishing Projects Program 

$24,614 

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND ART 

EDUCATION 

This Program pursues to support on a competitive basis 

projects aimed to create and produce teaching materials 

— printed, electronic, video and audio materials, needed 

in the cultural-artistic education. 

Total Museum Support Program $18,408 

CULTURAL JOURNALS AND PUBLISHING PROJECTS 

In the 2000-year edition of the “Prima Verba” literary 

debut contest, conducted with the aim to launch new 

names in the literature field, 24 young authors participated 

and three were provided with support to cover the 

publishing costs: 

Tamara CARAUª. My Country (Þara mea), journalism 

Andrei UNGUREANU. Fish Insomnia (Insomnie de peºte), 

poetry 

Dãnuþ POSTOLACHE. The Hydronauts, fairy tails 

$4,334 

The Foundation granted support for the publishing of 

the winning plays from the National Drama Contest “The 

Bald Woman-Singer” whose purpose is to promote the 

development of playwriting in Moldova and to increase 

the interest of national and international theaters and 

directors in the national play. 

The following plays are to be published: 

Bloody Crime at the Violets’ Station, Dumitru CRUDU 

The Violet Reality, Nicolae NEGRU 

The Project of a Tragedy, Irina NECHIT 

Quartet for One Voice and All the Words, Nicolae LEAHU, 

Maria ªLEAHTIÞCHI 

$1,980 

The Foundation implemented the Literary Review and 

Promotion Book Publishing Program run according to 

The following teaching materials were published: 

Fifteen teaching syllabi in music education for the schools 

of arts, Musicians’ Union 

$1,250 

“The ABC of Music and Sol-fa” for the V-VIth and VII-VIIIth 

grades, author L. ÞURCANU, co-authors E. DÃNILÃ and 

A. ÞURCANU, project director Ecaterina DÃNILÃ, professor 

at the ªtefan Neaga Music College, to be published 

at the Arc Publishing House 

$5,924 

The Foundation supported the creation and updating of 

the art libraries, video, audio and slides databases based 

on major artistic products needed for the cultural-artistic 

education and for professionals. 

Support was granted for the project regarding the modernization 

of the State University of Arts musical fund 

and creation of a modern technical base. Project director 

Mihail AFANASIEV, professor, State University of Art 

$11,730 

Total Infrastructure Development and Arts Education 

Program $19,270 

Total Expenditures: $195,650

VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM 

In 2000, the Program supported Visual Arts field through 

support for local cultural events and by stimulating regional 

and international exhibition exchange, thus offering 

artists new contact opportunities and information. 

Program’s priorities are support for: 

— artistic education 

— cultural events 

— professional training 

— information exchange 

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLISHING PROJECTS 

According to the Program’s criteria, projects on publishing 

catalogues and organizing personal exhibitions were 

reviewed on a competitive basis. 

The following artists’ catalogues were approved for publishing: 

Andrei NEGURÃ $4,770 

Roman CUÞIUBA $6,940 

Mihai ÞÃRUª $6,000 

Grants were offered to organize personal exhibitions of 

the following artists: 

Ilie COJOCARU, exhibition “Rhythms in Violet Colour” 

$1,060 

Oleg GHERASIMENCO, exhibition of vanguard paintings, 

September 21 - October 4 

$2,041 

Eugen LISCHIN, exhibition “World in Creation”, November 

$1,492 

Nadejda PRONINA, exhibition “Looking forward”, November 

$1,620 

Valentina RUSU-CIOBANU, anniversary exhibition, November 

2 

$400 

Andrei SÂRBU (1950-2000), memorial exhibition of paintings 

and photos “Anno-Timpuri”, December, project director 

Octavian RUSU, director of the Colograf Enterprise 

$2,175 

Exhibition “Polish Textiles in Moldova” representing Ewa 

Maria PORADOWSKA-WERSZLER, Vlodzimierz CYGAN, 

Ewa ROSIEK-BUSZKO, Malgorzata ANTOSZEWSKA, Adriana 

BLASZCZYK, Chiºinãu, October. Project director Alexandru 

DROBAHA 

$1,586 

The exhibition of gigantic photos: “The Birth of Art in 

Europe”, September 12 -October 30, National Museum 

of History, project director Angela SOLTAN, representative 

of the Latin Union in the Republic of Moldova 

$3,000 (1999 budget) 

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS 

“New Traditions and Technologies (synthesis)”, held at 

the Visual Arts Department of the Ion Creangã State 

Pedagogical University. Project director Tudor MACARI, 

professor of Visual Arts 

$1,730 

“Curator Experience“, facilitator Jan de LANGE, Holland, 

September 6-8, Chiºinãu. Organizer Center for Contemporary 

Art, Chiºinãu 

$2,329 (1999 budget) 

TRAVEL GRANTS 

In 2000, Moldovan artists and professionals from the 

field of culture were supported to participate at the 

following international events: 

“World of the Art” Exhibition, Celija, Slovenia, May 10-13, 

Olga ROªCA, teacher of fine arts at the A.Stîrcea Art 

School 

$353 

“Marina-art 2000” International Biennial in Odessa, 

Ukraine, July 5 - 9, Iurie SALCO, employee of the Visual 

Arts Fund from Tiraspol 

$200 

The 27th International Symposium “Weaving Workshops 

— Kowary 2000”, Karpacz Corny, Poland, October 14-29, 

Alexandru DROBAHA 

$430 

“Golden Beggar” International Festival of Local Television 

Stations, Kosice, Slovakia, October 11 - 14, Ludmila 

BARBA, chief-editor at NIT Company, Aneta GROSU, Flux 

Publication 

$909 

Cezara COLESNIC was awarded a grant for studies at the 

Regional Art School from Besancon, France, during September 

2000 - June 2001 

$1,535 

A group of about 130 persons, artists from the country, 

visited the personal exhibition of Endy Warhol, contemporary 

artist from the USA, held in Kiev, Ukraine, 

June 3-5 

$1,415 

Total Visual Arts Program $40,754 

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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, 

CHIªINÃU [KSA:K] 

The Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu, pursues the 

promotion of cultural emancipation activities and critical 

reflection on society. 

The institution’s objectives are as follows: 

— promoting the contemporary art discourse at a technical, 

visual and verbal level 

— mediating the relationship between the public and 

artists 

— creating and promoting alternative management methods 

in culture 

— enhancing the demand for cultural products by educating 

the public 

— informing the cultural community on contemporary 

cultural processes in the world 

— supporting and promoting cultural, artistic and general 

human diversity 

— recovering and integrating the experiences of marginal 

and disadvantaged groups into the general cultural 

landscape 

In order to achieve its objectives, the institution carried 

out the following activities in 2000: 

EXHIBITIONS 

“KINOVARI-Imitaþia”, June 5-15, Herþa House (National 

Museum of Fine Arts), Center for Contemporary Art, 

Chiºinãu KSA:K 

The first exhibition from the “KINOVARI-Imitaþia” project 

was a contribution to bridging the information gap on 

the XXth century art through an artistic project whose 

idea was to “copy” or “imitate” the works of art created 

by artists of this century. A text, which explained the 

reasons why the artist chose this work of art to imitate, 

and a description of how the process was carried out 

complemented the copies, imitations, and interpretations. 

Due to the textual information, the exhibition had 

a narrative character and acquainted the public with the 

creation of young artists and with the famous artists of 

the XXth century. 

Artists from the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and USA 

participated in the exhibition. 

The organization of new stages of the exhibition is planned 

in the future. 

Participants: 

Alexander ALESENKOV (Moldova) 

Elena MELNIC (Moldova) 

Veaceslav DRUÞÃ (Moldova) 

Lilia DRAGNEV (Moldova) 

Lucia MACARI (Moldova) 

Bradley ADAMS (USA) 

Vasile RAÞÃ (Moldova) 

Igor SCERBINA (Moldova) 

Ion TCACI (Moldova) 

Mark VERLAN (Moldova) 

Dmitry DULFAN “Hirstcamera” (Ukraine) 

Alexander PETRELLI (Ukraine) 

Isidor ZILBERSTEIN (Ukraine) 

Gleb KATCHUK (Ukraine) 

Thomas GEORGE (USA) 

“… Somebody Left the Door Open…”, June 22-August 

31, Het Domein Museum, Sittard, Holland, Center for 

Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu KSA:K 

The project was initiated by the Jan van Eyck Academy 

from Maastricht and by the Het Domein Museum from 

Sittard, Holland, in collaboration with the Center for 

Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu. The exhibition’s goal was to 

present the three establishments which operate in different 

historical, geographical and cultural circumstances. 

The event took place in Het Domein Museum, Sittard, 

Holland. Artists from Germany, Croatia, Belgium, USA, 

Moldova, Russia, Holland, Austria, Israel were invited to 

participate at this exhibition. Four artists and an art critic 

represented the Republic of Moldova. 

The first volume of the publication reflecting the activity 

of the Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu and of the 

Jan van Eyck Academy from Maastricht was presented at 

the inauguration. 

The project was co-financed by: 

Jan van Eyck Academy from Maastricht, Holland 

Het Domein Museum, Sittard, Holland 

Mondrian Foundation, Holland 


Vladimir BULAT 

Lucia MACARI 

Lilia DRAGNEV 

Vasile RAÞÃ 

Mark VERLAN 

“Identity Signs” (“The Moldovan Sign” and “The Fabric of 

Memory”), October 13-20, organizers: Water Tower Museum 

of Chiºinãu, Museum of the Romanian Literature, 

Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu KSA:K 

This was a partnership project involving artists from Romania, 

Russia and Moldova. 

The subject of the project was the identification of the 

issue of space between the Nistru and Prut rivers. 

Three parts were formed — one- “the hosts” and the 

other two - “the guests” who came from Romania and 

Russia that created a kind of ideological tension, a 

glance on the three points of view upon Homeland. 

These three glances upon a concrete topos through its 

signs, its symbols, in a way deleted its signal value, 

revealing the ideaistic nature of Homeland. Work at the 

production of the catalogue of this event is in progress.

Participants: 

Nicolae BACIU / Ciprian MUREªAN (Romania) 

Ekaterina BUROVA (Russia) 

Gor CHAHAL (Russia) 

Alexei CUZNETZOV (Russia) 

Ignat DANILITZEV (Russia) 

Alexandru DJEMELINSKY (Moldova) 

Lilia DRAGNEV / Lucia MACARI (Moldova) 

Veaceslav DRUÞÃ (Moldova) 

Andrey FILIPPOV (Russia) 

Daniil FILIPPOV (Russia) 

Vasiliy FLORENSKIY (Russia) 

Ioan GODEANU (Romania) 

Yury LEYDERMAN (Russia) 

Igori MAKAREVICH (Russia) 

Boris MATROSOV (Russia) 

Andrey MONASTIRSKY (Russia) 

Petru NEGURÃ (Moldova) 

Dan PANAITESCU (Romania) 

Tatiana PAPUC (Moldova) 

Alexander PETRELLI (Russia) 

Oleg PETRENKO (Russia) 

Dragoº POPA (Moldova) 

Rostopasca Group (Romania) 

ªtefan RUSU (Moldova) 

Cristian SÎRBU (Moldova) 

Igor ªCERBINA (Moldova) 

Liudmila SKRIPKINA (Russia) 

Doina STICI (Moldova) 


Leonid VOITZEHOV (Russia) 

Iana VULPE (Moldova) 

Isidor ZILBERSHTEIN (Russia) 

Konstantin ZVEZDOCHIOTOV (Russia) 

The event was co-financed by: 

The Mayoralty of Chiºinãu 

“ARTWATT” Association of Alternative Art 

National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow 

APARTMENT EXHIBITIONS 


The project is focusing on a series of small exhibitions 

organized and directed by their authors. The concept of 

the exhibitions is to have artists invite the audience to 

their home or studio and show them their work. Thus, 

this is an attempt to set up an interactive environment 

between the public, the artist and his/her work. 

Apartment Exhibitons organized in 2000: 

“Mystical Dragon”, February 5, the “Black Elephant” Club, 

Serge POPOVSCHI 

The exhibition took place in the “Black Elephant” Club, 

which became “a second house” for the author. A “puppet 

performance”, assisted by video projections was 

unfolded at the exhibition. Everything had a nature of an 

improvised happening. 

“The Tie — a Barometer of Men’s Mood”, March 31, 

apartment 117, 9 Dacia Blvd., Iurie MAHOVICI 

The exhibition took place in the author’s apartment. The 

artist presented to the public an exhibition of ties from 

his own collection. Special memories were attributed to 

each tie, the associations being exaggerated by taste 

and smell senses. 

“Mifoga” Apartment Exhibition, May 2, the Art Department 

of the National Library of Moldova, Vic BRUMÃ 

(Vlad STRATECIUC) 

“Mifoga” — an exhibition of paintings complemented by 

life music and poetry. 

“Malevich’s Last Love”, August 24, City Gates, 51 Dacia 

Street, Igor ªCERBINA 

The event took place on the roof of a 24-floor building 

(“City Gates”), in the artist’s studio. 

The exhibition represented the final stage of a recent 

project of the author being at the same time a final touch 

and a recapitulation of his creation. Through this exhibition 

the author continued the investigations in imitation 

of the XXth century works, which had been explored in 

the KSA:K’s project “KINOVARI (Iimitaþia)”. 

“Visual Arts”, November 30 - December 2, Igor Vieru Exlyceum 

of Fine Arts, Iurie CEBOTARI 

The event took place in the Igor Vieru Ex-lyceum of Fine 

Arts - S. Rahmaninov Music Lyceum at present, which 

the author had graduated from 15 years before. The 

exhibition’s goal was not to present the value of each 

work, but to present the entire creative evolution as a 

phenomenon, stressing the artist’s integration in time, 

the influence of the social changes upon the artist and 

his tendency towards reflecting the reality. 

SUMMER CAMPS 

CarbonART2000, August 25 - September 3, “SatElit” 

Residency for Artists, Hîrtopul Mare, Moldova, Center for 


During the previous editions, artists from Moldova and 

abroad, had been creating works by using varied forms of 

expression. The participants had reflected upon the eternal 

relation between the artist and the environment, in 

this case the nature, applying all kinds of technologies 

such as video, photography and the computer. 

In 2000, CarbonArt took place in an unusual place — a 

rural household with all its traditional attributes that 

gave the camp a special tint because of its folk aspect. 

Works from lend-art domain, installations, performance, 

environment were created, thus making a correlation 

between the space and the work. 

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The Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu [ksa:k] organized 

this event in collaboration with the “SatElit” Association 

of Creation, which co-ordinated the event and a 

big part of the artistic residency that followed. 

Through this camp, the first step in establishing a residency 

in the Republic of Moldova was realized. Of major 

importance was the fact that a lot of new participants, 

most of them young artists and students from art institutes, 

participated at this camp. 

Participants: 

Elena CUªNIR (Moldova) 

Maria CUªNIR (Moldova) 

Angela ENACHE (Moldova) 

Pavel BRAILÃ (Moldova) 

Dimitry DULFAN (Ukraine) 

Alexander PETRELLI (Ukraine) 

Serghei KLEIN (Ukraine) 

Demid POKLALCHUK (Ukraine) 

Anton MARKOV (Ukraine) 

Augustin MATCOVSCHI (Moldova) 

Vladimir MUNTEANU (Moldova) 

Petru NEGURÃ (Moldova) 

Rodica PLÃMÃDEALÃ (Moldova) 

Dragoº POPA (Moldova) 

Gheorghe POPESCU (Moldova) 

Dumitru MUSTEAÞÃ (Moldova) 

Igor ªCERBINA (Moldova) 

Cristian SÎRBU (Moldova) 

Vladimir US (Moldova) 


Leonid VOITZEHOV (Ukraine) 

Alexandru ZAICHIN (Moldova) 

OTHER ACTIVITIES 

“PaxDanubiana”, September 23, Giurgiuleºti, Moldova, 


New Millennium — Project of Peace — Bottled Letters 

Sponsors: Ursula SCHLEICHER, Vice-president of the 

European Parliament, Emilia MULLER, member of the 

European Parliament with the support of Regensburg 

Municipality. The project was also supported by the 

KunstKnoten Organisation, Regensburg and the Mayoralty 

of Chiºinãu. 

During a common action, artists from all the countries 

situated along the course of the Danube, contributed 

their artistic value in the “Pax Danubiana” peace project. 

The message of each artist was sealed up in a separate 

bottle prepared for this event. The action’s goal was to 

bring artists together for initiating and cultivating a permanent 

and active exchange of ideas and thoughts beyond 

time and boundaries. Now the participants have 

the possibility to expose one of their works and their CV 

on the “Pax Danubiana” site. 

The results of this event and all its activities will be 

analyzed and presented at a symposium with the title 

“DonauKonferenz”. The entire project and the “Riverbook” 

book will be presented at the “Forum Wasserwelten” 

of the Goethe Institute, as part of the EXPO 

2000, Hanover, to take place in September 2001. 

“Video Marathon 2000”, November 17-18, Cinema “ODE- 

ON”, Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu KSA:K 

(Night of projections from video art and experimental 

film) 

In 2000, the video marathon had some important reference 

points: a presentation of recent Danish video, offered 

by the Danish Video Art Data Bank, the current 

production of some important university centers of artistic 

education like Beaux-Arts from France - Valence, Paris 

and Lyon, accompanied by the presentations of Dominique 

Ghesquiere GUILLON and Franck CHASTANIER, artists 

and media professionals, a video art program from 

Bulgaria, a grouping of Dutch, Slovenian, English, etc. 

video material, which was selected by Ron SLUIK (Holland), 

the retrospection of the “DreamCatcher” Media 

Festivals (Kiev, Ukraine), presented by Nadya PRIGODICH 

and Medi@terra (Athena, Greece), presented by Manthos 

SANTORINEOUS, and a medallion of indigenous video 

production. 

The project was co-financed by the “Odeon” Cinema and 

the French Alliance from Moldova 

Project “Film Masterpieces for Children”, Umbria Gallery, 


“Film Masterpieces for Children” represents the coexistence 

of children and the art works in Umbria. The event 

was launched in 1999. The amount of money left was 

spent in 2000 for acquiring videotapes as well as equipment 

to complete the video editing facilities of the Center. 

This will allow the Center to organize video-based 

projects on a more professional level. 

WORKSHOPS 

Workshop of Sculpture, facilitated by Dominique Ghesquière 

GUILLON, France, November 21-23, CONTACT 

Center office, Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu 

KSA:K 

The participants were offered to create sculptures using 

non-traditional materials - chocolate, chewing gum, soap, 

and scotch. 

The project was co-financed by the French Alliance from 


Video-workshop: “Final Cut”, facilitated by Franck CHAS- 

TANIER, France, November 25-29, Center for Contemporary 

Art, Chiºinãu KSA:K 

The workshop consisted of a demonstration of ‘final cut’ 

editing and creating of new software in Macintosh. The

participants were to produce a short film (30 sec - 2 min.) 

— which would be the result of a simple shooting from 

the environment and of using the already existing images 

- photographs, fragments from films and shows, reproduction 

from books. Three films were produced during 

the workshop. 

The project was co-financed by the French Alliance from 


Clubs for Artists, Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu 

KSA:K 

Meetings of artists with presentations of newly created 

sites, recent exhibitions on the Virtual Museum, reports 

and video presentations from various local and international 

events are organized on a regular basis. 

The KSA:K Library, Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu 

KSA:K 

A library, focused on the art of the 20th century, was 

created at the Center. Any person can use the Center’s 

resources by signing up with the Center’s Administration. 

The library has been making a considerable contribution 

to raising the intellectual level of local artists as 

well as of the general population. In the framework of 

this project, the Center’s library was completed with 

books and albums on the topic of the XXth century art. 

Subscriptions to Magazines and Periodicals, Center for 


The Center was subscribed for the year 2001 to the 

following art magazines: Art in America, Artext, Artforum 

International, Camera Austria, Flash Art, Leonardomusic 

Journal with CDs, Nu — the Nordic Art Revew, Parkett, 

Sculpture — Washington. 

ArtHoc, Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu KSA:K 

The periodical reappeared in a new format and with a 

new editorial team. The basic concept of the gazette was 

partially changed, reducing the amount of information 

related to the documentation of the events organized by 

KSA:K. Some new headings were added in which the 

artists had the possibility to publish their personal works, 

new works, etc. 

The gazette appears every two months. 

CATALOGUES 

Publishing of the “RUGINA” catalogue, Center for Contemporary 

Art, Chiºinãu KSA:K 

Alla RUSU 

Personal Catalogue 

GRANTS 

“Birth of Art in Europe”, exhibition, the Union of Latin 

Culture, September 12-30, National Museum of History 

English Study Course 

Vladislav HÎNCU 

TRAVEL GRANTS FOR ARTISTS 

“The Corridor of Two Banalities” exhibition by Joseph 

KOSUTH and Ilia KABAKOV, Kiev Participants: 20 artists 

“Artist -Superstar” exhibition by Andy WARHOL, Kiev 

Participants: 17 artists 

THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM 

http://museum.art.md, Center for Contemporary Art, 

Chiºinãu KSA:K 

The Center continued to work on the updating of the 

Virtual Museum’s collection. New projects were launched 

in the network and were stored in the permanent 

collection of recent works. The information database 

was enlarged. The Museum has two functions: to prepare 

the creation of the Contemporary Art section of the Fine 

Arts Museum and to present it to the international public. 

The Center’s site was updated. Another direction is 

creation of electronic portfolios, which will allow the 

artists to enlarge their international contacts. 

The Center got a supplementary grant from the Soros 

Foundation - Moldova to purchase some equipment to 

support the activity of the Center. 

Total Center for Contemporary Art Expenditures: 

$64,676.12 

Commitments $24,195.31 

THE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM 

CENTER 

The Independent Journalism Center (IJC) is a non-governmental 

organization, which offers assistance to journalists 

and news organizations from the Republic of Moldova. 

The mission of IJC is to support professional journalism 

and to contribute to the creation of objective, 

independent, and high-quality media. 

It is worth mentioning that in February 2000, IJC became 

a member of the South East European Network for Professionalization 

of the Media. 

In its activities, IJC tries to use the experience of similar 

institutions from other countries, to draw the support 

and cooperation of media organizations and democratic 

institutions on the local, national, and international level. 

In 2000, IJC administered more than 20 programs. 

TRAINING PROJECTS 

TV Workshop for Beginner Journalists “TV Writing and 

Camerawork” 

March 20 - 25 

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Organizers: the Independent Journalism Center, Department 

of Journalism and Communication Sciences (Moldova 

State University), Ecole Superieure de Journalisme 

de Lille (France), 

Participants: students from the Department of Journalism 

and Communication Sciences (Moldova State University) 

Trainer: Fabrice DUJARDIN, Ecole Superieure de Journalisme 

de Lille 

The workshop “TV Writing and Camerawork” was part of a 

series of activities that have been carried out by the 

Independent Journalism Center together with the Department 

of Journalism and Communication Sciences 

(Moldova State University), Ecole Superieure de Journalisme 

de Lille (France), Soros Foundation - Moldova, 

and the Cultural Affairs Department of the French Embassy 

in Moldova since 1998. 

The students had a chance to combine theory with practice. 

As a result, each of the thirteen participants designed 

his/her own version of short TV reports, with or 

without text, using the same pictures. 

Trainees had been selected by IJC together with the Chair 

of Social Communication of the Journalism Department 

and by the dean of the Department from the pool of 

interested candidates who had submitted letters of motivation 

to IJC. 

The students noted that their active interest in the workshop 

resulted from a keen desire to gain experience in 

using TV equipment and put into practice all the theory 

they had learned. 

The project was co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs 

Department of the French Embassy in Moldova. 

$ 1,623.76 

Workshop “TV Reportage” 

April 10-15 

Organizers: the Independent Journalism Center, Department 

of Journalism and Communication Sciences (Moldova 

State University), and Ecole Superieure de Journalisme 

de Lille (France) 

OWH cameramen and guided, during the editing stage, 

by the picture editor and by the French TV journalist 

Laurence CREUSOT. 

Both workshops generated wide interest among the students, 

who appreciated the chance to hold a TV camera 

in their own hands and to produce a real TV reportage. 

These aspects are studied only theoretically at the Journalism 

Department, and the practical workshop was of 

real use for the students. 

The project was co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs 

Department of the French Embassy in Moldova. 

$ 1,623.76 

Seminar for Radio Producers 

June 5-9 

The seminar aimed to give participants the possibility to 

exchange opinions about specific ways of preparing, 

writing and broadcasting radio programs. The goal was to 

show participants a series of concrete ways that would 

increase the impact of radio programs on listeners. 

In his evaluation of the seminar, the trainer Ovidiu CON- 

STANTINESCU, broadcast consultant at “Geisor Media 

Group” from Romania, noted that by the end of the fiveday 

training, participants were able to make individual 

use of the newly-acquired information, to discuss and 

critically evaluate radio and TV broadcasts, as well as to 

use these critical aspects in their own work. 

Visits at several radio stations from Chiºinãu (Radio Moldova, 

Antena C and Radio D’Or) were welcome by the 

participants and proved extremely instructive for them. 

Participation of local experts as guest speakers (representatives 

of the Audio-Visual Coordinating Council, radio 

producers and directors) was extremely useful and 

beneficial. 

$1,599.72 

Project “Social Reportage in the Mass Media in the Republic 

of Moldova” 

Preparation stage and conference launching the project 

October 9 - November 29 

The workshop “TV Reportage” was the second phase of a 

program organized by the Independent Journalism Center, 

the Department of Journalism and Communication 

Sciences (Moldova State University), and Ecole Superieure 

de Journalisme de Lille (France) in the year 2000. 

In order to increase the program’s effectiveness, the 

same participants who had taken part in the first stage 

attended the second workshop. All of them spoke French. 

Similarly to the first phase of the TV training, the second 

phase took place at the Independent Journalism Center 

and the TV Studio of the Open World House (OWH). 

Participants had theoretical lectures and watched sample 

TV programs and newscasts. They were assisted by the 

The news media from the Republic of Moldova fail to 

provide a transparent coverage of the impact of social 

policies and the difficult problems faced by the Moldovan 

people in this difficult post-transition period. 

In order to develop and broaden the coverage of social 

issues in the news media, the Independent Journalism 

Center prepared and launched the project “Social Reportage 

in the Mass Media in Moldova” between October 

9 - November 29. The preparation stage included the 

following activities: identifying experts for the opening 

conference and a specialized seminar, publicizing the 

project through advertisements in national newspapers, 

and some 100 announcements sent to journalists by fax

or e-mail, as well as collecting materials about the current 

situation in the field, etc. 

The project started with an opening conference that 

took place on November 29. The conference discussions 

focussed on the following topics: national and international 

legal framework for social policies and national 

and international social practices. 

More than 50 journalists from national and local print 

and broadcast media participated in the conference. 

The project will last for one year (November 2000 - 

November 2001) and will include a two-phase competition 

for journalists from all types of the news media. 

Project budget: $ 5,758.34 

Seminar “Trainer Training for Economic Journalists” 

December 8-10 

TAMAS KARSAI, analyst, and editor of an online service 

at the Concords Securities Investment Bank from Budapest, 

led the seminar. 

The organizers aimed to train a pool of local trainers in 

the field of economic journalism. 9 best journalists writing 

on economic issues from the Republic of Moldova 

had been selected. Later they can be used in training 

beginner journalists writing about the economy. 

$ 2,032.29 

Seminar “Social Reportage” 

December 13-16 

The seminar took place at the Independent Journalism 

Center and was led by Natalia ANGHELI, IJC consultant. 

The participants, most of whom were students of the 

Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences 

of Moldova State University, displayed keen interest in 

the issues discussed — the scope of social reportage, 

the notion of diversity, main sources of a social reportage, 

covering the news from a reader’s perspective, and 

the subject of journalism ethics relevant to the coverage 

of social issues. 

Students had the possibility to apply acquired notions 

to practice by doing exercises in identifying topics, writing 

articles on the basis of documents, preparing questions 

for interviews, identifying and evaluating sources, 

working with press releases, drafting articles. 

The participants visited the United Nations Center for 

Information and Documentation in Moldova (which exists 

under the auspices of Moldova State University) and had 

special meetings with representatives of UNICEF Moldova 

and the League for the Protection of Human Rights 

(LADO). 

$ 798.66 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

Press Freedom Week 

May 2-5 

Organizers: the Independent Journalism Center, Committee 

for Press Freedom, Moldovan Journalists’ Union, Department 

of Journalism and Communication Sciences of 

Moldova State University, the Association of Independent 

Press, the Association of Electronic Media (APEL) 

The Press Freedom Week has become a tradition in Moldova 

and is dedicated to the celebration of the World 

Press Freedom Day on May 3. 

The agenda of the Week included: 

— a photo exhibition “End of the XX Century” 

— an open meeting of the Parliamentary Commission on 

Culture, Science, Education and Mass Media on the 

subject “Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities of 

Mass Media in the Republic of Moldova” 

— a round table discussion on the subject “Mass Media 

in an Election Year” 

—“a day of open doors” — meetings of local news media 

with their readers 

— the festive launching of the students’ publication 

“Necenzurat” 

— a televised meeting of the Press Club devoted to the 

events of the press freedom week 

— a mass media festival: “With a Free Press into the New 

Millennium” 

The festival was organized in the ªtefan cel Mare Public 

Park where special booths for various mass media organizations 

were set up representing 30 organizations. Participating 

organizations displayed their publications and 

other media products, and the park was decorated with 

posters and slogans. A band and pop singers participated 

in the festival, which took place between 12:00 

and 18:00. The festival ended with a disco. 

— seminar “Journalism Ethics” (May 17-20) 

Trainer: Tyrone SHAW, professor at Vermont State College, 

USA 

Participants: 13 students from the Department of Journalism 

and Communication Sciences of Moldova State 

University and from the Academy of Economic Studies 

The idea to organize the seminar belongs to professor 

Tyrone SHAW, who aimed to acquaint future journalists 

with issues of professional journalists’ ethics — theory 

and case studies. The Independent Journalism Center 

and the Department of Journalism and Communication 

Sciences made the announcement about the seminar. 

Participants were selected on the basis of motivation 

letters submitted to the Journalism Center. 

This seminar was a valuable contribution to the university 

journalism curriculum, as the trainer made extensive 

use of his vast knowledge and experience in the field. 

The seminar was co-sponsored by Johnson College (Vermont, 

USA) 

$ 7,114.53 

PRESS CLUB 

The Press Club was launched in the fall of 1995, together 

with the Committee for Press Freedom, and aims to 

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improve communication among journalists on issues of 

common interest to them, and organize meetings between 

journalists and prominent personalities from various 

fields of public life. 

In 2000, the invitees of the Press Club included: 

January 13 — during the first session journalists met with 

Rudolf Vilem PERINA, U.S. ambassador to Moldova, who 

had brought interesting information following his visit to 

Tiraspol. 

January 27 — ex-premier Ion STURZA 

February 10 — the meeting of journalists with Premier 

Dumitru BRAGIª was an opportunity to clear up relations 

between the two sides. 

March 9 — Bascan of the Gagauz Autonomous Region 

Dumitru CROITOR 

March 23 — Ivan HNATISHIN, Ukraine’s ambassador to 


April 6 — Who needs the Giurgiuleºti oil terminal? Who 

doesn’t need this terminal and hampers its construction? 

These questions were answered by Iacob MOGO- 

REANU, deputy general manager of the TERMINAL S.A. 

Company 

April 27 — Who organized and who had to gain after 

students’ protest actions? These and other questions 

were answered by the members of the strike committee, 

who had been invited to the regular meeting of the Press 

Club. 

May 31 — members of the parliament Vasile NEDEL- 

CIUC, Iurie ROªCA and Andrei NEGUÞÃ discussed the 

controversy over the signing of the basic treaty between 

Romania and the Republic of Moldova 

June 20 — the National Press Club, the Chiºinãu Press 

Club and the Association of Electronic Media (APEL) 

organized the session “Moldovan Television at the Crossroads. 

Realities and Prospects.” 

June 21 — the problems of AIDS victims and drug addiction 

in the Republic of Moldova were discussed by journalists 

together with ªtefan GHEORGHIÞÃ, director of 

the Republican Center for Combating AIDS, and Ala SNE- 

GUREAC, vice-president of the association “Young People 

for the Right to Live,” Bãlþi section 

August 17 — Ion BOTNARU, ambassador, Moldova’s 

permanent representative at the UN 

September 7 — the problem of Transnistria was discussed 

with the participation of Oazu NANTOI, author of 

the “Mosti” TV Program, coordinator at the Institute for 

Public Policies (IPP). 

September 21 — the controversial “CAIRO vs. CCA” case 

was debated with the participation of representatives of 

CAIRO as well as of the radio and television stations 

whose broadcast licenses had been revoked by a Court 

of Appeals’ decisions. 

October 12 — the Press Club together with the Ministry 

of Economics and Reforms organized a session on the 

subject “The Ordinance of the Government of the Republic 

of Moldova on the Inspection of Imported Goods 

before Delivery.” Invitees included: Gheorghe GABERI, 

deputy minister of the Ministry of Economics and Reforms, 

Andrei STRATAN, Department of Customs Control, 

Veronica BACALU, deputy governor of Moldovan 

National Bank, and Victor ZEMLICKA, SGS International 

Group. 

October 26 — the focus of the session was the topic 

“Moldova and the European Union, Today and Tomorrow.” 

Journalists discussed the issue with Ivan BORIS- 

LAVLEVICI, director of European Commission’s office in 

Moldova, Alexei TULBURE, member of the parliamentary 

commission for foreign relations, and Iurie LEANCÃ, deputy 

minister of Foreign Affairs. 

November 30 — Moldovan journalists met with a group 

of journalists, representatives of non-governmental organizations 

and authorities from Georgia. All of the guests 

were experts in solving ethno-regional conflicts. 

December 26 — the traditional December awards ceremony, 

honoring the most popular journalists of the 

year 2000, was held. 

Winners: 

National print media: 

Irina ASTAKHOVA (“Logos Press”) 

Nicolae NEGRU (“Jurnal de Chiºinãu”) 

Local print media: 

Elena ROMAN (“Cuvîntul,” Rezina) 

Petru MACOVEI (“Ora Localã,” Ialoveni) 

News agencies: 

Anatol PASAT (INFOTAG news agency) 

Corneliu RUSNAC ( BASA Press) 

Radio and television: 

Maria TRIFAN (editor, Radio Moldova) 

Angela ARAMÃ (producer of programs on TVM) 

Ludmila BELCENCOVA (editor, NIT television) 

Iulian BERCU (reporter, PRO TV Chiºinãu) 

Hope of the year: 

Mariana ARSENE (reporter, “Jurnal de Chiºinãu”) 

The best debut in the print media: 

“Jurnalul Naþional”

The journalist who provoked the public opinion the most: 

Constantin MUNTEANU 

Manager who was most successful in 2000: 

Alexandru DOROGAN 

The best performance in 2000: 

Antena C Radio 

PUBLICATIONS 

“Curier Media” Informational Bulletin 

$ 4,138.36 

A bimonthly publication that provides journalists with 

timely information about local, regional, and global events 

in the field. It is distributed in 250 hard copies, as well as 

electronically, among media organizations. 

Information for the bulletin is selected on a daily basis 

from the wire copy of BASA Press, Flux, Infotag, Interlic, 

Moldpres, DECA Press news agencies, as well as from 

international bulletins. 

$ 1,446.58 

“Mass Media in the Republic of Moldova” Analytical 

Magazine 

One of the priority subjects remains the legal framework 

in which the news media in Moldova work, how the 

authorities perceive freedom of the press, the right to 

free expression, and guarantees of access to information. 

Issues of journalists’ ethics, as well as problems of training 

journalists, especially in conditions of economic crisis, 

are among the permanent topics. 

The section “Our Guest” has been maintained in which 

the situation in Moldovan news media is analyzed by 

foreign journalists and experts. 

In addition to the topics/sections mentioned above, every 

issue of the bulletin also includes analyses of specific 

problems. 

MM1, June 2000 

The section “Letter of the Law” features articles about 

the legislation on access to information. One of these, 

entitled “With and Without Passion about the Right to 

Know,” was written by Alexandru CANÞÎR. 

The issue tackles at large the phenomenon of “media in 

the election campaigns.” The section “Election Year” 

features “Monopoly on State Television,” article written 

by Nicolae NEGRU, “The Media in Moldova in an Election 

Year” by Constantin MARIN, and “The Journalist as Image 

Maker” by Ludmila BARBÃ. 

The bulletin regularly carries results of the latest opinion 

polls and research in the field. The June issue features 

the results of a poll on the general problems of mass 

media in Moldova carried out at the end of 1999 by the 

Institute of Marketing and Polling (IMAS) from Bucharest. 

MM2, December 2000 

Famous writer and publicist Vasile VASILACHE tackles 

the problem of the press as the “fourth estate”, Neli 

HARABARA writes about broadcasting and the meandering 

democracy, Natalia ANGHELI writes about “news 

about you” and “news for you,” which still remain an 

alien phenomenon for Moldovan journalism. Naturally, 

MM could not ignore the so-called CAIRO case, which 

polarized the public opinion last summer. The foreign 

press in the Republic of Moldova or what we don’t read, 

is the subject we have come back to, at the initiative of 

the young journalist Artur GORGHENCEA. Olivia PÂR- 

ÞAC offers an article about recent regulations on the 

freedom of expression. The issue’s guest was the representative 

of the American Bar Association Joel C. MAR- 

TIN. An annex to the issue presents the views of Victor 

BOGACI on the legal framework and practices of issuing 

broadcast licenses. 

$ 3,768.99 

RESOURCE CENTER 

The Independent Journalism Center has a resource center 

comprised of a library and a database, which were 

created in response to the requests of journalists and 

news organizations. 

IJC library contains more than 850 books in Romanian, 

English, French, Russian, German on different topics: the 

print media, radio, TV, management, public relations, 

mass media law, dictionaries, etc. Some 60 journalists 

use the library every month. They can use IJC photocopier 

to copy the texts they need, and can check out 

some of the books. In addition to the resources mentioned 

above, the library offers texts of various reports, 

evaluations, legal and other documents concerning the 

mass media in the Republic of Moldova and other countries. 

The Resource Center is subscribed to the main newspapers 

in Moldova (more than 50) in Romanian and Russian, 

as well as to a number of newspapers and magazines 

from Romania and other countries (The International 

Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall 

Street Journal, The Economist, etc). The German embassy 

in Moldova provides us with copies of Der Spiegel, 

Die Zeit, Rheinische Merkur. 

“MOLDOVA NEWS” PROJECT 

The goal of the project is to maintain and develop the 

informational Web site “Moldova News” (http://news. 

ournet.md) hosted by DNT. IJC selects the most relevant 

political, economic and social news in Romanian, English 

and Russian, on a daily basis, and “re-works” them 

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for the Internet format required by DNT. The selection is 

done on the basis of news received from BASA Press, 

Flux, Infotag, Interlic, and Moldpres news agencies. 

The importance of the project has been proved by the 

fact that by the time the present report was written, the 

Web page had been accessed 932,146 times. 

The project is co-sponsored by the DNT Association. 

$3,341.55 

The Institute for Public Policy is an independent nonprofit 

organization, which was set up by the Soros Foundation 

- Moldova and the Euro Atlantic Center of Moldova 

in April 2000. Its goal is to contribute to improving 

the policymaking process in the country and foster the 

development of civil society by promoting public debate, 

evaluating state policies, advocating for policy alternatives 

that advance the interests of civil society, and 

by disseminating information about all these activities. 

Total IJC Expenditures: $70,000 

Other Media Support Projects: $7,008 

Total $77,008 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM 

The goal of the Program is to contribute to the reforming 

process in the field of public administration in the Republic 

of Moldova through support for professional development 

of public servants, contribution to the dissemination 

of up-to-date information and best practices. 

The outcomes of the Program are increased efficiency 

and a higher degree of responsibility and transparency 

of local authorities’ activity. 


— to support the development of a modern system of 

local public administration in the Republic of Moldova 

— to enhance the influence of local public administration 

in the development of the local socio-economic 

capacity 

— to facilitate the dialogue between the local public 

administration and the citizens and to foster active 

participation of citizens in the local public administration 

processes 

— to develop equitable relations between central, regional, 

and local public administrations 

— to foster the collaboration between local public administrations 

— to train and improve professional abilities of the 

public servants 

In the year 2000, the Local Government Program granted 

priority to activities with a strong social impact, aimed to 

improve the respective sector in the Republic of Moldova. 

Programs and Activities Carried out in 2000: 

PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAM 


Executive Director Arcadie BARBÃROªIE, Ph.D. 

The Institute is conducting research projects in three 

priority areas: Educational Policies, European Integration 

Policies and Policies for the Management of Internal 

Conflicts. For a more detailed information, please see 

the Institute’s web site www.ipp.md 

For the development of studies, local experts were hired 

on a contract basis or through a grant competition. 

Programs implemented in 2000: 

European Integration 

Program Co-ordinator Valeriu GHEORGHIU, Ph.D. 

The activities took place in the framework of the project 

entitled “The Evaluation of the Current Status in the 

Process of Moldova’s Integration in EU”. 

The project is designed to evaluate the current situation 

of the Republic of Moldova’s integration in the European 

Union and to propose scenarios for speeding up this 

process. 

The experts made a number of conclusions, the most 

important of which are the following: 

For the Republic of Moldova, the CIS is an international 

structure in which co-operation practically doesn’t exist, 

and no prospects for the future co-operation are seen. In 

regard to the integration in the European Union, it seems 

that the most realistic way for the Republic of Moldova 

to accede is the Stability Pact for the Southeast Europe. 

The studies will constitute the basis for concrete suggestions 

and proposals. 

Another result of the project development is the dissemination 

of related to the project information and 

conclusions among scientists and the population. A 

series of seminars were initiated in this respect. The 

information on the first seminar was presented on TV 

and was also published in some newspapers. 

Topics of the Studies: 

Evaluation of the Current Status and Future Prospects 

for the Republic of Moldova’s Co-operation within CIS 

Iurie BODRUG $250

Regional International Co-operation 

Iurie LEANCÃ $250 

The Effects of the Republic of Moldova’s Joining of the 

WTO on the Trade Relationship with Countries of CIS, EU 

and Other Structures 

Georgeta MINCU $250 

The Relationship of the Republic of Moldova with the 

European Union. Association and Integration Strategies 

Victor CHIRILÃ $350 

Legal Framework Developments Regarding Integration 

Trends 

Igor KLIPII $250 

Strategies of Association and Integration of the Republic 

of Moldova in the European Union. Geo-economic Actions 

and Implications 

Valeriu PROHNIÞCHI $500 

Stability Pact for the South Eastern Europe and Prospects 

for the Republic of Moldova to Join the Pact 

Oleg UNGUREANU $250 

Educational Policies 

Program Co-ordinator, Anatol GREMALSCHI, Ph.D. 

Activities took place in the framework of the following 

projects: 

— Reforming the Educational System in the Context of 


— Links between the Educational System and the Labour 

Market 

— Impact of New Information Technologies on Education 

— Regional Educational Strategies 

An analysis of the current situation of the process of 

reforms in the national educational system was conducted 

and recommendations for modifying the Education 

Law, Law on Evaluation and Accreditation of Educational 

Institutions, as well as proposals for the improvement 

of regulations on the organization and management 

of the educational system in the country were 

developed. 

Concrete proposals were made on how to improve the 

national concept of education development, to implement 

the transferable credit system, to create the national 

agency for recognition of educational diplomas, to 

correlate the educational system to market economy 

needs, and to make Moldovan educational system compatible 

with European educational systems. 

New directions of analysis regarding Financing of the 

Educational System, Education for an Open Society, Assessment 

of the Quality of Education were proposed. 

The results of the research were discussed during an 

international seminar and in 5 articles published in local 

newspapers and during two broadcasts. 

Studies Conducted in 2000: 

Reforming the Educational System 

in the Context of European Integration 

Acts and International Conventions on the Recognition 

of Educational Diplomas. Analysis of the Signed Conventions 

in This Field by the Republic of Moldova and Recommendations 

for Their Implementation 

Rafael CILOCI $500 

Educational System and the Evaluation of the Education 

in the Republic of Moldova. Comparative Study of the 

European Evaluating Systems and Analysis of the Present 

Situation in Moldova 

Iurie CRISTEA $200 

Legislative Background and the Ambiguity in the Educational 

System in Moldova. Legal Analysis of the Legislative 

and Regulatory Acts, Proposals for Their Modifications 

Evlampie DONOS $500 

Doctrines and Systems of Educational Objectives in Europe 

and in Moldova. Comparative Study of Educational 

Systems in Europe. Developing the National Educational 

Ideal in the Context of Establishing a National Educational 

System 

Vlad PÂSLARU $500 

Principles of Evaluation in Educational Systems in Europe. 

Assessment of Educational System, Educational 

Establishments and Student’s Knowledge in Moldova. 

Reforming the System of Evaluation in the Framework of 

the Project Financed by the World Bank 

Ion SPINEI $500 

Connections between the Educational System 

and the Labor Market 

Institutional Framework of the Educational System in the 

Edineþ County and Professional Training. Decentralization 

of the Vocational Educational System and Establishment 

of Vocational Lyceums 

Vasile NOGAI $500 

The Structure of the Educational System in the Edineþ 

County and the Correlation between Different Levels. 

Analysis of the Educational System and Involvement of 

Entrepreneurship in Forecasting Admission to Vocational 

Education 

Victor PITEI $500 

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Labor Market, School and Professional Orientation in 

the Edineþ County. Surveying Students from Graduation 

Classes in Gymnasiums, Middle Schools and Professional 

Schools. Recommendations for Professional Orientation 

Iurie MOCANU $500 

The Impact of New Information Technologies in 

Education 

A Psychological View on the Introduction of Computers 

in Education. Reforming Educational Process by Implementing 

Computer Assisted Teaching 

Aglaida BOLBOCEANU $500 

OSCE Implication in the Transnistrian Conflict Resolution 

Marcel GARAZ $250 

The Military Aspect of the Resolution of the Conflict in 

the Eastern Zone of the Republic of Moldova 

Iurie PÎNTEA $250 

Legal Analysis of the Documents Signed by Chiºinãu and 

Tiraspol during the Negotiation Process. 

Natalia CHIRTOACÃ $250 

Public Relations, Dissemination and Publishing 

Activities 

Program Co-ordinator Viorel CIBOTARU, Ph.D. 

IT: Moldova’s Achievements. The Efficiency of Using Computers 

Purchased for Education Establishments through 

the Leasing from the Hewlett-Packard Corporation 

Grigore VASILACHE $500 

Regional Educational Strategies 

Identifying the Opportunities for the Development of 

Education and Development of a Municipal Educational 

Strategy. The Role of Local Public Administration in the 

Decentralization Process of the Pre-university Educational 

System — the Ungheni County Case 

Svetlana CIOBANU $300 

Study and Reports on the Present Situation of Education. 

Identification of Existent Barriers in Reforming Preuniversity 

Education and Methods of Their Elimination 

Gheorghe GÎRNEÞ $500 

Policies for the Management of Internal Conflicts 

Program Co-ordinator Oazu NANTOI 

The situation concerning the Transnistrian conflict is 

well known — the Government of the Republic of Moldova 

does not control a part of the country’s territory. 

The Institute concentrated its focus on this area by 

assessing the political, legal, economic, military and informational 

aspects of the Transnistrian conflict. 

The analyses that were made showed that the Agreements 

signed within the process of negotiations between Chi- 

ºinãu and Tiraspol had a negative impact on the future of 

the Moldovan statehood. It has been proved that the 

peacekeeping forces formula established in 1992 is wrong 

and is contributing de-facto to the preservation of the 

conflict. A procedure for changing the formula for peacekeeping 

forces in the conflict zone based on the international 

experience has been proposed. 

Studies Conducted in 2000: 

An important area in the Institute for Public Policy’s 

activity is the dissemination of the results of independent, 

alternative public policies research and analyses in 

the high priority areas of society and community life. 

These activities are related to economic, political, social, 

cultural, educational areas, international relations, establishing 

of a favorable institution’s image, as well as 

dissemination of information about IPP through mass 

media. 8 press releases were prepared and broadcast on 

TV, as well as leaflets about IPP, information letters and 

messages. The IPP’s web page: www.ipp.md was launched. 

11 interviews and radio programs (National Radio, Antena 

C, Hit FM, “Serebreannîi Dojdi”, Radio Moldova 

International) and 5 TV programs were broadcast. 

In order to promote correct and transparent mechanisms 

of political and economic reflection of life and to 

ensure, at the same time, public access to information, 

IPP launched a Public Opinion Barometer supported financially 

by the Soros Foundation-Moldova that was 

carried out in August 2000 and February 2001. 

Total IPP expenditures: $121,062 

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION 

Travel Grants for Internships 

The goal of the program is to support the participation of 

Local Government and NGO representatives to attend 

international seminars, conferences and fellowships in 

Public Administration. Participation in such events enhances 

the process of exchanging of knowledge and 

experience between Moldovan Local Governments’ representatives 

and their colleagues from other countries. 

During 2000, financial support was offered for the following 

activities: 

Market Economy and Financial Analysis 

March 27 - May 25, 2000, Moscow, Russia 

Cãtãlin VORNICESCU

Internship organized by the Vienna Institute, Austria and 

the A. Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russian 

Federation 

$ 54 

Course of Applied Economic Policy 

September 4 - December 8, 2000, Vienna, Austria 

Sergiu SPÃTARU 

Course organized by the Joint Vienna Institute. It was 

designed for young specialists in public administration in 

the countries in transition. 

$200 


Course organized by the Netherlands Institute of International 

Relations for young diplomats 

September 14 - December 6, 2000, the Hague, Netherlands 

Veaceslav CEBOTARI 

Radu JOLONDCOVSCHI $949 

International Financial Relations 

October 2 - 27, 2000, Paris, France 

Oleg BRAGA 

Training organized by the International Institute of Public 

Administration for representatives of Ministries of Economy, 

Finance and Planning 

$479 

Cooperation for Development: Project Management 

January 9 - April 29, 2001, Bern, Switzerland 

Gheorghe CÃINÃREANU 

The internship will take place in 2001 at the Universal 

Postal Union, founded in 1874. According to the internship 

program, the emphasis will be put on project management, 

programming and implementation of development 

projects in the countries in transition. 

$445 

Urban Management Course 

Module I — November 26 - December 2, 2000, Budapest, 

Hungary 

$330 

Module II — January 21 - 26, 2001, Budapest, Hungary 

$ 627 

Serghei MUNTEANU 

The Urban Management Courses are organized by the 

World Bank Institute together with the Local Government 

and Public Administration Initiative of the Open Society 

Institute aiming at assisting the transformation and improvement 

of the situation of urban administration 

through an exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge 

in order to promote sustainable development 

throughout Europe. 

Total Travel Grants for Internships: $3,084 

Travel Grants for Participation in Seminars and 

Conferences 

Conference: “Sustainable Development of the Cities of 

Europe” 

February 9 - 12, 2000, Hanover, Germany 

Veaceslav AFANASIEV 

Svetlana ARIONESCU 

The III European Conference of Sustainable Municipalities 

and Cities conducted its work in the Palace of Congress 

of Hanover. The conference enrolled more than 

1400 participants from 60 countries of Europe, America, 

Asia and Africa. 

$1,044 

The Forum “Decentralization, Democratization and Stability 

in Southeast Europe” 

February 22 - 25, 2000, Bucharest, Romania 

Ion SAVA 

The Council of Europe organized the Forum in cooperation 

with the Government of Romania in the framework 

of the Stability Pact in Southeast Europe. The topics of 

discussion included the implementation strategy of western 

support for the countries, which suffered from conflicts 

or for the neighboring countries. Other issues that 

were tackled: cross-border cooperation, European integration, 

inter-county cooperation. 

$500 

Conference “The Study and Preservation of Architecture 

in Ground” 

May 11 - 13, 2000, Torquay, UK 

Serghei MUNTEANU 

The XIII International Conference on the study and preservation 

of architecture in ground united over 250 specialists 

in the field from 40 countries. 147 reports were 

presented at the seminars, reflecting the following issues: 

archeological monuments and ancient human settlements, 

materials and construction, restoration and 

preservation, continuity of traditions, political, legal and 

economic context. 

$1,314 

Yearly session of scientific papers of the Administrative 

Sciences Institute of Romania “Public Administration - 

Which Way?” 

May 5 - 6, 2000, Sibiu, Romania 

Maria ORLOV 

Ion CREANGÃ $181 

The Session worked in a plenary format at the Law Department 

of the Simion BÃRNUÞIU University in Sibiu. It 

was divided into two sections: Legal and Administrative 

Sciences and Economic and Administrative Sciences. 

The themes of the session included subjects regarding 

the development prospects for the countries in transition, 

from an authoritarian to a democratic regime. 

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Summer school “International Public Law” 

July 24 - August 11, 2000, Hague, Netherlands 

ªtefan GORDA 

The International Law Courses were designed to enable 

participants to acquire new knowledge, to exchange opinions 

with well-known experts in the field and with colleagues 

from different countries. 

$472 

The World Congress of Poultry Breeding 

August 17 - 27, 2000, Montreal, Canada 

Dmitri VELIKSAR 

The participation of D.VELIKSAR at this Congress was 

related to the development of public policies domain 

regarding consumer protection from unqualitative products, 

which endanger the heredity of human beings. D. 

VELIKSAR presented a report entitled “Quality Evaluation 

of Poultry Breeding Products Related to the Genetic 

Safety of Consumers”. 

$1,249 

field, which offer courses in Public Administration, Public 

Policy and Administrative Law. 

The grant recipients were: 

Maria ORLOV, Administrative Law, AAP 

Veaceslav IONIÞÃ, Public Administration Management, 

AESM 

Sergiu COBÃNEANU, Local Public Administration, SUM 

ªtefan STAMATIN, Administrative Law and Administration 

Science, AP 

Valeriu ZUBCO, Administrative Law, FIUM 


Total Curriculum Development $1,919 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRAINING 

The Educational Program of Local Government representatives 

consisted of two directions: 

1. The ToT organized by the Soros Foundation-Moldova 

2. A grant competition for training of the Local Governments 

School of Local Officials 

January 21 - February 1, 2001, Craiova, Romania 

The Territorial Center for Continuous Training for LPA - 

CRAIFOR Craiova designed a large program for a team 

from the Republic of Moldova, which included a 6 day 

training at CRAIFOR Craiova, meeting with representatives 

of Dolj County Council and Craiova City Hall, study visits 

to various economic units, cultural institutions, etc. 

Participants: 

Claudia BALAN 

Anatolie ZAREMBA 

Sergiu CARAMAN 

Mihail SÎRBU 

Nicolai MALACHI 

Andrei ªUMLEANSCHI 

Iulia IABANJI 

Parascovia ANTONIUC 

Feodosie BERGHI 

Vasile BUYU 

Vladimir DRAGOMIR 

Tudor CÎªLARU $1,320 


Total Travel Grants for Participation 

in Seminars and Conferences $6,180 

Curriculum Development in the Field of Public 

Administration, Public Policy and Administrative 

Law 

The goal of the program was to stimulate professional 

development of the teaching staff of universities. A grant 

competition was announced within this program for the 

development of syllabi and 5 grants of $300 were given 

to representatives of higher education institutions in the 

Training (ToT) organized by the Soros Foundation- 


Training of Trainers “General Local Government Management” 

October 15-27, 2000, Chiºinãu 

2 trainers, Doru-Cristian BULARDA and Daniela PLUGA- 

RU, members of the Foundation Partners, Romania, conducted 

the training for Local Development and trained 

14 trainers from the Republic of Moldova: 

Vasile MÃMÃLIGÃ 

Valeriu MUNTEANU 

Radu DUMITRU 

Valentina CHICU 

Gheorghe GAVRILIÞÃ 

Ghenadie GROSU 

Maria ADAM 

Valentina ROGAI 

Maria NARTEA 

Iurie LEAªCO 

Constanþa RADZICHEVICI-ÞURCANU 

Veaceslav BULAT 

Lilia VRABIE 

Elena GÎDILICÃ $13,239 

Training of Trainers “Management of Local Public Finance” 

November 30 - December 7, 2000, Chiºinãu 

Two experts held the training: Svetlana ARIONESCU (Moldova) 

and Kristina CREOªTEANU (Romania). The manual 

and training program on Local Budget Administration 

was developed by a group of Moldovan and Romanian 

experts in Local Governments: Tudor DELIU, Svetlana 

ARIONESCU, Kristina CREOªTEANU, Zinaida GRECIAN- 

NAIA, Valentina VÃZDÃUÞAN.

This group of experts trained 7 trainers from the Republic 

of Moldova: 

Vasile BUTUCEL 

Mihai PÃCURARU 

Petru BABENCO 

Natalia TROFIM 

Lidia SURDU 

Valeriu RUSU 

Aurelia PORUMBESCU 

These 7 trainers trained 12 LG representatives from Zagarancea, 

Ungheni, Stauceni, Chiºinãu, Vatra, Chiºinãu, 

Hîrtopul Mare, Chiºinãu. 

$4,778 


Total Local Government Training $77,219 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROJECTS 

Grants for Using Modern Information Technologies 

in the Activity of Local and Regional Governments 

The objective of this program was to assist Local Government 

in their effort to improve their activity by providing 

them with modern information technologies. A grant 

competition was announced and 4 grants were given. 

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Grants for Training Representatives of Local 

Government 

A grant competition was announced within this program 

for trainings of local government representatives in the 

Republic of Moldova. The following training projects were 

selected: 

Training and Educational Initiative for Local Officials 

Igor MUNTEANU, the Viitorul Foundation 

10 seminars were organized on “Reform and Innovation 

in Supporting Local Government” unfolded in the counties 

of the Republic of Moldova: Ungheni, Cahul, Lãpuºna, 

Chiºinãu, Orhei and Bãlþi. 650 local officials and 

public servants were trained in this program. 

$8,000 

Seminars for Local Government “Public Relations of LG” 

Vasile CIOARIC, “Raza Soarelui” NGO 

12 seminars in Anenii Noi, Cãuºeni municipality and 

Cahul municipality were organized within this program. 

300 local officials and public servants were trained in it. 

$9,999 

Art and Science of Local Government Leadership 

Svetlana ARIONESCU, Counterpart NGO 

Twelve training workshops were planned within this program 

to be carried out during 2000 and 2001. 

$24,000 

Management of Local Government 

Mihai ROªCOVAN, Business Consulting Institute 

10 regional seminars in all counties of the Republic of 

Moldova were organized within this program. 195 local 

officials and public servants participated in these seminars. 

$8,470 

The Role of Local Government in the Sustainable Development 

of the Community 

Tatiana ªAPTEFRAÞI, Center for Social Innovation 

Two training workshops were organized within this program 

in Orhei and Chiºinãu municipalities and the other 

four are to be held in 2001. 

$8,626 

Information and Communication System for Public Administration 

in the Orhei County 

Eugenia ROªCA 

Prefecture of Orhei County $19,151 

Designing and Creating the Web Page of the Chiºinãu 

City Hall 

Petru PINTEAC 

Chiºinãu City Hall $2,000 

Use of Modern Information Technologies in the Activity 

of Ungheni Town Hall 

Vitalie VRABIE 

Ungheni Town Hall $14,890 

Use of Modern Information Technologies in Edineþ County 

Rima BÃIEªU 

Edineþ County Council $23,945 


Total Grants for Information Technologies $60,341 

GRANTS FOR TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESS TO 

INFORMATION 

This program offered grants for transparency activities of 

the local and regional public administration and free 

access to information for the population. The goal of this 

program was to ensure the transparency of the local 

public administration, to inform the public on the policy 

and daily work of the mayoralties, to promote communication 

between public administration, the population, 

and NGOs, and to attract the population in the decisionmaking 

process. A special consideration was given to 

initiatives of identifying and solving problems in the 

activity of local public administrations. 

Transparency of Local Public Administration 

Veaceslav LAPIN 

Mayors’ Association of the Bãlþi County $500 

Transparency of Local Public Administration in the Town 

of Fãleºti

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Vitalie CIMPOIEª 

“Cutezãtorul” Public Association$500 

Creation of a Transparency Model of Local Government 

Activity 

Petru BOTNARU 

“Terra 1530” NGO $528 

Information Bureau of the Town of Floreºti 

Lidia BALTAGA 

Floreºti Town Hall $448 

Free Access to Information of the Citizens of the Town of 

Cimiºlia 

Ion ALEXÃNDREANU 

Cimiºlia Town Hall $497 

Local Government Transparency in the Village of Chircãieºti 

Tudor CÎªLARU 

“Terra” NGO $500 

Local Government Transparency- the First Step towards 

Promoting Local Democracy 

Vasile SPÎNU 

Mayoralty of the Terebna village $1,500 

The Dialogue of the Citizens of the Talmaz Village with 

Local Government — the Secret of Good Life Together 

Elena SÎRGHI 

Mayoralty of the Talmaz village $571 

Transparency in the Activity of Edineþ Municipality 

Mihail BANAHOVSCHI 

Edineþ Town Hall $480 

Advertising, Transparency and Access to Information 

Lidia IONAª 

“Rusticum” NGO $500 

Ensuring Local Government Transparency in Pruteni 

Gheorghe IANACHEVICI 

“Prut 2000” NGO $500 


Total Grants for Transparency $6,608 

INFORMATION AND RESEARCH 

Grants for Research, Book Writing and 

Publications 

The goal of this program was to support initiatives of 

scholars and free experts in conducting research projects, 

book production and publications in the field of public 

administration, public policies and administrative law. 

The fields of research announced by the LPA Program 

were: corruption in public administration, local economic 

development, fiscal policies, local tax administration, 

local and regional financial management, urban 

planning, use and protection of territory, partnership 

between private and public sectors in providing public 

services, transparency of public administration. 

On a grant competition basis the following grants were 

given: 

for research projects 

Moldova in the Council of Europe 

Marcel GARAZ, Ministry of External Affairs $600 

The Prefect’s Institution 

Valeriu ZUBCO, FIUM $600 

for textbook and guidebook production: 

“Administrative Law” 

Maria ORLOV, APAM $600 

“Social Negotiations” 

Claudia CRÃCIUN, International Management Institute 

$600 

A Mayor’s Guide 

Victor POPA 

Igor MUNTEANU 

Victor MOCANU 

Liubomir CHIRIAC 

Valeriu PROHNIÞCHI $5,000 

In 2000, the following titles were published on a competitive 

basis: 

Local Public Administration of the Republic of Moldova. 

Legislative Commentaries 

Victor POPA 

Tatiana MANOLE 

Ion MIHÃILUÞÃ 

2000 copies. Cofinancing from the Law Program of SFM 

$3,793 

A Mayor’s Guide 

Victor POPA 

Igor MUNTEANU 

Victor MOCANU 

Liubomir CHIRIAC 

Valeriu PROHNIÞCHI 

2000 copies. Cofinancing provided by UNDP $2,168 

The Guide of the Association of Joint Owners in Condominium 

in the Republic of Moldova 

Alexandru BURBULEA 

Anatolie PLEªCAN 

Nicolae CROITOR 

Vasile COVALI

Elena BEJENARU 

1000 copies $3,189 

The re-publication of the UNCHS (Habitat) manuals was 

supported: 

Art and Science in Local Government Leadership (a set 

of 12 manuals and 2 guides for participants and trainers) 

General Local Government Management (a set of 6 manuals) 

(A print-run of 1000 copies of each title) $18,177 


Total Grants for Research, Book Writing 

and Publications $36, 439 

REGIONAL CENTERS OF INFORMATION, BOOK 

ACQUISITION, AND INFORMATION PACKAGES 

Supporting the Creation of Regional Information and 

Consulting Centers 

In order to solve the problem of the lack of information, 

the Local Public Administration Program proposed to 

support a pilot-project for the establishing of regional 

information and consultancy centers. As a result of a 

grant competition one grant was given. 

The Information and Consulting Center of the Bãlþi County 

Council 

Mihai BOTEZATU, project director 

Bãlþi County Council 

The goal of this project is to increase the informational 

and consultative capacity of the local public administration 

in Bãlþi county through creating a center for information 

and consulting, collection, analysis and distribution 

of information on LG activity, information campaigns, 

training cycles for LG and NGO representatives in Bãlþi 

county, analysis and dissemination of best practices, etc. 

$14,820 


Book Acquisition 

In order to improve the situation regarding consultative 

services in the activity of mayors, local counselors, and 

public servants, a project of supplying local and regional 

public administrations with respective materials was implemented. 

National experts selected a list of resources, which can 

be useful in the daily activity of local and county public 

administrations. The purchased books were distributed 

to 649 mayoralties, 11 county councils and Chiºinãu 

Municipality in the Republic of Moldova. 

The list of books consisted of 22 titles for county councils 

and 9 titles for mayoralties. 

$4,886 

Development and Donation of the Guide, the 

Package of Legislative and Normative Acts to the 

Associations of Owners of Privatized Dwellings 

5 grants were given for the development of a guide-book 

intended for the associations of owners of privatized 

dwellings/condominiums “The Guide of the Association 

of Joint Owners in Condominium” 

Alexandru BURBULEA $800 

Anatolie PLEªCAN $600 

Nicolae CROITOR $600 

Vasile COVALI $600 

Elena BEJENARU $600 

On December 20, 2000, the seminar “The Law of Condominium 

in the Dwelling Fund” was organized with the 

participation of the representatives of associations of 

privatized dwelling owners, local administrations, municipal, 

non-governmental organizations, representatives 

of the respective ministry. All participants in the 

seminar received “The Guide of the Association of Joint 

Owners in Condominium” as donation. 

$792 

Development of Training Programs for the Accountants 

of the Associations of Joint Owners in Condominium in 

the Dwelling Fund 

Anatolie PLEªCAN $200 


Total $4,530 

PROJECTS INITIATED IN 1999 

Publication of a compiled book of legislative and normative 

acts intended for trainers in the field: “The Competence 

of Local Public Administrations in the Field of 

Environmental Protection and Management of Natural 

Resources” 

Lidia ILAªCU $1,084 

English Language Courses for Local Government Representatives 

Pro Didactica, Chiºinãu $4,688 


Total Projects Initiated in 1999 $5,848 

Total Local Government Program Expenditures $343,240 

LAW PROGRAM 

The general mission of the law program is to assist the 

legal reform process in the Republic of Moldova through 

support provided for professional legal community and 

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fostering collaboration between governmental and nongovernmental 

bodies in promoting international legal 

standards. 

In the year 2000, the Program was designed to meet the 

identified needs and tackle the persisting problems in 

the field: 

— very poor acquaintance of the population with legal 

issues 

— very few modern teaching techniques used by the 

legal educational system 

— changeable and incoherent legal framework 

— insufficient civil society involvement in issues related 

to human rights respect in the activity of the police, 

penitentiary institutions and the national army and 

lack of transparency of these institutions 

— limited access to information related to courts’ activity 

and lack of professionalism of the legal community, 

especially in rural areas 

— corruption in the judicial system 

Priority areas of activity in 2000 were: 

LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM REFORM 

The program offered grants for the development and 

publication of 8 new course-books. The law departments 

of the Moldovan State University designed the concept 

of the courses. Whenever the legislation is changed, the 

book production technology allows the librarians to modify 

the course books according to the modifications 

made by the authors. 

Grants offered in 2000 for course - book development: 

“Land Law” 

Authors: Mihai COTOROBAI, Pavel ZAMFIR, Victor URSU 

$1,200 

“Regulation of the Public Notary Activity” 

Authors: Gheorghe CHIBAC, Elena CONSTANTINESCU, 

Olga BONDARCIUC 

$1,200 

“Tax Law” 

Authors: Iurie PALADI, Eugen TETELEA, Alexandru AR- 

MEANIC, Tudor GUJUMAN, Aureliu ROTARU, Victor VOL- 

CINSCHI 

$2,400 

“Protection of the Legal Norms” 

Authors: Andrei GRIGORIU, Dumitru ROMAN, Tatiana 

VIZDOGA 

$1,200 

“Administrative Law” 

Author: Tudor ROªCA $400 

“Local Public Administration” 

Authors: Sergiu COBÂNEANU, Grigore RUSU $800 

“Intellectual Property Law” 

Authors: Victor VOLCINSCHI, Dorian CHIROªCA 

$800 

“Issues of Criminology” 

Authors: Gheorghe GLADCHI $400 

Grants for co-ordination of the project: 

Dragoº BLANARU, Eugeniu OSMOCHESCU $600 

Other program activities: 

Publication of the textbook “Banking Law” 

Author: Victor BURAC $2,970 

Publication of the book “Commentaries to the Law # 

1134-XIII on Joint Stock Companies” 

Author: Sergiu MÃMÃLIGÃ $2,915 

Publication of the book “Constitutional Control of the 

Legislation. History and Present Status” 

Author: Elena ARAMÃ $780 

Program Administration Expenditures: $199.06 

Total: $15,864.06 

MOOT COURTS COMPETITIONS 

Moot courts are international oral advocacy competitions. 

According to the rules, they allow students 6 

months to submit written arguments on solving of the 

proposed case. This method requires a long period of 

research and use of different national and foreign databases. 

The briefs are written and re-written, each draft 

being examined by the team coach. In 2000, the program 

financially supported the participation of two teams in 

two international competitions: 

“Rene Cassin” European Competition on Human Rights, 

March 27 - 31, 2000, Strasbourg, France 

Team members: Olivia PÂRÞAC, Corneliu BOBEICÃ, Elena 

EªANU 

Coach: Viorel URSU $2,415.27 

Telders International Moot Court Competition, April 13 - 

15, 2000, the Hague, Netherlands 

Team members: Viorica CREÞU, Constanþa OSIPOV, Ludmila 

ªARGOV, Alexandru MORARI 

Coach: Irina VERHOVEÞCHI $3,224.99 

Total: $5,640.26 

LAW BOOK ACQUISITION 

In the framework of the Law Book Acquisition Program, 

donation of legal textbooks were made to SUM, FIUM, 

AESM, SPU, APAM, PA, CCU, SUB, as well as to other 

institutions. 

The aim of the program was to offer legal students and 

the legal community works written by local and foreign 

authors. The program proved that the number of na-

tional authors producing competitive law textbooks is 

continuously increasing and the acquisition of these 

books is an efficient tool to spread new knowledge and 

enhance local capacity in textbook production. 

The following publications were purchased and donated: 

“International Commercial Agreement ”, author: Lidia 

MACOVEI, M. IONICHE 

300 copies $1,183.31 

“Samples of Documents Issued by Public Notaries”, author: 

Elena MOCANU 

250 copies $949.21 

“Criminal Offences against Life, Health, Freedom and 

Human Dignity”, author: Serghei BRÎNZÃ 

350 copies 

“Criminal Offences against Property”, author: Serghei 

BRÎNZÃ 

350 copies $2,029.37 

“International Private Law. Course-book”, authors: Victor 

CÃPÃÞÎNÃ and Ion CÃPÃÞÎNÃ 

425 copies $1,442 

Law literature published in Romania and purchased for 

university law schools: 38 sets of 82 titles each 


Total: $19,922.75 

LEGAL CLINIC 

The Legal Clinic was set up on September 14, 1998 as a 

partnership project between the Law Program of SFM, 

COLPI, and the School of Law, SUM. 

In the framework of the Clinic, students of the School of 

Law, SUM are engaged in the following activities: legal 

consulting, drawing up the procedural acts and client 

representation in front of the courts. 

During two semesters of the 1999 - 2000 academic year, 

161 students of the Law Schools of the SUM and of the 

Law Academy were involved in the activity of the Clinic. 

16 tutors assisted them, law faculty from the schools 

mentioned above. The Public Association “Legal Clinic” 

extended its activity and created several new departments: 

civil cases department, refugee cases department 

and HR department. In 2000, the Clinic worked 

with 57 cases. Decisions ruled in favor of the clients 

represented by the Clinic include housing law —18, family 

law — 17, labor law — 15, inheritance — 7. It is 

important to mention that legal clinical education was 

introduced into the Law School curriculum of the SUM as 

an elective course and students get credits for it. 

In order to acquire additional knowledge and practical 

skills, 5 students working within the refugee cases department 

participated at the HR Summer School, Strasbourg, 

France. 

The co-ordinator of the refugee cases department and 

the executive director of the Legal Clinic participated at 

two regional clinical meetings in Poland and Bulgaria. 

Another important event of this year was the agreement 

for legal assistance concluded between the Legal Clinic 

and the Independent Journalism Center. According to 

this document, the Clinic offered assistance on 7 cases 

against journalists and some chief editors. A similar agreement 

was signed between the Clinic and the National 

Child Abuse Center. 

Total: $23,000 

PUBLIC LAW LIBRARY 

The aim of the program is to establish a Public Law 

Library. It will represent an informational legal center 

indispensable for the community and will enhance the 

role of legal information in the Republic of Moldova, 

providing efficient educational and training for those 

who are interested in legal activities. The Library works 

on collecting and organizing of a series of legal documents 

from the Republic of Moldova on traditional and 

electronic support. 

The library collection will consist of laws and official 

documents and will be permanently supplemented in 

accordance with an action plan developed by the library 

staff and its Board. 

Legal full/text materials such as laws, decisions, treaties and 

other official materials will be available via the Internet. 

The Public Law Library will be equipped with hardware 

and software for: 

— a local electronic catalog and a database — workstations 

for librarians 

— placement of informational resources in electronic 

format (CD-s, bulletins, magazines, e-books) —for 

users and librarians 

— access to international resources, databases via the 

Internet, for all library users 

— OPAC stations (5 units) will be placed for library users 

in order to provide access to the e-catalog. The design, 

launching and maintenance of the web page will 

offer on-line services, access to local and international 

library catalogues. 

The Library will develop an educational training program 

for users on how to access local and international legal 

databases, as well as training on how to use legal informational 

resources. 

The Public Law Library will start its activity in May-June 

2001. 

Total: $200,000 

LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING AND COMMENTARIES 

ON LEGISLATION PROGRAM 

The goal of the program is to facilitate the adoption of 

modifications to the national legislation in accordance 

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with the requirements of the multilateral and bilateral 

treaties signed and ratified by the Republic of Moldova in 

recent years. The adoption of adequate normative acts 

leads inevitably to the reduction of the number of misjudged 

cases in courts. 

Another aim of the program was to motivate local experts 

in law to comment upon the value, competitiveness 

and applicability of these types of controversial 

legal regulations. The commentaries produced within the 

program were published and submitted to court officials, 

prosecutors, legal education institutions, and ministries 

with the aim to facilitate the correct application of the 

commented normative acts. 

The program offered the following grants: 

Grant to the Law Center of the Republic of Moldova for 

the publication of the “Law Library” collection. 

“Court of Appeal. Case Study”. 

“Participation in Criminal Offences”, author: Xenofon 

ULIANOVSCHI 

“Administrative Offences”, author: Sergiu FURDUI 

“Exclusive Appeal and Protestation in Criminal Cases” 

author: Mircea IUGA 

“Commercial Institutions”, author: Tudor LAZÃR 

$5,775 

Grant for the Elaboration of the Draft Law on Normative 

Acts 

Authors: Grigore GUÞU, Oleg UÞICA, Corneliu GURIN, 

Iurie IORDAN, Boris NEGRU, Eugen RUSU 

$2,000 

Grant for the Elaboration of the Collection of Commented 

Normative Acts on Labor Law 

Authors: Nicolae SADOVEI, Nicolae ROMANDAª, Elena 

BELEI, Elena MOCANU 

$1,200 

Grant for the Elaboration of the Draft Law on Noncommercial 

Organizations 

Authors: CONTACT Center, Angela BUTNARCIUC, Galina 

CHIRICENCO, Gheorghe CHIBAC, Natalia IZDEBSCHI, 

Nicolae ROªCA, Oleg EFRIM, Ilia TROMBIÞCHI, Sergiu 

BÃIEªU, Victor VOLCINSCHI 

$6,000 

Grant to the Supreme Court of Justice for the Publication 

of the “Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of 

Moldova. Case Study” (1989 - 1999) 

$3,137 

Grant to the Supreme Court of Justice for the publication 

of “Explanatory Decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme 

Court of Justice of the Republic of Moldova” (1974 - 1999) 

$2,694 

Grant to the “Ex Lege” Agency for Support of Juridical 

Education and Law Bodies for the organization of the 

International Symposium “The Legal Status of Refugee 

and of the Asylum Solicitors”, September 29 - 30, 2000, 

Chiºinãu. 

$1,451 

Grant to the “Ex Lege” Agency for Support of Juridical 

Education and Legal Bodies for the organization of the 

seminar for the law faculty and legal professionals “Administrative 

Control — Reality and Prospects, the European 

Experience”, December 11-13, 2000, Chiºinãu 

$4,776 

Grant to the Center for the Development and Implementation 

of the Economic Reforms for the development of 

“National Accounting Standards with Commentaries for 

NGOs”. 

$8,639 

Grant for the Participation in the Seminar “Fighting Illegal 

Financing of Political Parties”, Council of Europe, June 

19-21, 2000, Strasbourg, France 

Natalia IZDEBSCHI 

$942.23 


Total: $35,222.39 

JUDICIAL TRAINING CENTER 

The year 2000 was the 3rd year of financing of the JTC. 

The aim of this institution is to provide professional 

training to judges and to promote the principles of judicial 

independence. The Center offers courses for professional 

training of prosecutors and attorneys. The year 

started with a training program for court clerks (25 persons). 

In February, the Center organized training programs 

for prosecutors. Starting with February 2000, the 

Center launched a series of three training programs for 

judges with experience between 5 and 15 years. In March, 

another sixty judges took training programs. Special 

courses were organized in collaboration with UNDP, ABA/ 

CEELI, UNHCR, and Council of Europe, etc. including 

“Changing the Role of the Law, Appeal Bodies and Prosecutors 

in Criminal Matters”, “European Convention 

Standards and the Profession of Attorney”, “International 

and National Protection of Refugees”. 

Total: $70,000 

DEMOCRATIZATION OF ARMED FORCES 

The program for the democratization of armed forces 

has the aim to promote the fundamental principles of 

human rights respect among militaries, the establishment 

of social control on the system, and of monitoring 

of the respect for the rights of the person in the national 

army. From the management point of view, the program 

comprises several phases of implementation: information 

campaign among militaries related to their rights

provided by national and international normative acts, 

creation of a legal assistance and counseling center for 

militaries and conscripts, design of a regular system of 

monitoring. 


Grant for the development of “The Guide of the Conscript”, 

“A Military’s Guide”, and “A Guide to the Alternative 

Military Service” 

Authors: Valentin VEREJAN, Xenofont ULIANOVSCHI 

$1,000 

Grant to the Moldovan Judges Association for the publication 

and dissemination of “A Military’s Guide”, “The 

Guide of the Conscript” and “A Guide to the Alternative 

Military Service” 

$7,974.93 

Total: $8,974.93 

JUVENILE CRIME PRIVENTION 

The aim of the program is to promote the UN Convention 

on the Children’s Rights within the legal community 

and to familiarize the juveniles with the national and 

international legal framework related to the rights of 

children. The implementation mechanism of the program 

is based on the following activities: 

— organization of information campaigns on provisions 

of the Convention for the representatives of the legal 

community with special focus on juvenile justice 

— development of practical skills in the process of enforcement 

of the Convention 

— familiarization of juveniles with the legal framework 

related to their rights in front of the court 


Grant to the Women Lawyers Association for the implementation 

of the project “The Rights of the Child and the 

Juvenile Justice System in the Republic of Moldova” 

$28,908 

Grant for the translation and expertise of the questionnaires 

on needs assessment for the creation of diversion 

centers in the Republic of Moldova. 

Virgiliu MIHAILESCU 

$350 

PENITENTIARY REFORM 

In 2000, the Penitentiary Reform Program remained a 

priority in the activity of the Law Program of the SFM. 

The objectives of the program are determined by the 

following needs: 

— creation of a normative framework adjusted to international 

requirements and standards for laws regulating 

penitentiary detention and penal punishment 

and conviction in general 

— creation of a permanent social control system of 

monitoring the respect of human rights in penitentiary 

institutions 

— improvement of the relations between the penitentiary 

administration and detainees on one hand and 

between detainees on the other hand 

— access to information related to the activity of the 

penitentiary department of the MJ, transparency of 

the system, collaboration with mass media 


Grant for participation at the conference “Methods of 

Urgent Investigation in Places of Detention and the Interaction 

with Investigation Bodies for the Crime Revealing 

Process, Seeking of Fugitives on the Territory of NIS, 

Elaboration of Unique Legislative Standards in the Territory 

Related to Extradition”, October 10-12, 2000, Moscow, 

Russia 

Gheoghe SLUTU, Vasile FLOREA 

$488.08 

Individual grant for the development of the “The Guide 

of Detainees” 

Valeriu TROENCO, Constantin FANA, Victor MORARU, 

Gheorghe LIPADAT, Anatolie CHIRIAC, Vitalii CÂRHANÃ, 

Valentina PLOHOTNIUC, Lilia BOLIUH 

$3,200 

Grant to the Penitentiary Department of the Ministry of 

Justice of the Republic of Moldova for the participation 

in the international exhibition “Moldconstruct - 2000”, 

MOLDEXPO, June 6-10, 2000 

$1,380 

Grant to the Center for the International Legal Cooperation, 

Leiden, Niederlands, for the Needs Assessment 

Mission on the Penitentiary Reform in the Republic of 


$6,750 


Total: $11,852.06 

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Total: $29,258 

POLICE REFORM 

The objectives of the program are: to assist the reform of 

police in the Republic of Moldova, to contribute to the 

demystification and decentralization of police, to provide 

professional training of the employees of the Ministry 

of Interior and to promote education of police in the 

spirit of human rights respect. 

The program offered the following grants:

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Grant to the D. Cantemir Police College for the Implementation 

of the Teaching Modules on “Use of Firearms” 

and “Dealing with Victims” 

$18,349 

Individual Grants for the Development of the “The Guide 

of the District Police Officer” 

Mihail BULMAGA, Sergiu CRUDU, Victor CEBOTAR, Vadim 

GRINCO, Nicolae CEBOTARI, Valeriu LEONTIEV, Sergiu 

FURDUI, Nicolae CLIMA, Tudor POPOVICI 

$2,550 

Individual Grants for the Elaboration of the Commentaries 

to the Traffic Legislation of the Republic of Moldova 

Nicolae UÞICA, Mihai CEBOTARU, Nicolae GRIBINCEA 

$1,500 


Total: $22,549.50 

ANTICORRUPTION PROGRAM 

The goal of the program is to increase public awareness of 

the danger which corruption carries for society and for each 

citizen separately. It also intends to stimulate mass media 

on keeping a permanent attention on corruption issues 

and to create maximum discomfort for corrupted officials. 


Grant for participation in the reunion of the European 

Stability Pact on issues related to fighting organized 

crime, June 16, 2000, Wien, Austria 

Stanislav PAVLOVSCHI 

$620.63 

Grant to “Viitorul” Foundation for the project “Diminishing 

the Effects of Political Corruption on Public Institution 

System of the Republic of Moldova” 

$23,690 

Total: $24,310.63 

RIN, Valeriu PASCARU, Ilie SERGIU, Lilia CARASCIUC, Lilian 

NEGURÃ 

Experts and Coordinators: 

Constantin MARIN, Igor DOLEA, Victor POPA, Corneliu 

POPOVICI 

Publication of the work 

Total: $14,565 

The publication of the commentary “Local Public Administration 

in the Republic of Moldova. Legislative Commentaries” 

Total: $1,756 

STREET LAW PROGRAM 

The Street Law program continued the piloting of the 

textbook “Street Law” and the training of the students 

from the I. Creangã State Pedagogical University. The 

program also started the training of teachers who would 

teach Street Law at national level, starting September 

2001. Based on previous years’ experience on piloting, 

the SIEDO team changed the mechanism of monitoring 

on piloting. Focus was put on teaching and evaluation of 

courses closer to the objectives of curriculums, on the 

role of evaluation in the process of education and on 

better promotion of the Street Law course as an element 

for the democratization of the school system. 

$44,928 

PROGRAMS FINANCED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL 

AND LEGAL POLICY INSTITUTE (COLPI) 

Annual Meeting of the Directors of the JTCs from the 

Central and South Eastern Europe. Topic “Fundraising and 

Financial Sustainability”. Organized by the Moldovan Judicial 

Training Center, May 12 - 13, 2000, Chiºinãu, Moldova 

$47,031.18 

1999 MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT 

In 1999, the program announced an open competition 

for the research of the phenomenon of corruption from 

the legal, historical, social, and economic points of view. 

The program intends to publish and to spread widely the 

result of the research. 

Competition for the conducting of a study on corruption 

in the Republic of Moldova 

Grant recipients of the second phase of the project: 

Andrei RUSU, Lilian NEGURÃ, Marian JALENCU, Ion GU- 

MENII, Vasile GURIN, Valeriu PASCARU, Marcela STRE- 

CHIE, Ilie SERGIU, Lilia CARASCIUC 

Authors of the final collection of the research works: 

Andrei RUSU, Marian JALENCU, Ion GUMENII, Vasile GU- 

International Seminar Organized in the Framework of the 

Pilot Project “Military Justice, International and National 

Legal Practices”. Organized by the Moldovan Judicial 

Training Center in collaboration with the Military Court, 

June 12 - 14, 2000, Chiºinãu, Moldova 

$8,952.46 

Grant for the Participation in the “Training on Alternative 

Military Service”, April 6-9, 2000, Permi, Russia 

Valeriu LAZARI, Eugen CHIRSANOV 

$1,026.01 

Grant for the Participation in the Seminar “Methodology 

of Teaching Use of Force and Firearms Skills, Victim Care 

Skills in Police Schools”, June 19-24, 2000, Budapest, 

Hungary 

Mihai CIUBACIUC, Igor GORI 

$759.90

Grant for the Participation in the “Training of Trainers in 

JTCs”, May 31 - June 4, 2000, Budapest, Hungary 

Dina ROTARCIUC, Gheorghe MÂRZAC 

$661.54 

Grant for the Participation in the “Faculty Training on 

Comparative Constitutional Law and Conflict Resolution 

within the WTO and International Commercial Arbitration”, 

June 11 - 24, 2000, Budapest, Hungary 

Inga PROÞUC, Aliona BÎTCÃ 

$661.92 

Grant for the Participation in the “Legal Clinics Colloquium”, 

June 25 - July 1, 2000, Sofia-Varna, Bulgaria 

Dragoº BLÃNARU, Eugeniu OSMOCHESCU 

$1,189.12 

Grant for the Participation in the “Military Justice” Seminar, 

June 27 - July 2, 2000, Riga, Lithuania, July 2-6, 2000, 

Tbilisi, Georgia 

Xenofont ULIANOVSCHI 

$1,095.24 

WOMEN’S PROGRAM 

(In collaboration with the Network Women’s 

Program of OSI, NY) 

Initiated in 1998, the Women’s Program, in its third year 

of activity, continued to carry out several priority programs 

aimed to promote women’s rights in social, economic, 

and political spheres. The Program continued the 

initiatives that proved successful throughout this past 

period and also implemented new programs such as 

“Gender Centers” and “Empowering Education”. These 

initiatives aimed at improving women’s health, eliminating 

violence against women, eliminating trafficking of 

women and children, supporting programs for womenjournalists 

who write on female issues, increasing the 

Women’s NGOs’ role in solving social and economic 

problems, promoting gender equality, developing and 

promoting new interpersonal relationship models, and 

creating possibilities for women from Moldova to participate 

in international events. 

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Grant for the Drawing up of Questionnaires on Needs 

Assessment for the Creation of Diversion Centers in the 

Republic of Moldova. 

Jana COSTACHI, Larisa MICULEÞ 

$300 

Grant for the Participation in the “Training for Law Librarians”, 

October 8-15, 2000, Moscow, Russia 

Mariana HARJEVSCHI 

$175.88 

Grant for the Participation in the “Training of Trainers. 

Police Pilot Project”, September 23-28, 2000, Amsterdam, 

Niederlanden 

Anatolie BANTUª, Nadejda DEMIAN 

$1,106.84 

Grant for the Participation in the “Pre-trial Detention” 

Conference, November 12-16, 2000, Riga, Lithuania 

Victor MUNTEANU, Igor DOLEA 

$1,301.60 

Grant for the Participation in the “fSU Faculty Training II”, 

November 5-19, 2000, Budapest, Hungary 

Oleg BONTEA, Victoria ARHILIUC 

$605.53 

Grant for the Participation in the Training “Reduction of 

Violence in Prisons and Preparation of Inmates for Release”, 

November 25 - December 2, 2000, Warsaw, Poland 

Valentina PLOHOTNIUC, Gheorghe LIPADAT 

$907.71 

Total: $65,774.93 


WOMEN’S HEALTH PROGRAM 

This Program was targeting NGOs dealing actively with 

women’s issues and especially those related to women’s 

health. The major program’s objective is to support projects 

on eradicating breast cancer, a disease which in the 

past few years has affected a large number of women, to 

initiate projects for the prevention, timely diagnosis and 

treatment of breast cancer and to support educational 

programs for women aiming at the development of a 

responsible attitude towards their own health. 


A project for primary care doctors comprising techniques 

of pre-cancerous pathology screening to identify breast 

tumors. The project has a time line of three years and 

consists of instructive seminars for family doctors from 

the country. 

Association of Family Doctors from Moldova NGO, project 

director Grigore BIVOL 

$19,150 

Participation in the First Congress of the Federation of 

National European Menopause Societies, April 29 - May 

1, 2000, Prague 

Valentin Friptu, the President of the National Climax and 

Menopause Association 

$850 

OPEN GRANTS COMPETITION PROGRAM 

Program’s aim: to increase the role of NGOs dealing 

actively with women’s issues and to contribute to solving 

problems faced by women in the period of transition

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Objectives: 

— to support the creation of NGOs consulting groups 

and to promote them as a dialog and action partner 

in working groups with decision makers 

— to support the NGOs’ activity in their effort to increase 

their role and social efficiency 

— to support projects which will tackle such problems 

and issues like unemployment, poverty, child’s and 

women’s health, violence and traffic eradication, the 

role of mass-media in promoting women’s image 

— to implement projects which have the aim to instruct 

women in different subject areas in order to help 

them to develop their leadership skills, ability to protect 

their rights and dignity, to educate tolerance and 

culture of human relations 

— to conduct a needs assessment study and identify 

areas of partnership with NGOs and initiate programs 

focusing on economic and social development 

— to support the creation of a network of rural women’s 

NGOs 

Program priority areas: elimination of violence against 

women, elimination of trafficking of women and children, 

improvement of women’s health, women and mass 

media, support for information initiatives, gender studies 


Setting up a hot line for teenagers, ‘Armonie’ Diagnostics 

and Rehabilitation Center, project director Lilia ROMA- 

NESCU 

$780 

Training seminar: Women’s Implication in Community 

Life, ‘Gloria’ NGO, Floreºti, project director Vera VASIL- 

CENCO 

$800 

Summer Camp: Girls Leading Our World, project director 

Emery KIRSTEN, Peace Corps volunteer. Co-financed by 

the International Women’s Club and Peace Corps 

$1,000 

Four seminars for women from rural areas, “Ora Împlinirilor” 

Women’s Club, project director Liuba ZAMÃ 

$985 

Seminar: Counseling and Legal Assistance Service on 

Women’s Rights, “Dum Spiro, Spero” NGO, Edineþ, project 

director Rima BÃIEªU 

$990 

Participation in the training “Domestic Violence and Child 

Abuse”, August 31 - September 7, 2000, Budapest, Eugen 

COBÎLAª, Melania MIHAILOV, Svetlana FILINCOV, 

Natalia COJOCARU 

$1,344 

Project: “Eradicating Trafficking in Women”, “Honor and 

Rights of Contemporary Women” NGO, Bãlþi, project director 

Olga PATLATI 

$1,305 

Participation at the conference “Violence against Women 

and Human Rights — Legal Aspects”, September 6-10, 

2000, Toledo, Spain, Jana COSTACHI 

$668 

Project: “World Rural Women’s Day”, October 15, 2000, 

National Information and Documentation Center, project 

director Galina PRECUP 

$1,200 

Project: “Prevention of Trafficking in Human-beings 

through Establishing of Clubs for Teenage Girls”, Youth 

Development Center, project director Margareta DUª- 

CEAC 

$5,591 

Organization of a series of workshops: “New Knowledge 

and Skills — New Professional Opportunities”, “Sinergie” 

NGO, project director Lucia OLÃRESCU 

$4,500 

Organization of seminars to increase the organizational 

and managerial capacity of women serving NGOs, CON- 

TACT Center, project director Aliona NICULIÞÃ 

$10,000 

“Gender Education”, elective program for students from 

the State University of Moldova, “Gender Center” NGO, 

project director Valentina LUNGU 

$4,000 

Support for the project “Santa Claus Visiting the Children 

from Soroca County”, providing assistance for families 

with many children from Soroca county, organized by the 

Mayoralty of Soroca County in partnership with Women’s 

Program Expert Committee 

$2,700 

ELIMINATION OF TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN-BEINGS 

The aim of the Program is to contribute to the eradication 

of trafficking in human-beings by supporting information 

and educational activities focusing on prevention 

and protection of victims of trafficking, to inform 

parents on how to protect their children from trafficking 

and to organize anti-trafficking public awareness campaigns. 


Project Addressing Eradication of Trafficking in Women, 

Association of Women of Legal Career, project director 

Jana COSTACHI 

$5,656

Seminar for Single Mothers on the Prevention of Trafficking 

in Women, “Milena SM” NGO, project director Larisa 

UNGUREANU 

$650 

Project “Social-Psychological Contribution in Eradicating 

Trafficking in Women in the Republic of Moldova”, 

Association of Professional Psychologists from Moldova, 

project director Svetlana PRODAN 

$8,248 

GENDER STUDIES 

The Project’s aim is to support and promote mechanisms 

of research of equality between men and women 

and to contribute to the development of the concept of 

an integrated approach to gender equality. 


Project on Establishing of a Gender Center at the State 

Pedagogical University, project director Maia MORÃRESCU 

$5,000 

ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 

The Program’s aim is to support crisis centers which offer 

medical, psychological and legal counseling to women 

who suffered from both domestic and social violence, to 

protect victims by setting up women shelters, to instruct 

police officers on how to file a report on violence, to 

instruct and familiarize women NGOs with new methods 

and best practices of how to address violence against 

women. 


Support for the Activity of the Crisis Center in Chiºinãu, 

“Women Today” NGO, project director Liuba URÂTU 

$6,112 

Support for the Activity of the Crisis Center in Bãlþi, 

“Association of Women with University Degrees” NGO, 

project director Silvia CHETRARI 

$8,659 

Training for lawyers and NGO leaders from Lãpuºna 

county on how to eliminate domestic violence according 

to the Duluth Model, second phase, Youth Development 

Center NGO, project director Melania MIHAILOV. (Matching 

funds project with NWP) 

$5,229 

INFORMATION INITIATIVES 

The aim of the Program is to promote and protect feminist 

values, contribute to strengthening the family, raise 

general awareness of women’s issues and women’s rights 

through information, studies on moral and physical women’s 

health, including reproductive health. 


Support for the third year of the activity of the National 

Center for Information and Documentation for Women, 

project director Galina PRECUP. (Matching funds project 

with the ABA, UNICEF, International Women’s Club, UNDP) 

Objectives of the Center: 

— to disseminate information in mass-media about the 

Center’s activities, as well as among NGOs active on 

women’s problems 

— to develop and up-date the database on women’s 

organizations from the Republic of Moldova 

— to monitor studies in different fields concerning women’s 

health 

— to cooperate with state bodies and NGOs in developing 

social policies that aim at tackling problems faced 

by women 

$15,000 

Support for the activity of the ‘Ten Plus’ Women’s Journalists 

Club 

Objectives of the project: to support and promote women’s 

values, to raise public awareness of women’s issues 

and respect for women’s rights, to disseminate this 

information in mass-media, to advocate for better social 

conditions for women through media, to inform women 

about gender relations 

The Club has monthly meetings where decision-makers 

dealing with problems concerning women are invited. 

Other activities include: publishing of the six issues of 

the ‘Ten Plus’ Bulletin, setting up a prize for the best 

journalists who address women’s issues, participation at 

the implementation of the project “Santa Claus for Families 

with Many Children from Soroca County”. Project 

director Lidia BOBÂNÃ, National Radio reporter 

$11,310 

Empowering Education Project 

International training of trainers workshop on Empowering 

Education Project with participants from Ukraine, 

Azerbaijan and Moldova. Youth Development Center, project 

director Margareta DUªCEAC 

$3,520 

BOOK TRANSLATION AND PUBLISHING 

The program aimed to translate outstanding books on 

women’s issues. The program is intended for scholars, 

students and the general public. 

Translation and publishing of the book “Our Bodies, 

Ourselves for the New Century: A Book by and for Women, 

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective”, Litera 

Publishing House, project director Anatol VIDRAªCU 

$6,000 

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Translation and publishing of the book “Sacrificing Ourselves 

for Love, Boston Women’s Book Collective”, Museum 

Publishing House, project director Iurie COLES- 

NIC. (Co-financed by the Center for Publishing Development, 

OSI, Budapest) 

$5,000 

Translation and publishing of a guide for trainers on 

“Empowering Education”, ‘Colograf’ NGO 

$1,500 

Translation and publishing of the book “Sexual Politics 

and the European Union: the New Feminist Challenge” 

by Elman Amy, Tehnica-Info Publishing House, project 

director Alexandru MARIN 

$2,295 


CIVIL SOCIETY PROGRAM 

The aim of the program is to support the transition of the 

country towards an open and democratic society 

through the institutionalization of the basic norms of the 

civil society — individual rights, free association, delimitation 

of public and private spheres, rule of law, freedom 

of opinion, initiative, as well as support in creating a 

mechanism of society control and influence over the 

state and its institutions. 

OPEN GRANT COMPETITION FOR NGOs 

The objectives of this program were: 

— to encourage and develop non-governmental organizations 

which pursue social initiative and concern 

— to encourage contacts between NGOs and state structures, 

in order to help resolve social problems 

— to improve the professional level of the non-profit 

sector representatives in Moldova 

— to promote tolerance between individuals and social 

groups 

— to promote social cohesion and the protection of 

human rights 

Projects financed in 2000: 

‘Youth Changes the World’ — a project dedicated to 

International Volunteers’ Day 

The National Youth Council of Moldova 

Project director Iosif MOLDOVANU $1,820 

Transnistrian NGOs’ Club 

CONTACT Center 

Project director Igor GROSU $990 

Intercultural Education for the Youth from Minority Groups 

‘Life Is a Miracle’ Association 

Project director Ludmila GORCEACOVA $1,500 

Poverty Reduction through Rural Community Administration 

Capacity Building 

Social - Cultural Association for Sustainable Development 

of the Baraboi village, Edineþ county 

Project director Anatolie MÂÞÃ $1,000 

Training Course for Moldovan Roma 

‘Bahtalo Rom’ Association 

Project director Anatol RADIÞA $1,200 

Hotline ‘Confidence Phone’ 

‘Youth for the Right to Live’ Association 

Project director Antoniþa FONARI $5,686.70 

Legal and Accounting Services for NGOs 

Center for Not - for - Profit Law 

Project director Oleg EFRIM $7,193 

Monitoring Elections in Taraclia County 

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights 

Project director ªtefan URÂTU $1,960 

Promoting Organic Agriculture for Farmers: Demo-plots 

of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 

‘ASOHERBA’ Association of Producers and Processors of 

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 

Project director Alexandru CORDONEANU $1,400 

With Peace in the 21st Century — 15 Round Tables in the 

Regions on Tolerance, Peace, Human History and Understanding 

in a Transition Society 

Intercultural Dialogue Center 

Project director Alexandru JOSUL $1,500 

A Human Being of the Rational World (Events: ‘Friendship 

Celebration’, ‘Children’s Protection Day’) 

League of Polish Women from Moldova 

Project director Nelly CAPCANARI $1,000 

Round Table ‘Social Protection of Retired Military and 

Their Families: Ways for Improvement’ 

Association of Retired Military and Veterans 

Project director Artur GORªECINICOV $520 

Assessment and Recommendations for the Legislative 

Framework Regarding Not-for-Profit Organizations 

CONTACT Center in collaboration with the Ministry of 

Justice 

Project director Oleg EFRIM $1,000 

Information and Promotion Campaign for the Law on 

Protection of Consumer’s Rights 

‘Pro-Eco-F’ Association for Ecological and Economical 

Education 

Project director Sergiu DÃSCÃLESCU $2,000

‘Learn Your Rights’ — A Course on Human Rights 

League for Protection of Human Rights from Moldova 

Project director Paul STRUÞESCU $1,000 

‘Speranþio’ 

‘Învingere — Preodolenie’ Charity Foundation 

Project director Sergiu AFANASENCO $1,500 

Support for ‘Lumina’ Association’s Activity 

Association ‘Lumina’ (Light) of Transnistrian Teachers 


Project director Eleonora CERCAVSCHI $2,000 

‘Cervantes Days’ in Moldova 

Center for Support and Promotion of Spanish Language 

and Culture in Moldova 

Project director Ana BOLOGAN $410 

Local Social - Economic Development (seminars and 

round table) 

‘Vatra Satului’ Association, Larga Veche, Cahul county 

Project director Maria MACHEDON $500 

Institutional Management for Youth Leaders 

County Council for Youth, Bãlþi 

Project director Igor MIRONIUC $2,000 

Teaching Children’s Rights to Youth from Slobozia County 

‘Molodiojnaia Iniþiativa’ Association from Tiraspol 

Project director Alexandru IVANENCO $231 

Developing Roma’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprises 

Seminar 

‘Roma from Gãgãuzia’ Community, Comrat 

Project director Maria DUMINICÃ $500 

Creating the Coalition for Fighting Corruption — ‘The 

Coalition for Change’ 

The Center for Democracy and Transparency 

Project director Petru JITARU $1,026 

The ‘Conditions for Education and Living of the Disabled 

Young People’ Conference 

Association of Disabled Students 

Project director Maria ROTARU $2,240 

‘New Generation’ Summer Camp 

CNG — Moldova NGO 

Project director Mariana ÞURCAN $750 

Support for the Musicians’ Union 

Musicians’ Union from Moldova 

Project director Gheorghe TRIFÃUÞAN $750 

‘East - West Youth Exchange’ Training Course 

Youth National Council from Moldova 


‘Anatomy of Genocide: Exiles from Moldova in 1948 - 

1949’ International Symposium 

Association of Former Politically Deported People from 

Bãlþi 

Project director Nicolae BAZAOCHI $1,488 

Legal and Normative Papers on Broadcasting Functioning 

(publishing and distribution) 

Association of Electronic Press from Moldova (APEL) 

Project director Valeriu VASILICÃ $3,105 

Country Competitions of Sanitary Teams 

The Red Cross Association from Moldova in Collaboration 

with the Department of Civil Protection and Exceptional 

Situations 

Project director Larisa BÎRCÃ $500 

‘The Bucovina of Yesterday and Today: History, Culture, 

Civilization’ Cultural Symposium 

‘Bucovina’ Social - Cultural Association 

Project director Arcadie SUCEVEANU $1,500 

Seminar ‘Social Integration of Physically Disabled People‘ 

Association of People with Myopathic Disabilities from 


Project director Vitalie TONU $800 

‘The Truth and Facts — the Human Rights for the Immigrants 

in Moldova’ Conference 

The Afro — Asian Community in the Republic of Moldova 

Project director Michael GEBRE $800 

‘The South Eastern European Cooperation: New Opportunities 

for the Republic of Moldova’ Seminar 

European Center from Moldova 

Project director Octavian ªOFRANSKY $500 

The General Meeting of the ‘GenderDoc-M’ Information 

Center 

‘GenderDoc-M’ Information Center 

Project director Alexei MARCICOV $450 

Publishing of the Materials of the Seminar on the Convention 

for Protection of Ethnic Minorities 

Department of National Relations and Functioning of 

Languages, the Russian Community from Moldova 

Project director Ivan STEPANENCO $440 

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Summer School for Volunteers 

Center for Information and Documentation on Children’s 

Rights 

Project director Vitalie POPESCU $1,000 

The 2nd Edition of the ‘Iulia Haºdeu’ Literary National 

Contest for Children 

The ‘Clipa Sideralã’ Cultural and Creativity Magazine 

Project director Eugenia BULAT $225

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Festival ‘Rock against Drugs, Rock against AIDS’ 

‘Time to Live’ Association in collaboration with the ‘Youth 

for the Right to Live’ Organization 

Project director Maxim BERLEAN $1,700 

The 70th Anniversary of the Radio in Moldova (musical show) 

Teleradio - Moldova 

Project director Vlad ÞURCANU $500 

The ‘Moldova’s Ukrainians: Present, Past and Future Prospects’ 

Conference 

‘Petru Movilã’ Community of Ukrainians from Chiºinãu 

Project director Victor Cojuhari $700 

Ion BÃLTEANU, Handicraft People’s Union of Moldova 

$1,940 

Monitoring Presidential Elections in Russia, March 25- 

27, Moscow, Russia 

Aureliu CORNESCU, ‘Jurnal de Chiºinãu’ Newspaper 

$500 

‘FOMGED’ International Festival of Children’s Dance 

Groups, April 18-24, Antalia, Turkey 

‘Cadinja’ Gagauzian Dance and Songs Group 

Project director P. ARABADGI 

$3,000 

‘Bridges’ — TV Program on Transnistrian Issues 

The ‘Trust’ Association in Support of Trust, Peace, and 

Stability 

Project director Oazu NANTOI $14,770 

Scholarship on Peace and Conflict Resolution, March 5 - 

May 27, Stadtschlaining / Burg, Austria 

Violeta TEUTU, International Institution for Human Rights 

$530 

Youth and Children’s Participation in Local Public Administration 

The European Youth Exchange - Moldova Association 


The Youth and Protection of Patrimony (3 seminars, training 

of 20 volunteers, etc) 

The National Association of Young Historians from Moldova 

Project director Sergiu MUSTEAÞÃ $5,000 

Social Integration and Rehabilitation for Retired Military 

Center of Social Integration and Rehabilitation of Retired 

Military 

Project director Igor IVANOV $12,000 

Rural Tourism — a Step to Local Development 

The ‘Viitorul’ Foundation in Collaboration with the CON- 

TACT Center 

Project director Liubomir CHIRIAC $7,000 

The Development of the National Accounting Standards 

and Commentaries for NGOs 

Center for the Development and Implementation of Economic 

Reforms 

Project director Tatiana PRISACAR $2,639 

Total Program Expenditures: $105,345.7 

Visit to the International Foundation for Social Adaptation, 

March 13-17, Kiev, Ukraine 

Igor IVANOV, Center of Social Integration and Rehabilitation 

of the Retired Military 

$420 

The 8th International Conference on Conflict Resolution, 

May 12-19, St. Petersburg, Russia 

Margareta MUNTEAN, Association of Women’s Social 

Protection 

$285 

Training of Moldovan Farmers in Holland, August 28 - 

September 1, 2000 

National Farmers’ Federation 

Project director Vasile MÂRZENCO 

$1,000 

Internship at Premontre Hospital Center, April 3 - July 3, 

Aisne, France 

Ina MOLDOVEANU, Association of Child Psychoanalysis 

$555 

Internship at Arche de Le Mans Recovering Center 

Ion MOLDOVEANU, Adriana POTORAC, N. Testemiþanu 

State Medical University, Neurology Clinic 

$3,170 

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND SEMI- 

NARS 

‘Southeastern Europe Anti - Corruption Forum’, February 

25 - 26, Sofia, Bulgaria 

Petru JITARU, Center for Transparency and Democracy 

$336 

‘Project Market Place for the Development - 2000’, February 

7-9, Washington D.C., USA 

Lilian CIPCIRIUC, National Farmers Federation from Moldova 

Conference ‘Citizen Participation in Europe: Global 

Changes — National Challenges — the Role of Civic 

Education’, November 24-26, Egmond aan Zee, Holland 

Margareta MÃMÃLIGÃ, IFES Foundation Moldova 

$178 

SCI East — West Working Group Annual Meeting, November 

1-8, Druskininkai, Lithuania 

Sergiu NASTAS, European Youth Exchange - Moldova 

$300

‘Youth Mini-Parliament’ Conference, October 16-21, St. 

Petersburg, Russia 

A group of 3 persons, Center of Analytical Information 

and Issues of Development 

$330 

‘ICC Statute — What Next?’ Conference, October 21-22, 

Berlin, Germany 

Liubov NEMCINOVA, International Association for Human 

Rights 

$390 

‘International Youth Parliament 2000’, October 19-28, 

Sydney, Australia 

Valeriu POPOVICI, Future Business Leaders’ Brotherhood 

Association 

Nadejda MAZUR, Youth Helsinki Citizens Assembly of 


$ 760 

Conference ‘Implementation Meeting on Human Dimension 

Issues’, October 17-27, Warsaw, Poland 

Ion IOVCEV, School # 20 from Tiraspol 

$845 

PUBLIC OPINION BAROMETER 

In order to promote proper and transparent means of 

reflecting the social, political, and economic life in 

the Republic of Moldova and equal mechanisms of 

access to information for the civil society, the Soros 

Foundation-Moldova launched in 1998 the Public 

Opinion Barometer — a program of public opinion 

survey. The Public Opinion Barometer is a survey conducted 

on a regular basis through the same type of 

questionnaire using a national representative sample. 

Starting with 2000, the Public Opinion Barometer is 

implemented in collaboration with the Institute for 

Public Policy. The research topics include: 

— Living standards and quality of life 

— Political options, popularity and ranking of main political 

parties and personalities in the Republic of 


— Economic and social policy of the government 

— Other issues of major interest 

The results of the surveys can be viewed on the web site: 

www.ipp.md 

$27,000 

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‘European Youth Leaders’, September 10 - October 7, Malta 

Nicolae RÃDIÞÃ, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights 


$165 

Internship at the International Education Club in the 

Sphere of Services within the Framework of the Association 

of the ‘Les Lions’ Club Cultural Centers, July 6-31, 

Athis - Mons, France 

Ilinca JITARU, volunteer, European Youth Exchange Association 

$500 

Advanced Training of Trainers Course on Human Rights 

Education, January 15-20, Roma, Italy 

Tatiana RACU, The Independent Society for Education 

and Human Rights 

$500 

Documentation Visit at the University of Central Lancashire, 

July 7-16, Great Britain 

Natalia BUGA, National Association of Disabled Students 

Maria MATIUªCENCO, National Association of Disabled 

Students 

$776 

Study Visit in the Popular Republic of China, June 6-12, 

China 

Dumitru SCLIFOS, The Society of the Blind from Moldova 

$500 

Total $17,012 

TRAINING OF TRAINERS PROGRAM 


Project director Igor GROSU 

The aim of the project was to identify and train a team of 

trainers. 

The trainers of the course came from the Opportunity 

Associates, Romania, who had a good qualification and 

experience in the field. 19 persons participated in the 

first module (June 22-27, Chiºinãu), 23 participants attended 

the second module (September 6-12, Braºov, 

Romania), and 12 people were selected for the last module 

(November 16-21, Miercurea Ciuc), from the group 

that had attended the first 2 modules. The national team 

of trainers includes members of both national and local 

NGOs, covering all country regions. 

The members of the group were: 

Iosif MOLDOVANU, National Youth Council of Moldova 

Igor GROSU, Liliana CALMAÞUI, Ion BABICI, Ludmila CO- 

VALENCO, CONTACT Center 

Ludmila MAZILU, Youth Development Center 

Serghei NEICOVCEN, Center of Development and Social 

and Cultural Cooperation 

Lilia STÎRCEA, ‘Pro Didactica’ Educational Center 

Emil GUÞU, Ecaterina BERGHI, Pilot Project ‘Development 

of Durable Income Resources in Rural Areas’ 

Nãtãliþa VASILENDIUC — Youth for the Right to Live 

Nicolae MOSCALU — ‘Moºtenitorii’ NGO 

$15,000

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SUPPORT FOR THE CONTACT RESOURCE 

CENTERS NETWORK 

The CONTACT Center 

Project director Aliona NICULIÞÃ 

A grant was offered to support the network of five regional 

centers, which provide information and technical 

assistance, consulting and training for local NGOs. 

$28,000 

THE VOLUNTEER CENTER 

The CONTACT Center 

Project director Sorin HANGANU 

The ‘Volunteer Center’ project is part of the regional Volunteer 

Development Initiative Program of the Open Society 

Institute (New York, USA) and has as major objective the 

promotion of volunteerism through initiatives which encourage 

citizens’ participation in solving community problems. 

The target groups of this project in Moldova are both 

active citizens, willing to become volunteers, and NGOs 

and institutions interested in working with volunteers. 

Starting with the year 2000, the project is implemented 

in Chiºinãu, Bãlþi, Cahul, Soroca and Comrat by the 

CONTACT regional centers. During this year, the Volunteer 

Center focused on: 

— Program expanding in regions and development of 

the Volunteer Center Network, selection and training 

of regional coordinators, promoting of the volunteer’s 

activities through press 

— Meetings and training with volunteers willing to participate 

in NGOs and in other specialized institutions 

(monthly meetings of Volunteer’s Club), creation of a 

database of potential volunteers and of organizations 

which need volunteers and are interested to develop 

different volunteer programs (the database includes 

over 70 NGOs and 600 volunteers) 

— Volunteer recruitment for interested institutions and 

NGOs 

— Pilot - projects of volunteers that solve concrete 

problems of the society (in Cahul and Soroca) 

— Events to celebrate the year 2001 International Volunteer 

Year in partnership with other volunteer organizations: 

International Day of Young Volunteer Service 

(April 15), Volunteer’s Week (May 28 - June 4), International 

Volunteer Day (December 5) 

— Training, consulting and information in volunteer recruitment 

and management 

The Volunteer Center succeeded in establishing partnership 

relations with national and international volunteer 

organizations through creating and maintaining of the 

Volunteer Center Network from Central and Eastern Europe, 

collaboration with Effort (IAVE) International Association 

for Volunteers, and cooperation with the Volunteer 

Program of the United Nations (Bonn, Germany). 

$15,000 

BIG BROTHERS / BID SISTERS MOLDOVA - 2000 


Project director Liliana CALMAÞUI 

Big Brothers / Big Sisters is a volunteer program that 

offers assistance for teenagers with special communication 

and behavioral needs, especially to those in a crisis 

provoked by their parents’ divorce or from single parent 

families. The program is based on establishing interpersonal 

relationships: adolescent (Little Friend) — volunteer 

(Big Friend), through a one-to-one approach. The 

couple Big Friend — Little Friend is created by analyzing 

the adolescents’ needs and the volunteer’s motivation/ 

skills. Volunteers are trained, and the pairs BF/LF are 

continuously monitored. The program offers psychological 

assistance to children / adolescents, and parents. BF/ 

LF was expanded in the regions (Cahul, Soroca, Bãlþi, and 

Comrat) through the CONTACT Center Network. 

The impact of the Big Brother/Big Sister Program is growing 

— more and more parents are calling the program for 

help, the number of persons interested to become volunteers 

increases, the value of this program is recognized 

by the local authorities, and the Departments of 

Social Protection and Families sees in this program an 

efficient tool for solving the problems of children from 

monoparental families. 

$22,500 

RURAL DEVELOPMENT 


Project director Aliona NICULIÞA 

This three-year program (1998-2000) was aimed at developing 

rural communities through support for local 

NGOs and initiative groups. 

Program objectives: 

— support for community leaders in their attempt to 

establish NGOs 

— strengthening the existing NGOs through provision of 

assistance and training in design of programs, project 

implementation, proposal writing and fund raising 

In order to initiate NGOs and initiative groups in the 

basics of starting efficient activities, 2 seminars were 

unfolded in Cahul and Bãlþi, on ‘Participation in Community 

Development’ (July 12-13) and ‘The NGOs’ Role in 

Promoting Community Development Programs at Rural 

Level’ (July 19-20). In the Cahul seminar (Larga-Veche, 

Zîrneºti village) 31 persons participated — NGO leaders 

and initiative groups from rural communities. In the Bãlþi 

seminar — 30 persons participated. The site visits after 

the seminars were a very efficient tool of familiarizing the 

participants with the experience of other rural NGOs. 

Another successful achievement was the balance between 

theoretical materials and shared practices. 

$10,000

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 

(In partnership with the CONTACT Center) 

The goal of this small grant program, a follow-up of the 

Rural Development Project, is to contribute to the development 

of rural communities through citizens’ participation 

in solving community problems. 

Objectives: 

— strengthening of community institutions and organizations 

— education and assistance for leaders 

— development of NGO — LPA — Business partnerships 

— establishing and strengthening relationships between 

citizens, institutions and leaders 

Three expert commissions were created for projects’ 

review, evaluation and decision-making on financing. 

Members of the commissions were representatives of 

Local Public Administrations, mass media, public persons, 

2 members from the sub-board of the Civil Society 

Program of the Soros Foundation-Moldova. 

The first condition for applying to the program was the 

10% community contribution of the total project budget. 

The total required amount was not to exceed $ 500. The 

applicants were local NGOs, initiative groups, local 

public administration, education, medical, and cultural 

institutions. 

Other criteria for the selection process were: the project 

value, its innovative character, its impact, the capacity of 

the implementation team, the degree of the community 

participation and its contribution, the community — 

local public administration — business partnership, 

budget/activities balance. 

Training Youth in Artistic Handicraft in the Rãuþel School, 

initiative group, Rãuþel, Fãleºti, project director Dumitru 

MURUZIUC 

Health Education, ‘Plai Natal’ NGO, Sofia, Drochia, project 

director Lucia EDU 

“Infoprim”, Vasilcãu, Soroca county, project director Grigorie 

CIOBANU 

“The Improvement of Popular Handicraft”, ‘Artizana’ NGO, 

Manta, Cahul county, project director Constantin OL- 

TEANU 

“Summer Camp for Scouts”, ‘Egreta’ Group of Scouts, 

Zîrneºti, Cahul county, project director Nadejda DOBÎNDÃ 

“The Themida Expedition”, ‘M-club’ NGO, Valea Perjei, 

Taraclia, project director Tatiana ALLAMURADOVA 

“School of Handicrafting”, initiative group, Congaz, GA- 

GAUZIA, project director Feodor MINCU 

“Children Have Rights”, ‘Dumitriþa’ Rural Center for Children 

Support, Hîrbovãþ, Chiºinãu county, project director 

Daria OPREA 

“Regional Collaboration”, ‘Eco-Rãzeni’ NGO, Rãzeni, Chi- 

ºinãu county, project director Valentin BUTNARU 

Information and Assistance for the Youth on Enterpreneurship, 

Hruºeva, Chiºinãu county, project director Parascovia 

COTOVICI 

“Information for Tomorrow”, ‘Satul Nou’ NGO, Balatino, 

Bãlþi county, project director Sergiu RUSNAC 

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Projects Financed in 2000: 

“Coexistence - Cooperation”, ‘Education and Schooling’ 

Association, Bubuieci, Chiºinãu county, project director 

Dumitru CHIRTOACÃ 

Improving Services for the Beneficiaries of Public Libraries, 

Public Library from Zîmbreni, Chiºinãu county, project 

director Lilia CONDREA 

Publishing of the ‘Suruceanul’ Newspaper, ‘Economic 

Observer’, Suruceni, Chiºinãu county, project director 

Fidel GALAICU 

“The Image Modernization of the Hruºeva Village”, Hru- 

ºeva, Chiºinãu county, project director Parascovia CO- 

TOVICI 

“Children Choose and Vote”, initiative group, Slobozia, 

project director Valentina LAZAREVA 

“Young Generation”, ‘Baºtina’ NGO, Pelinia, Bãlþi county, 

project director Tamara CRIVCEANSCHI 

‘The Diversity of Public Services from Corlãteni’, ‘Terra’ 

NGO, Corlãteni, Bãlþi county, project director Ion BOLD 

“Development of Local Democracy”, ‘PeaAl-H’ NGO, Hãsnãºenii 

Mari, Bãlþi county, project director Ion GHERMAN 

“Establishing the Local Agricultural Chamber’, ‘TAMIR’ 

NGO, Putineºti, Soroca county, project director Mircea 

TABARCEA 

“Whittle in Stone — a Perpetual Tradition”, initiative 

group, Brãneºti, project director Galina DANILEVICI 

“Protection of Vulnerable Families”, ‘Dar din dar copilului 

orfan’ NGO, Baimaclia, Cahul county, project director 

Valentina ÞURCANU 

“Healthy Children - Healthy People - Healthy Society”, 

Slobozia Mare, Cahul county, project director Vasile MILICI 

“Alaja Canat” Art Center, Beºalma, GAGAUZIA, project 

director Ivan CARANASTAS

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“We Want to Speak”, ‘Your Future’ NGO, Colibaºi, Cahul 

county, project director Ana EREMIA 

The Farmers’ and Businessmen’s Club, initiative group, 

Chiosolia, Cahul county, project director Nadia MAXIM 

Total Community Development Program Expenditures 

$18,000 

Support for the Bãlþi Information Center $8,479 


Elena PRUNEANU 

Svetlana DIACOVA $1,909.42 

International Symposium of Viral Hepatitis and Liver 

Disease, USA 

April 9 - 13 

Vladimir GÎLCA $1,084.71 

International Conference on Mathematical Logic, Russia 

May 3 - 8 

Vasile URSU 

Mitrofan CIOBAN $1,144.37 

PARTICIPATION AT SCIENTIFIC 

CONFERENCES, CONGRESSES, 

SYMPOSIUMS AND SESSIONS 

Partial grants were offered to facilitate the participation 

of scientific researchers from the Republic of Moldova, 

including Ph.D. students, to various international events 

which took place outside the country to present a scientific 

paper, orally or on poster, in the field of basic or 

medical-biological sciences. 

Conference on Risk and Prevention in Cardiovascular 

Disease, Infectious Diseases in Onco-haematology, France 

February 24 - 25 

Mihail GAVRILIUC $790 

International Conference: “Journees Lilloises de Theorie 

des Operateurs-2000”, France 

January 27 - 29 

Petru COJUHARI $364.74 

Symposium of the International Society for Optical Engineering, 

USA 

April 24 - 28 

Igor CIAPURIN $1,309.97 

International Symposium: “GEONAMES-2000”, Germany 

March 28 - 30 

Zinaida CAMENEVA 

Anatol EREMIA $1,354.72 

Conference on Science and Technology, Italy 

April 8 - 20 

Sergiu MALKOV $799.05 

International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential 

Equations, USA 

May 17 - 22 

David CEBAN $997.48 

European Congress of ORL, Germany 

May 13 - 18 

International Conference on Radicals: “ICOR-2000”, 

Austria 

July 30 - August 5 

Alexei CAªU 

Vladimir ARNAUTOV $ 968.48 

International Symposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions 

in Plants, USA 

May 14 - 19 

Oleg BOGDEVICI $1,329.12 

International Colloquium on Soil Zoology, Czech Republic 

August 14 - 18 

Galina BUªMACHIU $580 

FALK Symposium on Hepatology, Germany 

May 4 - 6 

Eugen MALÎªEV $519.82 

International Conference: “CATOP-2000”, Switzerland 

July 4 - 6 

Dumitru BOTNARU $680 

International Symposium on Detection and Modeling of 

Recent Climate Change and Its Effects on a Regional 

Scale, Spain 

May 29 - 31 

Roman COROBOV $648 

International Conference on Maize and Sorghum Genetics 

and Breeding, Yugoslavia 

June 4 - 9 

Valeriu ROTARENCO 

Iurie ICHIM $439.08 

International Meeting in Chemical Engineering, Environmental 

Protection and Biotechnology, Germany 

May 22 - 27 

Eugen MAXIMUK $483.52 

International Conference: “MS-2000 EGYPT”, Egypt 

April 11 - 14 

Petre OSMÃTESCU $910.12 

International Symposium in Public Health, UK 

June 26 - July 2 

Sergiu POLIUDOV $1,009.49

Conference: Fighting Tuberculosis, Russia 

May 13 - 14 

Svetlana SÎRCU $50.68 

International Conference on Development and Application 

Systems, Romania 

May 17 - 20 

Valentin NEGURÃ $86 

The 2nd International Symposium on Laser, Scintillator 

and Nonlinear Optic Materials, France 

May 17 - 31 

Leonid CULIUC $633.76 

The 2nd International Conference on Inorganic Materials, 

USA 

September 13 - 16 

Anatolie CARCEA $1,475.99 

The 3rd Congress of PS, Russia 

July 11 - 15 

Elena DEMCENCO $94.68 

The 12th International Congress on Thermal Analysis 

and Calorimetry, Denmark 


Ion DRANCÃ $902.11 

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The 7th Electron Microscopy Conference, Singapore 

June 26 - 30 

Boris MATIENCO $1,273.25 

The 8th National Congress on Infectious Disease, Romania 

May 16 - 21 

Natalia POBEDINSCHI $118.88 

International Seminar: “NEEDS-2000”, Turkey 

June 29 - July 7 

Valeriu DRIUMA $302.07 

International Conference on Numerical Methods for Evolution 

of Partial Differential Equations, Greece 

June 24 - 30 

Iurie CARAUª $373.02 

International Congress: “European Solar Energy-Euro- 

Sun 2000”, Denmark 

June 19 - 22 

Marin RUSU $271 

AMPERE International Congress, Portugal 

July 23 - 29 

Ion GERU $916.60 

The 3rd European Congress of Mathematics, Spain 

July 10 - 14 

Valeriu UNGUREANU $545.08 

The 7th Workshop: “COMPEL-2000”, USA 

July 16 - 18 

Valentin OLESCIUC $870.82 

International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 

USA 


Boris CONSTANTINOV $1,256.21 

The 6th International Symposium on Research in High 

Magnetic Fields, Portugal 


Elena CONDREA $971.27 

The 25th ARA Congress, USA 

July 12 -16 

Veaceslav ZELENÞOV 

Elena RAEVSCHI 

Veniamin APOSTOL $3,194.53 

International Congress: “Psychotherapie Socio-et Somato-Analytique”, 

France 

July 20 - 25 

Mihai HOTINEANU 

Valeriu GUÞU $765.85 

The World Congress: “CLEFT-2000”, Switzerland 

July 1 - 5 

Ion LUPAN $712.15 

The 2nd International Conference on Amorphous and 

Microcrystalline Semiconductors, Russia 

June 3 - 5 

Mihail IOVU $315.35 

International Congress: “Central Vascular Forum”, Italy 


Vasile ANESTIADE $999.19 

The 8th International Congress of Thracology, Bulgaria 


Aurel ZANOCI 

Ion NICULIÞÃ $357.80 

The 3rd Balkan Congress of Oncology, Romania 


Natalia ROTARU $164 

The Congress of American Chemical Society, USA 


ªtefan ROBU $1,403.99 

International Conference: “Representations Sociales: 

Constructions Nouvelles”, Canada 

August 30 - September 2 

Lilian NEGURÃ $500 

International Conference on Education of Fundamental 

Values, Russia

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Virgil MÂNDÂCANU $134.75 

International Symposium: “Jahn-Teller 2000”, USA 


Boris ÞUCHERBLAT $294 

The 15th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, 

Italy 

October 15 - 21 

Daria GRABCO $925.11 

International Congress on Science and Education on the 

Threshold of the III Millennium, Belarus 

October 3 - 6 

Tatiana BATÎR $86.52 

Conference on Natural Water and Water Technology, Portugal 


Vera MUNTEANU $454.41 

The EFNS 5th Congress, Denmark 


Victoria SACARÃ 

Ion MOLDOVANU 

Diomid GHERMAN $2,097.59 

International Symposium: “Optoelectronics-2001”, USA 

January 22 - 25, 2001 

Vasile TRONCIU $800 


International Conference on Electrical Insulation and 

Dielectric Phenomenon, Canada 


Oleg MOTORIN $1,499.50

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SOROS FOUNDATION-MOLDOVA EXPENDITURES IN 2000 

PROGRAM 

TOTAL EXPENDITURES (USD) 

Education 874,831 

Youth 201,802 

East East 118,460 

Conference & Travel 42,168 

Information 562,819 

Public Health 583,335 

Economic Development 443,595 

Arts & Culture 325,275 

Media 77,008 

Local Government 343,240 

Law & Criminal Justice 593,671 

Women’s Programs 133,691 

Civil Society 266,184 

Other Programs 5,792 

Administration 494,196 

Total $ 5,066,067 

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CALENDAR YEAR 2000 EXPENDITURES (in percentage) 

Other 

Programs 

Civil Society 

0,11% 

5,25% 

Women’s Programs 

2,64% 

Administration 

9,76% 

Education 

17,27% 

Law & Criminal Justice 

11,72% 

Local Government 

6,78% 

Youth 

3,98% 

East East 

2,34% 

Conference & Travel 

0,83% 

Media 

1,52% 

Arts & Culture 

6,42% 

Economic 

Development 

8,76% 

Public Health 

11,51% 

Information 

11,11%

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Financial Statements for the year ending 

December 31, 2000 

1 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

1.1 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balance as of December 31, 2000 

April 30, 2001 

Notes 31 dec 1999 31 dec 2000 

(MDL) (USD) (MDL) (USD) 

ASSETS 

Current assets 

Cash and cash equivalents 2.3 612,701 49,478 992,106 85,599 

Receivables 2.4 25,796,886 2,083,199 10,503,575 906,246 

Prepayments 2.5 127,670 10,310 1,359,814 117,324 

Non-curent assets 

26,537,257 2,142,987 12,855,495 1,109,169 

Fixed assets at Net Book Value 2.6 8,124,105 656,053 6,385,180 550,912 

8,124,105 656,053 6,385,180 550,912 

Total assets 34,661,362 2,799,040 19,240,675 1,660,081 

FUND BALANCES AND LIABILITIES 

Current liabilities 

Liabilities — — 8,003 690 

Accruals 2.8 23,580,011 1,904,178 16,067,680 1,386,316 

23,580,011 1,904,178 16,075,683 1,387,006 

Fund balance 2.9 11,081,351 894,862 3,164,992 273,075 

Total Fund balances and liabilities 34,661,362 2,799,040 19,240,675 1,660,081 

The statement of assets, liabilities and fund balance is to be read in conjunction with the notes thereto. 

1

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AUDITOR’S OPINION 

We have audited the accompanying financial statement of the Soros Foundation-Moldova, Chiºinãu, Republic of 

Moldova. This Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balance as of December 31, 2000 is derived from the financial 

statements for 2000 of the Soros Foundation-Moldova as audited by us. We issued an unqualified auditors’ report on 

those financial statements on April 30, 2001. 

The Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balance is the responsibility of the management of the Soros 

Foundation-Moldova. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund 

Balance as of December 31, 2000 based on our audit. 

In our opinion, the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balance as of December 31, 2000 corresponds in all 

material respects with the financial statements from which it is derived. 

For a more comprehensive view of the financial position and results of the Soros Foundation-Moldova and the scope 

of our audit, Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Fund Balance as of December 31, 2000 should be read in 

conjunction with the complete financial statements from which it is derived and the auditors’ report we issued 

thereon. 

Chiºinãu, April 30, 2001 

KPMG

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SOROS FOUNDATION-MOLDOVA BOARDS 

SFM NATIONAL BOARD 

Arcadie BARBÃROªIE 

Natalia VRABIE 

Constantin CHEIANU 

Adela MARGINE 

Alexandru MURAVSCHI 

Anatol GREMALSCHI 

Nicolae CHIRTOACÃ 

Andrei CANTEMIR 

Raisa BOTEZATU 

National Board Chair, Executive Director, Institute for Public Policy 

Director, Agroindbank 

Deputy Head, Theater Department, Ministry of Culture 

Human Resource Development Expert, ARIA, resigned in April 

Program Manager, CPBR 

Professor, Technical University of Moldova, resigned in April 

Director, Invisible College 

Program Manager, UNDP 

Judge, Supreme Court 

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS SUB-BOARD 

Ivan OGURÞOV 

Chair, Physics and Chemistry Department, State University of Moldova 

Eugen MARTIN 

Head of International Relations Department, Ministry of Culture 

Mihai CERNENCO Chair, Humanities Department, Free Independent University of Moldova 

Lidia KULICOVSKI Director, B. P. Haºdeu Municipal Public Library 

Ludmila PAPUC 

Chair, Educational Studies Department, Ion Creangã State Pedagogical University 

Vitalie POPA 

Professor, Philosophy Department, State University of Moldova 

Adela MARGINE 

Human Resource Development Expert, ARIA 

ARTS AND CULTURE PROGRAMS SUB-BOARD 

Constantin CIOBANU Art Critic 

Constantin CHEIANU Deputy Head, Theater Department, Ministry of Culture 

Nicolae POPA 

Writer 

Ion BUNDUCHI 

Director, ‘Antena C’ Radio 

Vlad BOLBOCEANU Chair, Ceramic Department, State University of Arts 

Vladimir AXIONOV Deputy Rector, State University of Arts 

Elena PLOªNIÞÃ 

Head of Department, National Museum of History 

CIVIL SOCIETY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND WOMEN’S PROGRAMS SUB-BOARD 

Rodica COMENDANT Coordinator, Curriculum and Programs Department, State Medical University 

Adrian EVTUHOVICI Project Manager, LGI, Budapest 

Jason SCARPONE Deputy Director, CNFA, resigned in May 

Ecaterina STASII 

Chair, Pediatrics Department, State Medical University 

Constantin MARIN Chair, Journalism and Communication Sciences Department, State University of Moldova 

Sofia BOLDURATU Senior expert, Social Affairs Department, Government Office 

Aliona NICULIÞÃ 

Director, CONTACT Center 

Nicolae MOSCALU Director, ‘Mostenitorii’ NGO, Bãlþi

LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND LAW PROGRAMS SUB-BOARD 

Raisa BOTEZATU Judge, Supreme Court 

Nicolae TIMOFTE Chair, Court of Appeals 

Vladimir COVALI 

Head of Municipal Police Department 

Igor DOLEA 

Chair, Criminal Procedure Department, State University of Moldova 

Andrei CANTEMIR Program Manager, UNDP 

Tudor DELIU 

Professor, Academy of Public Administration 

Ion MIHAILUÞÃ 

Deputy Head, Local Public Administration Department, Government Office 

EAST EAST SUB-BOARD 

Nicolae CHIRTOACÃ Director, Invisible College, National Board representative 

Iosif MOLDOVANU Director, European Youth Exchange Association, Moldova 

ªtefan TIRON 

Adviser to the Minister of Education and Science 

Valeriu GHEORGHIU Head of International Economic Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Igor MUNTEANU 

Executive Director, ‘Viitorul’ Foundation, resigned in June 

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SOROS FOUNDATION-MOLDOVA STAFF 

Victor URSU Executive Director vursu@soros.md 

Varvara COLIBABA Deputy Director vcolibaba@soros.md 

Elena VACARCIUC Finance Director evacarciuc@soros.md 

Dumitru CHITOROAGÃ Grant Manager, Automation dchitoroaga@soros.md 

Ana COREÞCHI East East acoretchi@soros.md 

Mariana ALECSANDRI HESP, Library malecsandri@soros.md 

Oana UNGUREANU HESP, Library oungureanu@soros.md 

Iulia MOLDOVAN Secondary School Student Exchange Program imoldoveanu@soros.md 

Dumitru DEDIU Secondary School Student Exchange Program ddediu@soros.md 

Angela MUªET Scholarships, Youth Programs amuset@soros.md 

Igor NEDERA Civil Society, Economic Development inedera@soros.md 

Rodica EVTUHOVICI Economic Development 

Victor MUNTEANU Law vmunteanu@soros.md 

Violeta FRUNZE Law vfrunze@soros.md 

Victoria ANTONIU Local Governance vantoniu@soros.md 

Rodica NOSKO Local Governance rnosko@soros.md 

Viorel SOLTAN Public Health Programs vsoltan@soros.md 

Antonina SÂRBU Women’s Program asarbu@soros.md 

Victoria MIRON Arts and Culture, Publishing vmiron@soros.md 

Aurelia SPÃTARU Arts and Culture, Publishing aspataru@soros.md 

Iulia IGNATIUC Bãlþi Information Center ignatiuc@usb.moldnet.md 

Diana JARCOV 

Bãlþi Information Center 

Viorel URSU Advisor to the Executive Director viorel.ursu@soros.md 

Victor ANDRONIC LAN Manager vandronic@soros.md 

Vasile GîRLEA 

Administrator 

Elena VITIUC Accountant evitiuc@soros.md 

Violeta GRAUR Accountant vgraur@soros.md 

Liuba COTOROBAI Cashier lcotorobai@soros.md 

Ala DICUSARÃ Receptionist adicusara@soros.md 

Lucia COJOCARU Receptionist lcojocaru@soros.md 

Stela ARTEMI Receptionist sartemi@soros.md

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CONTACT INFORMATION 

Soros Foundation - Moldova 

32 Bulgarã Street 

MD 2001 Chiºinãu 


Tel.: (373 2) 270031, 270232 

Fax: (373 2) 270507 

Email: Foundation@soros.md 

Web Site: www.soros.md 

Bãlþi Information Center 

The National Debate League 

16 A Puºkin Street 



Tel.: (373 2) 212769 

Tel.: 228365 

http://www.ournet.md/~debate 

Youth Development Center 

32 A Bulgarã Street 



Tel.: (373 2) 270031, 270232 

Fax: (373 2) 270507 

38 Puºkin Street 

A.Russo Bãlþi State University 

Bãlþi 


Tel./Fax: (373 23) 24522 

‘Step by Step’ Educational Program 

DNT Association 




Tel/fax: (373 2) 229229 

Email: info@dnt.md, pr@dnt.md 




Tel.: (373 2) 220112 

Tel./Fax: (373 2) 220113 

Email: hs@moldnet.md 

Pro Didactica Educational Center 

Moldovan Microfinance Alliance 




Tel: (373 2) 229904; 229905 

Fax: 22-99-02 

mma@mma.dnt.md 

13 Armeneascã Street 



Tel.: (373 2) 541994, 542556 

Fax: (373 2) 544199 

e-mail: lnicolaescu@cepd.soros.md 

Educational Advising Center 

The Independent Journalism Center 

53 ªciusev Street 



Tel: (373 2) 213652, 227539 

Fax: (373 2) 226681 

http://ijc.iatp.md 

148 ªtefan cel Mare ºi Sfânt blvd., apt. 22 



Tel.: (373 2) 246621 

Tel./fax: (373 2) 246739 

e-mail: eac@dnt.md 

www.iatp.md/eac 

Information and Documentation Center 

for Women 

137A 31 August Street, room 14 



Tel./Fax: (373 2) 241393 

e-mail: cnsipf@moldnet.md 

Invisible College - Moldova 

16/1 Puºkin Street 



Tel./fax: (373 2) 222503 

Tel.: (373 2) 222504 

E-mail: NC@ic.soros.md 

MedNet National Center of Medical Information 

27 Testemiþanu Street 



Tel./Fax: (373 (2) 727577 

e-mail: medinfo@mednet.md

Legal Clinic 

60 A. Mateevici Street 



Tel: (373 2) 232453 

Fax: (373 2) 245070 

e-mail: dragos@lc.dnt.md 

Judicial Training Center 

18 Petru Rareº Street 



Tel: (373 2) 228186 

Fax: 373 2) 228185, 228187 

e-mail: jtc@jtc.dnt.md 

Bãlþi CONTACT Center 


A. Russo State University, block 2 

Bãlþi 


Tel/fax (231) 201-57 

E-mail: contactb@bl.moldpac.md 

Cahul CONTACT Center 

4 Republicii blvd., room 29 

College of Education and Arts 

Cahul 


Tel/fax (239) 28-993 

E-mail: contactc@moldnet.md 

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28 Bulgarã Street 



Tel: (373 2) 276786, 276785 

Fax: (373 2) 270507 

e-mail: arcadie_barbarosie@ipp.md 

Center for Contemporary Art, Chiºinãu 




Tel.: (373 2) 212765, 212766 

Fax: (373 2) 212768 

e-mail: ldragnev@art.md 


83 Bucureºti Street 



Tel.: (373 2) 233946, 233048 

Tel./fax: (373 2) 233947 

E-mail: info@contact.md 

all@contact.md 

www.contact.md 

Soroca CONTACT Center 

20 ªtefan cel Mare Street 

“ASITO” 

Soroca 


Tel: (230) 260-23 

E-mail:contacts@moldnet.md 

Comrat CONTACT Center 

5 Tretiakov Street, ASITO 

Comrat 


Tel: (238) 23516 

E-mail: contactt@moldnet.md

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 

AESM 

Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova 

APAM 

Academy of Public Administration of Moldova 

ASM 

Academy of Sciences of Moldova 

ASU 

Agrarian Sate University 

CCU 

Co-operatist – Commercial University 

EAC 

Educational Advising Center 

FIUM 

Free International University of Moldova 

HUM 

Humanities University of Moldova 

IES 

Institute of Educational Sciences 

IIM 

International Institute of Management 

IPP 


IPS 

Institute of Physical Sciences 

MES 

Ministry of Education and Sciences 

NIPTS 

National Institute of Physical Training and Sport 

PA 

Police Academy 

SFM 


SMU 

State Medical University 

SPU 

State Pedagogical University 

SUAM 

State University of Arts of Moldova 

SUB 

State University in Bãlþi 

SUC 

State University of Comrat 

SUM 


SUT 

State University of Tiraspol 

TUM 

Technical University of Moldova

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