"Let's work together to make Moldova a place where young people have opportunities for professional and personal development and feel fulfilled in life," said Prime Minister Maia Sandu, addressing young people at the opening of "Young People Transform the Country" National Youth Forum, organized in partnership with the National Youth Council of Moldova, the Government and UNICEF Moldova, IPN reports.

The National Youth Forum was established as a platform for dialogue between the Government and youth organizations, youth centers, non-associated youth and institutions working with young people. Participants have discussed current issues, have proposed recommendations concerning the economic empowerment of young people, quality education, health services for young people and observance of their rights.

In this context, Maia Sandu mentioned that in order to solve the problems faced by young people and to create opportunities for development at home, effective cooperation on several dimensions is needed - education, jobs, entrepreneurship and civic participation. "We need to improve the quality and relevance of education. We know that you want to make the curriculum more flexible, an objective assumed by us, including by piloting the alternative framework plan in several schools. We also aim to transform technical vocational education, so that it becomes useful and attractive to young people, to train the specialists needed on the labour market, who would be able to obtain enough income for decent standards of living", Maia Sandu said, quoted in a press release issued by the Government.

The Prime minister emphasized that the fight against corruption is a primary objective of the Government, combating corruption being a priority even at the university level. The Prime Minister also discussed the need to support young entrepreneurs, so that young people could more easily start their businesses, as well as the need to improve the internship program in public institutions and companies, so that young people could learn necessary and applicable things.

Today is the International Youth Day. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of the population with the usual residence on January 1, 2019 constituted 2681.7 thousand, of which 743,2 thousand or 27.7% are young people aged 14-34 years. The young generation is in continuous decline. During the last years the population aged 14-19 years decreased by 58.2 thousand, and the share of this category in the total number of young people decreased from 24.6% on January 1, 2014, to 22.8% on January 1, 2019.