Nine teachers from France will teach at eight francophone lyceums in Moldova during the next six months. The project “Siences en francais 2.0”, which will be launched on March 4, envisions the teaching of scientific disciplines in the French language by educative-distractive activities. The initiative is supported by the French Alliance in Moldova, the Embassy of France and the Francophone University Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of Education.
The project is intended for the eight lyceums that host bilingual francophone networks. These include two lyceums of Chisinau and by one lyceum situated in Balti, Orhei, Cahul, Hancesti, Ungheni, and Soroca.
Adviser on cooperation and cultural action of the Embassy of Franc Jeremie Petit, in a news conference at IPN, said this initiative is a follow-up to the project “Filieres Bilingues”, which was announced last year and will continue. This supports the use of the Internet as a means of learning.
According to Roxana Turcanu, of the Francophone University Agency Representative Office in Moldova, said the project “Siences en francais 2.0” aims to teach the foreign languages not because of their beauty, but for the benefit of the youth of Moldova as a vector of a subsequent professional insertion.
“It seems important to us that there are such lyceums in the Republic of Moldova, where students learn French at the level of excellence. They are taught chemistry, biology, math in French. It is important because they accumulate not only knowledge of French, but also a specialty vocabulary. We are trying to tell the teachers, students of these lyceums that they made a successful choice when they decided to learn French,” stated Roxana Turcanu.
In the same news conference, there were announced a series of activities that the Embassy of France, the French Alliance and the Francophone University Agency launch in March in connection with the International Francophonie Day that is celebrated on March 20.
“We are carrying out a series of activities, including two contests intended for students and the general public - a contest of photography and a clip making contest entitled “And furthermore I speak French”, where we invite our partners who speak French to ponder over the way in which they can valorize the fact that they speak French, over the benefits that they enjoyed because they speak French,” said Roxana Turcanu.
Also, an exhibition about the 25 years of bilateral relations between France and Moldova will be mounted at the National Museum of History next week.
