Activity report for 1999(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova

HESP
The goal of the program is to support the reform of
the higher education system through changing the educational
and cultural frameworks, to reorganise higher
education institutions through support for various
interactive models between the state and the private
educational sectors, and to support initiatives of the
academic community towards integration into the system
of market relations.
According to the above-mentioned directions, the
following program priorities were set up:
– support for conceptual reform in education
– curricular innovation (the creation of new alternatives,
programs, etc)
– programs of new teaching/learning technologies
implementation
– innovative institutions (to create pilot-departments,
pilot-chairs, etc)
– the institutional reform of teaching/learning
– programs of training for lecturers and managers
in higher education)
HESP Publishing Program
The program addressed the universities’ needs of
textbooks and manuals in the Romanian language by
publishing original works of local authors in the fields
of Social Sciences and the Humanities. This also improved
the professional qualifications of local authors.
Within the program the following teaching materials
for higher education were printed:
Chiril SOROCEAN, Marketing – the Fundamentals
of Business $ 2,400
Varvara BUZILÆ, Bread – Food Product and
Symbol $ 3,850
Simion TOMA et al., Physiology of Culture
Plants (4 books) $ 5,820
Valentina OLÆRESCU, Restraint in Psychic Development.
Teaching Material: Theory, Practice and
Therapy $ 600
Aurelia RACU, The Development of Special
Education in Moldova: History and Current Status
$ 1,500
Georg SIMMEL, Soziologie (translation into Romanian)
$ 4,000
1999 ACTIVITY REPORT
Except for the textbook Physiology of Culture
Plants by Simion Toma, which was printed in 160
copies, all the other textbooks were printed in 500
copies and then distributed to university libraries
through the Book Foundation.
Grants (600 USD) were offered for textbook writing
to the following project authors:
Constantin EfiCO et al., Economy of Health Protection
Ion ØIØCANU, Romanian History – Contemporary
Epoch
Stelian MANIC, Virgiliu BÎRLÆDEANU, History of
National Economy
Ion TÎGULEA, Technology of Fine Arts Education
Marian JALENCU, Management of Enterprise
Valeriu and Natalia ZBÎRCIOG, Microeconomics
Valeriu DULGHERU et al., Creativity: Necessity,
Issues, and Practice
Maia ROBU, Rodica MOCAN, Fundamentals of
Fine Arts with Elements of Artistic Modelling
Petru BUTUC, Thesis and Antithesis in Teaching
of Syntax
Carolina PLATON, Psychological Counselling in
Schools
Demir DRAGNEV, Ion VARTA, Modern History of
Romanians
Total Publishing Program $ 28,218
Grants for Postgraduate Students
The project’s aim was to provide grants to support
research projects of postgraduate students in Social
Sciences and the Humanities (expenses for research
and documentation activity at different university and
scientific centres in Moldova and abroad) and to facilitate
their theses’ writing.
Second tier scholarships ($ 750)
Ina MORARU
Pavel MORARU
Vitalie BÎRCÆ
Veronica BUDECI
Iolanta DÆNILÆ
Third tier scholarships ($ 500)
Rodica VÎHOVANEfi
Angela TOMA
Vitalie POPA
Victor MOCANU
Igor CODREANU
Georgeta FONDOS
Lolita ZAGAEVSCHI
Viorel BOLDUMA
Ina CELAC
Victor GOJINEVSCHI
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