Activity report for 1996(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

FUNDAÞIA SOROSMOLDOVARAPORTDE ACTIVITATE1996SOROSFOUNDATIONMOLDOVAACTIVITY REPORTa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 1

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t a b l e o f c o n t e n t sMODERNISATION OF EDUCATION ................................................................................................ 8DEBATE ............................................................................................................................................. 13HEALTH EDUCATION ..................................................................................................................... 14YOUTH PROGRAM.......................................................................................................................... 15HIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGE ......................................................................................................... 16ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS ............................................................................................ 16OPEN GRANTS ................................................................................................................................ 18STEP BY STEP ................................................................................................................................ 19HESP ................................................................................................................................................. 21FALANGA ........................................................................................................................................... 24EAST EAST ....................................................................................................................................... 25SCHOLARSHIPS ............................................................................................................................. 30E-MAIL SISTEMS AND INTERNET ............................................................................................... 34COMSOROS ..................................................................................................................................... 34LIBRARY ........................................................................................................................................... 36CIVIL SOCIETY ................................................................................................................................ 40PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION............................................................................................................ 48ECONOMIC REFORM .................................................................................................................... 49LAW REFORM .................................................................................................................................. 51MEDICINE ......................................................................................................................................... 54MASS MEDIA .................................................................................................................................... 60ARTS AND CULTURE .................................................................................................................... 65SCCA ................................................................................................................................................. 68PUBLISHING .................................................................................................................................... 71OPEN WORLD HOUSE.................................................................................................................. 74a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 3

The work of the Moldova Soros Foundation (MSF) in 1996 was encouraged by the electionsand the first peaceful transfer of power since the country gained independence, demonstrating thatdemocratic development in Moldova is possible. The economic situation, however, was moredifficult. In spite of macroeconomic stabilisation and considerable support from the InternationalMonetary Fund and the World Bank, the decline of production still could not be stopped, and thedebt accrued in paying retirement funds and wages in 1996 reached alarming levels.This was the context in which MSF put into practice its three basic program initiatives: education,media and civil society.In terms of concrete programs, 1996 was full of major events.In the area of education, the Modernisation of Education Program concentrated on the developmentof a new curriculum and the creation of an information centre and network of experimentalschools, all aimed at invigorating and renewing secondary education in Moldova. The program hada big impact not only on the teachers but also on the Education Ministry, and the impact should bebigger in the coming years. The program corresponds to a similar one initiated by the World Bank.Besides updating content and training teachers, the program introduced new methods of workingwith publishing houses, collecting funds for reprinting textbooks, and evaluating students. Perhapsmost importantly, the program initial activities identified a qualified and enthusiastic group ofspecialists whose efforts will ensure the program’s successful development in the future.With the involvement of the International Higher Education Support Program (HESP),university professors increased their involvement in traditional academic programs.The psychology and the history of culture departments at the state university began complexprograms of modernization and reorganization, supported by the foundation. In the fall, HESPlaunced an important project called “the invisible college,” which entailed opening labs for politicalscience, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. The project will surely influence the trainingof specialists in the above-mentioned disciplines while sowing the seeds of futuregrowth in a more open world.In 1996, many NGOs in Moldova took definite steps forward. The number of organisations and therange of their interests increased, as did the professionalism of the projects and initiatives theylaunched. An important contribution of our foundation was its support for NGO programs and for theCONTACT Centre, an assistance centre for NGOs that is a joint project of the foundation and theTACIS program. For most NGOs, the Centre acted as a professional school and service agency,providing seminars and daily technical assistance and consultation, including editorial work onreports and catalogues.As for media, the foundation emphasised support for the local press and for the IndependentJournalism Centre. Nevertheless, the last elections demonstrated that it is still too early to talkabout an independent press in Moldova. The main problem is the dire economic situation of themedia which, due to specific conditions, is more difficult in Moldova than in neighboring countries.Other important projects introduced by co-financing with regional projects were the creation of theSoros Centre for Contemporary Art, the automation of three libraries in Moldova, the extension ofthe Internet, and the launching of a regional program of books and translations.a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 5

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aWe can say that after five years of activity in Moldova, the foundation has entered a phase favoringdevelopment — a phase in which interaction with society becomes more and more productive associety develops more agents to spread the idea of an open society and participatein the transformations taking place.Victor URSUExecutive Director6a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

MODERNISATION OF EDUCATIONDEBATEHEALTH EDUCATIONYOUTH PROGRAMHIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGEENGLISH LANGUAGEPROGRAMS (SELP)OPEN GRANTSSTEP BY STEPHESPFALANGAEAST EASTSCHOLARSHIPSINTERNETCOMSOROSLIBRARYa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 7

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aMODERNISATIONOF HUMANITIES EDUCATIONThe main goal of the of Soros Foundation Moldova“Modernisation of Education” Program is to supportthe process of education reform, initiated by theMinistry of Education.The activities are concentrated in four main directions:Pro Didactica Information Centre, CurriculumDevelopment, Teacher Training and Open Projects.The Pro Didactica Information Centre, a recentlyfounded library, offers access to internationalinformation networks in the area of new teachingapproaches, methods and techniques to all that workin the field of education. The Centre also serves asbasic support for development of the entire program.The objectives of the Centre include:- acquisition of referential and teaching materials- subscription to educational periodicals- a systematic information program for teachers andschool librarians- development and distribution of an informationalBulletin that will present new acquisitions, but mainlynews on Education Reform Activities and on theFoundation’s Education Programs- automation of the library (TINLIB system alreadypurchased)- Internet connection.Curriculum Development section will contribute toCurriculum and Textbook Development in Humanities,concentrating on grades 10-12 (The World BankEducational Program in Moldova is targeting grades1-9 for all basic subjects. The Ministry will have towork on Sciences for grades 10-12). The TextbookAuthors Lab will offer access to information and thepossibility to organise Material Development Workshopsto all potential textbook developers. Foreignspecialists in modern principles and techniques ofcreating teaching materials will be invited to work withexperienced authors, as well as with innovative,creative teachers, that can form material developmentworking groups or can work individually. Workshopson teaching materials development will be providedto teams of authors, editors and designers.The objectives include:- supporting Curriculum Development for Humanitiesat the lyceum level- organising, in co-operation with Ministry of Education,contests for development and publishing oftextbooks in Humanities (lyceum level)- acquisition of highly recommended foreign text-booksfor teaching foreign languages at grades 10-12- acquisition of teaching materials for the ResourceCentres created in the schools that won the contestfor the Innovative Schools Network (1996)- publishing through competition of supplementaryteaching materials for teachers and students, inaddition to core materials, for promoting criticalthinking and group problem solving skills- translation/publishing through competition of localand foreign reference materials.The Teacher Training section has defined aspriorities activities that can facilitate the promotion ofnew teaching approaches, methods and techniquesthat represent valuable achievements in modernteaching, as well as stimulate sharing experiencebetween local creative teachers that develop andimplement new or relevant ideas.Objectives will include:- resource Centres developing in the schools of thementioned network- providing training for local potential trainers for thehumanities by inviting foreign experts in the area of newteaching methodologies, and providing assistance forparticipation in international training programs8a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

- development of a system for supporting “bottom-up”in-service training of teachers, training of schooladministrators and teams of Humanities teachersfrom Network Schools, and supporting, at a later stage,training activities organised by them in their regionsIn 1997 the Open Projects section offers support toother educational initiatives that were not covered bythe program during 1996 but would be beneficial,according to education specialists at various levels.For 1997, this section will organise:- a contest for School Development Projects(a seminar on School Development Projects Planningwas organised for Network Schools in March 1997);- a new competition for creating Humanities ResourceCentres in schools- competitions for various education initiatives (e.g.summer camps, training activities, experienceexchange programs, parent and community involvementin education initiatives, etc.)- initiation of a scholarship program for young teachersfrom rural areaIn 1996 the activities included:-Publishing of School Textbooks - Emergency Program-Pro Didactica-Curriculum Development-Teacher TrainingSection IPUBLISHING OF SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS -EMERGENCY PROGRAMSoros Foundation Moldova’s initiative to contribute tothe promotion of new teaching materials, developedaccording to new concepts and tested within a one yearprogram by the Institute of Psychology and PedagogySciences, was supported by the Ministry of Educationwho offered an entire list of recently developed materials.An Expert Committee recommended materials forteaching Romanian to grade 1. The main reason forthis particular choice was that both concept and contentare based on principles of a learner-centred approach,moving from informative instruction to a skill developmentteaching process. The testing results from pilotschools were positive. From the set of 6 titles, theFoundation supported the publishing of 4: Supplementaryexercises and Tests for Students - 60000copies, Teachers Guide - 5000 copies, Reading Set -5000 copies, and Demo Charts - 5000 copies. TheMinistry of Education is in charge of producing theStudent’s Workbook (part 1and 2), paying authorshonoraria and distributing the materials to schools.As the manuscripts were prepared, a competition forpublishing houses was announced in November 1995.10 publishers participated at the initial stage, and only 4were qualified for final bidding. An Expert Committee,including Foundation representatives, MOE specialists,an authors group and a printing shop person selected2 independent publishing houses, Arc and Cartier.Materials financed by the Foundation were ready fordistribution by August 20, 1996. The first opencompetition for publishers (unfortunately, no statepublishers participated) can be considered animportant achievement of the program. It underlined,especially for publishers, the imperative of gettingexperience in working with teaching materials, an areathat can offer a permanent employment.Next year, the MOE will need to reprint the Exercisesand Tests, since this is a workbook, but the hope isthat in 1997 the publisher will solve a problem whichwas not solved in 1996: to convince the authors andthe MOE to change the concept of the material so thatit will become a set of tests, and will not have aworkbook format on which the students write andwhich can never be reused. This change will notrequire extra money.Expenditures:Rollover Funds from 1995 $ 52,300.00Program Funds 1996 $ 53,900.00Total: $ 106,200.00Section IIPRO DIDACTICAObjective 1. Centre Establishment.A suitable place for the information centre and for theprogram administration office was identified, renewedand appropriately organised.Objective 2. Library Collection.The library funds collection started with donations anda c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 9

Objective 5. Teaching Materials Development Competitionfor Humanities TeachersA competition for innovative lesson plans and educationmaterials for the Humanities was announcedin September 1996. Grants were established forwinners, and their materials will be published in aseries under the title “Pro Didactica” and will bedistributed to schools. It was decided to continue thecompetition until June 1997. The first book from theseries is due March 1997. The competition is viewedas a possibility to identify potential textbook developersand to stimulate teacher’s involvement in teachingmaterials development.Expenditures:Book Acquisition for school libraries and ResourceCentres: $ 151,730.00Book Acquisition for new lyceums and Romanianschools from Transnistria: $ 29,223.00Resource Centres Development (equipment):$ 58,470.00Support for educational periodicals (subscription forschools): $ 18,478.00Emergency Program (see section 1): $ 53,900.00Acquisition of geographical maps, globes for ResourceCentres: $ 20,838.00Support for Language School Olympiads: $ 1,183.00Material Development. $ 3,893.00Total: $337,715.00Section IVTEACHER TRAININGObjective 1. Establishment of Innovative SchoolsNetwork.For this purpose, a competition for schools wasannounced in April. Teams from schools were invited,including school administrators, one teacher fromeach Humanities subject and a primary teacher. Theteam had to prepare an analysis and a plan forimproving teaching / learning Humanities in theirschool, as well as some samples of creative lessonplans. From about 50 schools that were interested toparticipate, 36 presented the requested materials. Allthese schools were visited by program co-ordinators,who met all teams and were able to see the situationand particularity of each institution. The final selectionidentified 17 schools. Resource Centres for Humanitieswere initiated in each school. The Centres receivedsupport from the Program for a library fund andequipment. The Centres will be open for all the teachersin the region, and will serve as a basis for seminars,workshops and other training activities organised bythe teams, according to the goals of the program.Network Schools:BaltiLyceum of Foreign Languages (Russian)Bulboaca (Anenii Noi)General School (Romanian-Russian)CahulTheoretical Lyceum Ioan VodãCantemirTheoretical Lyceum D.CantemirCalarasiGeneral School nr.1CauseniLyceum Alexei MateeviciChisinauTheoretical Lyceum nr.2 (Romanian-Russian)ChisinauGeneral School nr.32CimisliaGeneral School nr.3 Mihai EminescuDrochiaTheoretical Lyceum B.P.HasdeuGlodeniTheoretical Lyceum Mihai EminescuHorodiste (Calarasi)General SchoolLapusna (Hincesti)Theoretical LyceumNisporeniGeneral School nr.1Satul Nou (Cimislia)General SchoolSangereiTheoretical Lyceum Mihai EminescuSorocaTheoretical Lyceum Constantin StereTiraspolGeneral School nr.20a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 11

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aObjective 2. Training of trainers.The first Training of Trainers seminar “SchoolImprovement and Effectiveness” was implemented inOctober. Two local trainers and 4 trainers from Bucharest,Romania were invited. About 70 education specialistsin Humanities and school administrators participatedin several workshops. The aim was to identify qualifiedteachers that can become trainers after training. InOctober and December 10 people benefited from atraining program at the “Centre for Personality Development”(Moscow, Russia). Several other people from the“Potential Trainers” group benefited from another trainingdescribed under Objective 4.Objective 3. Planning workshop for School Directorsand Team Leaders.In the first week of November, a planning workshopfor School Directors and Team Leaders took place todevelop an action of planning teams’ and resourceCentres’ activity. Its result consisted of an approval ofthe Status of the Resource Centre and a detailed workplan for a 3 month period.Objective 4. In/ Service Teacher Training - ComplexTraining Strategies for School Teams at the InternationalLanguage Centre in Iasi, Romania.Several training centres from Russia, Romania andFrance were identified as potential partners for thisparticular field. SFM and International LanguageCentre from Iasi signed a contract for implementationof a 3 stage training program for Humanities teachersand administrators of the Network Schools. InDecember 1996, 42 school administrators, teamleaders and potential teacher trainers went through acourse in education management. The program willcontinue in 1997, targeting the school teams that willtransmit the knowledge and skills to colleagues fromtheir school and to organise training activities forteaching staff in the neighbouring schools.Expenditures:Teacher Training (training with foreign experts): $ 5,750.00Training Programs for School Teams: $ 46,914.00Local training activities: $ 641.00Translation of materials: $ 2,088.00Site visits: $ 755.00Total: $ 56,148.00TRAVEL AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARSThe Soros Foundation supported the participation ofMoldovan representatives at different internationalactivities in the field of education, internships andpostgraduate studies.International Congress on Electricity Applications$ 852.30, Birminghem, UKTudor STANCIUIFLA Conference, $ 2,184.00, Beiging, ChinaSilvia GHINCULOVLidia CULICOVSCHIXVII Congress of ICO, $ 600.00, Taejon, KoreaNicolae ENACHICongress of the Geophisic Society, $509.00Balcans, Athenes, GreeceAnatol DRUMEASchool on Advanced Electronic Technology, $104.00Sozopol, BulgariaOlga TATARINSCAIAInternational Conference “Legislation in biology”$ 652.94, Concil of Europe, Warsaw, PoloniaTatiana ISCHIMJIInternship at Waldorf College, $ 799.13Stuttgart, GermanyA group of profesors from Waldorf School, ChisinauInternational Conference of “Waldorf” teachers$ 451.00 Dornah, SwitzerlandAlexei FRUNZAInternational Conference of “Waldorf” teachers$ 451.00, Dornah, SwitzerlandElena CIRCIUMARUAnnual contest of Latin Language “CERTAMENCiceronianum Arpinas”, $ 1,514.00 Arpino, ItalyVictoria FONARI, professor, a grup of pupils from“Dante Alighieri” Lyceum12a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

International Contest of Plastic Arts “ LittleMonmartre”, $ 400.00, Bitola, MacedoniaFedora HUBENCU, professorSorina BRATUDiana MINDRESCUDorin HUBENCU, pupilsInternship for English Language teachers, $ 4,125.38Rennes and Saint-Malot, France, program of AllianceFrancaiseGheorghe REABTOVIulia ATANASOVValentina IGNATENCOZinaida CUPCEAEugenia BRINZANina GRAPAAurelia EMCIUCIulia BABICIMaria JOIANVictoria FRUMUSACHICarolina CODREANUAngela SULTANVeronica LEVCENCOMaia COTELEACezara VASILACHELarisa BAHEUDoina ZGUREANUElena CIOBANUZinaida CIOBANUDoina BANARUInternship “ Romanian Culture and Civilisation”$ 972.94, Iasi, Romania,A group of 37 professors from the schools of Ialoveni districtInternational contests for teachers of Spanish as aforeign language, $ 604.45, Madrid, SpainEudochia LITRAInternship at the University of Edinburgh,$ 2,066.89, UKIon CULEAC- Romania, $ 800.00Nice, France15 children, winners of contests “Save Terra”, Chisinaubranch of the organisation “Save the children”World Chess Championat of Students, $ 1,722.33Bursa, TurciaAlexanru MORARIZoia DEMINAMaxim DOROSENCORoman IANCOVSCHIGhenadie DIOZUAna SAUSTERMANEcaterina OVCINNICOVRoman BABICIXXI Congress of Romanian- American Academy,$ 1,300.00, Victoria, CanadaVasile CEPOIXXI Congress of Romanian - American Academy$ 1,712.04, CanadaLiliana BAJUREAScientific Surgery Congress, RAMN, $ 500.00Moscova, RussiaAlin BOURUniversity Paris-I PANTEON - Sorbonne, $ 549.00Paris, France, postgraduate studies, Comparative LawVictor IPATIMulticultural Congress, Montessori, $ 814.40, Rome,ItalyValentina STOICA-SEMENIUCEuropean Information Technology Conference$ 937.80, Brussels, BelgiumNicolae ANDRONACHEExpenditures: $ 35,818.66XXVIII Ampere Congress, University of Kent atCanterbury, $ 799.79, UKIon GERUAsociation “L’avenir des enfants”, Asociation FranceTotal expenditures 1996: $ 564,288.00Allocations for 1997 (publishing, training, bookacquisition, library automation): $ 343,212.00a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 13

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aDEBATEThe Debate program is structured for discussions onvarious topics. The method contributes to thedevelopment and consolidation of: logical and criticalthinking, rhetorical skills, courage, self assurance,understanding towards opposite points of view,capacity of team-work, critical listening, cultivating andeducating said behaviour.The Regional Debate Program was founded in therepublic’s schools and lyceums in 1994, promoted inEnglish by the teachers of this discipline and by thePeace Corps representatives. In the autumn of 1995the program began to be implemented in Romaniantoo, being addressed to upper level pupils.The activities are implemented by the DebateCommittee of the National Debate Centre andUniversity Debate Centres, local co-ordinators, debateclubs, local, regional, national contests, publicdebates and other activities.There were clubs in Romanian and English thatworked within the program; towards the end of 1996initiatives to create clubs in Russian and Bulgarianwere launched (Edinet, Glodeni, Balti, Chisinau,Criuleni, Taraclia).By the end of 1996 there exist 40 Debate Clubs in theRepublic. If in 1995 at a lyceum we could find 2 differentclubs (in Romanian and English), there is only onedebate club to date, with a chief training -teacher andteacher- trainer for the lyceum’s teams. Nowadays thereare in Moldova 56 teacher-trainers, participating activelyin all local, regional and national contests.In the Debate Program during 1996 were:-8 training seminars, at which 234 teachers- specialistsof History, Romanian, Psychology participated, as wellas several vice-directors in education. There wereseminars organised the debate clubs’ instructors fromthe Republic; they discussed problems related toprogram activity, arbitration. The collaboration of DebateProgram with “Step by Step”, “Alcohol and DrugAddiction” Programs shared debate skills, informationand experience, rhetorical skills and improving.-6 regional contests for North, Central and Southareas and Chisinau, at which about 900 persons (151teams) took part.The winners of the regional contests (16 teams, about100 persons), participated in the first national contest; itwas the first level in the selection of the national team toparticipate to the International Debate Summer Camp.The International Debate Summer Camp took placebetween June 1- 7 in Vadul-lui-Voda. There were 130representatives of all the debate clubs from Moldovaand, within the exchange program, a group of guestsvisited from Latwia. Debate club instructors took part attwo international debate seminars in Budapest, Hungary.Meetings were organised with teams from Kiev, Iasi,Liepaja, friendly contests at Slanic (Romania) with 6clubs of Moldova from the other side of the river Prut,local meetings among the Republic’s clubs, other localcontests, public debates requested by the lyceums,schools, universities from the country, 3 radio shows,TV programs, 4 programs on TNM “Kaleidoscop”,“Telematinal”,”Clepsidra” and on the “Catalan” channel.A special event which crowned the activity of the DebateProgram from Moldova was winning second place atthe Summer International Debate Club in Celacovice(Czeh Republic), participating among 23 countries atthe International Karl Popper Debate Program.3 University Debate Centres were created at thebeginning of 1996: in Balti, with its headquarters at theSoros Foundation branch office, at the State Universityof Moldova with its headquarters in the House of Cultureof USM and at the Academy of Economic Studies.14a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

The University program implemented the followingactivities:- a training seminar for 3 days at ASEM with theteachers from this institution- 8 mini-seminars at SUM, organised by the DebateCentre at this University- 3 inter-university contests with the participation ofSUM, ASEM, UPS, “A.Russo”, Technical Universitystudents, and (by the end of the year) students fromthe Pedagogic University “I.Creanga” and theApplicative Sciences University from Moldova. In theuniversity the program involved 6 higher educationinstitutions from the Republic.- local contests at the University level- public debates within different faculties at universitiesDebate Programs in the seminar and in the summercamp organised by the Debate program.The team involved in the program in the whole countrynumbered 12 qualified instructors, doctors, teachers,psychologists.In 1996, 9 seminars were organised at the VIth“Ecology” compartment (about 270 participants).Three experienced specialists were instructors atthese seminars.In most cases the seminars were followed byadditional meetings with specialists in narcology andsexuality, were they discussed the problems inpromoting the “Education for Health” program“Days of health” were organised in 10 places fromthe republic.For the next year the Debate Program plans to improveall program activities, creating a team of independentarbitrates, enlarging the Program and creating aNational Association of Debate, which would gatherall individuals who want to promote the programobjectives.Expenditures: $ 67,161.50HEALTH EDUCATIONThe National Drawing Contest titled “To a healthy wayof life” ended with a wonderful exhibition, open tovisitors during 2 weeks; 13 children, whose workswere chosen as best, were mentioned and rewarded.During the year 24 radio programs were organised atthe National Radio within the Friday broadcast “Oracopiilor”(two times a month), which involved participatingpupils, as well as specialists in the field. In June asummer camp was organised in Ivancea, Orhei. 115children from dysfunctional families participated. Theaction‘s motto was “Let’s talk together about health”.The program initiates and organises activities concerninghealth education in various institutions around theRepublic. It promotes healthy lifestyles for young people.An important goal is to make the mass media and thelocal authorities aware of the health problems of theyounger generation. At the basis of this program lies thehandbook “Education for Health”, with its 6 chapters:“Eating”, “Smoking”, “HIV Prevention”, “Alcohol and otherdrugs”, “Introduction in the Human sexuality”, “Ecology”.The main activity of 1996 was the continuous training ofthe people not included in the program before: mothersfrom the Association of numerous families, college anduniversity students, mayoralty staff.Throughout the year 50 seminars were organised withthe participation of 1500 persons of differentprofessions (teachers prevail). It is worth mentioningthe collaboration between the “Step-by-step” andThe coordinators organised 6 meetings- miniseminarswithin the specialists field. The contribution of the 7local co-ordinators in the country to the implementationof the program was of great importance.Another method of program promotion was Lectorium-30 meetings in the form of lessons or discussions,through questions and answers.A special success was the decision of the EducationMinistry of Moldova to introduce “Education for Health”as an optional discipline in all the countries’ schools,a decision which we expect to be implemented.We foresee that in 1997 the Program within theRepublic’s colleges will be enlarged and look for newways to promote a healthy mode of life in the wholecountry.Expenditures: $ 42,210.00a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 15

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aHIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGE(CCI Summer, CCI Seminar, CCI Year, SyracuseSummer, Choate, West Chester, Rotary, British schools)YOUTH PROGRAMThe program objective is encouraging creation andinitiative among young people. The programsupported pupils and students who elaboratedconcrete projects and requested financial support fortheir implementation.Projects, addressed by the program, were initiatedby pupils and adults who represented the pupils’interest. Decisions were made by a committee ofAmerican teachers and representatives of someChisinau lyceums; they had four meetings during theyear (in March, May, September and December) inorder to select projects to support. 189 projects, mostof them being in the field of extracurricular activities(school newspapers, debate clubs, scientific andliterary groups, young film makers, music and dancinggroups, ecological clubs, visual arts exhibitions,English language clubs, social-psychological clubs,intercultural exchnge of pupils, etc.) were approved in1996, with the participation of 5600 pupils from allover the country.The program supported projects by internationalorganisations working in Moldova (an example is thesupport of the Ist National Festival of Scout Songs).The importance of the program was obvious from thegreat number of requests (405) and that the programcovers financial gaps created by the difficult economicsituation in Moldova. The program allowed youngtalents from different regions to affirm themselves, tocreate and promote ideas, giving them courage, selfassuranceand optimism - necessary features in ademocratic society.The program offers student exchange betweenlyceums of Moldova to British and American schoolsfor a period of 5 weeks during the summer holidays of1996, 6 months or a year. It provides pupils from the10th grade with an excellent means of languageimprovement and knowledge of English and Americanculture. This program includes courses, sport activities,excursions and various kinds of entertainment. In 199615 lyceum pupils benefited from study in the USA andGreat Britain. The program was very efficient becausethe pupils returning have a positive influence on theirclassmates and increase language knowledge in theclass. It also opens the classmates’ minds to newideas, concepts, visions of life, encouraging them tochange their lives, changes that can be achieved in thecommunity too, contributing finally to the developmentof a democratic society, open to innovation.Provided stipends for students in 1996:Andrei BALATELAnastasia KLIPICOVAYana MANOSCAYARodica MALAIDenis SUHOLITCOElena TURANSCAIARadu BOTNARUDumitru TITICAViorica BIRSANIulia GORBATIUCConstantin CULPECHINLilia MUNTEANURoman ANDRONICCamelia CRACANGabriela COTOROBAINatalia CONDURACHIExpenditures 1996: $ 6,900.00Expenditures 1996: $ 38,873.0016a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

SOROS ENGLISH LANGUAGEPROGRAMS (SELP)In the modern world the knowledge of English is veryimportant and thus it is important to improve teachingmethods of English in our country. The lack of teachingmaterials, of modern methodologies and, what is morealarming, of qualified teachers is obvious.During 1996 English Language Programs directed theactivities towards solving these problems at differentlevels: primary, lyceum and universities through thefollowing directions: Summer Camp of English, Trainingfor teachers, MELO club, grants for English school at theOpen World House, English Language newspaper “TEAMReport”, didactic and methodological book acquisition.SUMMER CAMPThe Soros Foundation English Language Programoffered students and teachers the possibility to takepart in a summer language camp. The camp’s programincluded various subjects: debates in English, medicaleducation, ecological problems. At the same time theparticipants had the opportunity to improve theirknowledge of English through communication withnative speakers. 120 students and 18 Peace Corpsvolunteers participated in this camp. The camp wassponsored by: Coca-Cola, XEROX, Soros Foundation,Peace Corps. The Soros Foundation provided campexpenditures, meals and transportation.Expenditures: $ 6,981.90GRANTfor the English Language School at the Open WorldHouseThe program offers to students and specialists grants fora period of 1-3 quarters. Selection was made by theFoundation commission and the School through a contest.The dossiers contained information about the educationand financial situation of applicants. During 1996, from220 persons, only 90 benefited from such grants - 72 ofthem being students and the rest were specialists.Expenditures: $ 5,853.40ENGLISH CLUBThe club brings together English Language speakers,willing to develop their rhetorical and conversation skillsin English and to learn about the history, traditions andculture of English speaking countries. The club gathersabout 50 members from 16 to 60 years old. Meetingstake place twice a month in the Open World House bar.The clubs’ activities also include courses, soirees withpoetry and dramas, music, trips, discussions, gamesand films. 18 meetings were held during the year andwere well attended.Expenditures: $ 4,600.00ENGLISH BOOKS ACQUISITION PROGRAMPurchased dictionaries, handbooks and methodologicalmaterials for the departments of modernlanguages at higher education institutions, lyceumsand secondary schools in order to improve EnglishLanguage Teaching. The materials were deliveredfirst to the 240 participants at the 8 TESOL seminars.242 boxes of donated books from the USA benefitedthe Prodidactica Library, the Soros Foundation officein Balti, TESOL Library, Universities (ULIM, SUM, thePedagogical Universities “Ion Creanga” and “A.Russo”,the University of Humanities, Academy forEconomic Studies, UTM, UCC, Academy of Studiesin Public Administration), as well as 22 generalschools and lyceums in Bravicea, Calarasi, Soroca,Susleni, Orhei, Edinet, Cahul, Banesti, Verejeni,Telenesti, Ermaclia, Stefan-voda, Lapusna, Hincesti,Criuleni, Chisinau (school N56, lyceums “Puskin,“Ion Creanga”, “M.Eliade”), Balti (“M.Eminescu” andHumanities lyceums)Expenditures: $ 9,300.00TEACHERS TRAININGIncludes seminars, summer courses, lectures andconferences for English language teachers and posttrainingcourses at Iasi Linguistic Centre. The coursesare organised by English and American teachers andlanguage teachers from Iasi, Romania. Additionalprogram activities are:a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 17

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v a- English Language Summer Courses (July 6-20),organised in Balti and Chisinau with the participation of68 teachers from these regions. Discussing the “ Modernmethodologies of English Language Teaching”, theparticipants underlined the necessity of reforming theteaching process, orienting it towards effective communicationmethods. At the end of the course the LinguisticCentre from Iasi donated books. This Centre incollaboration with the Soros Foundation organised twocourses for university teachers from Balti and Chisinauin August and December. A post-training course was heldfor the best 48 teachers in Iasi, with the help of BritishCouncil representatives. An interesting project was madein collaboration with the United States Information Serviceby Patricia Fogarty, who organised 5 seminars in May forabout 72 persons, with guest speaker Mrs Linda Grant, ateacher in the Applicative Linguistics department,University of Georgia, USA.- “English for Special Goals” organised a seminar incollaboration with ULIM and the Linguistic Centre fromIasi on the subject ”English for Business people andLawyers”(20.06.96- 1.07.96)Expenditures: $ 27,815.00TEAM REPORT NewspaperThis English language newspaper is published by theAmerican teachers working in the Regional TESOLprogram as a quarterly and is the only newspaperpresenting materials of a methodological/ training content.It is an English teachers aid and provides new informationabout all educational programs of the Soros Foundation.It presents also an activities calendar , information andexperience exchange of the country’s teachers. Thenewspaper is acknowledged by the Education Ministry ofMoldova and is delivered to all schools and modernlanguage departments of higher education institutions;the number of beneficiaries is about 2000 persons.Expenditures: $ 1,596.00Total Expenditures: $ 66,504.00TESOLThis is a program in collaboration with Americanteachers involved with English teaching in lyceums,general schools and universities of the Republic.Through this program establishments can employAmerican teachers with a MA diploma in foreignlanguages for a school year term. They are used alsoin some extracurricular activities: English clubs,dramas groups, debate contests and are initiators ofmany other activities within the Program (TEAM Report,English club, Teacher Training workshops).This year (1996-1997) Moldova is home to 5American teachers:Hamilton BECK “A.Puskin “ LyceumChristian CLAUSEN “M.Eminescu” Lyceum, BaltiVictoria GROSS Gimnasium # 16, BaltiAnne STANDER PU “I.Creanga”Mary-Beth YOUNG ULIMTESOL SeminarsThis program aims to provide teachers from Moldovawith new methods of teaching English. Instructorswere local/ American teachers and Peace Corpsvolunteers. During the year, 20 seminars wereorganised (in Telenesti, Riscani, Chisinau, Floresti,Orhei, Singerei, Balti, Ungheni, Hincesti, Cahuldistricts) for about 259 participants. The teachers alsoreceived books and pedagogical material.Expenditures: $ 18,500.00OPEN GRANTSSUMMER CAMPSAs a result of the contest concerning the organisationof some training camps for pupils, 4 projects werefinanced by Soros Foundation Moldova:The Theoretical-Empirical School of Archaeology forpupils, project director Anatol Gorodenco (RudyMaetonium Foundation)In three shifts during 20 days (between July 1st-August18a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

28th 1996), 81 pupils from general /secondary schoolsand colleges took part at excavations in Tatarauca-Noua, Donduseni district. Later, 27 pupils of thesummer school, interested in the excavations, havebeen recommended to continue the study programthrough the Preuniversity Theoretical-EmpiricalSeminary, organised by Rudy-Maetonium Foundation.Expenditures: $ 2,150.28An Expedition for Pupils Scientific Research, programdirector Galina Dimovskaia, “Clopotul” ecologycal clubfrom the Theoretical Lyceum #2, Chisinau. During afortnight the club members elaborated a complexresearch program in two main directions: chemistryand biology - chemical and biological research of theNistru River and the analysis of its auto-cleaningcapacity; historical-archaeological research of themonuments from Butuceni, OrheiCOLLECTIONS FOR ORPHANAGESSoros Foundation shouldered the expenditures forthe Saint Patrik’s Holiday, when representatives offoreign organisations have made donations fororphans. Collected funds (over $4000) were used forbuying clothes and footwear, offered to the childrenfrom Cazanesti, Telenesti district orphanage.Expenditures: $ 740.41Total expenditures: $ 8,989.29Expenditures: $ 1,109.33Summer School “ Health Education “, program directorE. Calughar, Educational Department Orhei.About 150 pupils from 5th to 10th grade benefitedfrom a series of “Education for Health” programseminars.Expenditures: $ 2,170.90Summer School for French Language, program directorP. Bruma, Educational Department Camenca (the rightside of Nistru river). 40 children from the right sidevillages benefited from a program of training in French,implemented by the local teachers.Expenditures: $ 2,170.90CONTEST “MOSTENIRE”program director Gheorghe Bologan.Soros Foundation organised the contest, initiated bythe Romanian Community in France, which annuallyrewards the winners of the History and RomanianLanguage and Literature sections.Expenditures: $ 647.47STEP BY STEP1996 was the third year of this program. It has grownto include three sections: prescholar education,primary education and pedagogical university stafftraining for kindergartens and schools.The main activity for preschool education wereworkshops for methodologists and instructors of the68 pilot groups and about 75 volunteers people (totally- over 300 teachers for about 3500 children).The seminars were organised once in a fortnight andconsidered the following topics:- Play as a way of learning- How do children learn when they do what they like(with the participation of a Peace Corps volunteer,Mrs. D. Smith)- Creativity- Interactive games- The importance of communication- Learning styles (with the participation of Mrs. D.Smith)- Accepting variety- 7 types of Intelligence- Working with a booka c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 19

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v a- The primer in elder groupsMethodological councils met every month and discussedstrategic planning of the preschool curriculum. Atthe beginning of the school year a conference wasorganized for regional inspectors, advisors, kindergartendirectors and parents. The conference showed theprograms success, obtained in two years; a proof wasthe high interest of parents and children from otherkindergartens and schools. An appeal was addressedto the Ministry of Education to acknowledge officially Stepby Step Program and to allow the solicitants, accordingto the Educational Law, to choose the methodology ofeducation. The Ministry organized a meeting with thekindergarten involved in the program administrationsin order to analyse its development and standard. Themeeting provided a high degree of professionalism anddevotion by the specialists.On the basis of the academic year 1995-1996 results, 2kindergartens (#216, Chisinau and #3, Balti) wereselected as model centres for training the program staff.Interested students from higher education institutionswere trained as assistants, and this contributed to theindividualization of the education process as afundamental principle of the program. Specialists fromthe program participated at conferences in Bulgaria,Lithuania, Romania. Another part of the Program wasthe acquisition of literature and training materials forinterested organisations and persons.Primary class Program started in January 1996 with atraining in the USA for the program coordinators. Thestrategy was to familiarise as many specialists aspossible (inspectors from the Ministry and schools,directors and teachers) with the project and from theseselect the trainers. This goal was achieved through aseries of seminars, consulting and visits. It wasefficient, because, until the summer training coursewith American experts, some teachers left and newpersons came. On September 1, 1996 the programwas introduced into 20 classes in the Republic andsoon they were followed by others.Changes in primary classes needs a continuouseffort. Teachers organised monthly seminars andworkshops, visits and consulting, inter-assistance andselection of training materials. The seminarsrealised, through practical lessons, the summercourse issues:- Activity centres: their importance and arrangement- Types of planning and evaluating the lessons- Work with a book- Active writing- Partnership with families- Complicating simple activities in order to individualisethe tasks- Variety of working forms: individual, in pairs, in groupsand collective- The importance of team workAt the beginning of December the Program classeswere visited by the American expert Mrs. Judy David;she noted the progress achieved in a short period oftime.Continuity was achieved by workshops with bothspecialists from kindergartens and primary school.Two coordinators for high education from thePedagogical Universities in Chisinau and Baltiparticipated at most of these workshops. Theyattended, in August 1996, a training in Balaton,Hungary, where they learned some working modulesfor the program:- Individualisation- Learning through games- Partnership with the familyDue to the efforts of these specialists, departments fromthe above mentioned universities introduced specialcourses, contributing to the training of specialists forkindergartens and school classes. The program staffstarted a series of seminars on the program’sphilosophy and practice for trainers from Chisinau, Balti,Tiraspol universities and Orhei, Calarasi, Chisinau,Soroca, Cahul, Lipcani pedagogical colleges.The three directions of the program, collaborating andenriching each other, assured a complex andsystematic character for the activities.As attention is paid to training, two centers and primaryclasses were provided with necessary equipment andmaterials.Expenditures: $ 284,526.0020a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

HESPHigher Education Support ProgramSUPPORT FOR RESEARCH WORKOF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSThe objectives of HESP program are to supporttransformations in Higher Schools in the Republic ofMoldova in the field of social and humanities sciencesand to support initiatives of the academic community.PUBLISHING OF TEXTBOOKS FOR UNIVERSITIESThis program supported the publishing in Romanian ofsome original works in the field of social and humanisticsciences, by Moldovan authors. The selection was madeon a competitive basis and the published books weredonated through the Book Foundation to libraries inMoldova, getting their reader- students and professors.Published books:G.RUSNACLimba romana corecta (The Correct RomanianLanguage), 950 copiesD.PATRASCUManagementul educational preuniversitar(Preuniversity Educational Management), 1950 copiesA.ESANUCultura si civilizatia medievala romaneasca(Romanian Culture and Civilisation in the Middle Age)1950 copiesA.ARHIPEducatia ecologista (The Ecologist Education), 950 copiesI.GAGIMStiinta si arta educatiei muzicale( The Science andArt of Musical Education), 1950 copiesI.HANCUMonumente arheologice in Moldova (ArchaeologicalMonuments in Moldova), 950 copiesN.MIHAIIntroducere in filosofia si metodologia stiintei(Introduction to the Philosophy and Methodology ofScience), 950 copiesPostgraduate students were offered stipends toencourage research and creative work on theirdoctoral studies. The program was run as a contest,criteria being provided by the Education Council ofthe Foundation. These were:- actuality of the projects- originality- ways of realising the project- problem solving- social impact18 projects received grants:PHILOSOPHYFlorentin PALADI, Liliana SURUGIU, Liliana EFRIMECONOMYAnatol PASLARU, Angela POTLOGPHILOLOGYLiudmila CABAC, Angela COSCIUG, Nicolae LEAHU,Liudmila COJOCARU, Ion VICOL, Svetlana KOROLEVSCHIHISTORYAngela LISMAN, Irina DIGODI, Sergiu TABUNCIC, NinaNEGRU, Angela MUTRUCSOCIAL ECOLOGYTatiana STERPU-SPATARUExpenditures: $ 10,558.00INTERNSHIPS FOR UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSUniversity professors, invited to foreign universities,archives or libraries for an internship or study visit inorder to update or create new courses have benefitedfrom this program. Through this program professorsfrom abroad were also invited to Moldovan Universities.Andrei COSTASASEM, Socio-Political Sciences DepartmentInternship at University of Nebraska, Omaha, $ 975.00A supplement of 10000 MDL was offered for publishingthe textbook “Limba latina “ (Latin Language) by A.Ciobanuand others, accepted in the 1995 publishing contest.Expenditures: $ 4,4816.00Nina ZGARDANChair of Modern Languages, Technical UniversityInternship at the “Paul Sabatier” University, Toulouse,France, May-June, 1996, $ 1,980.00a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 21

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aTatiana LUCINSCHI, Petru PASINCOVSCHITechnical University of MoldovaInternship at the International Education Centre,Plymouth, Great Britain, August 5-30, 1996, $ 2,600.00Ion BOSTAN, Stefan CARTOFEANUTechnical University of MoldovaWorking Visit to the company “Consulab EducatechInc.”, Quebec, Canada,$ 1,500.00Olga RADOVApostgraduate student, Institute of Ethnography andFolkloreResearch program in Munich, Germany, $ 420.00VISITING PROFESSORSBruno KNALLDepartment of Economics, University of Heidelberg,GermanyCourse of lectures on Economic Development at theDepartment of International Relations, Academy ofEconomic Studies, $ 460.00Traian DIACONESCU, Vasile ARVINTEUniversity of Iasi, RomaniaCourse of lectures in Ancient Rhetoric and RomanianLanguage Development at the chair of Romanian andLatin Philology, SUM, $ 450.00Angela ZABULICAlecturer at the chair of philosophy of ASEMResearch Internship at the Faculty of Philosophy,Tubingen, Germany, Oct.-Dec. 1996, $ 340.00Carolina PLATONChair of Psychology, State University of MoldovaInternship in the field of psychology and participationat the 26th International Congress on Psychology,Montreal, Canada $ 1,900.00Elena PRUSlecturer, Pedagogical University of MoldovaParticipation in a research program in the field of worldliterature at the Kolb-Proust Archive at University ofIllinois, USA, $ 2,030.00Ion STRATANchair, TUMInternship for course elaboration on environmentalstudies at the National School of Electrotechniquesof Grenoble, $ 590.00Valeriu RUSU, Maria Aurelia RUSUDepartment of Romanian Philology of the Universityof Aix-en-Province, FranceLectures on “Romanian Language in the RomanLanguages area” and “Eminescu and SpiritualEuropean Values” at the Department of Philology,Chair of Linguistics, SUM, $ 2,550.00Josette Igland RASLEProfessor, French writer and journalistcourse “The French Cultural Press and Civilisation”at SUM, Department of Journalism and CommunicationSkills, $ 605.00Angelo CHIUCHIUCentre for Italian Language and Culture for ForeignersCourse “Multimedia in Foreign Language Teaching”at SUM, Department of Foreign Languages, $860.00Expenditures: $ 20,560.00SUBSCRIPTIONSViorica MUSTEATApostgraduate student in PhilosophyInternship at the University of Poitiers, Department ofPhilosophy, France, $ 680.00Victoria ARHILIUCSUM, Department of LawInternship at the National Research Centre in Serves,France, $ 565.00Within the program students and professors gotaccess to up-to-date information through subscriptionof foreign newspapers and journals at universitylibraries in Moldova. The following institutions gotsubscriptions: ASEM, Musical Academy, ULIM, IIM,Pedagogical University, UAM, IAM, University of Balti,Public Administration AcademyExpenditures: $ 9,324.0022a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

OPEN GRANTSThe Program supported activities, oriented towardstransforming in higher education in Moldova (universities,academies, colleges): updating and creating newcurriculum, seminars, symposiums, courses, conferences,student olympiads, new disciplines andDepartments, publishing and book acquisition, differentoriginal projects.Support of linguistic and pedagogical practical coursefor a group of students from the University of Comrat,Gabrovo, Bulgaria, October 1996Velin CRISTEV, chair of Bulgarian Philology, Universityof Comrat, $ 1,250.00First Scientific Student Conference of Universities fromMoldova and Romania, May 13-18, 1997, ChisinauIon PREASCA, TUM, $ 500.00During the year, the following projectswere financed:Support of the study process at the Faculty of TheatreArts of the Institute of ArtsValeriu TURCAN, Dean of the Theatre Arts Faculty$ 10,000.00Creation of new analytical programs for postgraduateinstruction in the fields of economy, management,public administration and law at the InternationalInstitute of ManagementVasile NEAGU, Director Studies Services, IIM$ 4,140.00International Scientific Inter-University Symposium“Evolution Strategy of Consumers Co-operation ofMoldova. Theoretical and practical aspects”April 17-18, 1996Tudor MALECA, Rector of the Co-operatives -Commercial University of Moldova, $ 500.00Modernisation of the process of teaching in the fieldof cultureEmil DRAGNEV, chair History of Arts, SUM , $ 11,500.00(allocated for 1997)CEP Conference Romania-Moldova “Facing theFuture. A Proposal for Moldova”, December 6-8, 1996Neil BRENNAN, Barat SOMJIT, CEP-Moldova, $ 475.00Videoarchives at the Academy of Sciences, MoldovaPavel VLAD, Vice-president ASM, $ 740.00Suport for the First Scientific Student Conference ofthe Universities of Moldova and RomaniaStefan CARTOFEANU, head of International RelationsDepartment of the TUM, $ 6,000.00 (allocated for 1997)Course in Distance Learning at the Open UniversityBusiness School, UK12 grants for the Postgraduate Studies Centre of theSUM, $ 3,070.00 (allocated for 1997)Seminar on Linguistics at the Iasi UniversityR.COJOCARU, O.TCACI, Department of Philology,SUM, $ 395.00Professional improvement of young psychologistsAssociation of Young Psychologists of MoldovaD.SIMBOTEANU, $ 1,410.00Participation at the annual Conference of theEuropean Distant Education Network, Near Poitiers,France, July 7-10, 1996Semion CAISIN, Dumitru MELENCIUC, $ 2,115.00Computer Lexicon Instruments, Implementation andApplication, Institute of Mathematics, ASMConstantin CIOBOTARU, Head of Department ofInformation, $ 3,700.00Support for the 7th Symposium of Tiraspol on GeneralTopology and its Application, August 5-11, 1996,ChisinauPetre OSMATESCU, professor, Technical Universityof Moldova, $ 3,170.00Transformation of curriculum: Clinical psychology atthe SUMCarolina PLATON, chair of Psychology, SUM$ 21,500.00 (allocated for 1997)Support for participation at the Congress of thea c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 23

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aInternational Federation of French TeachersVictor BANARU, chair at the State University ofMoldova, $ 755.00Creation of Database for the Guide of Higher Educationin MoldovaValentin NEGURA, UTM, $ 590.00Expenditures: $ 71,673.00Projects initiated in 1995 and developed in 1996:Creation of database on localities in Basarabia,Research project in historyVitalie VARATEC, Institute of History of Moldova,National Library, $ 7,965.00 (allocated for 1997)Environmental Development, introduction of newcourses at the SUMGheorghe DUCA, Department of Chemistry, SUM$ 2,880.00Total Expenditures: $ 178,152.00FALANGAproject of Open Society Institute BUDAPEST in theRepublic of Moldova“Falanga” was initiated by the Open Society Institute -Budapest, starting February 1, 1996.It encourages the social sciences, which are given lessattention, through academic development of thestudents. They are the key element of the program.University and postgraduate students with excellentgrades were selected from different institutions inChisinau and four laboratories were formed (for studiesand extracurricular activities) in the following disciplines:- Philosophy- Sociology- Political Science- PsychologyLaboratories were opened in the buildings of the StateUniversity of Moldova, the Free International Universityand the Pedagogical University “I.Creanga”. Twocomputer classes were created (besides theselaboratories) at State University and PU “I.Creanga”.The studying process in the lab is complemented bybasic courses in English and German, computerclasses and special courses.Each laboratory has 2 tutoring professors and 14-16students (7-8 stipends of the program and 7-8associates). At this moment beneficiaries of theprogram are 12 professors and 30 students.professors:Gheorghe BOBANAVice-director, Institute for Philosophy and Sociologyat ASMMihai CERNENCOChief of the Social Sciences chair, ULIMIon NEGURAChief of the Sciences and General Psychology chair,UPSCValentin TURCANUChief of the Sociology chair, USMGheorghe COJOCARUResearcher at the History Institute, ASMVictor DOROSSuperior lecturer, chair of Political Sciences, USMCarolina PLATONChief of the Psychology chair, USMIgor RACUDean, Faculty of Psychology, UPSCAna PASCARULecturer, chair Theory of Public Administration, ASDAPLiudmila MALCOCIScientific secretary, Institute of Philosophy and SocialScience, Academy of SciencesDumitru CALDARELecturer at the Philosophy Chair, SUMNicolae MIHAIResearcher, Institute of Philosophy and SocialScience, Academy of Sciencesstudents:Eugenia BOGATUMarin DOLINTATudor KRAIJDANVlad PARASCHIVCorneliu POPOVICI24a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v abridge was created through these persons’ participationin seminars and conferences, gettinghandbooks and specialised literature.A successful project was the Exchange of JournalistsProgram: Better Perception for the Future, startedin October 1995 and continued in 1996. Three journalistsfrom Moldova benefited from two- three weeksinternships at newspapers and journals fromRomania, Ukraine, Bulgaria; two journalists fromBulgaria, one from Ukraine and one from Romaniahad meetings with personalities from Moldova,representatives of NGOs, local journalists. The invitedjournalists were interested to find events, which werenot covered by the press or were biased - presented,writing for the press in Bulgaria, Ukraine and Romaniaabout Transnistria, the economic reform, criminologicalsituation and social security; the third sector inMoldova, presidential elections, development of thecountry, etc., covering so in Europe the lack ofinformation about Moldova.Polish mass media experience in elections is the mostsignificant in the post-totalitarian countries. Eightjournalists from different political oriented mediabodies came with audio, video and print materialscovering the elections and post-elections period. Atthe meeting participated a group of analysts fromRomania. As the round table was organised beforethe elections in Moldova, this was a chance forMoldovan journalists to analyse their methods andviews, as for Polish and Romanian journalists - anopportunity in covering the lack of information aboutMoldova and Romania. Such a round table can be anefficient tool in monitoring the transition process inEastern societies. The information and experiencetransfer from the more advanced East to a lessadvanced one appears to be an efficient method ofchanging things to better.PROGRAMS INITIATEDBY SOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVAAnother important program was the Exchange ofRepresentatives of Local Administration betweenMoldova and Slovakia. These two countries havetangencies in local administration systems, geographyand economy, but have also differences, Slovakiabeing closer and more open to Western countries,with a higher level of general development and socialand economic reforms. A group of specialists fromMoldova visited the Mayoralty in Bratislava, severallocal mayoralties; they had meetings with Slovakiaofficials, representatives of NGOs and state departmentsworking with the local administration reformand discussed problems of common interest: thecomparative analysis of the legislative frame (similaritiesand differences), functioning and budget sources,structure and functions of local and regionalauthorities. A group of experts from Slovakia visitedMoldova, meeting with local administration authoritiesfrom Moldova in discussions and consulting.One of the most important programs was the RoundTable “Mass media impact in elections: Polishexperience” (October 14-16, 1996), organised withthe help of Central and East European Forum(Poland) and the Centre for NGOs CONTACT. TheBetter Perception for the Future: Journalist ExchangeProgram between Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria andUkraineChisinau, Bucharest, Sofia, KievApplicants: Diana Kapitanska (Bulgaria-Moldova), AurelCiocoi (Romania-Moldova), Iulia Vorobiova (Moldova-Bulgaria), Gheorghe Ierizeanu (Moldova-Bucharest),Valeriu Dragan (Moldova-Ukraine), Alexei Pochinok(Ukraine-Moldova), Momtchil Indjov (Bulgaria-Moldova),Aurelian Lavric (Moldova-Romania)Expenditures: $ 3,986.00Exchange Program for Local Government Representativesin SlovakiaI Stage: Bratislava, June 3-11Participants from Moldova: Veverita V., Dastic A.,Starciuc E., Gutan V., Madan V., Caraman S.II Stage: Chisinau, October 4-11Experts from Slovakia: Kotic T., Skyva M., Jurica K.,Kukumberg V., Bellova S.Expenditures: $ 9,685.0026a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Brainstorm-96. New Generation in the ContemporaryWorld, Summer Course on CommunicationCalarasi, R. Moldova, July 22-August 5Participants: 30Expenditures: $ 9,890.00PARTICIPATING IN OTHER FOUNDATIONSPROGRAMSClara JIGNEAJewish Studies Documentation in the ArchivesSt.Petersburg, February 25-29TIRAS-96. Ecological Case Study CourseLviv, Ivano-Frankovsk, Soroca, Vadul-lui-Voda,September 9-23Participants from Moldova and Ukraine - 19Sergiu RUSUProblems of Business Education In TransitionalEconomiesSt.Petersburg, February 29-March 3Expenditures: $ 5,223.00Internship Program in Czech Republic for Physiciansfrom MoldovaPrague, PilzenApplicants: Tatiana SECANIA , Aurel CRACAN, VictorBUTNARU, Aurelian LAVRIC, Lilia VLASOV, AlaADAMIA, Damian GULCA, Alexei LESCOVictor POPASpecific Features of Municipal Reforms in Easternand Central EuropeMinsk, February 29-March 1Ion GHILESCUPolitical Development in the Years of TransitionBlagoevgrad, April 4-6Expenditures: $ 8,263.00International Round Table “Impact of Mass-Media inthe Elections. Experience of Poland”Chisinau, October 14-16Participants: 40from Poland - 8from Romania - 7Expenditures: $ 6,795.00Visit to Cluj of Young Political Scientists andJournalists from ChisinauCluj, December 9-15M. CERNENCO and 10 studentsVictoria DERGACIOVTransboundary River Basin NGO NetworkLviv, April 9-10I.NEDERA, V.BURAC, S.BUTNARU, L.SPATARURegulating Civil SocietyBudapest, May 1-5Margarita COVALIUSummer School in Economics, Spring SessionWarsaw, May 14- June 9Feodor SIDNIC, Victor PETROVFathers for the Rights of ChildrenPrague, May 24-26Expenditures: $ 1,645.00Problems of Post-Privatisation.Experience of Czech RepublicPrague, December 1-5A. PALADI, C. LOZOVAN, I. TURCAN, T.UNGUREANU,I.SEVCENCOExpenditures: $ 2,678.00Total expenditures: $ 48,165.00M. CERNENCO, I. KLIPIINewly Independent Nations in the Changing WorldNizhny Novgorod, May 30 - June 1I.PALII, P.COJOCARU, I.GITU, I.PERJU, V.MIRZENCO,E.PISOVTransformation of Agriculture: Czech ExperiencePrague, May 26 - June 1Varvara BUZILAa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 27

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aTolerance as Cultural UniversalityKharkiv, May 30-June 2M.SLEAHTITCHI, I.NEGURA, P.BAROCINA, L.NEGURAMinority and ExclusionIasi, June 2-4Chtelnica, Western Tatras, August 17-28Valentin COZMARisk, Security and Communication in Central andEastern EuropeMangalia, August 18-31I.POJOGA, A.MACOVENCO, M.IVANOV, U.LAZAREVA,M.BOLOCAN, I.GROSU, A. DOLGANIUCLocal Elections in Romania. Visit to Romania ofRepresentatives of Civic NGOs from Central andEastern EuropeBucharest, June 13-19V.VOROSILOV, S.VOROSILOVDeviant Behavior and Social Control in Post-totalitarianCountriesSt. Petersburg, June 27-29T. JOVMIR, M. COJOCARU, D. DUMBRAVEANUEnvironmental ManagementMangalia, September 1-14Lilia DIVIZAHuman Resource ManagementMangalia, September 1-14N. BRASOVEANUEcology and EducationIssyk-Kul Lake, September 9-14A. PORUBINSchool of Central European JournalismBratislava, June 20-28R.LAZAR, R.CIOBANU, D.GHETU, P.CABACENCOSummer School on Czech StudiesPilzen, July 15-August 12N. REPINAInternational Summer School in Political SciencesWarsaw, July 13-August 11A. LAVRIC, A. SOFRONI, A. MAGOLAEncounters with Religions in the Black Sea AriaBucharest, July 14-24S. ICHIZLI, D.DABIJASummer School on EconomicsKortowo, July 27-August 25A. KRAVCIUK, L. ROMANCIUC, G. DIMOVSKI, V.SAVITSKI, S. ANDREEV, A. VASILIEVPractical Seminar on Field EcologySevastopol, September 27-October 2C. MIHAILESCU, L. CIPCIRIUCVisit to Poland of Representatives of NGOs to the IstNational Forum for NGIWarsaw, September 18-22G.BUDEANU, A.SARBU, A.GONTA, G.CEBOTARI,A.ADAMPreparatory Brainstorm MeetingCluj, December 5-6V. POPESCUEuropean Federation of Psychology Students AnnualMeetingTartu, Estonia, October 17-22, 1996Z. COJUHARIBridges 1996: Summer Course for Disabled andHealthy Young PeopleBlatnice u Tabora, Czech RepublicO. PETRUSIN, V. CAPSAZU, V. FILIP, O. CATANA, S.BABAN, O. ZANOGATransformation of Industry: Czech ExperiencePrague, November 3-9, 1996Octavian VOLCUInterface: Celebration of Differences InternationalSummer CourseA. BAJURA, V. AFANASIEV, V. DOGA, C. ANDRIUTAProblems of Farmers in Central and Eastern EuropeCluj, October 22-24, 199628a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

V. GROSUSacred Architecture in Central and Eastern EuropeLviv, October 21-25, 1996Elections in Romania: First and Second StagesBucharest,November 14-19, November 28-December 4, 1996Irina NORKINALegislation on Mass Media in Post-CommunistCountriesSt. Petersburg, October 26-28, 1996Expenditures: $ 2,8443.00Total Expenditures: $ 78,585.00M. SLEAHTITCHI, N. REPIDA, C. PLATON, I. NEGURA,A. VULPE, Z. DRAGANThe University Field and its ActorsIasi, Romania, October 31 - November 1, 1996Taisia DANILENCOInternational Meeting for Women’s NGOsNovosibirsk, December 10-14, 1996V. KAMINSCHI, V. BAESUThe Third Sector: Boundaries of IndependenceSt. Petersburg, December 14-16, 1996I. GUTU, D. CIOTCA, V. BATCA, V. PULCIU, I. MARDARIWinter Educational Camp“Orliniy Zalet” Mountain Camp, CrimeaM. STAMAT, E. ONICAThe Albanian Linguistic RelationshipIasi, Romania, November 9-10, 1996Ion SISCANUTrends in Post-Communist DevelopmentMoscow, December 7-8, 1996Elena CERNENCOBalkan Transition: Do Common Problems HaveCommon Solutions?Sofia, December 14-15, 1996S.BUTNARU, P. BOGATU, V. MIHAIL, A. GROSU,M. PLATON, A. LAVRIC, V. PAVLICENCO,R. BELICOV, V. BUTNARU, N. NEGRUMass-Media in Elections. Concluding sessionBucharest, December 18-20, 1996L.DONTU, V. GUZUN, V. FRUNZE, V. TARLEV,E. MOROSANa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 29

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aSCHOLARSHIPSAlexie CHAICOVSKYSoros Foundation Moldova administered five regionalscholarship programs for the American University inBulgaria, Undergraduate Exchange Program, CentralEuropean University, Warwick University, EnvironmentalFellowship Program and three Nationalprograms for Les Ecoles Normales Superieures,College of Europe and Management in Arts. Theannual Merit Scholarships Program for students fromMoldovan Universities has been inaugurated by SFMin 1996. The Foundation also provided supplementaryscholarships to applicants with partial financialsupport from their program / institution of study.National Programs:Les Ecoles Normales Superieures , France$ 13,119.00Andrei BUZDUGANAngela DEMIANCollege of Europe (Brugge, Belgium & Natolin,Poland), $ 14,014.00Adrian EVTUHOVICIRomanita BERGHIAOctavian SAFRANSCHIVictor TODORIUCUNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATEPROGRAMSRegional Programs:ECUMEST (Dijon, France & Bucharest, Romania)$ 12,050.00Zinaida PLAMADEALAEugen COLACAmerican University in Bulgaria, $ 2,594.00Pavel ALBOTVirgiliu MIDRIGANIlie VEDRASCOUndergraduate Exchange Program , USA, $ 2,063.00Anastasia GUSKOVATatiana KLIMOVAEvelina TUDOREANUCentral European University (Hungary), $ 3,334.00Oxana DONCILAIulian ROBUNadea ANDREEVEugen LOGHINAlexei IONASCOFelicia IZMANSUPPLEMENTARY SHOLARSHIP GRANTSAcademia Istropolitana Bratislava, Slovak Republic$ 1,887.00Sergiu BOCANOVViorica BANARUUniversita per Stranieri ‘Dante Alighieri’, ReggioCalabri, Italy, $ 1,687.00Aliona CRUDUCentre Regional des Oeuvres Universitaire etScolaires de Besancon, France, $ 2,860.00Victoria STRATULATGestalt Institute of Sainkt-Petersbutg, Russia $ 290.00Nadejda KRASNOPOLSKIWarwick University (United Kingdom), $ 559.00Vladimir CHIRCHINAureliu LAVRICEnvironmental Fellowship Program (USA), $ 1,793.00Alexander RATKOVSKYIgor DUMBRAVAAndrei FIODOROVThe City University of New York, USA, $ 1,399.00Alina RAISCHIUniversity of Minnesota, USA, $ 1,929.00Mircea UNGUREANUCentre Universitaire D’Etudes Francaise, France$ 680.0030a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Rodica BRIGHIDINUniversite Jean Monnet, France, $ 2,153.00Verjinia FORTUNAInstitut fur Hochfrequenztechnik, Darmstadt,Germany, $ 419.00Victoria ICHIZLIUniversity of Central Florida, USA, $ 2,500.00Nicoleta MUNTEANUUniversite Pantheon - Assas, Paris 2, France, $ 3,000.00Sergiu CIOCLEAAmerican University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad$ 6,222.00Ilie VEDRASCOPavel ALBOTVirgiliu MIDRIGANVictor GUSILAMariana BUZUVioroca URSUSergiu LISNICTRAVEL GRANTS FOR UNDERGRADUATE ANDPOSTGRADUATE STUDIESConnecticut State University, USA, $ 2,387.00Elena NASTASVitalie SCURCINSCHIIgor KISILSimmons College Graduate School of Management,Boston, USA, $ 723.00Lucia BODIULThe University of Mississipi, USA, $ 1,335.00Ilian CASUInternational Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste,Italy, $ 604.00Sergiu COJOCARUKamer. Singer and Associates Inc., San Francisco,USA, $ 874.00Ovidiu RUSUUniversity of Patras, Greece, $ 174.00Elena JUNGHIETUSUMMER SCHOOLS AND INTERNSHIPSUniversity of California, Riverside, USA, $ 2,135.00Environmental Pollution Prevention and ControlSerguei DMITRIEVThe European Institute for the Media, Dusseldorf,Germany, $ 1,637.00Summer School on European MediaGhenadie VASILACHEThe Fifth Annual Summer Graduate Institute inCracow, Poland, $ 1,155.00Democracy & DiversityIrina BALTACollege for New Europe, Cracow, Poland, $ 301.00Central European CitySvetlana MARDARIBrandeis University, Waltham, USA, $ 1,114.00Lucia TURCANThe University of New Mexico, USA, $ 1,452.00Evelina BOLOTIUCBudapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary$ 2,085.00Summer UniversityDumitru PARFENTIEVSergiu BEZNITCHIJacksonville University, USA, $ 894.00Irina GAINUTDINOVAWestern Kentucky University, USA, $ 782.00Veronica KHADJISt. Petersburg State University, Russia, $ 714.00School of JournalismSnejana DIMITROVAThe Institute ‘Carmen de las Cuevas’, Granada, Spaina c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 31

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v a$ 3,979.00Summer School in Spain History and ArtsVictoria SARBULiliana MUNTEANAnda VIERUNatalia MEREUTAGalina MURSACristina DUMBRAVAInternational Labour Organisation, Budapest,Hungary, $ 1,520.00InternshipAlexandru ZARAAlina BRASOVEANUCristina VOLCCristina STURZAInternational Chamber of Commerce, Court ofArbitration, Paris, France, $ 760.00InternshipOtilia BOLOGANSOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVAMERIT SCHOLARSHIPSSoros Foundation Moldova has inaugurated in 1996the annual Merit Scholarships Program for studentsfrom Moldovan Universities. Competition for thisprogram was merit-based. In order to be consideredfor the competition students had to have a GPAmeasured by the Moldovan grading system no lessthan 9.0 and should have completed at least two yearsof study. A special commission created from facultymembers and researchers has done a rigorousanalysis of students’ applications. The students’extracurricular activities (publications, reports,participation in conferences and symposiums,membership in science organisations, NGOs, etc.)have been decisive in the commission’s final decision.One hundred and fifteen students from thirteeninstitutions have participated in the competition. Seventyeight students have been awarded scholar-ships.First Grade Merit Scholarships (2500 MDL)Diana CHEIANUState University of MoldovaAngela MUNTEANUState University of MoldovaLiliana COROBCAState University of MoldovaVitalie DOGARUState University of MoldovaTamara CARAUSState University of MoldovaVitalie POPAState University of MoldovaAlina RAISCHIState University of MoldovaSecond Grade Merit Scholarships (1200 MDL)Eugenia BRAGA*AESMIgor DODONAgricultural UniversityOctavian SPEIANUState University of MoldovaAlexandru STRATANAgricultural UniversityCarolina ABABIIState University of MoldovaDaniela SIMBOTEANUPedagogical UniversityGheorghe KARASENIState University of MoldovaVitalie POPESCUPedagogical UniversityCorina BARLADEANUState University of MoldovaDiana BARANIUCMedical UniversityDaniela TERZIState University of MoldovaAlina LUNGUInstitute of ArtsVitalie MEAGCOVState University of MoldovaNicoleta COLTUNInstitute of ArtsVasile CUMPATAState University of MoldovaAdrian CIUBOTARUBalti University32a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Snejana DIMITROVAState University of MoldovaLucia BUZDUGANTechnical UniversityEduard MINCIUCTechnical UniversityThird Grade Merit Scholarship (500MDL)Anatol GRAURAESMOlga CUNEAHAgricultural UniversityIon AMARFIIAESMIanoº CHIPERIAgricultural UniversityPetru PINTEACAESMAlexei SCLEARAgricultural UniversityIgor MELNICAESMAlexandru CUNDEVAgricultural UniversitySergiu FILIPOVAESMRoman HARUTAAgricultural UniversityDumitru MOREAAESMVadim SARGHIAgricultural UniversityValeriu RAZLOGAESMGheorghe NICOLAESCUAgricultural UniversitySerghei BUDUAESMAlexandru BUIMISTRUAgricultural UniversityOleg BODIULAESMOlga PLOPPedagogical UniversityOleg VEREJANAESMLudmila SCAREVNEAPedagogical UniversityVladisdlav CHIRIACAESMSilvia CANATUIPedagogical UniversityRodica IORDANOVState University of MoldovaVictoria ARNAUTPedagogical UniversityAla CIORICIState University of MoldovaLudmila BACUMENCOPedagogical UniversityStela ONUState University of MoldovaValentina POSTUTiraspol State UniversityAna GABINSKAIAState University of MoldovaLilian LUNGUTiraspol State UniversityDmitrii ALEXEEVComrat State UniversityMihail PELEAHState University of MoldovaSerghei CATRANGIComrat State UniversityAna JOSANState University of MoldovaOlga SVIRIDENKOComrat State UniversityAlexei CEAICOVSCHIState University of MoldovaStepanida ZAHARIAComrat State UniversityVladimir BESCHIERTechnical UniversityNatalia BUTANMedical UniversityAlexei GORETCHIITechnical UniversityElena MUNTEANUniversity of CommerceNatalia IATCOBalti UniversityAliona CASTRAVETa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 33

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aInstitute of ArtsVeronica DARABANBalti UniversityRodica SFECLAInstitute of ArtsAliona PAVALACHEBalti UniversityMaia GROSUInstitute of ArtsAndrei BUSUIOCAgricultural UniversityAndrei PORUMBRICAUniversity of HumanitiesViorel MELNICAgricultural UniversityEcaterina RADVANFree and International University of Moldova*AESM - Academy of Economic Studies of MoldovaExpenditures: $ 15,712.00E-MAIL AND INTERNET SYSTEMSCourses were organised for the network administratorsof these junctions in the HP UX10.0 operationalsystem. Beginning in March 1996, the net wasfunctioning and the users can access the resourcesof the Inter-University and Internet Networks.“Dial-up” connection was installed from the TelephonicCentre with the capacity of 50 pairs. At this moment10 phone numbers are used.The Foundation provided all materials necessary forthe central junction of the Inter-University Network.National ProgramThe Soros Foundation organised the conference“Programming day in Moldova”. Representativesfrom all high schools, the Academy of Sciences,Ministry of Telecommunications and other persons,interested in the information infrastructure in Moldovaparticipated at this conference. A topic of interest wasaccessing the global Internet network. Representativesof the European Council participated at theconference; they explained the principles and thegrants making procedure from this organisation.Expenditures: $ 125,684.00The project consists of creating a data transfernetwork, which will connect high schools, scientificestablishments, schools, libraries, non-governmentalorganisations. Further, to ensure access of individuals(scientists, students and pupils), who have thetechnical capabilities (computer and modem) and thedesire to access the network. Creation of this networkrequired connecting different institutions to a WAN,through which users at these organisations canexchange information and use modern communicationtechnologies (electronic mail, “messagetable, teleconference, file transfer, etc.)INTERNET AND COMPUTERS FORGENERAL SCHOOLRegional ProgramIn January 1996 equipment was installed and testedfor satellite connections with Norway at the speed of64 kbps. In the same period the Universities net wasinstalled, first at the Academy of Science, StateUniversity, Technical University and the Academy ofEconomic Sciences.ComSoros is a computerisation program for preuniversityeducation, installing and developingcomputer laboratories in Moldovan schools andlyceums.In 1996 the program activities developed existinglaboratories, a summer school, courses for teachers,etc.34a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

SUMMER SCHOOLThis summer school demonstrated the usefulnessand importance of such programs. These kind ofcamps have an important role in developing andeducating pupils and facilitating the exchange of ideasand opinions among gifted children and teachers fromall over the country. Analysing the work of the camp,discussions focused on ways to make it moreinteresting and efficient. One proposal was to join allthe camps organised by the Foundation; participantswould benefit not only of the course in a specific area,but also could take courses in English, HealthEducation, Debate.A two-day seminar was organised at the end of thecamp for computer teachers from the schoolsparticipating in the ComSoros Program, discussingthe problems in education, as well as technicalaspects of working with laboratories.In a tight collaboration with the New InformationTechnologies Centre computer courses were organizedfor teachers of computer technology, chemistry,biology, physics, and courses for administrators oflyceums participating in the Program.Expenditures: $ 18,940.00DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING LABORATORIESDuring the past three years computers were donatedin this Program, which are no longer performing. Inthe spring of 1996 a contest was announced formodernising the donated laboratories. 15 schoolsparticipated; their requests were rather different, butanalysis has shown similarities. The experts’commission decided to define stan-dards for all theschools, and they were:- Server PC16MbRAM/1Gb/HDD/FDD/1Mb SVGA/CD-ROM+sound Card /Modem/NIC- PC8Mb RAM/540-850 Mb HDD/FDD/NIC- PrinterDue to the tender announced for this program it waspossible to buy licensed software from the MicrosoftCompany.The program package consisted of:- Microsoft Windows 95 (1 license)- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (10 licenses)- Microsoft Office for Windows 95 (1 license)The children using these laboratories will have thepossibility to work with modern programs packs andstudy the net work.As a part of this program books were bought anddonated for didactic and extracurricular reading.Expenditures: $ 40,985.00NEW METHODS OF TEACHINGThe idea introduced new methods in teaching thediscipline, using multiplication and modelingequipment. For this purpose 10 printers and projectorswere bought. As a result of the discussions about theprogram operating it was decided to do it in the frameof Modernisation of Humanities Program. Theequipment was donated on a contest basis to thepilot schools.Expenditures: $ 29,898.00During the year schools - beneficiaries of theComSoros Program were visited in order to evaluatethe efficient using of the laboratories and theequipment security.In November 1996 at the general school in Mereni,Anenii Noi district 7 computers were stolen from thelab donated in 1995. The commission which wentthere found serious infringements on the donationcontract: the alarm did not function, two computerswere at the director’s and computer professor homes.A meeting of the Education Council of the SorosFoundation made the decision to withdraw the rest ofequipment. Also a meeting with the directors andcomputer professors of the schools participating inthe ComSoros Program was organised, where thesecurity of the equipment was discussed.OTHER PROJECTSDuring 1996 a series of new projects were brought tothe Foundation, which we tried to support asa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 35

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v ainteresting and important for the domain.OlympiadThis year the Olympic team of Moldova was invited forthe first time to participate at the International Olympiadin computer technology. The Program supported theparticipation of this team to the competition.announced. Representatives from the New InformationTechnologies Centre, Ministry Of Educationand Soros Foundation select the 5 best projects. Theirauthors receive a computer, printer and modem forthe educational process.Total expenditures: $ 109,893.00English Language CourseMembers of the New Information Technologies Centreand the Ministry of Education suggested organisingan English Language Course. As most of the literaturein the field is in English and is constantly updated, theCommission for Education supported this idea.Laboratory for the Exact Sciences LyceumLIBRARYFrom 1995 the Program did not donate computers toschools, but until now at the Foundation come projectsof this kind. The Exact Sciences Lyceum, which isnew and unique in the Republic, gathers the mosttalented children. The Commission supported thisproject and suggested donating one computerlaboratory per year within the program.In 1996 the Library Program focused on several areasof development:- Acquisition of books and periodicals- Training and workshops- The Book Foundation Project- Library Automation Support ProjectComputers for Forgotten VillagesACQUISITION OF BOOKS AND PERIODICALSThe idea of such a project was discussed for a longtime. This year a program was accepted to donate tothe general school in Stefanesti, Floresti district acomputer for the computer lessons and extracurricularactivities.The impact of this donation was tremendous. TheEducation Commission discussed the perspectivesof this program for forgotten villages and acceptedprinciples for it. A contest was announced with thefollowing conditions:- the age of the professor- up to 35 years- the school does not have equipment- is the only school in the regionThe applicants benefit from a course about usingcomputers in modern education. At the end of thiscourse the teachers write projects on using acomputer at their schools, a contest of projects isFormerly, regular subscriptions to foreign periodicalsand acquisition of books were made only by the NationalLibrary, the country’s major source of printed materialsand other informational resources. Institutional andregional libraries were prevented from building their ownbanks of information published in English by administrativerestrictions and lack of adequate funding. AfterMoldova’s economy suffered a severe setback in theearly 90s, state-sponsored subsidies of periodicals andbooks purchases decreased even more. As a result,libraries started missing a very important and,unfortunately, unrecoverable source of information. Thisproject provided the stocks of foreign and nationalpublications of selected titles to targeted institutions.SUBSCRIBTIONS OF FOREIGN PERIODICALSNational Library of the R. Moldova $ 2,731.5336a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Library of the Academy of Sciences - $ 2,952.24National Children’s Library “I.Creanga” - $ 1,566.93Republican Library for Technicaland Scientific Information - $ 2,000.00“I.Mangher” Municipal Jewish Library - $ 991.51Expenditures: $ 10,242.21“ ASLIB: Library Automation Systems” was organisedfor 21 librarians (invited expert - Lyn Robinson,ASLIB Association).Different projects of seminars, presented by librariesand the Librarians Association from Moldova weresupported:SUBSCRIPTIONS TO NATIONAL PERIODICALSSubscriptions to the cultural journals “Contrafort”,“Basarabia” and “Sud-Est” (385 copies each) havebeen distributed to public libraries.Expenditures: $ 5,577.95Library Managementorganised by “I.Creanga” Chldren’ s Library, Chisinau.Special guest lecturer- Dr. Ronald F.Chapman ofHamilton Library, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA.80 librarians participated at the seminar.Librarians and Community ServiceLibraries and the World’s MemoryBOOK AQUISITIONBooks were bought, following the librarians suggestions,such as encyclopedical literature, teachingmaterials, textbooks and other literature in Romanian.Within the program 57 titles were bought in more than5000 copies. The donation was distributed to 77public, schools’ and university libraries.Expenditures: $ 12,528.80The program suported librarians‘ participation atdifferent international meetings:The 62nd Conference of the International Federationof Association of Libraries and Librarians organisedby UNESCO, Beijing, ChinaLidia CULICOVSCHI, Director, Municipal Library“B.P.Hasdeu”Silvia GHINCULOV, Director, Library of the Academyof Economic StudiesTotal Expenditures: $ 23,350.71TRAINING AND WORKSHOPSLibrary and Information Science was missing fromthe priorities established by the Socialist State, thesingle sponsor of the vast range of municipal andinstitutional libraries. Following the Soviet period theworsening economic situation prevented the librarycommunity from developing an adequate professionalstandard. Librarians are people, failing to establishthemselves in other fields, interested in literature butignorant of the profession. Training and workshopssought to revitalize this community. Selectedprofessionals, current with the latest developmentsof library and information science, were brought here,establishing connections with foreign communitiesof librarians and by encouraging Moldovan librariansto develop their own information exchange forums.Within the Regional Workshop Program, the seminarAmerican Library Association’s Annual Conference,New York, USANatalia GHERADI, Deputy Director, Library of theAcademy of Economic StudiesLibrarians and Associations in the Transient World :New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation,Foros, UkraineClaudia BALABAN, Director, Children’s Library “IonCreangã”, Tudor SPINEI , Director, Library of SUMInternational Conference on Library Automation inCentral and Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungaryparticipants - 5 specialistsAttendance at the meeting in memory of Onisifor Ghibu,Sibiu, Romania.Participants 10 personsWithin this program English Language courses werea c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 37

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aorganised for librariansExpenditures: $ 13,187.79THE BOOK FOUNDATIONThe Book Foundation is a nongovernmental institutionfounded by Soros Foundation Moldova , I.CreangaLibrary and the Moldovan Association of Librarians.Its major goals are:- Development of book distribution networks to assistdonors of printed materials- Help libraries complete their stocks of educationaland reference resources- Help students and faculty aquire book at discountprices- Publish educational and reference materials- Provide informational services to libraries and publicThe 1996 starting grant was provided to assist theBook Foundation build and furnish its premises, opena bank account and aquire other accessories requiredof an independent organisation.attention given to electronic storage/retrieval as wellas processing of information was minimal; mostsophisticated equipment typically did not go beyondmicrofilm viewers. Computers used by a small numberof libraries were outdated, missing networking andmodern data retrieval (CD ROM) facilities.Librarians were mostly untrained and even unaware ofthe perspectives offered by modern technology to improvelibrary operation. Even the profession of librarianshipfocused mainly on routine cataloguing activities.That made data exchange projects impossible as wellas efficient tracking of daily operations. LibrariesAutomation Projects seek to supplement and partiallyreplace the outdated equipment of Moldovan libraries.Selection of recipients of automation grants is madecompetitively, every project being reviewed on a needbasis by an independent panel of experts.In 1996 the projects of the following libraries wereaccepted:- Library of the State University of Moldova $ 37,878.00- Library of the Academy of Economic Studies $ 36,980- National Children’s Library “Ion Creangã” $ 32,430.00Expenditures: $ 11,854.13THE CENTRE OF BOOK PROMOTIONFinancing: the Soros Foundation Moldova - $ 54,340.00Regional Program, OSI Budapest - $ 52,970.00The total budget is $107,310.00The Centre of Book Promotion is a project started by theSoros Foundation Moldova in 1996, whose goal is tooffer permanent and easy access for interested personsto primary source information on publishing abroad.The main objective of the Centre is the acquisition ofreference publications (social, humanities, methodological,encyclopedic), published by prestigiouspublishing houses in the West, sold at minimumprices, as well as books published with the supportof Soros Foundation. The Center will promote activitiesaimed at optimising the process of promoting anddistributing the book in the Republic of Moldova.Expenditures: $ 20,000.00LIBRARY AUTOMATION SUPPORTIn 1996c ontinued financing for the projects of“Onisifor Ghibu”, “Alecu Cozmescu”, the Co operativeCommercial University, the Center for Information andDocumentation (Municipal Library“B.P.Hasdeu”), the Librarians Association of Moldovalibraries, projects launched in 1995Expenditures: $ 12,989.99The CD ROM project for the National Library of theRepublic of Moldova, approved in 1996 with a budgetof $485.13, was realized in January 1997.Total Expenditures 1996: $ 111,437.00Allocated 1997: $ 5,483.38Libraries in the past were mostly viewed as centersthat contain catalogued books and periodicals. The38a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

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s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v a- Programs for Minority GroupsCriteria of project financing:- registered organisations- large social impact of the projects- support for concrete projectsHUMAN RIGHTSCIVIL SOCIETYThe Civil Society Program fosters the essential normsof the civil society - individual rights, free association,delimitation of public and private spheres, legality,opinions, initiative, as well as sustaining the creationof mechanisms for the society influencing and controlover the state and its institutions. The projects realisedthis year have supported the activity of NGOs fromMoldova and establishing contacts between them andforeign ones. NGO projects were supported, that areresponding to some acute necessities of thecommunity, are innovative, can represent models,contribute to the promotion of NGO activity and involvecitizens in their achievement.The organisation “SALVATI COPIII” (SAVE THECHILDREN) received a grant for publishing the UnitedNations Convention regarding Children’s Rights,project manager Mariana PETERSELThe Convention was signed and ratified by theParliament of the Republic of Moldova on February25, 1993 and became a law for protecting anddefending Children’s Rights according to theConstitution of the Republic of Moldova. The Conventionwas distributed among the teachers, law specialistsand doctors throughout Moldova. Continuing theproject, the organisation plans a series of seminars,discussions, contests and debates to implement theConvention. Soros Foundation covered the publishingcosts of 1,000 copies. The project was realised inpartnership with UNICEF in Moldova.Program Objectives:Expenditures: $ 1,304.34- encouragement and development of the nongovernmentalorganisations which express a socialinitiative and concern- encouraging contacts between NGOs and Statestructures, which can help resolve social problems- improving the professional level of the non-profitsector specialists in Moldova- promoting tolerance between individuals and socialgroups- social integration and promoting the protection ofhuman rightsProgram Priorities:- Human Rights- Ethnic Tolerance- Preventing and Solving Conflicts- Civic EducationThe Independent Society for Education and HumanRights (SIEDO) has received a grant for the project“Education for Democracy and Human Rights”,project manager Gh. CARASENIThe project aims to develop a network of instructorsin Human Rights (teachers, students, etc.) andstimulate the civic participation. In the agenda for 1997are enclosed: 3 seminars in different geographicalzones of Moldova, a camp for 10 days for the bestseminar participants, publishing of a bulletin, lessonsin schools and lyceums, materials for the disciplineCivic Education, etc. Interactive methods will be usedto achieve this, stimulating partnerships betweenteachers, pupils, and parents, collaborations betweenschool and community NGOs. The Soros Foundationhas offered equipment on a lease contract basis andother financial support. The project is co-financed bythe United State Information Agency through the40a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Program “Small Democracy Grants”.Expenditures: $ 3,697.00The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights fromMoldova received a grant for publishing “HumanRights and International Organisations (Guide for thevictims) “ and “10th of December-International Day ofthe Human Rights”, project manager - Stefan URITU.The published books are destined for a large public, asthey contain information about the international treatiesconcerning Human Rights, ratified by the Republic ofMoldova, the mechanisms of Human Rights Protection,as well as recommendations for the persons who wantto address the European Committee for Human Rights.The brochures were distributed freely during theseminars of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.Soros Foundation covered the publishing expendituresof 1000 copies each.Expenditures: $ 3,943.47BRIDGES OVER THE NISTRUThis program is realised by the Foundation forSupporting Peace and Stability “INCREDERE”(TRUST) from Moldova. The aim is to contribute tosolving the Transnistrian zone conflict by the methodsof popular diplomacy. During 1996 a series of roundtables were organised, discussions involvingstudents, journalists and artists from both sides ofthe river. These meetings have contributed toimproving social and cultural relations, dialog,common seeking of compromises and the reestablishmentof trust. The program will continue in 1997through radio and TV programs, the publishing anddistribution of bulletins analysing the ways of solvingthe conflict and joint activities of youth organisationsfrom both sides of the Nistru River.seminars, conferences, etc. Support was offered onlyto registered organisations whose activities have alarge social impact. Support was given only forconcrete projects, which aim to institutionalise theprinciples of Open Society.Equipment grants were given only when strictlynecessary. Priority was given to co-financed projects.“Tailoring and Carpeting Groups”, as activities forthe children from numerous families.The Society of Numerous Families (Orhei district),project manager - Larisa STAMBUL.Over 60 children participate in these groups, getting aprofession, some benefit from selling their productsand buying material for continuous work. One of themost important result is getting a profession- help forthese children in a period of economic crisis. Theinnovative character of the project is an example forother similar activities. The project was realised incollaboration with the Technological School from theIzvoare village. The grant was given for buyingequipment, on a lease basis for a year.Expenditures: $ 3,529.34“Arena Politicii - a publication of political scienceand culture”The Foundation for Political Culture, project manager-Gh. COJOCARU.“Arena Politicii” (Political Arena) was conceived as anindependent publication, able to consolidate free andobjective public opinion. The issues (highly appreciatedby specialists and public opinion) present politicaland democratic values through different articles ”indepth”, translation of fundamental theses from thehistory of political thought and an integrated picture ofpolitical subjects from Moldova. ”Arena Politicii” ispublished monthly with a circulation of 1000 copies.The grant covered equipment and publishing costs.Expenditures: $ 3,263.00SUPPORT FOR NGOsOPEN PROGRAMThe program was created to finance on competitivebasis different initiatives of NGOs from Moldova:Expenditures: $14,000.00Allocated: $ 6,000.00“Fundamental Social-Cultural Values of SouthernRural Communities in the Context of Transformationsat the End of XX century”The Ethnological Society of Moldova, Muzeul Satuluia c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 41

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v a(The Village Museum), the State University of Moldova,project manager - V.BUZILA.This was the first step in a complex program ofinterdisciplinary studies of unique social-culturalphenomena in the south of Moldova. 9 researchersand 15 students have participated in the expedition,which have researched the villages Cuza Voda, CislitaPrut, Slobozia Mare, Valeni, Brinza and Vadu lui Isac.A database was created, as a result of the documentationin the Giurgiulesti region, where is to bebuilt a terminal which can change peoples lives.Investigations were made - on identity and alterityrelations, social ideals, attitude towards transformations,promoted by different social groups. TheSoros Foundation has covered the costs of transportation,materials and meals.Expenditures: $ 1,625.10Scientific symposium “The National State andNationalities- Moldova in the 90’ of XX century“The symposium was organised by the Centre forNational and International Researches “Perspectiva”in collaboration with the Hamburg University, BerlinUniversity, State University of Moldova, the Associationof Political Scientists from Moldova. The SorosFoundation covered materials’ publishing expenses.Expenditures: $ 785.21Ecological expedition “Saharna ’ 96”“Pro Natura” (Orhei district), project manager - RomanGUTU.The project’s goal was to improve the environment ofthe Saharna River. 60 volunteer students, participatingin the expedition, have cleaned the river’s bank (30-35 km). There were organised ecological lessons insummer camps, training of participants. SorosFoundation covered transportation and meals.Expenditures: $ 1,103.69120 scientists from Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania,Ukraine, Russia, representatives of NGOs, studentsparticipated at the conference. Following the 27speeches, discussions focused on ethno-politicaland cultural relations in the Carpathiens.Expenditures: $ 1,967.82Yiddish Language seminar (July 21 - August 18)Jewish Culture Society, the State University of Moldova,project manager - Moisei LEMSTER.The 30 participants had the opportunity to learnYiddish and find out more about Jewish literature,traditions, drama and music. Soros Foundation paidthe publishing and material costs. The literatureformed the base of the Jewish Culture office at thePhilology Department, SUM.Expenditures: $ 600.00“Restoring the Paleolitical and Middle Ages settlementsin the Stinca forest, Cosauti place, Sorocadistrict”The Ecological Association “TABIECOM”, projectmanager- Aurel LOZAN.A result of the project was cleaning the historicalmonuments of international importance from Cosauti.With the help of volunteers a commemorative stonewas installed and rose a protection wall. There werelessons and meetings for the rural population aboutthe importance of the historical-natural complex andthe necessity of its protection.Expenditures: $ 1,319.00“Database of NGOs in Moldova”, project manager -Mrs. Natalia IZDEBSCHI.The project will be realised in 1997. The databasewill facilitate establishing contacts and will provideinformation about creating, registering and thefunctions of an NGO.International scientific conference “Moldo-BulgarRelations in the Middle Ages and the Modern Epoch”October 21-24 1996The Scientific Bulgaristic Society from Moldova, projectmanager - Nicolae RUSSEV.Expenditures (equipment and software): $ 2,040.86“Song in Wood”The Creation Association “Mesterul Manole”, theMinistry of Education, the Union of Popular Craftsmen,42a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

the Department for Culture at Chisinau Mayoralty,project manager - Dumitru COSTANDACHE.The project contains the opening of a creation centrefor training specialists in the field of artistic woodcuttingfor a period 1,5 year. A flexible system will becreated for training teachers from general schools,artists and teenagers.Expenditures (equipment): $ 14,900.00Round table ”The problems of Transnistrian schoolsthrough the International Law”Helsinki Committee for Human RightsNovember 5, 1996The goal was to focus the attention on Transnistrianschools’ situation and to elaborate concrete solutions.Members of administration and parents’ councils,representatives of Ministry of Education, diplomaticmissions and NGOs have participated.The Special Republican Library and the Center forRecords of Blind People Society have received agrant for records and copies of the audio journals ofthe Blinds Society and raising of Library’s funds.Expenditures: $ 500.00International Symposium “Democracy and HumanRights”, organised by the Helsinky Committee forHuman Rights, Pro Democratia Association, SIEDO,Aministia International, State University in Balti.This event marked the 50th aniversary of ONU and 48thanniversary of adopting the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights through a series of activities: promotingthe democratic values and human rights, familiarisingpeople with the Universal Declaration, distributingmaterials, opening branches of NGO in the north ofMoldova, establishing personal contacts betweenNGOs. The materials of the seminar will be published.Expenditures: $ 1,110.21Expenditures: $ 2,295.00“File de filozofie” journalThe Philosophers Association of MoldovaThis is a theoretical-methodological publication,scientific, cultural and informative. The journal offersthe specialists and persons interested in philosophya platform for discussion, space for opinions and newideas regarding philosophy at this end of century.Expenditures: $ 1,007.6“Gutta” NewspaperThis is a public ecological publication for children andadults and has the goal to fill the gap of ecologicalinformation, to inform the younger generation aboutthe Republic environmental and ecological problems.The newspaper publishes materials on ecologicalissues (articles, essays, reporting, interviews, letters).These have the aim to create a conscious attitude forenvironmental protection. Authors are scientists,professors, writers and journalists. The newspaperorganizes contests (e.g. for the best information, forthe cleanest yard, school etc.). The first three issueshave appeared with ISAR support.Expenditures: $ 3,026.08Basic course for scout monitorsAugust 25-30, 1996The National Organization of Scouts from Moldova,project manager - Iosif Moldovanu.The course was realized in collaboration with theAssociation “Exploadores de Madrid” in two levels: abasic course for 46 persons and an advanced coursefor 7. The programs for both courses were elaboratedfollowing the international principles of scouts.Instructors were 8 professors from the Scout School of“Exploadores de Madrid”: Vicente Placios, Cesar GilLamata, Cristina Fernandez, Fernando Gil, Jose AdolfoMartin, Juan Carlos Martiniz, Maria Angeles Tendero.,Javier Portugues. Lectures were given by specialistsfrom Moldova: Aurelia Pospai, Valentina Ursu (StatePedagogical University” I.Creanga” and Iurie Emilian(President of the National Council of NOSM). The coursewas interesting and useful for the scout leaders fromMoldova, as they are the first group of instructed trainers.Expenditures: $ 1,086.00Meeting of students from Tiraspol and ChisinauAn initiative group from the Tiraspol University.The meeting took place on October 25, 1996 anda c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 43

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v ahelped establish contacts, dialog and collaborationbetween students. Different students problems,exchanges between institutions and possible commonprojects were discussed.Expenditures: $ 373.47Conference ”Hunger in 1946-1947. The UnknownTragedy”, March 13, 1996Organizers: The State University from Comrat, theNational Library “M.K.Atatiurk”The aim of the conference was to bring together personsof different ages and professions, religions and politicalopinions to discuss this social tragedy and analyse theepoch. Discussions centered on historical and socialaspects, generating a conscious attitude for such crisesin society, which can take peoples lives.Expenditures: $ 495.65The selected NGOs receive e-mail and part of thembenefit from larger Internet services. The SorosFoundation covers all the costs, except the phone bills.The beneficiaries received software and training. Theconnection is made only for single PC. Decisions weremade at the board meetings of the Civil Society, PublicAdministration, Law, Economy, Medical Programs.Participating conditions:- the applicant has to present a project for using theInternet- the applicant must have a PC minimum 486,Windows 3.11 and a phone line- the applicants have to fill out a questionnaireGrants for Internet access have been given to thefollowing organizations:The Second Conference with an InternationalExhibition “Invention -Creativity-Innovation”October 24-26,1996The Association of Young Inventors from MoldovaThe first conference, organized in 1995, was a successfulinitiative in promoting young inventions in Moldova.The conference offered to youth from Moldova apossibility to communicate and meet other partners.Expenditures: $ 130.43Total Expenditures: $ 56,809.46INTERNET ACCESS FOR NGOThe program has the aim to facilitate the electroniccommunication of NGOs and encourage their use of theInternet. Grants for access were given for one year on acompetitive basis to NGOs from the following domains:- CIVIC- CULTURE- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HUMAN RIGHTS- MASS MEDIA- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION- SOCIAL- YOUTH- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Moldova- The Pacifist Movement ”For a World Without Guns”- The Scientific Association “Inqua-Moldova”- Centre for Children and Youth “Gutta-club”- “TABIECOM” Association- The Centre for Social Entrepreneurship andInvestments ”Counterpart”- The Independent Society for Education and HumanRights “SIEDO”- The Acupuncture Association- The Foundation for Political Culture- The Centre for National and International Researches“Perspectiva”- The Youth Foundation “XXI Century”- The Neurologues Society- The Ecological Movement- The Ecological Foundation ”Mold-Eco”- The Society “Management and Insurance in Medicine”- The Accountants and Professional Auditors AssociationCONTACTNational Training and Information Centre for NGOsThe National Training and Information Centre for NGOs“CONTACT” is a non-governmental institution which44a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

provides effective assistance to meet the needs ofMoldovan NGOs. The centre is an initiative of the SorosFoundation - Moldova and International Foundation forElectoral Systems Moldova with the financial support ofTACIS for Democracy program. The main goal of theCentre is to contribute to the development of a civil societythrough the creation of a stronger non-governmentalnetwork.The Centre’s priorities are:- providing consulting and information- establishing and maintaining working relationsamong Moldovan NGOs- developing relationships with international governmentalinstitutions, donors and others national andinternational non-governmental organizations. Itsmajor fields of activity are:Information- There is a library and electronic database at anyone’sdisposal containing information of major interest to -non-governmental oganizations.It includes:- information on local NGOs- information about Donors, Funding Programs inEastern and Central Europe and NIS.- information on the actions and activities of nongovernmentalorganizations.- legislative and administrative aspects related to NGOsactivity.- other information related to the NGOs activity.ConsultingThe Centre provides consulting services to local NGOsregarding their establishment, registration, administration,financial management and fund-raising. Atthe Centre there is up-to-date information on theregulation of the Moldovan NGO activities, as well asfurther information on related issues.TrainingThe Centre organises seminars and workshops forNGOs bringing trainers from abroad.Topics include:- Recruitment and distribution of tasks in the organisation- Fund-raising- Accountancy and book-keeping- Evaluation of the organization through efficiency andprogress reports- Public and mass-media relations- Collaboration with local authorities- Office management- Working with volunteersTechnical assistanceThe centre offers temporary use of equipment to NGOsto help in the realization of a project. The Centre alsoorganises training on different issues of officemanagement and office equipment utilization.PublicationsThe Centre publishes the informative bulletin“CONTACT” with a circulation of 300 copies, addressedto a large circle of beneficiaries from the stateand non-governmental organisations. The bulletincontains information concerning the Centre’sactivities, donors and their programs and a calendarof activities in NGO field. Is to appear a catalogue ofNGOs from Moldova.Other activitiesThe Centre organises conferences, round - tables andsymposiums, with national and international participation,to encourage an exchange of ideas, experienceand projects among Moldovan NGOs and foreignpartners.The financing from TACIS: 96,372.00 ECUfrom Soros Foundation: $ 47,129.00NETWORK OF DELIBERATIVE FORUMSThe goal of the project proposed by the “Pro Democratia”Association is to stimulate and sustain citizens’initiatives regarding their community and in this way toinfluence decisions at higher levels. Within this projectcitizens meet to discuss the problems of their concernand seek solutions. The project is realised in four shifts,including production of a brochure with information onthe subject, local forums In four districts and a NationalForum in Chisinau.Expenditures: $ 2,841.00a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 45

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aSHOLARSHIPS IN HUMAN RIGHTSThese scholarships are offered within the program“Human Rights Advocacy Program” of the Utica College,Syracuse University, USA. The program was launchedin 1992 by the lawyers Theodore Zang, Esq. andTheodore Orlin, Esq. Its offers consulting and trainingfor NGOs and lawyers specializing in Human Rightsfrom societies in transition. The program collaborateswith the Helsinki Committees for Human Rights andNGOs for Human Rights in projects of monitoring,defending and educating about human rights.Scholarships for a semester at Utica College are createdfor young lawyers from Eastern and Central Europe,which have working experience with NGOs. Theregistration fee ($ 7,103.00) is paid by the University.The first scholarship in Moldova was won by SergiuOstaf, member of the Helsinki Committee for HumanRights from Moldova.Expenditures: $ 5,283.00TRAVEL TO CONFERENCES, SEMINARS,MEETINGSNGO Forum in Romania, $ 894.78June 26-30 1996, BucharestPetru COCIRTAPro Natura AssociationLudmila TURCANU Foundation ForumIlie ROTARUStock Owners AssociationVasile ROTARUSIEDO AssociationMariana PETERSEL Save the ChildrenNicolae ESINENCU Union of WritersIgor BOTANIFESThe forum was organized by CENTRAS (Centre ofAssistance for NGO and GFF (Gestion sans frontieres).At the Forum Cartes Blanches were elaborated for eachdomain represented, were organized round tables anddiscussions about creating an information network ofNGOs.Visit to Bucharest, $ 1,232.00March 26 - April 3 1996A group of 36 children and 4 professors from the schoolNr 20 (Tiraspol) were invited to Bucharest by the SorosFoundation Bucharest for an Open Society The childrenwere hosted with families. The Romanian foundationorganised a program of entertainement (city tour,museums, trips on the moutain, etc.) for them.Internship - Bulgrarian Language, $ 1,300.00Didactic Centre in GabrovoA group of 24 students and 2 professors from thePedagogcal University in Chisinãu, with the specialty“Bulgarian Language and Literature”Study Visit in Romania, $ 1,187.00July 22-30 1996A group of 31 children and 4 professors from thegeneral school Nr 19 (Bender) were invited to a studyvisit by a Romanian cultural foundation.Five students, studying Braille at the State PedagogicalUniversity “Ghertzen” (Russia), visuallyimpaired,members of the Society for the Blind, havegot financing for travel to Russia in order to pass theexams and get diplomas as specialists in Braille.This specialty is very important and necessary forpersons with impaired vision. $ 1,630.43Seminar “Intercultural Training for EuropeanTrainers”, $ 1,089.00March 30 - April 6, 1996Natalia Sucevean is a member of the Association“European Youth Exchange - Moldova” (EYE), which isa branch of the EYE Network. The Association initiates,promotes and sustains the structures, activities andevents in the field of the European Youth Exchange.Natalia Sucevean is responsible for relation with otherorganizations and this seminar has offered her thepossibility to establish relations with youth organizationsfrom Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Germany etc.Conference “Regional Social Policy -Youth Aspect”,Nijny Novgorod, Russia, $ 150.00April 17-20, 1996Vladimir BLAJCO, researcher at the Institute forPhilosophy, Sociology and Law, Academy of SciencesThe conference synthesized contemporary studies insocial, political and criminology studies concerningregional social policy for youth (models of regionalsocial policy, entrepreneur spirit and employment46a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

problems, family and psychological adaptation, crimeproblems, army, political orientation of young people).Mr. Blajco presented a report on “Youth and entrepreneurship:problems of unemployment”.VI Congress of the World Association for mentalhealth of children, Tampere, Finland, $ 2,190.00July 24-28, 1996Aurelia RACU, Ludmila SCOREATINA, Petru ROSCA(Humanitas Association)At the conference were discussed problems concerningsurgical intervention at fragile ages; TV and radioprograms were showed within the workshops. Therepresentatives of Moldova, members of he Associationfor Handicapped Children HUMANITASpresented reports about the situation of Mother andChild Protection in Moldova.World Chess Championship, juniors, Menorca,Spain, $ 700.00October 17 - November 5, 1996Sergiu NISTERIUC, Chess Champion of Republic ofMoldova, member of the National TeamInternship in International Law and PoliticalSciences, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux$ 450.00Dan BELICOVPUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONDuring 1996 the coordinators of the Soros Foundationconducted researches to analyse the problemsof the local public administration. Meetings wereorganised with representatives of non governmentalorganisations (Viitorul, Centre for Social Innovations,Association of the Maires from Republic of Moldova,Federation of Local and Regional Authorities) andinternational organisations (PNUD, TACIS) workingin the field.The results of these activities helped create thestrategy for the Public Administration Program of theSoros Foundation. An experts commission wascreated and began its activity in November 1996, dueto the help of the Institute for Local Government andPublic Service (ILGPS), Budapest, Hungary.International Conference “Students-from Revolutionto Stagnation?”, Innsbruc, AustriaOctober 24-27, 1996.Mihai VASILACHE, Radu DUSCEACOver 400 students from different countries of Europeparticipated at the conference, interested in actualproblems concerning their role in the society, educationprocess and employment, problem solving andstudents movements.The experts conceived five directions for the PublicAdministration Program for 1997:- Developing a modern system of local publicadministration in Moldova- Raising the influence of local public administrationin developing the local social- economic potential- Facilitating the dialogue between local publicadministration and citizens, their participation inadministrating the local interests- Assistance for non governmental organisations,public associations and initiative groups in the fieldof public administration- TrainingIn 1996 the program were the following activities:The First POLIS East-West Seminar “Mobility anda c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 47

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aEnvironmental Protection in Cities and Regions:Innovative Tools and Strategies”.The seminar was jointly organised by the City Hall ofChisinau and the international network POLIS onNovember 1-2, 1996 in Chisinau. The methods of theamelioration of transportation and environmentalimprovement in big cities have been discussed. Thebest results achieved in cities of Western, Central andEaster Europe have been presented. This seminarbrought together professionals from 18 countries.Expenditures: $ 4,800.00ECONOMIC REFORMPARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPSAND SEMINARSTraining Program in Local Management, $ 2,644.00National Centre for Public ServicesApril 2 - 12, 1996, Paris, FranceVasile BUBUIOCNadejda DEMIANIon DRAGOMIRMihai FURTUNAAnatol MOLDOVANUConstantin RACUAndrei SCUTELNICMeeting of Trainers for Elected Officials Leadershipfrom Central & Eastern Europe, $ 572.00November 10 - 13 , 1996, Predeal, RomaniaVictoria DERGACIOVAurel SIMBOTEANUIn the area of Economic Reform programs ourpriorities for 1996 were training in various fields ofmanagement, economics and related fields.The main purposes of these programs were:- to train people in more decentralised market orientedconcepts and practices- to upgrade existing faculty and company officers- to adapt personnel to more business and managementoriented methodsMoldo - American Center for Private Initiative(MACPI). Soros Foundation has supported MACPI inorganising one week seminars in six towns inMoldova. The mission of this Centre is to provideSMEs, throughout Moldova, with business assistancethrough training, individual consultancy and informationdistribution.Disorders Prevention and Architectural Pathology$ 508.00November 25 - 29, 1996, Paris, FranceIon CIUPACLocal Self-Government in the Period of Transformation,$ 1,056.00November 25 - 26,1996, Warsaw, PolandValentin CANTEMIRVictoria DERGACIOVThe main topics covered by these seminars were:- Creating a business- Business management- Financing- Marketing- Credit options- Export & international finance- TaxesExpenditure: $ 4,622.00Agency for Restructuring and Enterprise Assistance(AREA)48a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

AREA, created in 1995, is a non-governmental, notfor-profitorganisation aiming to implement theEnterprise Assistance Program which is a componentof the Private Sector Development Project. SorosFoundation has funded a two-week training course,conducted by AREA for top-level managers from 15enterprises under restructuring. The case studies,especially those drawn from local situations, havebeen widely used. Study tours to the most successfulenterprises have been organised for programparticipants.The Training Program of Restructuring contained thefollowing topics:- Strategic management- Financial analysis and control- Marketing- Human resources managementExpenditure: $ 4,021.00Institute of Management and Advanced Training inAgrobusiness (IMATA)IMATA provides a one year post-university program formanagers in agrobusiness. Ten managers had a twoweek internship in the Czech Republic by the end oftheir studies. The trip gave them the opportunity toexchange and compare agrarian reform information withfarmers and consultants working in the Czech Republic.Expenditure: $ 7,903.00International Conference “Economic Reforms inCountries in Transition”The conference was organised by the Soros FoundationMoldova and the European Union in collaborationwith the International Institute of Management, Centrefor Market Studies, Agency for Restructuring EnterprisesAssistance and Pierre Mendes - France Universityon June 13 - 14, 1996 in Chisinau. The main goal ofthis conference was to evaluate the realisations,particularities and perspectives of the transition tomarket economy in Central and Eastern EuropeanCountries and NIS. The Conference brought togetherspecialists from Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine,Hungary, Slovenija, France , Germany, France, Italy andthe USA. The accepted papers have been published.The Conference program has been divided into thefollowing sessions:- Economic reforms in countries in transition:macroeconomics tendencies and particularities- Empirical results of privatisation- Microeconomics policies of restructuring in transition- Reforms in AgricultureExpenditure: $ 14,591.00Summer School in ManagementThe Summer School of Management has offered 4specialised courses:- Management- Finance and Banking- Marketing- AccountingEach lasted two weeks, with 15 hours of intensivetutorials a week. The main goal of this program wasto acquaint students not only with the theoreticalknowledge of the topics concerned, but also withsome practical experience in the given fields. Thecourses have been held by William Corney, JagdishMehta, Robert Moore - guest lectures form theUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas and Ed Feldman,consultant at the Advisory Centre for Small and MediumEnterprises in Chisinau.Twenty six students from four Moldovan institutionshave benefited from this school:Carolina TORGAIJaneta SUPLEACOVSergiu LISNICIgor ENELucia LAVRICNicolae RAILEANAndrei PORUMBRICAVeaceslav ARIONAliona PETROVADragos MOLDOVEANUDiana BOTNARUVictor PARLICOVMaria MITAEVADiana DIGOLIgor LUCINSCHIRodica IOVUElvira LEAHUa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 49

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aOlga KHAVRONINAIgor BEIUDenis PILEAVSCHILeonidas CRISCIUNASDiana EFROSDumitru GUTSULIACAlexandra MIRCIUCCorina ROMANDaniel ISACExpenditure: $ 21,147.00for the first time, Moldovans (five students) to aninternational student competition in Jerusalem, Israel.Expenditure: $ 21,322.00International Management Centre (Hungary)The International Management Centre is an independentgraduate school of business based in Budapest.In 1996 one scholarship was awarded to GeorgetaSOLOMITCHI from Moldova. Our Foundation coveredtravel expenses and administration costs.International Institute of Management of MoldovaIMIM was established in February 1995 as a non-profittraining centre engaged in continuous managementeducation. This institute offers undergraduate as wellas graduate programs in Business Administration.SFM has funded the travel and the accommodationfor six guest lectures from Russia, Germany and USA.They have taught six two week modules.Expenditure: $ 7,105.00Expenditure: $ 595.00PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPSAND SEMINARSThe Babson International Colloquium for EntrepreneurshipEducators, $ 4,883.00June 3 - 8, 1996, Portoroz, SloveniaMihai DUMITARSCOIgor PADURETechnical UniversityMr. D.Liewy and Mr. A.Swabe from the LondonManagement Centre have taught two week coursesat the Chisinau Technical University. These courseswere designed to introduce engineers to howbusiness is organised and operates in a marketeconomy, with particular reference to marketing, themanagement of change and human resourcemanagement.Expenditure: $ 3,417.00Cooperation FAO with National Libraries andInformation Systems, $ 440.00November 25 - 29 1996, Nitra, SlovakiaElena FERENETSupporting Small and Medium Enterprise Development:Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, CreditFinancing, and Business Support Organizations$ 989.00November 18 - December 6, 1996Pavel LOMAEVJunior Achievement - Moldova(This program was funded by East-West ManagementInstitute, New York)Junior Achievement Moldova (JAM) supplies textbooksand trains teachers to teach Applied Economics (AE)to the 10 th ,11 th and 12 th grades. In January 1996, JAMpurchased Romanian language textbooks (2500 setsof textbooks and guides) with funds received from theEurasia Foundation. These books enabled 57 classesin 28 schools to offer the AE course sponsored byJunior Achievement . In the past year JAM trained 91secondary education teachers and was able to send,Human Resource Management: Strategy andPractice, $ 969.00April 26 - 28, 1996, Almaty, Kazakstan,Sergiu RUSSU50a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Local experts:LAW REFORMThe Law Reform program of Soros FoundationMoldova was initiated in 1994 to support the law reformin the Republic of Moldova through:- support for general and higher education institutions- training for teachers and other specialists- training for young specialistsSEMINAR“ Legal Framework of the Non - Governmental Sector- Philanthropy and Sponsorship “Chisinau, October 17-18, 1996Organisers:- Soros Foundation-Moldova- International Foundation for Electoral Systems ( IFES-Moldova)- National Information and Training Centre for NGOsCONTACTparticipants: 46Foreign experts:Jamila AMODEOInternational Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL),Program Officer, NIS, Washington, USADouglas RUTZENInternational Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL),Director of Legal Affairs, Washington, USADana STANCIUCENTRAS, Romania, CoordinatorOxana SOLOD, Eurasia Foundation, Regional Officefor Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Project CoordinatorLorina BALTEANUSoros Foundation-Moldova, PresidentVictor URSUSoros Foundation-Moldova, Executive DirectorDorin TUDORANInternational Foundation for Electoral SystemsIlia TROMBITCHIParliament of the Republic of Moldova, DeputyMihai CARAMANMinistry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova,Department of Fiscal Policies, ChairmanVictor SURUCEANUChisinau Custom Office, Legal Department, SeniorSpecialistOne of the most important targets of the seminarconsisted in discussing and analysing the new draftof the Law on Foundation and the Law of the Republicof Moldova on Philanthropy and Sponsorship, whichis in force, but far from perfect. Two workshops on thesecond day of the seminar promoted sharing ideasand solutions that the participants found useful. Thefinal version of the draft had to be evaluated andpresented to the Parliament as a result of a cooperationbetween the seminar participants.With a view to this, some legislators and representativeswere also invited. Nevertheless, another focusof the seminar program was to bring to its participantsa better understanding of the laws and regulationswhich form the legal environment of the nongovernmentalsector in Moldova. Its reforming processis considered incomplete without consulting NGOsrepresentatives, national and international expertsand public opinion.It is noteworthy the contribution made by two expertsfrom the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law(USA ), who commented on the above-mentioned draft.Expenditures: $ 4,543.23OTHER PROGRAMSSummer Law SchoolJuly 15 - August 10, 1996Place: Sanatorium “ Codru “, Calarasi, Moldovaa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 51

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aTarget group: law students from Moldovan Universitiesparticipants: 16Within the Law Program of the Soros FoundationMoldova a Summer School was organised. Sixteenstudents from the law Departments of the StateUniversity, International Independent University,University of Humanistic Studies and National PoliceAcademy“ Stefan cel Mare“ passed the selectionprocess, which included application screening and theTOEFL test. The program orientation was done one weekprior to the event. The School curricula contained foursubjects, offered in two parts (each part took two weeks),as follows:- Comparative Constitutional Law - Sona N. Pancholy,Esq., Boston University School of Law- International Contract Law - Prof. Gabriele CrespiReghizzi, PAVIAeANSALDO Studio Legale - InternationalContract Law- Human Rights Law - Prof. Theodore S. Orlin, UticaCollege of Law, Syracuse University - Human Rights Law- International Trade Law - Douglas Hastings, SantaBarbara College of Law - International Trade LawCourses materials were provided for all the students.The middle-term test was taken by the School’sparticipants, and at the end they took Final Exam aswell, indicating the mark in the Certificate of Completionof the Summer Law School. The best students wereawarded prizes in the form of legal textbooks. All thestudent received a Certificate in recognition of theircompletion of the Summer Law School.The teachers and students’ general opinion was thatthe Summer Law School was well organised and as awhole had a positive impact. It was mentioned that forthe future it would be helpful to have more legal resourcesavailable, which will put the class discussions into someperspective. The classrooms’ conditions should beimproved. Another suggestion was to provide necessaryequipment for the class presentations ( VCR and TV ).Expenditures: $ 19,044.25ACQUISITION AND DONATION OF LEGALTEXTBOOKSUnder this program, Soros Foundation-Moldova haspurchased and donated the legal textbooks to thelibraries of the Moldova State University, InternationalIndependent University of Moldova, University ofHumanistic Studies and National Police Academy“Stefan cel Mare“. This literature includes theacquisitions made from the International Chamber ofCommerce Publishing S.A. (Paris, France) - $1,417.26,Foundation for Science and Culture “ Moldova “ (Iasi,Romania) $ 500.00, NOI Bookstore L.T.D. ( Bucharest,Romania) $ 2,168, as well as donations from the OpenSociety Institute (New York, USA), and others: $ 617.46.Expenditures: $ 4,702.72ENGLISH FOR LAW STUDENTSThis project offered to the promising law students theopportunity to study English language at the EnglishSchool of the Open World House an academic year. Theadvertising process began at July 1, 1996. Applicationswere received from 22 candidates from the law facultiesof Moldova State University, International IndependentUniversity of Moldova and the University of HumanisticStudies. Students were eligible upon fulfilling thefollowing criteria: being student at the time of application,studying at the secondary school and university anotherforeign language than English, have a good academicperformance (average mark must be no lower than 8.5).Sixteen students passed the selection process. Thecourses began at September 2,1996.Expenditures: $ 3,660.71SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLICATION OF TEACHINGMATERIALS FOR LEGAL STUDENTSThis project, presented by the Neil Joseph Brennan,Civic Education Project in Moldova, provided funds formultiplication of submissions of the Moldova StateUniversity and International Independent University ofMoldova’s teams to the moot courts programs and ofstudent materials for the International Human Rightsand Environmental Law courses, which are offeredby Mr. Brennan.Expenditures: $ 274.7252a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECTWith the participation of Prof. Theodore S. Orlin (UticaCollege of the Syracuse University, USA) during theperiod of January 8-17, 1997, a Human Rights EducationProgram was held. It included a number of lectures atMoldovan Universities and met with human rightsadvocates in both formal and informal settings.Lectures on human rights were presented to legalstudents of the Moldova State University, the Universityof Humanistic Studies, to the State University AlecuRusso-Balti, and State University Taras Sevcenco-Tiraspol, the Judicial Training Centre in Moldova.Finally, a round table with the representatives of localhuman rights NGOs was held at the Soros FoundationMoldova. In attendance were representatives of SIEDO,Pro-Europa, Amnesty International. This productivemeeting allowed to learn of the work and problems ofhuman rights NGOs in Moldova. Much information wasexchanged and many ideas for future programs werediscussed.Expenditures in 1996: $ 2,243.13Regional Programs:Faculty Training ProgramConstitutional and Legislative Policy InstituteBudapest, HungaryThe Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institute(COLPI) conducts training for law school professorsfrom the non-Russian FSU countries. These programsencourage law school administrators to rethink theirformer approaches to legal education and to train agroup of reform minded legal professionals who areable to address the many legal challenges of transition.In 1996, young faculties from the Moldovan universitieshave participated in two training courses carried out byCOLPI, as follows:Nina AVRAMIIUMLidia DAUCSTE UHStudiesValeriu ZUBCOUHStudiesFaculty training program in Criminal and AdministrativelawBudapest, Noverber 18-29, 1996Participants from Moldova:Sergiu BRINZAMoldova State UniversityDoina GANEAMoldova State UniversitySergiu PAPUHA UHSMarina USTUROI IIUMLIBRARY SUPPORT PROGRAMThis major COLPI program provides needed textbooksto law schools throughout the Central and EastEuropean countries. In 1996, COLPI delivered legaltextbooks to the libraries of Moldova State University,International Independent University of Moldova andNational Police Academy of Moldova “ Stefan cel Mare “,as follows:1 st portion (Russian legal textbooks), September12,1996 - 860 textbooks, total price 7982000.00Russian Rubles.2 nd portion ( Romanian legal textbooks ), November10,1996 - 1950 textbooks on the total price of $7,825.20Expenditures: $ 2,586.26CONFERENCE AND TRAVEL“Rene Cassin European Mooting Competition onHuman Rights”, $ 120.00April 1-4, 1996, Strasbourg, France.Igor CIOBANUEcaterina RADVANSergiu TURCANDorin CIUREAFaculty training program in Commercial and ConstitutionallawBudapest, June 24 - July 06, 1996Participants from Moldova:Victor ERMURACHI Moldova State UniversityNicolai ROSCAMoldova State UniversitySergiu BAESMoldova State UniversityJames Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA$ 250.00, October 12-26, 1996Vladlena LISENCOa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 53

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aActivities organized during one year:- International seminar on alcohol and drug addictionwith participation of lecturers from Stefan BatoryFoundation of Poland and groups of anonymousalcoholics from Lviv and Odessa- Seminar for psychologists engaged in activity of Al-Atin program for children from dysfunctional families- Seminar for health care professionals with participationof Dr. WoronowicMEDICINENational Programs:ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTIONThe Activities of Alcohol and Drug Addiction EducationalCentre (ADAEC) started in January 1996. Themain goal of the program was to create publicawareness to problems of pathological chemicaladdiction (alcohol and drug abuse), understandingthis problem, improving the professional level ofhealth care professionals (physicians, nurses,paramedical specialists), and changing the treatmentand assistance of patients with said pathology.First a team of 10 lecturers specializing in problemsof drug and alcohol addiction and treatment wascreated. Lecturers were trained according to aspecially designed program, obtaining a diploma afterits successful completion.At the same time ADAEC started to establishcollaborations with relevant state structures andinstitutions (Ministry of Health, Moldova State Medicaland Pharmaceutical University, Ministry of InternalAffairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education) localNGOs (Save the Children), and international NGOs(Save the Children of Moscow, Russia, Stefan BatoryFoundation of Poland, Vidrojdenie Foundation of Lviv,Ukraine, and Association of Anonymous Alcoholics ofMoscow).- Organization of a summer camp in the village ofIvancea, Orhei district for children from dysfunctionalfamilies. A seven days course of lectures andseminars designed by ADAEC was presented tochildren and health care professionals. Debate Centerof Soros Foundation of Moldova took an active part atthis event by discussing the problems of alcohol anddrug addiction.- Organization of seminars in 9 prisons of the Republicof Moldova for persons convicted of different types ofcrime committed under alcohol and drug intoxication- Six radio and one television broadcast program onproblems of alcohol and drug addiction- Translation and publishing of brochure of AnonymousAlcoholics Groups- Publishing of articles describing goals and principlesof activity of ADAEC in five local newspapers- “12 Steps” implemented program in curriculum ofpostgraduate training of psychiatrists in the Republicof Moldova- Establishment of the first group of AlcoholicsAnonymous in Chisinau- Participation at four international seminars forlecturers and health care professionalsExpenditures: $ 18,650.0054a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

PUBLISHING OF MEDICAL BOOKSInitiated in response to the acute lack of medicaltextbooks and manuals for the students of MoldovaState Medical and Pharmaceutical University. Aftercompletion of a broad advertising campaign thefollowing publishing grants were awarded by theMedical Board of Soros Foundation Moldova:Dr. Lucrecia TSURCANU, M.D.,Dr. Mihai MOLDOVANU, M.D.Participation at training program of Center ofRadiologic Medicine of Kiev, Ukraine, May 1996Dr. Mihaela VATAMANU, M.D.Participation at training program in echocardiographyat Laennec Hospital of Paris, France, May 1996- Textbook of General Morphologic PathologyAuthors: Dr. I. ZOTA, M.D., Dr. V. VATAMAN, M.D.- Textbook of Microbiology, Virusology, and ImmunologyAuthors: Dr. P. GALETSKII, M.D., Dr. P. BUIUC, M.D.,Dr. S. PLUGARU, M.D.Published books will be donated to medical librariesof Moldova (Library of State Medical and PharmaceuticalUniversity, Central Scientific Library, Libraryof Medical College, Library of Medical InformationalCentre, etc.)Expenditures: $ 20,258.00Dr. Dimitrii MAXIMENCO, M.D.Participation at XX International Course of FunctionalEndoscopic Sinus Surgery at University of Graz,Austria, July 1996Dr. Eugenia CALENICI, M.D.Participation at “Molecular Mechanisms of Atherosclerosisand Recurrence of Vascular Stenosis”training program at European Heart House of France,June 1996.Dr. Grigorii ZAPUHLAH, M.D., Dr. Igor GHERMAN, M.D.Participation at training program in neurosurgery atLariboisere Hospital, France, June 1996PROFESSIONAL TRAINING GRANTSProfessional Training Grants Program was designedto provide travel support for young health careprofessionals who are interested in certain field ofmedicine, have a good command of foreign languages,are committed to sharing their knowledge withothers and can raise matching funds to support theirtraining initiatives. The following doctors receivedfinancial support from Soros Foundation Moldova:Dr. Rodica TCACIUC, M.D.Participation at “Intracoronary Ultrasound duringCoronary Interventions” training program of EuropeanSociety of Cardiology, Antipolis, FranceSeptember 1996Dr. Marina PASECINIC, M.D.Participation at “Management of Acute MyocardialInfarction” training program in Budapest, Hungary,September 1996Dr. Stela ODOBESCU, M.D.Participation at training program of Neurology Serviceof Institute of Medical Research (INSERM) of Paris,France, October-November 1996Soros Foundation of Moldova also supported participationof 30 local physicians at “Manual Therapy inChildren” seminar organized by leading specialistsfrom Kiev, Ukraine during May 1996 in Chisinau.Expenditures: $ 18,000.00PURCHASE OF MEDICAL MANUALSPurchasing medical books for Moldova State Medicaland Pharmaceutical University was designed tosupplement lack of textbooks and contribute toimproving the quality of teaching. As a result the Libraryof the State Medical University received a donation of79 titles (over 1800 copies) of recently publishedbooks.Dr. Emilia BOSHNEAGA, M.D.,Expenditures: $ 10,000.00a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 55

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aSUPPORT OF MEDICAL CONFERENCES ANDSEMINARSSupport of Medical Conferences and SeminarsProgram was designed to facilitate communicationbetween health care professionals from the Republicof Moldova and foreign countries.The following events were supported during 1996:- II Scientific Conference of Cardiologists of Moldova,October 11-12, 1996- II Conference of League of Combat of Epilepsy ofMoldova, September 23, 1996- IV Congress of Orthopedists and Traumatologistsof Moldova, October 10-11, 1996- IV Conference “Actual Problems of InfectiousPathology”, September 1996- I National Conference of Immunologists andAllergologists of Moldova, September 27, 1996- IV International Conference “Prevention of HIV Infectionin Young People: A Global Strategy”, July 26-29, 1996Expenditures: $ 5,137.00SUPPORT OF YOUNG SCIENTISTSThis program was designed to provide support toyoung physicians who have several years of workexperience and are enrolled in Ph.D. researchprograms at the time of application. It was widelyadvertised through mass media and professionalassociations. Competition was merit based andselections were made by the Medical Board of theSoros Foundation Moldova considering professionalqualifications, work experience, education, and theimpact such research work would have on healthissues of major priority.Following doctors were awarded $ 1,000.00 grants in1996:Dr. Victor ABABEI, M.D.Dr. Larisa BUZDUGAN, M.D.Dr. Oleg CALENICI, M.D.Dr. Elena CATANA, M.D.Dr. Angela CHEPTENE, M.D.Dr. Angela CIUNTU, M.D.Dr. Svetlana DIMITRASH, M.D.Dr. Serghei GARGAUN, M.D.Dr. Vitalii GHICAVII, M.D.Dr. Svetlana HADJIU, M.D.Dr. Liviu IAROVOI, M.D.Dr. Victoria CHIHAI, M.D.Dr. Mihai LUPU, M.D.Dr. Igor REVENCO, M.D.Dr. Sergiu REVENCU, M.D.Dr. Jean SILI, M.D.Dr. Marcela SHOITU, M.D.Dr. Ecaterina STRATU, M.D.Dr. Ruslan TSURCANU, M.D.Dr. Rodion TOMA, M.D.Expenditures: $ 15,865.00Regional Programs:CD ROM PROJECTThe CD ROM program was to keep key medical librariesof the Republic of Moldova updated on the latestdevelopments in medicine through modern informationsystems.Subscription to medical databases was renewed formedical libraries of Moldova State Medical andPharmaceutical University, Republican Clinical Hospital,and Medical Foundation of Moldova, making followingdatabases available for medical community of republic:MedFive, New England Journal of Medicine, ClinPsyc,BigFive, Lancet, BMJ, JAMA, AIM, Compact AIDS,Compact AHA, Physician Desk Reference, SAM-CD.CHILD ABUSE PREVENTIONChild Abuse Prevention program was designed toassist elementary school aged children, their parentsand teachers in understanding negative ramificationsof violence, and provide them with clear, viablealternatives to being both abusers and victims inviolent situations that arise within the family, in peergroups and among strangers. Much attention wasgiven to issues of training of trainers and dispersionof knowledge about prevention of child abuse.Collaboration between Open Society Institute of NewYork, International Center for Assault Prevention, SorosFoundation of Moldova had made possible organizationof Child Assault Prevention Training in Chisinau,56a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Republic of Moldova, during July 13-16, 1996.Association of Moldova, $ 6,000.00Considering the importance of providing knowledgeabout prevention of abuse, Open Society Institute of NewYork announced a grant competition for related projects.A project of the Moldovan Center for Abuse Preventionwas awarded a grant of $ 20,694.00, which will constitutethe base of activities in prevention of child abuse for 1997.HEALTH CARE INITIATIVESHealth Care Initiatives makes funds available to NGOsinterested in promoting innovative approaches to healthcare issues. A broad advertising campaign was startedin order to solicit applications from individuals andorganizations interested in introducing systematicchanges into the national health care system. Seventeenprojects were submitted by different NGOs from theRepublic of Moldova. Eight projects ($116,000.00) wereselected by Open Society Institute of New York:HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTHospital Development Project was a result of thecollaboration between Soros Foundation Moldova, CareliftInternational and the Medical Foundation of Moldovaaimed to deliver medical equipment and supplies tohospitals having acute shortages of mentioned items.In 1996 sixteen sea containers of medical equipmentand supplies were brought in Moldova. Sophisticatedtechnical equipment was tested by biomedicalengineers of Medical Foundation of Moldova.Specialists from the Medical Foundation of Moldovaalso translated and reprinted relevant technicaldocuments, organized training for operators ofmedical equipment and service personnel.SALZBURG SEMINARS FOR PHYSICIANSImprovement of Training of Neonatologists inMoldova, submitted by Department of Neonatology ofMoldova State Medical and Pharmaceutical University,$ 11,000.00Implementation of Preventive Methods for “DistressSyndrome” of Newborns in Republic of Moldovasubmitted by Institute of Pediatrics of Republic ofMoldova, $ 21,000.00Note: Project No. 1 and Project No. 2 were awarded ajoint grant of $ 20,000.00Psychological Life Quality Improvement Projectsubmitted by Psychoanalytical and PsychosomaticAssociation of Moldova, $ 31,000.00Improvement of Rational Drug Use in Moldovasubmitted by Association DRUGS, $ 30,000.00Family Health in Rural Region submitted by RepublicanFoundation “Mother and Child Health Care”$ 29,000.00This program is the result of collaboration betweenAmerican Austrian Foundation, Soros FoundationMoldova, Cornell University Medical College, and theGovernment of Austria. The purpose of SalzburgSeminars Program is to bring the latest informationand technology to young doctors from countries ofCentral and Eastern Europe. The following physiciansfrom the Republic of Moldova were invited to participateat Salzburg Seminars Program by the Medical Boardof American Austrian Foundation and receivedfinancial support from the Soros Foundation:Dr. Oleg PASCAL, M.D., Dr. Vitalie LISNIC, M.D.Neurology, January 28 - February 2, 1996Dr. Oleg PASCAL, M.D.Emergency Care in Pediatrics, March 10 - 15, 1996Dr. Ivan POUIOU, M.D.Obstetrics and Gynecology, March 31 - April 5, 1996Dr. Anna MISHINA, M.D.Anesthesiology, April 28 - May 3, 1996Family Planning and Sexual Education at School inRepublic of Moldova submitted by Family PlanningDr. Andrew PERCHIUN, M.D.General Internal Medicine, May 19 - 24, 1996a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 57

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aDr. Alexandru CARAUSH, M.D.Pediatric Nephrology and Gastroenterology, June 2 - 7,1996Dr. Tudor RUSNAC, M.D.Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, July 14 - 19,1996Dr. Rodica GYLKA, M.D., Dr. Lucian DANILOV, M.D.Otorhinolaryngology, August 25 - 30, 1996SCHWEITZER SEMINARSIn 1996 the Soros Foundation Moldova organized aConference of Bioethics with experts from TulaneUniversity Medical Centre in collaboration with OpenSociety Institute of New York, and Albert SchweitzerInstitute for the Humanities. The events allowedexchanges of new information and experiencebetween health care professionals from the Republicof Moldova and their colleagues abroad. Also to provideassistance to the Administration of Moldova StateMedical and Pharmaceutical University in upgradingtheir curriculum of studies.The Conference of Bioethics included discussions ofdifficult cases at Chairs of Anesthesiology andReanimation, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynecology,Physiology, and Oncology. Each session of theconference was attended by Faculty members ofMoldova State Medical University, practicing physicians,residents, and medical students (approximate involving40 people). A lecture concerning the philosophic issuesof Bioethics was presented to the students of faculty ofgeneral medicine (approximately 150 people).The conference program also included meetingsbetween Chief of the Health Care Reforms of Ministry ofHealth, Dr. Victor Volovei, Head of Chair of Social MedicineDr. Prof. Eugen Popushoi, Head of Chair of PhilosophyProf. Teodor Tsirdea. Implementing Bioethics course inthe curriculum of Medical School was examined, as wellas the importance of addressing legal and ethicalaspects during the postgraduate education of doctors.At the same time the discussions revealed thedifferences between health care systems of Moldovaand of Western countries. It is important to mention thatlittle attention is being currently paid to the concepts ofinformed consent, role of the patient in decision making,and a patient’s autonomy, which reflects the transition ofthe entire Moldovan post communist society to a openand democratic one. Therefore, the Conference ofBioethics made its important contribution to this process.Experts from Tulane University Medical Center reviewedthe present curriculum of studies of chairs of Surgery,Obstetrics and Gynecology, Internal Medicine andPediatrics at the invitation of Rector of Moldova StateMedical and Pharmaceutical University “N. Testemitsanu”.Reviews included visiting clinical facilities,talking with key administrative faculty members andsome residents and reviewing medical records. Afterexamining the current situation, analysing statisticalindexes of the health care system and curriculum ofstudies of Moldova State Medical and PharmaceuticalUniversity experts from Tulane University Medical Centerdeveloped a list of nine specific recommendations thatwere forwarded to the Administration of Moldova StateMedical and Pharmaceutical University.The Conference of Bioethics took place during October7-11, 1996 and was performed by Prof. Andrew Edgar,Ph.D., Prof. Julius Landwirth, M.D. in collaboration withSoros Foundation Moldova and faculty members ofMoldova State Medical and Pharmaceutical University.The visit of Dr. Paul G. Dyment, M.D. and Dr. Lewis M.Flint, M.D. of Tulane University Medical Center tookplace during October 14-17 1996.THOMAS JEFFERSONULTRASOUND TRAINING PROGRAMThomas Jefferson Ultrasound Training Program wasdesigned to improve the quality of health care byproviding the possibility of 12 month fellowship atThomas Jefferson University to specialists inultrasound diagnostics. Fellowship program includedtheoretical classes and clinical work. Two doctors fromthe Republic of Moldova were selected to participate:Dr. Liviu TCACIUC, M.D.Dr. Ivan ZATUSHEVSCHI, M.D.Soros Foundation Moldova supported their travelexpenditures.58a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

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s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v adeadline for applications was August 1, 1996. To applyfor this program the solicitants had to fill in a participationform. The applications were reviewed by the massmedia, publishing, arts & culture board on August 23.The accorded assistance did not include the generalexpenses of the publications.MASS MEDIAThe 1996 mass media programs were shifted to localmedia bodies - for them were created and realizedprograms of assistance and newsprint donations. Thetechnical assistance was followed by seminars andtraining, administrated by the Independent JournalismCentre or organised by different media bodies.In the field of TV the Foundation continued to supportthe TV Studio at the Open World House as a laboratoryand a school for young journalists and has given agrant for creating new and original TV programs.The Foundation continued to support through a grantthe Independent Journalism Centre at the Open WorldHouse, which operates as a strong information andtraining base for Modovan media. In 1996 the Centrehas administrated most of the seminars, financed bythe Soros Foundation.LOCAL MEDIA SUPPORTThe local mass media, especially the local newspapers,are in a period of transition most affected by thetransformations in society. Without being subsidised bylocal authorities and because of the pauperisation ofthe population most local papers are on the edge ofbankruptcy or interrupting their activity. Some of themare trying to change direction, registering as independentpublications, giving more useful information to theirreaders. We considered it necessary to help suchinitiatives that would serve as examples for other papers.Technical and professional assistance was offered ona competitive basis to local independent media bodiesthat proved to be viable or are trying to adapt to neweconomical and social conditions.The program was advertised in the press and theThe board decided to support the following localindependent media organisations:CugetulBaltiGazeta de vestNisporeniAciic ghiozComratDECA press news agency BaltiWithin the same program the Union of Journalistsreceived technical assistance (to update the databaseof her members and partners, for monitoring projectsand improving communication with national andforeign media bodies).The equipment was given according to a leasecontract for 1 year between Soros Foundation Moldovaand each publication.To facilitate the use of the given equipment weconsidered it necessary to organise a computercourse for the journalists from local newspapers.During a week (November 4-8) 10 journalists studiedthe Page - maker program.The Association of Independent TV journalists “VIP”from the Republic of Moldova has obtained a grant fordeveloping activities in the field of protecting journalistsrights, the right of a spectator to objective and impartialinformation through the print and electronic press.The Association has several projects:- monitoring cases of encroaching upon journalist’s,readers and viewers rights to information- juridical and temporary material assistance to illtreated faired journalists- collaboration with other non-governmental organisations- seminars and other training activitiesBudget of the grant: $2,500.00Expenditures: $ 8,888.39Allocations: $ 16,112.0060a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

NEWSPRINT DONATIONS FOR PRINT MEDIAcontinued in 1997.The program was created to help local print media,for which newsprint is one of the biggest problemsand constitutes an important part of the budget. Theindependent local newspapers in their first year ofactivity have losses: this is a typical situation for otherenterprises too. The local newspaper’ s client is areader with small buying capacity, because aconsiderable part of the rural population does notreceive their salaries in time. In such conditions thepublications barter subscriptions and advertising orhave other economic activities.The program was designed for two years as a seriesof grants for existing and appearing newspapers. Agrant covers the solicitants’ needs for 6 months, afterthat the beneficiary can apply for a second one,presenting a report which reflects the rationality ofusing the first grant and the realised progress. Theprogram was advertised in the press and until August1996 run jointly with the “Local media support” project.The applications were reviewed monthly at the massmedia, arts & culture, publishing board of SorosFoundation. The beneficiaries had to find themselvesthree offers and the foundation only transferred thenecessary amount.Publications which received grants within theprogram:Business-infoCugetulLimba RomanaAciic ghiiozGazeta de vestThe donation was certified by a contract betweenSoros Foundation Moldova and each beneficiary,which states the conditions that all the publicationsmust respect:- not to use the grant for promoting extremism, violenceor any other ideas against democratic and humanrights- use the newsprint only for production purposes- refrain from reselling the newsprintWe are considering that this program should beExpenditures: $ 13,856.00Allocations: $ 26,144.00ASSISTENCEFOR INDEPENDENT RADIO STATIONSPrograms for radio at the Soros Foundation wererealized in coordination with the activity of theCoordinating Council for the Audiovisual as a public,autonomous authority, created by the Law for theAudiovisual. The Council concedes frequencies andcoordinates the activity of radio and TV stations.Since 1994 the Soros Foundation developed a complexprogram of assistance for independent radio stations.In 1994 was initiated a project of radio equipmentdonations for radio stations, only appearing at thatmoment, followed in 1995 by programs like “Preparationand exchange of radio programs” (supervised by Radiod’Or), ”Communication between radio stations” (finishedin 1996), “Competition for the best radio reporting”. Theaim of these programs was to promote qualityindependent radio and sustaining the informative aspectin radio. In 1996 two projects of technical assistance forindependent radio stations were financed:The radio station “Unda libera” obtained a $ 5,000.00grant for equipment, a donation which allowed thechange of FM and quality improvement.The radio station “Radio d’Or” has received anequipment grant of $ 15,716.00 for the informationreception network. The aim of “Radio d’Or” is to formthe first independent radio station, which would havea professional journalist team and, as a result, a realimpact on alternative information (community, social,economic, political). The station wants to become abase for radio journalists training and implementationof new technologies.Expenditures: $ 21,560.00PUBLICATIONS FOR YOUTH AND CHILDRENBetween mass media objectives - information,education and entertainment - priority importance fora c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 61

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v athe youth and children press have the later two.Publications for this kind of reader are importantbecause they have a clear education and informationmission: to complement the scholar education of theyounger generation. The children and teenagersdiscover themselves in a community and participatein her life, being encouraged to take an active positionand interest in society phenomena.That’s why we considered sustaining these publications.The main children and youth publications “FlorileDalbe”, “Noi” and “Alunelul” have created a commoneditorial Centre. The technical facilities offer them nowthe possibility to lower the subscription cost and todevelop supplementary editorial projects such aspublishing fiction for children, anthologies of youngtalents from the Republic. The equipment was givenfor one year on a contract basis.The student’s newspaper “Zig zag Studentesc”received a grant ($ 3,468.00) for editing the newspaper.Expenditures: $ 13,752.00MASS MEDIA AND ELECTIONSThe project supported different initiatives of mediaorganisations covering the presidential elections inMoldova, and, through this, stimulating the objectiveand unbiased monitoring of electoral campaigns in acountry of the former Soviet Union like Moldova.Soros Foundation Moldova co-financed a project ofBASA-press news agency, realised within the Pro-Democracy & IFES “Building Electoral Democracytrough Institutions and Civic Initiatives” project.The bulletin “Presidential elections” was realised byBASA-press together with “Moldova-press” and “Nikapress”agencies between October 22 - November 19,1996.A mixed team of three agencies was created to workon the bulletin. A daily bulletin consisting of news onthe campaign and the candidates was distributed toall the subscribers of the agencies participating inthe project. News from the bulletin appeared in thepress- “Momentul”, “Vocea poporului”, ”NezavisimaiaMoldova”, ”Telegraf”, at the National Radio, “Eldo-Radio”, BBC and “Radio Free Europe”.Expenditures: $ 3,791.00MASS MEDIA PUBLISHINGThe program is a continuation of the initiatives in thefield from 1995, when the projects “Radio and TV bookpublishing” were designed. The lack of new textbooksat the Journalism faculty is a well-known fact; thestudents are provided with study materials written bythe professors and printed at the Faculty. Besides this,there is a need for new information, analyticalmaterials and different studies in the field, which canbe obtained only trough buying, translating andpublishing books, not only for students, but also forprofessionals.We have bought this year the following titles:- Nicky Stanton “Comunicarea” (Communication)- Nicky Stanton “Supervizarea” (Supervising)- Mihai Coman “ Mass media, societate, cultura”(Mass media, Society, Culture)- Richard Upjohn, Holt Ruffin, “Internet for Journalists”- ICFG’s brochure / Mission Statement- ICFG’s Guide to Fellowships in the United States forjournalists from Other Countries- A Brieth Outline of the American Electronic Media:Radio, TV and Cable/ Christopher Sterling- A Brief profile of the American Press- Journalismand Print Media- ICFG Media Tips Anthology, vol.1- ICFG Media Tips Collection- Ten practical tips for Environmental Reporting/ PeterNelson- Script: A brief history of the American Media- Training Video : Getting the story: the basics ofprofessional Journalism , Reporting, Writing andEditing + Instructor’s Guide and workbook- Collection :Media professional standards- Collection :Practical adviceThe board has accepted a translation projectpresented by the Journalism School - “Case by Case:Journalistic Decision - Taking in Europe”. Thetranslation and publishing will be done at the School.62a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

The Soros Foundation also participates in the“Translating Journalism Books” project of SorosFoundation - Bucharest and the Journalism School,Bucharest.The books from these projects will be donated to theJournalism School at the State University , to theIndependent Journalism Center and the NationalLibrary. The project will be continued in 1997 withtranslating and publishing books.Expenditures: $ 1,000.00SEMINARS AND TRAININGThis program included :- projects administrated by the Independent JournalismCentre (are described with the Open WorldHouse activities)- projects presented and realised by different mediaorganisations:The National Radio in collaboration with BBC WorldService training organised (August 26-September 10)the seminars ”Management training” and “How toorganise a training service in radio”. The first seminartook place in Calarasi, participants were 15 personsfrom the administration of the company “ TeleradioMoldova”. The moderator was Mr. Richard Oppenheimer,consultant at BBC. The theoretical andpractical lessons analysed the activity of RadioMoldova and other radio stations and developedconcrete actions for reorganising the radio. Thesecond seminar discussed the fields where trainingis most necessary, the strategy and implementation.On December 14, 1996 the National Radio organisedthe seminar “Radio Moldova in the electoralcampaign”, where participated: representatives of theParliament, Central Electoral Campaign, candidatesfor presidency, news agencies which realised thenews bulletin “The presidential scrutiny”, of theJournalism Department at the State University andother media bodies. The aim of the seminar was toanalyse the activity of the Radio during elections,elaborate recommendations for the future electoralcampaigns.The analytical group “Septemtrio” and “DaiverTelecommunication Group“ organised on December21, 1996 a seminar for local TV stations, withrepresentatives from Cahul, Floresti, Ciadir- Lunga,Balti and Chisinau. The seminar analysed the workof the stations, discussed perspectives of commonwork. Nowadays several stations participate in aproject of common broadcasting. Projects of a weeklyprogram in collaboration with stations, productionstudios, print press and exchange with other countrieswere discussed.The independent newspaper “Cugetul “ received agrant for the seminar “Independence of the local printmedia”. This was organised in Balti and had 35participants from local ( northern Republic) print media,local authorities, Ministry of Justice, Ministry ofFinances, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights fromMoldova and the Union of Journalists.They discussed:- registration procedure of media organisations- juridical status , economic activity and tax payingMarc Cernoff, a Peace Corps volunteer and consultantat the Business Centre in Cimislia, gave a speechabout presenting economic problems in the pressand suggesting concrete steps for offering moreinformation with an economic profile.The Helsinki Committee representative revealed thenecessity of interpreting laws and human rights forthe common reader.The seminar was considered very useful andcontributed to the development and collaboration ofmedia.Total Expenditures: $ 4,537.00ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIPSFOR JOURNALISTSThe program is on-going from 1995. It was necessaryto continue this project because one of the mainproblems that Moldovan journalists experience incommunicating with foreign colleagues is the poorknowledge of English. The need of this knowledge isfelt in every day work with the computer, foreignsources, Internet, etc. Many of them can not benefita c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 63

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v afrom different scholarships, seminars, workshopsabroad because they do not know English.The program was administrated by the EnglishLanguage School at the Open World House.Beneficiaries in 1996 were:Angela BRASOVEANUVioleta CIOCANUAda FODORValeriu CORCIMARIVioleta GRIGOREGrigore BRINZATatiana PLACHIDATatiana LAZARIAlla BELOSTECINIIDumitru TIRACornelia COZONACIon FIODOROVGheorghe DONITurcanu VLADVeronica CERNEIOleg ARHAROVVioleta COJOCARUMarcel STRATONErnest ABILDAEVVadim VISLOGUZOVOxana SOLOVEIAngela SIRBUVictor OSIPOVAlexandr BURDEINIISerafim ISACValentin BALANGheorghe ERIZANUIurie BODRUGSvetlana CALICENCOCorina RAIUExpenditures: $ 8,540.78TRAVELSupport was provided for the travel expenses ofjournalists to various conferences, seminars andworkshops.International Week of Journalism and CommunicationSciences, Zwolle, $ 500.00February 16-25, 1996Ecaterina ZATUSEVSCHIMonitoring Presidential Elections in Russia,Moscow, $ 605.54July 1996Ilie LUPANSeminar “Mass Media in Europe”, Klingenthal,France, $ 1,361.00March 25-30, 1996Corina CEPOI, Fidel GALAICUCarrefour International de la Radio, Clermont-Ferrant, France, $ 514.38November 22-24, 1996Valentina TESTEMITEANUInternational Festival “Ex Aequo” of Radio Theatresfor Children, Bratislava, $ 673.79November 4-9, 1996Stefan LOZINSCHISeminar “Journalists in need”, Prague, $ 294.66April 8-14, 1996Elena BARTASEVICIInternship at Radio Belfort, Belfort, France, $ 503.00October 1996Lidia MARINSeminar “International Reporting”, Moscow$ 187.44November 1996Dian LACHIMedia Fest Festival, Costinesti, $ 355.94August 26-30, 1996Corina CepoiThe II Festival of Local Broadcasters, Kosice$1,875.53October 22-26, 1996Aneta GROSU, Alina RADU, Tatiana PLACHIDA,Natalia SOLODOVNIC64a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

AMARC Conference “Voices without frontiers”,Copenhagen, $ 1,069.72October 15-20, 1996Lidia BANCIU, Lidia RUSNACInternational Documentary Filmfestival, Amsterdam,$ 2,182.66December 4-6, 1996Alecu DELEUExpenditures: $ 9,623.66Total Expenditures: $ 134,804.44ARTS AND CULTUREAs an infrastructure for management, impresarios andan efficient system of financing are missing in theArts and Culture field, the Soros Foundation’s activityin the field promoted cultural values, sustaining artisticevents, communication and integration of the artistsfrom Moldova in international processes, stimulatingcreativity and initiative.The Foundation supported projects in modern formsof artistic expression, promoting creative experimentand original collaborations between theatre, music,literature, visual arts and choreography in nationaland international events.One of the key programs for 1996 was the 8 th East-West Festival in Die, France (September 17-29).It took almost a year to select the most representativeartists and to elaborate the structure and elements ofthe Festival.Finally, Moldova was represented at the Festival by:- The "Eugen Ionesco" theatre- "Trigon", "Cuibul" and "Tãlãncuþa" music groups- the piano duet Anatolie Lapicus and Iurie Mahovici- The Bulgarian folklore dance group "Radoliubie",joined by a group of musiciens from the TvarditaVillage- Artists:Andrei NEGURANatalia BICHIRStefan BEIUAlina COCIERUNatalia SATCENCOSimona TOMAIgor SCERBINAEugen VEREBCEANUMircea PUSCASAt the Festival 3 exhibitions were presented from thecollections of the museums of Visual Art (MoldovanIcon, XVI-XIX century), Ethnography, Natural Historyand Archaeology, and several exhibitions of handicraftspeople.Thus the Die East - West Festival hasoffered more than 60 cultural and artistic events-a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 65

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aperformances, concerts, exhibitions, films meetingsand dialogue in only two weeks.from Moldova participated in the contest, the prize forthe best performance went to ''Satiricus'' Theatre.The preparation and realisation of the Festival wasmade through a convention of partnership betweenthe Ministry of Culture, Alliance Francaise and theAssociation "Festivalul EST-OUEST" from Die.The Soros Foundation covered transportation, perdiem and related expenses.Expenditures: $ 65,924.00TOP THEATRE ’ 96''Top Theatre '96'' was the second edition of a programstarted in ’95 , which aimed to attract public attentionto cultural and artistic processes, initiate efficienttheatre-spectator relations and stimulate appreciationand support for theatre innovations. In the frame ofthis project was launched a new form of performanceappreciation based on a spectators’ survey (realisedby a group of students in the Social SciencesDepartment, ASEM) and in the theatre medium(realised by the Agency ''Flux''), with a professionalpanel of art critics.According to the results, Soros Foundation’s prizeswere given to:Expenditures: $ 7,153.00MUSIC SESSIONThe authors of this project looked for innovative formsof collaboration in music and to implement formulasof managerial activityExpenditures: $ 348.00In order to stimulate the interpretative arts and apermanent circuit of values, the Foundation hassupported through grants artistic communities’projects of internships, workshops and festivals.The Art-folk trio "Trigon" has benefited from a grantfor master-classes for the students from the MusicAcademy, Oslo at the invitation of this institution.The classes finished with several shows / concertsin Oslo and with records for the second CD of thisgroup. The impact of this program is familiarisingNorwegian students and the public with Moldovanfolklore traditions in the context of contemporary music.Expenditures: $ 1,858.00- the best performance''Voci in lumini orbitoare'', M.Viºniek''Eugen Ionesco'' Theatre- the best stage managerPetru VUTCARAUSupport was offered to the National Theatre "MihaiEminescu" for the organisation of 6 performances(the most successful in the last years) in Bucharest,December 16-22,1996.This was an important event for the promotion oftheatre arts from Moldova.- the best actorVlad CIOBANU- the best actressSilvia LUCAA part of this project was the competition of microperformances- "kapustnic" style, on an announcedtopic "Star-sickness of Moldovans''. Their aim was tostimulate the creativity, improvisation and, last but notleast, courage and civic responsibility. Eight theatresExpenditures: $ 2,581.00The Foundation supported a project of the Societyfor theatre-fans “Arlekino” from Tiraspol in collaborationwith the Russian Dramatic Theatre fromTiraspol.The aim of the project is to support the integration ofTiraspol actors in the theatrical life in Chisinau andan interethnic communication through art. TheTiraspol actors presented three performances inChisinau (one from the Russian patrimonies, one66a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

from the universal one and a revue performance)Expenditures: $ 1,356.00The project "Three Literary Debuts" was initiated bythe "Arc" Publishing House to promote and supportyoung writers, and is now a tradition.To facilitate the national and international promotionof the jazz chorus "Musical Feast", the Foundationoffered a grant for audio and video records, pluspromotion materials (posters, flyers, etc.).Expenditures: $ 984.00In 1996, after a selection of manuscripts, ''Arc''nominated the three most representative authors:Luminita DUMBRAVEANUIulian CIOCANStefan BASTOVOIAn important project was familiarising the Moldovanpublic with the national and international musicalpatrimonies: French miniature by Moldovan interpretors.The project was initiated by Iurie Mahovici, professorat the Music Academy "G. Musicescu" and has largecultural, spiritual and social interpretations.To educate an attentive spectator and to familiarisethem with the universal musical creation, it isnecessary to promote interpretative arts to introducein the concerts program commentaries and literaryforays.The project prepared and presented for the first timea program of French instrumental miniatures(creations for children or dedicated to them by Ravel,Faure, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Milhaud, Bizet).On the basis of this musical program two musicaland literary shows for children were presented inRomanian and Russian and a piano recital for adults.The musical program will be recorded on CD andaudio cassettes.and has published in the “Literary Debut” two booksof poetry and one of literary criticism.Expenditures: $ 7,533.00SUPPORT FOR ARTS AND CULTURE JOURNALSThis is a traditional project of the Soros Foundation.This year the journals "Sud-Est", "Basarabia" and"Contrafort" were given equipment - computers,printers, faxes.Expenditures: $ 13,444.00The Union of Writers was given a grant ($ 521.00) forequipment.The Foundation gave a grant for publishing the firstissue (3000 copies) of the Gagauz jounal “'SABAAIILDIZI'' (''The Morning Star''). It is a literary, artistic andhistorical journal, published in the latin alphabet.Expenditures: $ 1,355.00Expenditures: $ 3,030.00Another project was “Moldovan Choral Art in theMiddle Ages and Byzantine Music as UniversalMusical Patrimony"Among all the musicological models generated bythe musical culture of the Byzantine Empire, onlyMoldovan choral art was not kept as a record. Thereis no audio recording of this kind of choral art. Theproject supported recording two choral groups forfurther distribution through bookstores, radio stations,embassies, tourists agencies, etc.Expenditures: $ 4,174.00A special issue of the journal ''Moldova'', dedicatedto the East-West Festival in Die, France, waspublished with the help of the Soros Foundation,Alliance Francaise and the Ministry of Culture.Expenditures: $ 645.00TRAINING AND WORKSHOPSA project of the National Theatre "M. Eminescu"concerning a master-class for 60 professional actorsfrom Moldova and students at the Arts Institute wasa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 67

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v arealised in 1996. The moderator was Scott Johnston- a stage manager from the UK, with an internationalreputation and substantial experience. The implementationof modern techniques was the focus of thediscussions. These are necessary for maintainingthe artists qualifications and familiarising new workingmethods in the studios of Europe."Contemporary Literature from Basarabia in Frenchcultural journals: perspectives” was the topic ofanother workshop.The special guest was Josette Rassle, writer andeditor-in-chief of ''Missives''. She met professors andstudents from higher education institutions , pupilsfrom lyceums and the interested public. At the endwas launched a special issue of ''Missives'' onRomanian Literature from BasarabiaExpenditures: $ 2,910.00Total Expenditures: $ 113,816.00SCCAThe Soros Centre for Contemporary Art - Chisinaucan be considered a new addition to the SCCAnetwork. Starting in the spring of 1996, we consideredthe functions such an organism should have inChisinau. Reflecting on the picture of the local visualart, we could not assert that avant garde methodsand tendencies were a constant component of thecultural life of Moldova. The reserved attitude of theartistic community toward the new milieus, at theheight of their development in the West, is due largelyto inheriting the "tradition" of the Soviet SocialistRepublic of Moldova. This was based on the closecorrelation of "art-ideology" (dogma), on the informationalisolation imposed by the encystation withinour geographical space and, implicitly, on theostentatious "sovereignty" against the epiCenters ofuniversal culture.Further, we directed ourselves to some of the mostimportant issues raised by this context. Our Center’sstaff had to be attentive to the needs and interests ofartists, art groups and new art forms coupled withthose of the audience, established state culturalinfrastructures and official art, and their inherentcontradictions. This land's being fluctuated like theneedle of a barometer measuring all the pressuresof this region. Our society, including art and culture,was shaped during the past fifty years by themultinational landscape of the former empire. Thisconglomeration revealed a wide range of features68a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

elonging to different cultures. The artists fromMoldova who graduated from different art academiesin the capitals of the USSR's republics, came homeand added to those national colorations. Prior to thisperiod, artists graduated from art academies in Iasiand Bucharest which reflected the national characterof this region.One of our most significant motivating factors ispeople, specifically artists, who are the basic elementof this complex structure. Like all of society, the artisticcommunity is in a perpetual process of transformationdue to a number of historical/social configurationswhich had to be confronted. The permanent feeling ofinstability, which originated in the last decade, istypical of this region. Considerable changes wroughtby historical/social cataclysms (e.g. the war inTransnistria, the national and political antagonisms,etc.) were felt in the local artistic community. This periodwas characterised by a pessimism which was felt inall domains of society. It resulted in substantial shiftsof national identity. Because of political pressure,people moved to their "historical motherlands" orimmigrated to new "promised lands." During this time,we essentially "lost" an entire generation of artists,particularly those who were born in the 60s. Themissing link in the chain of our artistic communitybecame very obvious. This evident break between thegenerations of the 40s, 50s and 70s and those of this"lost generation" have had a great impact on Moldovanvisual arts.All these points served as food for thought inestablishing an institution which would deal withcontemporary visual arts.Another mission of the Centre was to establish somesense of harmony within this community which stillexperiences enormous social, economical andpolitical difficulties. The network of cultural organisationsare ineffective due to endless modificationsand changes. This has provided the Centre with apurpose and has helped to clarify our long termobjectives. Many of these institutions are still basedon the principles of the recent past. A long term goalof this Centre is the establishment of collaborativemethods to shape a vital cultural life in society. OurSCCA is in the process of instituting programs withorganisations like the Ministry of Culture, the Union ofArtists, the Institute of Art History and Theory, theInstitute of the Arts, etc., as well as foreign organisations.The Centre’s range of activities is very largein Moldova. It attempts to support many programswhich other state or non-governmental structures arelimited or unable to see materialised at this time.During the first year of our SCCA, projects andbudgeting followed the outline of the existing Network.It consisted of three parts; Annual Exhibitions, Grantsfor Artists and Comprehensive Documentation.Operating with the implementation budget andfollowing the Board's decision, the main emphasis ofthe Centre was on exhibitions and their accompanyingdocumentation (e.g. videos, posters, catalogues).Two large exhibitions and an international seminarwere realised.The 6th KILOMETERA serious test for our staff was the first annualexhibition entitled the 6th KILOMETER. By launchingthe concept of this exhibition we assumed the task ofanswering many questions related to a certain culturalperiod of our country. It reflected upon the last six yearsof artistic activity in Moldova, in an environment foreignto our previous experience. The exhibition focused onthe particularities of the current moment in connectionwith the itinerary of visual art's evolution. The titledenotes the intention to introduce an exhibitoryframework with some conclusive features to thepublic. The evolution of the cultural period precedingthe 6th KILOMETER led to establishing somepremises in shaping new attitudes among our artistsin respect to a variety of non-traditional means ofexpression. We produced a catalogue of the show; itwas the Centre’s first publication.OPEN WORKOPEN WORK was an international seminar and thetheoretical companion of the 6th KILOMETER. Itbrought together people from different countries toexamine the historical context of the term "open work"in conjunction with current art practice. These arta c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 69

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v ahistorians, curators and artists addressed questionsof concern to the local art community.carbonARTThe first formal project by the SCCA-Chisinau wascalled carbonART. Experimental in nature, it took placein the summer of 1996 in a former "pioneer" camp. Itfulfilled an interest of the local artists to engage in thenew media related to environmental/land art. The termwas chosen to suggest the idea of directly using theenvironment as a means of artistic expression. Byusing "innovative" artistic methods the artists shapedthe environment in accordance with their own visionand conception of the world. "Innovative" also in thesense that a context was provided for artists whichwas outside their usual practice. The artist imposedhis or her work (applied the idea) upon nature itself,recognising the ephemeralty of their projects. Duringthis camp the artists held both poles of communication,that of viewer and producer. The SCCA-Chisinau has proposed to resume this event as aSCARP project in the summer of 1997, involving theSCCA-Bucharest and the SCCA-Odessa.ARTIST'S CLUBs are an ongoing series of meetingsstarted in 1996. They are comprised of exchangesbetween our Centre and artists, art historians, etc.These meetings seek to solve different issues relatedto artistic activity. For example, one of them which willbe done in the near future is concentrated on helpingartists formulate an effective and creative grant orresidency proposal/application.Expenditures: $ 15,748.00Andrei MUDREA, Alexei COLIBNEAC, Andrei SIRBU, VladBOLBOCEANU. We are expanding the scope of ourdocumentation in 1997 to become more comprehensive.Expenditures: $ 5,000.00The SCCA-Chisinau started with a strong position inMoldovan society and became an effective institutionin the field. It adopted the Open Society's democraticprinciples of decision-making policy by involvingprofessionals on its Board. The events organised bythe Centre to date have been of considerable interestto the people involved. The audience's reaction andthe media's reporting of the events organised by theCentre have been extremely positive. The staff andboard will continue to promote modern tendencies incontemporary art. In 1997, the Centre will attempt toincrease the impact of it's activities on society bypreparing more extensive cultural manifestations. OurCentre is in the process of producing many eventsindependently and in conjunction with local and foreignorganisations. One important function, which will beongoing, is to increase the access to new media forthe local art community and to make them an integralpart of the artist's education here. The Centre is in theprocess of launching projects for educational artinstitutions here in compliance with their expressedgoals and needs. Access to the Internet and to newmedia technologies will contribute to an artist'seducation regarding contemporary processes. Finally,we will help Moldovan artists enter the artworld on aglobal level. A process which will be achieved byallying ourselves with all institutions acting in the field.All of our activities will achieve this goal by channellingour energies into a single stream.Another part of the SCCA's activity was the financialsupport provided to local artists for various culturalprojects. We gave grants to local artists for organisingexhibits, taking part in international programs, etc. Grantswill be given in 1997 for comparable events with anemphasis on publications.DOCUMENTATIONThe Center started comprehensive documentation of themost notable local artists with five of them: Mihai GRECU,Exhibitions: $ 19,000.00GRANTS FOR ARTISTSGrants were given to artists for different projects:Ion MORARUPersonal exhibition, Romania, $ 735.48Alexandru SCHIOPUWorkshop, Dubrovnik, $ 1521.00Lilia DRAGNEVAWorkshop, Dubrovnik, $ 808.4470a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

AGATHON AssociationExhibition Eleonora Romanescu,hosting, advertising, $ 219.55Mihai POTIRNICHEExhibition “Body Art”, $ 700.00Vecislav FISTICANUPainting Biannual, Sofia, $ 208.84Ion CHISCAPainting Biannual, Sofia, $ 208.84Anatol DANILISINExhibition, Paris, $ 553.64Alexei COLIBNEACExhibition, Czech Republic, $ 913.71Leonid TANASIEVTravel to Annual Exhibition SCCA, Tallinn, $ 490.58Valentin MASLOVMaterials, $99.56Eleonara BARBASTravel to Annual Exhibition SCCA, Sofia, $ 231.25Eugen VEREBCEANUTravel to Annual Exhibition SCCA, Sofia, $ 231.25Maria FUSUPersonal Exhibition, fall 1997, $ 1,300.00Irina KALASNICOVAVisit to SCCA, Vilnius, $ 540.00Expenditures: $ 8,298.28Note: The amount of $ 5,000.00 was reallocatedthrough the decision of SCCA Commission forpublishing the catalogue “The 6 th Kilometer”Total Expenditures: $ 14,972.35VISUAL ART BULLETINAt the moment Moldova does not have a special artpublication which reflects the situation in the fields ofvisual arts, design and architecture. That is why theCenter initiated a special issue which mirrors all theevents in these fields. The publication also presentsarticles on art history, aesthetics, and local as well asinternational cultural events to its readers.The bulletin will lead to the initiation of the first ArtMagazine in Moldova.Expenditures: $ 2,519.29Operational: $ 41,958.33Total Expenditures: $ 81,223.67Allocated: $ 16,621.00PUBLISHING6 TH KILOMETERPavel BRAILAIon BULIBASIurie CIBOTARIVictor DOROSENCOVeaceslav DRUTAAlexandru ERMURACHILucia MACARIMircea PUSCASStefan SADOVNICOVIgor SCERBINAValentin TARNAAlexandru TINEIMark VERLANGabriel SCOARTAGroup of artists from TiraspolExpenditures: $ 6,673.07The publishing programs of the Soros Foundation orientthemselves towards books in social and humanisticstudies: economics, law, sociology, history, philosophy,international relations; but this does not exclude theFoundation’s participation in launching monographs,anthologies or fiction.The Foundation’s main goal is to stimulate thepublishing houses’ activity, specifically the private ones,through partnerships in publishing and distributingbooks. In selecting of books to support, the primarycriterion was their social impact. The Programcollaborated with publishing houses, and not withauthors, aiming to stimulate book production in thepublishing houses.The selection was made on a competitive basis As aresult, the Foundation supported the production of thefollowing titles:a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 71

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aHistory:- N.CORLATEANU, “Nandrisii - povestea unui neambucovinean” (Nandrisii - The Tale of People fromBucovina)Revista Limba Romana publishing house- “C.Stere in fata presentului” (C.Stere Facing thePresent)Cartier publishing houseEconomy- Alain PEYREFITTE,” Du miracle en economie”,romanian version, publishing house of the Union ofWritersTheory, criticism and the history of art:- L.TOMA, “M.Grecu. Viata si Opera” (M.Grecu. Life andWorks), catalogpublishing house of the Union of Writers- A.BURLACU, “Critica in labyrinth”(Critics in theLabyrinth)Arc publishing houseFiction- “Aglaia. Roman anonim din secolul XIX” (Aglaia - ananonymous novel from the XIX century)Arc publishing house- A.BUSUIOC, “Latind la luna” (Barking at the moon)Arc publishing houseExpenditures: $ 20,610.00Within the same program were translated for theMoldovan publishers the materials of a training inAlabama, USA, February and March 1994, with thetopic “Editorial- publishing activity (Advice for startinga small business)”.The Foundation organised in 1996 courses andseminars for publishers:Computer courses for the publishing staff, initiatedand realised by the Soros Publishing Centre, offeredinformation about the best technologies for computerisedinformation processing.Expenditures: $ 11,596.00The Foundation financed the participation of a groupof publishers from Moldova (representing Arc, Cartier,Stiinta and Sigma) at the International Conference“Legislation for the Book World”, organised by theCouncil of Europe, November 13-15, 1996 in Warsaw.Expenditures: $ 2,617.00THE REGIONAL PUBLISHING PROGRAMThe Program was launched in Moldova in 1996 andhas two major objectives: to support the publishing ofbooks promoting the critical thinking and values of anopen society and encouraging the development of aviable national publishing industry. The Program isbased on the idea that a book, translated from a foreignlanguage and published in a small number of copiesrequires serious investments and their price beinghigher on the market, they will not sell themselves. Apartial financing of the production costs (60-65%)allows the publishing houses to sell the books at areasonable price.During 1996, through an open competition run in 2phases, 9 books in Economy, Law, History and Culturewere selected for translation and publishing:- Eric HOBSBAWN, “Nations and Nationalism”, “Ageof Extremes”- Martin WIGHT, “Power Politics”- Hedley BUL, “The Anarchy”- Francis Harry HINSLEY “Sovereignty”- Arend LIJPHART, “Democracies”- Herber L.A. HART, “The Concept of Law”- Clifford GEERTZ, “The Interpretation of Cultures”- Eric WOLF, “Peasants”The publishing houses that won the competitions are:Cartier, Sigma, Cartea Moldovei, Arc and Stiinta.The program is currently under development. Someof the books are already translated. The date ofrelease for the first books is estimated in the secondhalf of 1997.The Program’ s budget is $ 59,000.00: the co-financingof Soros Foundation Moldova and CEU Press is at a1:1 scale.Expenditures: $ 32,473.0072a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

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s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aTHE OPEN WORLD HOUSEThe Open World House started its’ activity in 1994,being a long-term project of Soros FoundationMoldova. The goal was the creation of a nongovernmental,non-for-profit organisation with projectsin key - domains of the transition towards an opensociety:- freedom of expression- free access to informationThese two sine qua non components of the democraticsociety were totally absent in the Soviet periodand the dramatic changes from the last decade donot bring an immediate improvement.To contribute to the changes in these directions theOpen World House is comprised of several departments:- Independent Journalism Centre- TV Studio- University Information Centre- English Language School- Computer classThe Open World House activity is oriented first of all tothe mass media in Moldova. The Journalism Centreis the only institution of its kind in our country and,after two years is well known here and abroad. Thenecessity of its presence is confirmed by thepermanent interest of journalists and their activeparticipation at the Centre’s events.specialised library (books, catalogues, CD, computerswith Internet), the Centre is an attraction for allinterested in academic and university life in the West.The English Language School, opened in 1994,decided to transform the method of teaching foreignlanguages. For this purpose every year are invited 5-6 American professors and they teach English usingnew methods, adapted to local conditions. To datethe school has been attended by several thousandsof students and for them, English went from being abarrier to becoming a means of communication. TheSchool’s students benefit from the library of theUniversity Centre, the audio/video linguistic laboratoryand the computer class. The computers here are alsoused for training journalists, page-makers, painters,designers, etc.In two and a half years of activity the Open World Housebecame an important organism of the public life inMoldova. The constant collaboration with the UnitedStates Information Service, joint projects with OSCE,IFES, European Fund for Freedom of Expression,International Centre for Journalists, Washington, areproof of achievements, as well as starting points forthe future.In 1996 the Soros Foundation financed programs andprojects administrated by the Open World House oftotalling $ 235,913.00, including $ 21,865.00 allocatedin 1995.The TV Studio of the OWH, thought initially as a “tool”of the Independent Journalism Centre, which wouldoffer the journalists a possibility to learn andexperiment, has succeeded in a year and a half tooutgrow the state of Centre’s appendix and haslaunched its own projects. Most of them areexperiments of young creative persons in film, show,programs, etc.The University Information Centre is the singleinstitution in Moldova which offers free consultingservices regarding the University and post-universitystudies in the USA, Europe and England, with a74a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

The first IJC project in 1996 wasTV Reporting Training ProgramJanuary 16 - 20, 1996The Independent Journalism CentreThe Independent Journalism Centre (IJC) wasestablished on December 1, 1994 as a constituentpart of the Open World House (OWH).The activities of the Independent Journalism Centreare based on the principles of a profitable, free andopen press. Its primary intent is to provide mediainstruction and resource materials for professionals,students and trainers of journalists thus contributingto the independence of media in Moldova.The Centre's training program offers short-termseminars and workshops for practicing journalists,media managers, journalism instructors and studentsof journalism. The topics vary from media law andbasic reporting to media management and financing,advertising as a revenue source, production of localTV and radio stations.The IJC also publishes a weekly bulletin "LumeaDeschisa" which releases information from massmediaabroad and an analytical magazine "MassMedia in Moldova".Data base files are formed in response to the demandof journalists and media organisations and also as aresult of field studies.The Press Club from Chisinau, a project accomplishedwith the efforts of the Committee for Freedomof the Press and IJC is unfolding its activity.An independent radio station "Radio d'Or" began tobroadcast on October 10, 1996. A television productionstudio is already functioning for two years. Theseassociated training laboratories are very useful forjournalists.News bulletins are usually the most popular TVprograms. In our country TV news are produced to thegreatest extent on the basis of the informationreleased by news agencies which, in fact, doesn'tmeet TV requirements. Very often the few interviewsincluded in a news bulletin are of poor quality.Therefore, we decided to organise a TV ReportingTraining Program and we invited Michael Mulford,Professor of TV Journalism, BBC School Bucharest,Director of Waterfood Productions to conduct thistraining program. The practical courses wereespecially useful for the participants, each having thepossibility to record an interview, to make a commentaryor to formulate a TV news bulletin. As a result,the journalists acquired various skills: e.g. how tomake a television news package, the ways of writingcommentaries, interview skills, etc.The courses were very successful. 22 journalists tookpart in the training, 10 of which were from regional TVstations from Balti, Comrat, Riscani, Ceadirlunga,Tiraspol, Nisporeni and Stefan Voda.Computer Training: "Windows ' 95"March 11 - 16, 1996The program was organised for newspaper journalistsand its intent was to get them acquainted withbackground knowledge for working with a computer.The only Journalism school from Moldova, which isthe Department of Journalism and CommunicationSkills doesn't provide any computer courses so far,but the basic program for working with a computer isrequired by any editorial office. This training organisedby the IJC helped journalists to use computers moreefficiently.Public Relations SeminarApril 8 - 11, 1996Public Relations is a field which wasn't deeply studiedin our country and is actually unknown for journalists.This seminar was intended to acquaint journalistsa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 75

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v awith the possibilities offered by Public Relationsregarding promotion and communication techniques.During the seminar we had phone calls and inquiriesfrom people interested in PR who suggested that weshould organise a seminar for PR officers and otherofficials.Consulting for Economic NewspapersJune 17 - July 12, 1996Moldovan journalists who write about currenteconomic reforms and market economy have poorknowledge for analysing economic events and formaking professional economic press. This wasnoticed during the conference on the topic: "Aninformed public, a gain for the economic reform",organised by "Mendez England & Associates" onMarch 6, 1996.Seizing the opportunity that a U.S. journalist KarenWest, specialist in economic problems with over 16years experience at Seattle Post-Intelligencer was inMoldova during the summer of 1996, the IJC invitedher for consulting the most influential economicRussian publications. Karen West carried out a greatjob in Moldova. The newspapers: EkonomicheskoieObozrenie (Economical Review), Delovaia Gazeta(Business Newspaper), Nezavisimaia Moldova(Independent Moldova), Bizness Elita (Business Elite),Kishinevskie Novosti (Chisinau News) and, thejournal Finansi i Rinki (Financial and Market Magazine)benefited from professional consulting regardingtackling economic issues in press.Seminar "Mass Media and the Electoral Campaign"July 1- 3, 1996mass communication etc.The workshop was organised for reporters and editorsworking in press and audio visual structures and whoare involved in reflection of electoral campaign inMoldova.Financing: The program was financed by the EuropeanFund for Freedom of Expression and Soros Foundation- Moldova.Consulting and Training for Radio ReportersJuly 18 - 24, 1996During the four last years several independent radiostations began to broadcast. These stations are veryenthusiastic, but lack experience. Music programsprevail so that a listener interested in news bulletinshas a limited choice. Consulting and training forRadio Reporters organised by the IJC contributed toimprove the informative value of programs of theindependent radio stations.Computer Courses for Journalists on the Program"Page-maker"August 12 - 17, 1996Newspaper page-making can obviously influence itspopularity. The transition of newspapers to computerisedpage-making brought forward the lack ofspecialists in this field. The organisation of computercourses "Page-maker" represented IJC' s contributionto resolving this problem.International Conference "Mass Media, PoliticalParties in Elections"September 4 - 5, 1996Mr. Laurent Leblond, journalist, representative of theEuropean Fund for Freedom of Expression and Mr.Jochen Leibel, a German journalist representingSpringer group ("Die Welt", "Bild Zeitung", etc.) wereinvited to take part in this workshop. The programincluded lectures and debates in relation to pressinvolvement in election campaign on the followingtopics: Legislation on election and press, Politicaladvertisements in press and independence of ajournalist, Journalism principles and problem of pressmanipulation during election campaign, Parties andThis conference was organised first of all for localjournalists and experts in elections. Almost 100people took part in it: local journalists and leaders ofpolitical parties, experts and journalists from Russia,Romania, USA, Great Britain and France. This projectwas aimed at informing the Moldovan public with othercountries' experience in elections. The conferencechallenged a more serious attitude towards electioncampaign and helped journalists understand thenecessity of replacing the endless disputes withobjective public informing during election campaigns.76a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Organisers and Funding: Independent JournalismCentre at the Open World House, Soros Foundation -Moldova, International Foundation for ElectoralSystems Moldova (IFES), United States InformationAgency, US Embassy, French Alliance from Moldovacontributed to the success of this project.Training for Sound EngineersSeptember 9 - 11, 1996Description: The organisation of this training washighly desired because access to technical informationis limited in Moldova. The technical staff thatprovides the services of equipment installation hadthe possibility to learn new techniques in relation toprofessional radio broadcasting and production. Themajority of the participants were interested especiallyin the technical side of programs' production. Allparticipants realised the priorities, also learned aboutthe correct equipment connection in studio, antiphoning,and the use of microphones. Digitaltechnology is the future of all radio stations, but beforepurchasing this expensive but extraordinary equipment,the participants learned how to use efficientlysimilar but less expensive equipment.Workshop "Privatisation of Local Newspapers"September 16 - 18, 1996Local press in Moldova is on the way of obtainingindependence. The problem faced by local newspaperjournalists at this stage is the lack of information aboutlocal media privatisation experience. Therefore, weorganised the workshop "Privatisation of LocalNewspapers."In fact, the regional press is undergoing an acute crisisperiod. So that it was very important for journalists tolearn what an editorial concept presupposes and whatare the stages that lead to real independence. As aresult, journalists became acquainted with thetransition experience of Slovakia (a country with similarproblems) to a free press.News Agencies Management ConsultingSeptember 24 - October 15, 1996The desire to make press profitable isn't enough. Thepoint is to know what to do and how to do it. In otherwords, a good managerial strategy may ensure theexistence of any enterprise, including media organisations.Any media structure is first of all a business, thecreative part of which ( story writing and editing) can'texist without the technical part. That was the ideasuccessfully implemented by Judy Yablonky, anindependent journalist and a consultant in massmedia with 25 years of experience in internationalpress who was consulted with news agency reportersfrom Moldova.Funding: The program "News Agencies Consulting"was financed by the International Centre for Journalistsfrom Washington and Soros Foundation-Moldova.Workshop "Western Style of Reporting"October 14 - 17, 1996A four day seminar was organised by the IJC toacquaint journalists working at different publicationsand news agencies in Moldova with standards andstyle of Western news agencies. The majority ofparticipants were young, newly appointed editors atvarious news agencies: Moldova Press, BASA-press,Infotag and Interlic. On the last day, October 17, aworkshop for four editors (who put out the Englishversion of Romanian language news bulletins) washeld.One of the results of the seminar was the considerableimprovement of the quality of news bulletins in Englishproduced by local news agencies.Workshop: "How to cover the Newly ElectedAdministration"November 18 - 22, 1996The first round of the presidential elections was heldon November 17. Elections always mean changes inadministration. What's the attitude to be taken by thepress when a new administration comes in? Answersto this question were provided within this seminar.The fact that the workshop was up-to-date determinedits success and impact on journalists.Funding: The program was supported by InternationalCentre for Journalists, Washington, USA and SorosFoundation - Moldova.a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 77

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aWorkshop: "Public Relations for Officials:Communication skills"November 25 - 27, 1996The goal of the workshop was to provide officials andgovernmental, as well as non-governmental, presssecretaries and spokespersons with informationregarding the presentation and creation image fortheir organisations. The discussion topics covered:- Miracle at the end of the century: art of communicationand public relations- How to make a public presentation- Public relations officers: a communication linkbetween an organisation and mass media- Press campaignsThe workshop was very useful and interesting for allparticipants.Workshop: "News and Current Affairs"December 2 - 13, 1996"News and Current Affairs" was a common projectorganised successfully by Deutsche Welle RadioTraining Centre, Independent Journalism Centre andSoros Foundation - Moldova.The aim of the project was to enable the participantsto analyse and establish evaluation criteria for radionews; produce attractive and concise news andcurrent affair programs.The IJC organised for the first time a workshopfocused on working with English (for radio reporterswho know English) and an international team training.Despite all risks, the workshop was a successfulexperiment of the IJC.Funding: DW covered the expenses for two trainersand SF-Moldova was responsible for selecting andfunding the participants at the workshop fromRomania and Ukraine.Press Club from Chisinau(development project)The press club from Chisinau recorded a year ofimportant activities (meetings with political leaders,two festive meetings during which prizes were givento the most popular journalists). It is now consideredan institution where very useful dialogues forjournalists, as well as for public opinion are beingheld.In 1996 the guests of our club were:- deputies Aurel CEPOI and Iurie ROSCA at themeeting held on January 26, 1996. The topic ofdiscussion covered: The laws of the legislativeframework on media.- Vice-president of Parliament Dumitru DIACOV,Presidential Counsellor Anatol CIOBANU, OlgaPOALELUNGI, head of the Presidential OfficialDocuments Service and Mihai PETRACHE, Representativeof Law Department of Parliament- at themeeting held on February 22 with the topic: Rejectionof changes in the Press Law and its consequenceson journalists' activity from Moldova.- On May 30, the Press Club from Chisinau with the 10best journalists of 1995 held a meeting in Hincesti,outside of Chisinau- Colonel Mihail BERGMAN -at the meeting held onJune 21, Transnistria conflict was the focus ofdiscussions.- During the Autumn election campaign of 1996, thePress Club organised a number of meetings invitingcandidates for presidency: Petru LUCINSCHI (electedPresident of Moldova), Vladimir VORONIN, IulianaGOREA-COSTIN, Valeriu MATEI and Anatol PLUGARU.- The President of the Central Election CommitteePetru RAILEANU invited to take part in the penultimatemeeting of 1996 held on November 14.After having established a circle of members of theclub who reported its meetings in the print andbroadcast media, dialogues became a perfect way todiscuss up-to-date topics in a pleasant atmosphere.Taking into account that not many press-conferencesare organised in Chisinau, the meetings of the clubprovide for the lack of steady contacts of journalistswith political leaders. At the same time the clubbecame a favourable medium for exchanging opinionsamong journalists where different experience,documenting and behavioural norms are assimilated.The project is financed by the Soros FoundationMoldova and the Committee for Freedom of the Press.78a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Below are listed the works realized by the Studio in1996:January 1996. Reporting "Photojournalism"(2 min). Broadcasted on National TV, "Telematinal"TV STUDIOJanuary 1996. Subject “Narcobusiness in Moldova”Discussed at the meeting of the Artistic Council of theStudio.The TV STUDIO of the Open World House wasfounded in 1995 with the goal to offer young andtalented journalists from Moldova the possibility tolearn and practice television and to experiment withnew forms of video expression. The studio wasequipped with the necessary equipment: two cameras,two editing rooms, computers for videography,microphones, lights, cassettes, etc.The artistic council of the studio examines theproposed scenarios and decides on the opportunityof producing the project. Priority is given to subjectswith social content, interpreting youth‘s problems and/or modern forms of video expression. A nationalschool with traditions being absent and a realcompetition at the National Television, forming newspecialists is a difficult process.In its activity the studio aims to create an alternative tothe National TV production. During 1996 wereorganized video graphic courses for the students atthe Arts Institute of Moldova. Some of the authors haveparticipated at international seminars in Moscow, atthe Film Festival in Kosice (Slovakia) and at the DieFestival (France). A group of 6 people from the TVStudio and the Independent Journalism Centre havevisited the independent television TV STOP fromCopenhagen, after a similar visit of Dutch colleaguesto Chisinau.In 1996 the TV Studio of Open World House hasproduced different programs, reporting, clips, some ofthem having an experimental character. A part of thisproduction has been shown on National TV, CatalanTV, VTV, at Die Festival (France). Almost all the studio’sworks have been realized by young graduates from theArts Institute, the Academy of Theater and Film inBucharest, or beginners in this field.January 1996. Program “We and the world. Brussels”(25 min) Broadcasted on National TVJanuary 1996. Reporting about the Film Festival"DAKINO"Discussed at the meeting of the Artistic Council of theStudio.January 1996. Reporting "Underground Passages"(4 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.February 1996 Reporting "Models"(5 min) Broadcasted on National TV, "Telematinal"February 1996. Reporting "Tvetkov-publishing poems"(5 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.February 1996. Musical Clip.(2 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.March 1996. Essays “The Fear”(5 min) Broadcasted on National TVMarch 1996. Reporting "Religion in school"(7 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.March 1996. Clip from the salubrisation. "The mouse"(1 min) Broadcasted on National TVMarch 1996. Clip “Double Flash"(4 min) Broadcasted on National TV, Catalan TV, BTB.a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 79

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aApril 1996. Clip from the project "The bank"(1 min) Broadcasted on National TV(17 min) Broadcasted during the meeting of participantsat Die Festival “Est-Ouest”,1996.April 1996. “Debate”, on the Soros Foundationprogram(28 min) Broadcasted on National TVOctober 1996. Film "CarbonArt" (a summer camporganized by the SCCA)(25 min) Broadcasted during the exhibition "Kilometrul 6".April-May 1996. Documentary "La RepubliqueMoldova"(12 min) Broadcasted at Die Festival “Est-Ouest”,France.November 1996. Film "OWH Language Scool"(15 min) Broadcasted at the annual meeting ofdirectors of English Language School and programcoordinators in Macedonia, December 1996.May-June 1996. Film “The Ball"(34 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.June 1996. Film "My Country Moldova"Broadcasted at Die Festival, France.November 1996.”Rock Vagon"(30 min) Broadcasted on National TV.December 1996. “Rock Vagon"(30 min) Broadcasted on National TVJune 1996. Program “Soros Foundation Moldova. 4years”.(29 min) Broadcasted on National TVJune 1996. “Abortion”(7 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.June 1996. Two clips for the salubrisation project(32 sec.and 2 min.) Broadcasted on National TVJuly 1996. Clip for the project "Salubrisation"(20 sec.) Broadcasted on National TVJuly 1996. Show “Video Hamburger"(25 min) Discussed at the meeting of the ArtisticCouncil of the Studio.July 1996. Film “The wedding”(37 min) Broadcasted on National TVSeptember 1996. Program "Rock Vagon"(3 min) Broadcasted on National TVOctober 1996. Program "Rock Vagon"(25 min) Broadcasted on National TVOctober 1996. Film "Retrospective-Die"Educational Advising CentreThe Educational Advising Centre in Moldova (EAC) isa part of the Open World House developed by theSoros Foundation Moldova. The EAC appeared as apartnership between the United States InformationAgency (USIA) and the Open World House. The majorobjective of the EAC is to provide informationconcerning the opportunities of degree and nondegree,college and post-graduate education in theUnited States by providing specialised courses andgrants to everyone who is interested in education,research or training in the US.80a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

Since 1994, EAC has administrated two AmericanPrograms: Edmund S. Muskie and the FreedomSupport Act. The Muskie/FSA Programs provideopportunities for graduates of NIS universities to cometo the US for degree and non-degree programs inseveral fields. The fields include business administration,economics, law, educational administration,public policy, library sciences, journalism andeducational administration. EAC carries out recruitmentactivities including program publicity, testing,interviewing, and pre-departure processing.Statistics for 1996:# of visitors 3210Correspondence 560Phone Calls 4200Total 7970ConsultationsHigh School students 551Undergraduate 1190Graduate 396Postgraduate 53Total 2190ETS Testing bulletins/registration forms distributedTOEFL 600GRE 350GMAT 240SAT 15Materials other than bulletins 400Total 1605Visitors by academic fieldAmerican Science 63Architecture 56Art 230Baking 50Biology 9Business Administration 687Communications 145Computer Science 258Dentistry 3Design 43Economics 765Education Administration 51Engineering 13History 28English 708Finance 56French 24Law 31Library Science 15Linguistics 16Marketing 65Medicine 62Philosophy 5Photography 3Physics 23Political Science 112Psychology 26Public Administration 63Sociology 11Total 3210Tests supervisedFebruary 9 GRE Ed.S.Muskie/FSA ProgramsEconomics, 9Total 9January 13 TOEFLBusiness Administration, 10Law, 2Public Administration, 6Total, 18January 20 GMATBusiness Administration, 10Total, 10February 10 TOEFLEconomics, 9Total, 9February 7 Math TestEconomics, 9Total, 9March 23 Institutional TOEFLJournalism and Communication, 2Library & Information Science, 1Public Policy, 3Education Administration, 4a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 81

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aTotal, 10September 23 TOEFLLibrary Program, 6Total, 71Organised Interviews for Ed. S. Muskie/FSA ProgramsBusiness Administration, Law, Public Administration,January 16-20, 1996Scott Ann Johnson - Professor at Georgia Institute ofTechnology, Sheila Casey - Assistant Director, ACCELS/KievEconomics, February 2-5, 1996Susan Linz - Professor of Economics at Michigan StateUniversityJournalism, Library & Information Science, PublicPolicy, Education Administration, March 16-18, 1996Byron Scott - University of Missouri, ColumbiaAmerican Ambassador in Austria -Ms. HantInterview Warwick University Program semi-finalists.June 4-6, 1996Prof. Kemp - Warwick University, United KingdomGuidance and Training for the Educational AdvisorJune 29-Juy 3, 1996Henry Scott - Regional Educational Advising Coordinator/Institutefor International EducationMeeting with representatives of organisationsworking on scholarshipsJune 12-13, 1996Ulana Sophia KOROPECKYJ - Regional ScholarshipsDepartment at the Open Society Institute in BudapestConferences and Workshops for the EducationalAdvisorsGuest interviews and trainersInterview - Business Administration, Law,Public Administration (Ed. S. Muskie) semi-finalistsJanuary 16-20, 1996Scott Ann Johnson - Professor at Georgia Institute ofTechnologyInterview Business Administration, Law,Public Administration (Ed. S. Muskie) semi-finalists,January 16-20, 1996Sheila Casey - Assistant Director, ACCELS/KievInterview Economics (Ed. S. Muskie) semi-finalists,February 2-5, 1996Susan Linz - Professor of Economics at Michigan StateUniversityInterview Journalism, Library & Information Science,Public Policy, Education Administration (FreedomSupport Act) semi-finalists.March 16-18, 1996Byron Scott - University of Missouri, ColumbiaLecture on the Role of Women in a DemocraticSociety, attended by 85 persons.April 20, 1996Regional Training Workshop for Ukrainian andMoldovan Advisers in KievMarch 20-23, 1996Henry Scott, Marianne Ruanne.Conference for Soros Scholarships Co-ordinators,Soros Educational Advisors, Ohrid, MacedoniaJuly 17-23, 1996.Strategy Meeting for Educational Advisers fromRomania and the Republic of MoldovaOctober 24-26, 1996Ami GoldenConferences and Lectures hosted by the EducationalAdvising CentreLecture on the Role of the Women in a DemocraticSocietyApril 20, 1996USIS,85 people participated, held by the US ambassadorin Austria, Ms. Hant.Seminars for English Language teachers from HighSchools in ChisinauJune 11-20, 1996The Soros Foundation, 20 people participated82a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

The Management of the Non-Governmental Organisations.Workshop for strategic planning within the NGOJune 27-28, 1996Organised by CONTACT, 60 people participatedThe integration of NGO in the public lifeJuly 23-24, 1996Organised by Peace Corps, 30 people participatedMedia Law and Practicing in MoldovaOctober 28, 1996Organised by European Council, 20 people participatedAn Election Morning BreakfastNovember 6, 1996Organised by US EmbassyTests and Interviews held in the EAC for SorosFoundation ScholarshipsApril 12, 1996 TOEFL, 15April 18, 1996 GMAT for International ManagementCentre in Budapest, 15April 30, 1996 TOEFL (CEU), 15May 3, 1996 Interview (CEU), 15May 6, 1996 Interview (College of Europe), 15June 5, 1996 Interview (Warwick University), 15Lectures, video presentations of the educationalsystem in the United States and Scholarship ProgramsEducational System in the USA, ScholarshipsJune 4, 1996Angela Drabenco, Valeriu Loghin, Victor Ursu, Oazu NantoiProfessional Orientation for Students departing toBudapest. International LawJuly 5, 1996M. Douglas, Peace CorpsPresentation of the EAC - Chisinau, to the AmericanStudents visiting MoldovaJuly 8, 1996Angela Drabenco, Information SpecialistAngela Drabenco, Information SpecialistHow to write a letter of RecommendationOctober 21, 1996Ion Ghilescu, Educational AdvisorPress Conference at the US Embassy, Presentationof Scholarship ProgramsOctober 23, 1996Julianne Paunescu, Victor Colta, Linea Alison, JeffPennington, Ion GhilescuVideo Presentation of AUBG Program, EducationalSystem in USA, Colleges & Universities, opportunitiesfor foreign students in the USNovember 1, 1996Ion Ghilescu, Educational Advisor, Jenny WalkerUndergraduate University of NebraskaAmerican and EAC presen tationNovember 7, 1996Angela Drabenco, Information SpecialistHow to write a good statement of purposeNovember 15, 1996Jenny Walker, Undergraduate University of NebraskaPrograms AdvertisedVirtual University Undergraduate Exchange Program,1997-98January, 1996The 1996-97 ACTR/ACCELS University StudentExchange ProgramJanuary, 1996The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International PeaceStudiesJanuary, 1996The Central European University Foundation: PostGraduate Scholarship, 1996-97February, 1996Presentation of EAC to Peace Corps VolunteersJuly 23, 1996International Management Centre MBA Program(Budapest, Hungary)a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 83

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aFebruary, 1996College of Europe (Belgium)March, 1996The Fund for American Studies / American Institute onPolitical and Economic Systems (Summer UniversityPrague)March, 1996The Fulbright Program: Advanced Research andUniversity Lecturing Awards in the United StatesNovember, 1996College of Europe Program (1997)December, 1996Central European University Program (1997-1998)December, 1996Academia Istropolitana for the academic year 1996/97: Public Administration, Applied Economics,Environmental Planning and Management, Architecturaland Urban Heritage ConservationApril, 1996The 1997 Edmund S. Muskie & Freedom SupportAct Graduate Fellowship ProgramsSeptember, 1996Soros Foundation High School Exchange ProgramSeptember, 1996Library of Congress - SF Visiting Fellow ProgramSeptember, 1996The University of Warwick Graduate SchoolDecember, 1996International Management Centre, Budapest, MBAProgramDecember, 1996Book acquisitions:Catalogues and Guides(US Colleges and Universities), 20TOEFL, 8GRE, 15GMAT, 4Total 48Community Connections (USIS)October, 1996Curriculum Consultants Exchange Program (IREX)October, 1996Regional Scholar Exchange Program and FSA inContemporary Issues (IREX)October 1996Undergraduate Exchange Program 1997-98October 1996American University in BulgariaOctober, 1996EAC - Moldova collaborated with the following foreignfoundations and organisations:- Soros Foundation- USIA: United States Information Agency- ACTR/ACCELS: The American Council of Teachersof Russian/ American Council for Collaboration inEducation and Language Study- IREX: International Research and Exchanges Board- REAC: Institute of International Education- NAFSA: National Association for Foreign StudentAffairs- Peace Corps - Moldova- CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange- Center for Social Innovations- Moldova-PensilvaniaThe Stanford University New Democracy FellowshipProgram: Fellowship for Doctoral (PhD) Study atStanford UniversityOctober, 199684a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

SOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVANational Board MembersIon MOLDOVANUArcadie BARBAROSIEVictor VOVCMihai COTOROBAIArts and Culture, Mass media, PublishingAlexandru MURAVSCHIMariana ALECSANDRIOazu NANTOIConstantin CHEIANUVasile NEDELCIUCViorel CIUBOTARUIon STURZAIulius GHEORGHICIUCMihai SLEAHTITCHIClaudia CRACIUNDorin TUDORANConstantin MARINComission MembersTamara SMUNDEACValeriu SAHARNEANUCuvil Society, Economic Reform, Law ReformValeriu VASILICAPavel COJOCARUEducationElena CISLARIEugenia BEJANMihai COTOROBAIGrigore BELOSTECINICAurel BAIESUSofia BOLDURATUVictor POPASimion CAISINLiliana CAZACUTamara CAZACUMedicineNicolae MISAILAurel GROSUIon NEGURAConstantin MATCOVSCHIAurelian SILVESTRUIon CORCIMARIStefan TIRONa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 85

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aSOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVALorina BALTEANUPresidentVictor URSUExecutive DirectorK. A. GILDERSLEEVE Program DirectorDona SCOLAFinance DirectorProgram Co-ordinatorsLiliana IVANOVICIProgram OfficerLiviu VEDRASCOProgram OfficerVictoria MIRONProgram OfficerVitalie BORDENIUCInternet, ComSorosAna CORETCHIEast-East, HESPOleg SEREBREANUHESP InternationalSvetlana CROITORULibraryMariana KIRIAKOVTransformationIulia MOLDOVEANUSELP, YouthEmilia MIHAILOVHealth EducationIgor PADUREEconomiy, ScholarshipsVictor BURACLaw ReformIgor NEDERACivil SocietyOctavian RAZLOGDrug & Alcohol AddictionSteliana HANGANUMass MediaVarvara COLIBABABalti Office86a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6

SOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVASoros Centre for Contemporary ArtOctavian ESANUCorina COTOROBAIDan SPATARUDebateLiliana CALMATUIAnatol PALADIAdrian CATANStep by StepCornelia CINCILEILilia DONISvetlana SOIMARUValentina LUNGUPro-DidacticaMariana KIRIAKOVNelli MITCHEVICIViorica GORASa c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6 87

s o r o s f o u n d a t i o n - m o l d o v aSOROS FOUNDATION MOLDOVACONTACTLiliana CAZACUIgor NEDERAAliona NICULITALilian CIPCIRIUCStela BUTNARUStaffElena VACARCIUCChief AccountantElena CUMANOVAccountantVioleta FRUNZEAdministrative AssistantVasile GIRLEAAdministratorAngela MUSETReceptionistCartoons: Iurie DRAGAN, Design: Corina COTOROBAI, Editing: Steliana HANGANU, Bradley ADAMS, Translation: NataliaPUSCAS, PrePress: Computer Publishing Centre Soros, Print: Polygraph Combinat Chisinau88a c t i v i t y r e p o r t ‘ 9 6