At the Vilnius Eastern Partnership Summit of November 29, 2013, Moldova will enter a new stage of relations with the European Union. What will it bring and how will it influence the life of the Moldovans from the country and from abroad? What will each of us gain and what should we do for this benefit to become possible? How will the new conditions affect Moldova’s relations with other countries? The IPN Agency aims to look for answers to these and other questions worrying society, together with you, within the series of articles “Association with the EU to everyone’s understanding”.
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The initialing of the Association Agreement with the EU will enable the Moldovan students to have access to an increased number of scholarships. The head of the Ministry of Education’s International Relations and European Integration Division Ludmila Pavlov said that from 2014, Moldova will be able to access projects within the European Commission’s “Erasmus +” that is a program of mobility and cooperation in higher education. There will be also wider access to projects of the Lifelong Learning program for pre-university education that aims to strengthen the capacities and human capital of teachers.
According to Ludmila Pavlov, these programs will help improve the skills of using information technology and international communication languages. “We speak about the quality of professional training of young people and about access to European values, principles and traditions. They will strengthen the human capital of Moldova, will change the young people’s mentality and will make them more open and tolerant,” said Ludmila Pavlov.
She also said that the education institutions will have to train better the young people who will want to study abroad. They will also have to promote the studying of the foreign languages and the computer as these things are ignored in Moldova.
The benefits will be felt at home too as those who will return from abroad with experience will bring new traditions and ideas and this will enable the Moldovan universities to move on and to adjust themselves to the European academic life and traditions.
Irina Ţurcanu, IPN
