Moldova’s schools will teach course on intellectual property

The necessity of formulating a special course on intellectual property to be taught in education establishments was the subject of debate at the subregional symposium “Teaching and Improvement in the Area of Intellectual Property” that closed on March 28, Info-Prim Neo reports. The symposium was organized on March 26-28 in Chisinau by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the State Agency on Intellectual Property (AGEPI) and the Ministry of Education and Youth of Moldova. According to the director general of AGEPI Dorian Chirosca, the specialists attending the seminar said that the representatives and consultants on industrial property should be taught how to work out and introduce, together with the Ministry of Education and Youth and the Ministry of Culture, a special course on intellectual property in pre-university, higher and post-university education establishments. According to the Deputy Dean of the WIPO Worldwide Academy Gao Hang, this new document could be successfully promoted by using such working instruments as databases, electronic forums and distance learning methods, by writing and printing scientific-methodical and teaching literature on how to protect the intellectual property, as well as by training and accrediting the staff. In the same connection, Gao Hang said that WIPO has had a fruitful cooperation with the Republic of Moldova, especially with AGEPI, which benefited from master’s degree programs and other courses of 2-3 weeks. “This cooperation will continue. If need be, WIPO will find possibilities of offering more opportunities so as the representatives of the national office, the teachers of intellectual property and the students engage in activities in the area,” the Deputy Dean of the WIPO Worldwide Academy said. Representatives of 30 education institutions from Moldova as well as from Belarus, Lithuania, Romania, Russia and Ukraine took part in the symposium.