The League of Students of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi is opening a branch in the Republic of Moldova. This is a student, nongovernmental, nonprofit, independent organization with civic and trade union activity created to defend the rights and interests of students.
“We recently decided to extend our operations all over Greater Romania. The preconditions for this extension, including in the Republic of Moldova, reside in the fact that we have had students from the Republic of Moldova among our members almost since the founding of the organization. They wanted the activity to be extended up to here. At a certain moment, we staged a number of activities, including national congresses, which involved people from the Republic of Moldova. We therefore decided to set up a branch here so as to be able to better defend the rights of students of the universities of the Republic of Moldova,” the League’s president Cosmin-Gabriel Glovnea stated in a news conference hosted by IPN.
According to him, the necessity of opening a branch of the League in Chisinau became evident also as a result of a poll that was carried out among students of the Republic of Moldova in December 2021 – February 2022. “We saw that this is necessary. Something like this is absent on the market and we decided to fill this gap and to support the creation of a local organization here,” said Cosmin-Gabriel Glovnea.
League member Pavel Ventilă, the representative in the Republic of Moldova, said that he studies for a master’s degree at the State University of Moldova and has been a member of the Iasi League for at least three years. “I do extra-university work. The Iasi Students League carries out multiple activities outside Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and I saw that a lot of students can grow as part of the activities of the Students League. This fact made me bring more students from the Republic of Moldova, even from the university where I study, USM, to the League. They deal with different areas that do not have any connection with the education system of Romania,” stated Pavel Ventilă.
The young man noted that there are many student problems in the Republic of Moldova, which need to be solved, primarily in the context of the university reform that included the merger of a number of institutions. “Currently, all the student bodies are supported and financed by universities and this is often not normal. There are problems that are avoided by the bureaucracy of a university. We, as an organization that is not affiliated with universities and that wants to form part of civil society of the Republic of Moldova, consider that we can represent the students of the Republic of Moldova both quantitatively and qualitatively,” said Pavel Ventilă.
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