Activity report for 1997(PDF)

1997

a c t i v i t y r e p o r tSoros Foundation Moldova

Soros Foundat ion Moldova

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Soros Foundation MoldovaActivity Report 1997

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Act iv i ty Report 1997

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword 4

Modernization of Education 6HESP 25Invisible College of Moldova 32Scholarships 38Educational Advising Center 44Debate 47High School Exchange 48Health Education 49English Language Programs 50Youth Program 53Travel in Educational Programs 55Step by Step 57East-East 61Library Program 67ComSoros 71Internet and E-mail 73

Civil Society 76Public Administration 89Economic Reform 92Law 95Medical Programs 98

Mass-media 104Arts and Culture 114SCCA 122Publishing 128

The Boards 132Soros Foundation Moldova Staff 134List of Abbreviations 136


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The publication you have opened is the Soros Foundation Moldova Report for 1997.This was the year when the Foundation celebrated five years of activity. The way theFoundation has evolved in these years reflects the evolution of Moldovan society.Some of the milestones of this evolution are a clarified mission of the Foundation, asynthesis of problems we confront, growth of the team’s experience and theirprofessional skills.

No one of us is perfect and is in possession of the ultimate truth. And it is veryimportant that we have succeeded in elaborating mechanisms which provide a largerand more transparent discussion of problems and decision making. I would like tobring special thanks to all the expert committees, boards, and to the national boardof the foundation for their contribution to this.

Matching the stronger commitment of Moldovan society for reforms, the impact ofthe Soros Foundation Programs will increase; they will focus on major problems ofour society such as creating a strong civil society, constituting independent mass-media, forming an open and high-quality education system, sustaining economicreforms (especially in agriculture), and supporting law and public administrationreforms. All these programs aim to establish an open society, where nobody is in thepossession of the ultimate truth and the existing problems can be debated andsolved, based on sound judgment.

Victor UrsuExecutive Director


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M O E, H E S P, I n v i s i b l e C o l l e g e, S c h o l a r s h i p s,

E A C, D e b a t e, H i g h S c h o o l E x c h a n g e,

H e a l t h E d u c a t i o n, Y o u t h P r o g r a m,

T r a v e l i n E d u c a t i o n a l P r o g r a m s,

S t e p b y S t e p, E a s t - E a s t, L i b r a r y,

C o m S o r o s, I n t e r n e t

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Modernization of Education Programexpenses: $960,525.00

commitments: $232,687.00

By the end of 1996, due to the tremendous contribution of the Soros FoundationMoldova Education Board and through consulting a significant number of specialists inthe field of education, a comprehensive situation analysis was conducted by the MOEprogram staff. The results confirmed the same priority work areas of pre-universityeducation identified and targeted since 1995, for program elaboration. These areaswith corresponding needs and program objectives are listed as follows:

I. Facilitation of Access to Information Sources in the Field of Educational

Sciences

Goals:- to connect educational institutions to Internet- to purchase and donate relevant foreign educational materials to schools- to translate and disseminate relevant materials concerning modern researchachievements in education

II. Curriculum Development

Objectives:- to support better preparation of specialists in educational material development,who are hampered by limited access to information on new curricula developmentand implementation in other countries- to promote new alternatives in teaching approaches and methods, course content,and evaluation practices to demonstrate the results of the teaching process- to support extra-curricular activities as a means of promoting students’ creativity andin providing alternatives in the education process

III. Educational Management

Objectives:- to improve the qualification level of school administrators in the area ofinstitutional management- to promote modern strategies, mechanisms and tools for planning, decision makingand evaluation in the educational institution- to promote and support parental involvement in the educational process

IV. Teacher Training and Re-training

Strategies for problem areas:- to better prepare local teacher trainers. Unfortunately, those who have the powerand responsibility for training and re-training of teachers at all levels, do not alwayshave enough knowledge and experience regarding contemporary teaching techniques.- to underline the importance of teaching as an academic discipline. Most of the time,our teacher trainers might have a great deal of knowledge in the discipline they teach(e.g., geography, philosophy, etc.), but they lack efficient presentation skills and teachingtechniques. This, of course, leads to a poor fulfillment of the goals and objectives of


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the teaching-learning process.- To eliminate conservatism, inflexibility and intolerance among teachers from all levels.The great majority of teachers do not have any experience in interactive, learner-centeredteaching methodology. They do not apply group work or team work techniques, nor anyproblem solving strategies. Experiential learning and critical thinking are not features ofour current educational process, either. Besides classroom tools, teachers’ lack ofexperience for working in teams or peers considerably reduces the efficiency of theteaching/learning process.

Considering the above findings, the Modernization of Education Program activity in1997 was centered on:

1) Facilitation of Access to Information on Recent International Research Achievements inEducational Sciences, through:- acquisition of relevant teaching and reference materials for Pro Didactica InformationCenter- acquisition and donation of relevant teaching and reference materials to schoollibraries, pedagogical libraries, Regional Inspectorates, and to Resource Centers createdin the schools that collaborate with the program- subscription to national and international educational publications for the mentionedResource Centers

2) Promotion of Educational Alternatives in the Area of Pre-university Curriculum Reform,through:- organization of competitions for supplementary materials development (specialcourses, tests, creative lesson plans, etc.)- support for initiatives for exchange of experience- training and professional development programs for curriculum developers, withparticipation of foreign experts- training in curriculum development and evaluation, for specialists from various levels,in order to create appropriate working groups- scholarships for short term programs abroad in the area of curriculum developmentand evaluation- selection, translation and publishing of relevant educational materials- support of creative extracurricular activities involving teachers and students

3) Promotion of Modern Educational Management Principles, through:- experience sharing and training programs for school administrators- experience sharing and training programs in evaluation (of staff, system, curriculum,school performance, etc.) for specialists from various levels- training in proposal writing and managing projects in educational areas for ResourceCenter representatives

4) Support for the Teacher Training and Re-training Process, through:- establishment, through competition, of new Resource Centres in schools andlyceums- support of summer schools for teachers and students


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- support of new, creative initiatives from the field, coming from individuals or groupsof teachers- support of experience sharing initiatives- organization of complex training programs abroad, for school teams- support of professional development training abroad for university level teachers whoare involved in teacher training

SECTION I. “PRO DIDACTICA” Information Center

expenses: $96,145.23

The “Pro Didactica” Information and Documentation Center (IDC) currently offersinformation and documentation services in modern teaching methodologies. TheCenter’s functions comprise many major features of the MOE Program. The objectivesof the Center include:

- completing and developing the book collection- compiling and organizing an informational data base on pedagogical literature- completing of the periodicals collection- providing bibliographical information services- providing training and assistance to school librarians- completing book collections in school Resource Centers involved in the Program- organizing and distributing book donations

Objective 1. Completion and Development of the Book Collection

IDC offers access to about 2500 books and periodicals in Romanian, English, French,German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. The major areas of interest are pedagogy,psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, history, geography, and language teaching.During 1997, besides books in the Humanities, IDC also purchased teachingmaterials for math and sciences. The change occurred due to beneficiaries’ requests(primarily from teachers).

Some of the most valuable book series offered by IDC have to be specially mentioned:

- collections: “Pedagogy of the XXth Century”, “Contemporary Pedagogical Ideas”, “Psychology.Educational Sciences”, “Sociology. Political Sciences”.- referential materials in other languages: “AXIS: Dictionnaire encyclopedique” (1993), “TheEncyclopedia Americana” (1996), “The New Book of Knowledge” (1995), “World BookEncyclopedia” (1995), “Funk and Wagnalls New Enyclopedia” (1993), “The InternationalEncyclopedia of Education” (1994), “The International Encyclopedia of Curriculum” (1991), “TheInternational Encyclopedia of Education Evaluation” (1992), “The Encyclopedia of HigherEducation” (1992), “The Book of Art” (1994), “The World Book Medical Encyclopedia” (1994),“L‘ histoire du monde” (1994), “Grand Atlas Historique” (1995), “History of a Free Nation”(1992), “Childcraft” (1995), “Welcome to Reading” (1997), “Young Scientist” (1992).

Objective 2. Service of Beneficiaries


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Primary beneficiaries of the IDC are teachers and students. Based on some statistics,the number of visitors for 1997 was about 4065 people, which is quite a significantnumber for a reading room with only 20 seats and 4 working days. About 60 % ofthem are students, and the rest consists of teachers. Free access to the shelves helps theefficiency of the process. The fund can be consulted only in the library. In exceptionalcases, books can be borrowed by teachers from the regions, with the purpose oforganizing seminars or other training activities. But most of the time they getinformation on book collections that can be found in the School Resource Centers(there are 35 of them now). This helps to increase circulation of donated book funds.

The Center offers a high quality and wide range of research services to its users or“customers”. It is possible to get reference information, or bibliographical lists uponrequest. The TINLIB automation system can locate items through a variety of searchtools, such as name of author, title, publishing house, key-words, and book card(ISBD). Besides books, TINLIB incorporates relevant articles from periodicals. TheCenter can also offer access to the data base of The Romanian National Library,which includes information on its book collection between 1993-1996 (about 50000items). All services mentioned above are available upon request, directly or by phone.

There were several book presentations organized, on new acquisitions of the Center forseveral categories of beneficiaries (teachers of Romanian, primary school teachers,school librarians, library managers, etc.).

A special category of customers consists of people involved in activities developed bythe Program including teacher trainers in the Humanities and Educationalmanagement, teachers and librarians from participating Resource Centers / schools,curriculum development groups, teaching material authors, etc.

Objective 3. Assistance for Resource Centers from the Schools Involved in the MOEProgram

Book funds completion

The schools involved in the Program benefited from substantial book donations, whichare currently used during local training seminars, workshops and in the daily teachingprocess. During 1997, the first 18 Resource Centers (RC-1) received a donation ofabout 27 743 copies of books. Each school received the same titles, the difference beingonly in the number of copies, taking into consideration the number of teachers andstudents from each school. In comparison to 1996, this year the schools receivedliterature not only in the Humanities, but also some titles in Math and Sciences.

Completion of periodicals collections

For 1997, the above mentioned 18 Resource Centers received the following list ofperiodicals:- Faclia (The Torch, a general pedagogical magazine)- Limba Romana (Romanian Language)- Literatura si arta (Literature and Arts)- Limba si Literatura Romana (Romanian Language and Literature)


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- Magazin istoric (Historical magazine)- Tribuna Invatamintului (The Tribune of Education)- Invatamintul Primar (Primary Education)- Sud - Est (South-East (a magazine of culture and civilisation)- BBC English Magazine (January-June)- (School Director)- (September 1st)- (Teachers’ magazine)

Training and professional assistance to school librarians

The IDC staff offers professional assistance to librarians during school visits, by phoneor at the Center. To avoid isolated experiences, in October 1997 the librarians andResource Centers assistants from the 18 schools were invited to a 2-day seminar inChisinau with the motto “Books and Information for Education”. The issues coveredby the seminar concerned the role of the school library in school life, the value ofreading and its importance for students, use of international standards in libraryactivity, document classification, as well as use of TINLIB system. The participantslacking appropriate background benefited from individual consultation on libraryproceedings and technology. All participants received a donation of library toolsincluding inventories, registers for fund moving, library log, book cards and labels,etc. The seminars for Resource Centres managers will continue in 1998, involvingparticipants from the other 17 schools (RC-2).

Objective 4. Book Donations and Subscription to Periodicals for Other Categoriesof Beneficiaries

Book donations for other schools

According to the Educational Board recommendations, several titles were purchasedfor donation to all schools (7225 copies). The donation was organised with the helpof Regional Inspectorates. They included:

1. F. Braunstein, Ghid de cultura generala, Bucuresti, 19962. Ion Bulei, Scurta istorie o romanilor, Bucuresti, 19963. Mihai Cimpoi, O istorie deschisa a literaturii romane din Basarabia, Chisinau, 19974. Ioan Dumitru, Cultivarea limbii romane, Bucuresti, 19965. Octavian Mandrut, Geografia continentelor, Bucuresti, 19966. Brigitte Richter, Ghid de biblioteconomie, Chisinau, 1997

Book donations for Regional Inspectorates

Besides the mentioned above list, offered to all schools, Regional Inspectorates enrichedtheir collections with the following titles:

Nathaniel Branden, Cei sase stilpi ai respectului de sine, Bucuresti, 1996Gheorghe Craciun, Istoria didactica a literaturii romane, Chisinau, 1996Eugenia Gondiu, Didactica, Chisinau, 1997Eugenia Gondiu, Pedagogie generala, Chisinau, 1997Alexandru Crisan, Limba romana: Manual pentru clasa V, Bucuresti, 1997


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Proiecte Didactice. Vol. I, II, III . - Chisinau, 1997Gheorghe Tanasa, Metodica predarii-invatarii istoriei in scoala. - Iasi, 1996Harta geografica a Romaniei.

Several valuable titles, published within the MOE Program - “Proiecte didactice”(Lesson Plans), vol. 4 - 2950 copies, vol. 5 - 2950 copies, “Ethics for My Son” - 5000copies, “Politics for My Son” - 5000 copies, “The Courage to Educate” - 5000 copies (allthree by Fernando Savater) - were distributed to Regional Inspectorates and to allschools partially by IDC, but mainly with the help of the Book Foundation.

Book donations for participants to training organized within the Program

Participants to many activities organized by the Program - winners of competitions,organizers and participants in training, trainers - also received book donations. Therewere also several other institutions, besides schools, that benefited from donationsincluding the Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Research, Chair of Pedagogyfrom the SPU “I. Creanga”, National Institute for Re-training of Teachers). Thesedonations consisted of about 2094 copies of various titles.

Subscription to periodicals for schools

1600 educational institutions were granted subscriptions for 1997 and 1998 to the localpedagogical magazine “Faclia”.

SECTION II. Curriculum Development

expenses: $303,081.36

Objective 1. Support for Publishing Teaching and Reference Materials

The “Proiecte didactice” series (Creative Lesson Plans)

The competition for creative lesson plans for the Humanities teachers was announcedon June 15, 1996. During a year and a half (the last phase was finished on December15, 1997), there were about 150 participants, teachers of the Humanities and primaryschool teachers. Experts recommended for publication the works of 43 teachers. Theworks that were selected had a considerable doze of creativity, innovation, originalityand effectiveness. In 1997, the first 5 volumes were published at the “ARC”Publishing House, in print runs of 2950 copies each. Due to a considerable effort ofthe Book Foundation, these new teaching resources were donated to school librariesall over the country. They already gained popularity among teachers.

The names of the winners are:Volume I:Eugenia GONDIU, Pedagogical School, OrheiPavel CERBUSCA, Theoretical Lyceum #2, ChisinauAngela DRADUTANU, Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences, ChisinauIon IACHIM, Republican Lyceum “Vasile Alecsandri”, ChisinauVasile BAJUREANU, Theoretical Lyceum “L. Damian”, RiscaniLidia BACALIM, General School #2, EdinetValentina PRIDA, Theoretical Lyceum, Lapusna, Hincesti


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Natalia BUCATEL, Ministry of Education

Volume IIDaria CIUHRII, General School #3, OrheiTatiana CARTALEANU, Olga COSOVAN, SPU “Ion Creanga”Lilia PRUNICI, General School #3, Temeleuti, CalarasiEugenia NOVAC, TSUNatalia COJOCARU, General School #2, EdinetLarisa SOLOMON, Romanian-Italian Lyceum “Dante Alighieri”, ChisinauSvetlana FETCO, School - gymnasium #2, EdinetElena BRUSALINSCHI, General School #3, CimisliaAgafia TEIBAS, General School Slobozia, stefan VodaLiubovi KOLESNIK, SPU “Ion Creanga”, ChisinaGalina COREIBA, General School #60, ChisinauSofia CAROL-GUGIUMAN, General School Bacioi, IaloveniGheorghe SALARU, General School #3, Cimislia.

Volume IIILidia POSTARENCU, Pedagogical Lyceum, TighinaIulia IORDACHESCU, Gymnasium #7, ChisinauMaria VEVERITA, General School, Biesti, OrheiPavel CERBUSCA, Theoretical Lyceum #2, ChisinauSergiu GUTU, General School, Vasilcau, SorocaAliona GRIBINCEA, Theoretical Lyceum, Lapusna, HincestiIulia CONOPLINA, Natalia TIMPOVA, Linguistic Lyceum, Balti.

Volume IVEugenia GONDIU, Pedagogical School, OrheiGheorghe GIRNET, Tatiana GIRNET, Ana FLOREAN, General School #3, CimisliaValentina MORARU, Pelaghia BADEA, General School, Carpineni, HincestiEugenia NOVAC, TSUNina AVAKUMOV, Theoretical Lyceum “D.Cantemir”, ChisinauLiubovi KOLESNIK, SPU “Ion Creanga”.

Volumul VMaria NANU, General School #13, ChisinauSergiu GUTU, General School, Vasilcau, SorocaEugenia NOVAC, TSULudmila GAMUREAC, General School, Cojusna, StraseniMihai CATAN, General School, Molesti, IaloveniLudmila BARBUS, Theoretical Lyceum #2, ChisinauLarisa STOG, BSU “Al. Russo”, Balti.

The sixth set of “Proiecte didactice” will be published in 1998.

The competition for creative lesson plans has successfully completed its objectives toanimate the atmosphere in school communities, motivate teachers from a moral and


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material side, promote and endorse modern terminology and new ways of organizingthe teaching/learning process.

Publishing of local and foreign reference materials

There were several books published during 1997 with the entire financial support ofthe MOE Program. The most significant of them (announced in 1996 report as “inprogress”) are:

Fernando Savater, “Ethics for My Son”, “Politics for My Son”, and “The Courage to Educate”(translation into Romanian from Spanish), by “Arc”Valeriu Russu (Paris), “Romanian - Language, Culture and Civilisation”, “Romanian - Wordsand Pictures” (translation into Russian from French), “Grai si Suflet”

Several local materials were also entirely supported by the Program in 1997:Eugenia Gondiu, “General Pedagogy in Charts”, "Cartier"Eugenia Gondiu, “Didactic in Charts”, same author, "Arc"group of authors, “Curriculum for Romanian Language and Literature (grades 5-9)”,"Stiinta"

Partial financial support was granted for several other works:Florin Marcu, “Dictionary of Neologisms”, "Stiinta"Brigitte Richter, “Library Guide”, "Arc"Mihai Cimpoi, “An Open History of Romanian Literature from Basarabia”, second edition,"Arc"

The Publishing House "Stiinta" is still working on another book, “Dictionary of SpecificExpressions and Locutions of Romanian Language”, which is to be printed next year and isalso partially financed by the Program.

Competition for supplementary teaching materials

This part of the Program - the competition for developing and publishing ofsupplementary materials, which can serve as additional tools for pre-universityHumanities students and teachers, was conceived to facilitate efficient implementationof curricula in use, stimulate creative approaches, and challenge authors and editors.

The competition evolved through two phases:

At the first stage, the one of material development, 25 authors proposed their works.Applicants were school teachers as well as university professors. The selection wascompleted with the help of experts from Moldova and Romania. 16 manuscripts wererecommended for publishing with the great majority under the condition that certainand significant improvements be made.

At the second phase, the publishing houses were invited to bid. Several manuscriptsselected in the first phase, were offered for publication with Foundation’s partialsupport, meaning that the publishing houses came with their contribution and risk. Twobooks were offered for translation and publication by full financial support. There


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was also a set of lesson plans for Teaching English as a Second Language, compiledby American Peace Corps Volunteers in Moldova.At this point, these are the publishing projects in progress:D. Hopkins, “School Improvement in an Era of Change”, "Prut International"M. Fryer, “Creative Teaching and Learning”, Publishing House of the Writers’ Union.“Try It With Us”, a set of lesson plans for Teaching English as a Second Language,promoting problem solving, group work activities, critical thinking and environmentaleducation (group of Peace Corps Volunteers), "Prut International"Aurelian Silvestru, “We and the History of Mankind”, Muzeum

Objective 2. Supporting the Process of School Curriculum Reform

During the year, due to efficient communication with the Ministry of Education,Youth and Sports (MEYS) representatives and with the World Bank Mission inMoldova, the area of work for curriculum development for secondary school, grades10-12 was defined. The World Bank Education Project in Moldova is targetingtextbook and curriculum development for grades 1-9.

Initially, the program objectives included only supporting the curricular reform in theHumanities. Based on the Educational Board recommendations, a Mutual Agreementwas signed by the Soros Foundation Moldova and MEYS, concerning the Foundationand Ministry’s common efforts and collaboration on the development of school corecurricula for grades 10-12 for the Humanities, Math and Sciences.

Anticipating the above mentioned Agreement and the present work period on curricula,the Program provided computer courses for about 100 people - Ministry specialists,members of curriculum development groups within the World Bank Project, andpotential members of the working groups for grades 10-12 in May 1997.

An important factor to emphasize is that working groups consist of specialists fromvarious levels such as school teachers, university professors, scientific researchers,Ministry specialists, and specialists from Regional Inspectorates. This can ensureoptimal results in curricula content. The coherence between primary, gymnasium andlyceum levels can also be ensured by the fact that some specialists from each groupare involved in both the World Bank and the Foundation’s projects.

The MOE Program provided several training sessions of significant importance inorder to improve the professional skills of curriculum developers:

The “Guiding Principles and Strategies for Curriculum Development at the Lyceum Level” seminartook place on March 20-22,1997. Senior specialists from MEYS and well known expertsfrom the Institute of Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania contributed to the highquality of this training course. 66 participants represented the curriculum developmentgroups for Romanian Language and Literature, Romanian as a Second Language,History, Geography, Foreign Languages, Psychology, Philosophy and Logic.The objectives of the seminar included:- understanding the curricular concept of the school cycle


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- understanding the main aspects of curriculum development- acknowledging the differences between national curriculum and local curriculumbetween recommended (ideal) curriculum and taught (real) curriculum- understanding managerial and strategic aspects of curriculum development forlyceums- understanding and practical application of curriculum development methodology

The “Evaluation of School Performance” summer school was organized in June. Under theguidance of Senior Specialists from MEYS and a group of experts from the Instituteof Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, about 70 participants successfullyaccomplished the following objectives:- understanding the general issues of evaluating school results (goals, functions,implications, methods, objectives, evaluation tools and their development, screening,analysis and the announcement of results)- identifying the peculiarities of evaluation in lyceum education, based on case studiesand practical activities- developing various evaluation tools

The Socio-Humanistic Education Euro-2000 Association received a grant for a seriesof seminars with the generic “New Curriculum and New Technologies in Teaching/LearningHistory”, provided by a group of specialists and conducted by the scientific researcherValentina Haheu.

Objective 3. Book Acquisition and Donation

During 1997, the Program purchased and donated a large number of books, printedlocally and abroad including teaching materials for the Humanities, Math andSciences, literature to match the curricula, reference materials, etc. The donationprojects were described earlier in the first section of this report (“Pro Didactica”Information Center).

SECTION III. Teacher Training

expenses: $353,577.72

The Teacher Training section in 1997 prioritized activities which would facilitatefamiliarization with new teaching methods, techniques and psycho-pedagogical conceptssuccessfully implemented in other countries, as well as sustaining experience sharingamong local teachers who develop and apply new, creative ideas.

Objective 1. Development of School Resource Centers

The first group of Resource Centers waz selected in 1996 after a competition inwhich 40 schools participated. The final selection resulted in 18 schools beingawarded Resource Centres, equipped with modern equipment and teachingmethodology books. During 1997 they became real teaching laboratories, coveringteachers’ activity from a broad geographical area.


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The school initiative teams carry function in conformity with the work plansdeveloped from the strategies of the Resource Center Status - promotion ofeducation for an open society principles, facilitation of education reform,implementation of new educational contents, participation in modernization of theschool evaluation process, and implementation of research in the field of schoolevaluation process analysis and monitoring.

In April 1997 the second competition for secondary schools and lyceums wasannounced. 34 school submitted projects. After their examination and subsequentschool visits, 17 institutions had been selected by October 1997. They will besupported by the Program through book acquisition and donation of equipment, inorder to establish new Resource Centers. For team members from the new Centers(school administrators, teachers of the Humanities and primary school teachers)training, seminars, summer schools and other didactic activities orientated at theirprofessional improvement will also be organized.

The schools of 1997 are as follows:Al.Mateevici Secondary School, CainariTheoretical Lyceum, CalarasiIon Creanga Romanian-English Lyceum, ChisinauRomanian Secondary School, DubasariD.Cantemir Russian Theoretical Lyceum, EdinetTheoretical Lyceum Giurgiulesti, VulcanestiSecondary School #2, LeovaSecondary School #1, Lozova, StraseniOnisifor Ghibu Theoretical Lyceum, OrheiSecondary School Recea, RiscaniSecondary School Talmaz, Stefan VodaTheoeretical Lyceum, TelenestiSecondary School #19, TighinaSecondary School #1, Sanatauca, CamencaSecondary School #2, SoldanestiV.Alecsandri Theoretical Lyceum, Ungheni

At present the Innovative School Network includes 35 schools in which ResourceCenters were created. The first 18 schools (RC-1) succeeded in carrying on a broadscope of activity in the respective geographical area. For the new school teams (RC-2)there will be training organized in 1998 at International Language Center Iasi (Romania),local seminars and summer schools as well as training abroad.

Five schools from the first generation obtained grants for modernization of theirResource Centres. There were funds allocated for the purchase of equipment andconnection to e-mail in all 35 schools enabling them to develop an efficientcommunication network.

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Local seminars and summer schools

In 1997, besides the complex training at ILC, Iasi, for team members of the 18Resource Centers (principals, vice principals, teachers of 7 humanities subjects andteachers from the primary level) there were additional teaching programs organized,attended by special groups of Program trainers, including main specialists of theMinistry of Education, university teachers, school inspectors et al., who haddeveloped and implemented teacher training programs on a national level.

In 1997 the following seminars and summer schools were organized:

Elaboration of School Development Program, Project Development, Aspects of School Psychology,February 19-22, 1997, Chisinau, $3,496.00(The seminars were organized using the experience of participants to similar two-week training session in Moscow at the Personality Development Centre (PDC) inDecember 1996, as well as the experience gained in the republic). 90 participants

Taught Curriculum. Educational Terminology. Evaluation (with experts from the Institute ofEducational Sciences from Bucharest, Romania, and local trainers) 17-19.03.97, Chisinau, March17-19, 1997, $8,173.00 90 participants

Primary Education: Diversity of Traditions and Innovation Summer School (methodical approach todifferent traditional and innovative experiences in primary education), June 16-21, 1997 (Vadul luiVoda), $562.0054 primary school teachers

The Trainer and Continuous Self/Improvement Summer School(stimulation of teacher motivation forself-improvement), July 14-17, 1997 (Vadul lui Voda), $12,389.0098 participants

Training abroad

Teachers from the Resource Centers and Program Trainers, as well as specialists fromother educational fields who participated in competitions, participated in the followingseminars and trainings abroad:

“Managing the School in Development”, April 21-26, 1997, Moscow, PDC, $1,193.00Ludmila PUSCAS, Pedagogical College, ChisinauRoman COPACEANU, Lyceum Carpineni, Hincesti

“Mathematics in Primary School”, March 26 - April 4, 1997, Moscow, PDC, $3,039.00Tatiana GIRNET, Secondary School #3, CimisliaZinaida DIDENCO, Regional Inspectorate, Stefan Voda

“Eidetic Memory Development”, May 15 - 30, 1997, Moscow, “Eidos” School, “M. Lomonosov”State University , $3,800.00Alvina GROSU, Secondary School #32, ChisinauTatiana CUZMINA, Lyceum #2 Gaudeamus, Chisinau


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Svetlana COTRUTA, Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological SciencesAurelia MATEI, Republican Sports Lyceum“Managing the Change. Co-operative Learning (I)”, May 12 - 17, 1997, Hungary, BalatonVillage, Open Society Institute, $2,272.00Valentina CHICU, Secondary School Horodiste, CalarasiGheorghe SALARU, Secondary School #3, CimisliaSvetlana BELEAEV, Lyceum #2, Chisinau

“Educational System Evaluation”, May 26 - June 6, 1997, France, Paris, International Centre ofPedagogical Sciences, $8,326.00Carolina PLATON, State University, Psychology DepartmentVladimir GUTU, Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences

“Rhetoric for children” (in primary school), June 2 - 7, 1997, Moscow, PDC, $1,083.00Tamara MOLDOVEANU, Secondary School #36, ChisinauLiubovi SAULEAC, Secondary School #2, Criuleni

“Class Management. Teaching Techniques Optimisation”, August 19 - 22, 1997, Canada,Montreal, McGill University, $3,826.00Tatiana TURCHINA, MSU, Psychology DepartmentVictoria SICORSCHI, BSU

“History and Social Sciences in the Context of Basic Problems of Secondary Education”, November2 - 6, 1997, Moscow, Improvement Centre in the Culture Lyceum, $738.00Ludmila BARBUS, Lyceum #2, Chisinau

“Managing the Change (II)”, October 30 - November 4, 1997, Riga, Latvia, $4,007.00Valentina CHICU, Secondary School Horodiste, CalarasiGheorghe SALARU, Secondary School #3, CimisliaSvetlana BELEAEV, Lyceum #2, Chisinau

“Supplementary Paid Services in State Educational Institutions”, November 17 - 22, 1997,Moscow , PDC, $931.00Iurie MALAI, SPU, ChisinauFelicia STAHI, Inspectorate Botanica, Chisinau

Psycho-correction of Emotional Failures in Children”, December 9 - 14, 1997, St. Petersburg,Centre “Imaton”, $1,335.00Larisa STOG, BSULucia SAVCA, “Armonie” Center, Chisinau

“Organization and Implementation of a Creative Thinking Development Course”, December 20 -24, 1997, St-Petersburg, Center “Imaton”, $5,548.00Sergiu BACIU, National Institute of Continuous Education

Training at International Language Center, Iasi, Romania

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attended by the first teams members from those 18 School Resource Centers andProgram trainers (201 person in all).The objectives of the Training Program included:- stimulating the participants sensitivity to the necessity of continuous education- offering some fundamental modern theoretical bases in treating professionalinformation- becoming familiar with new tendencies in modern teaching- becoming familiar with new techniques and strategies of using modern teachingresources and materials.

The topics, among more than 250 themes, included different issues of the currentteaching processcalibrating school curriculum to the international standards; psycho-pedagogy from theperspective of the new educational tendencies; problems of teaching activities anddifferent approaches to them, etc.

The trainings were carried on in two modules and in the following terms:Module 120-26.01 Teaching Romanian Language (23 persons)27.01-3.02 Teaching History (23 persons)10-17.02 Teaching Geography (27 persons)17-24.02 Romanian as a Foreign Language (14 persons)17-24.02 Teaching English Language (13 persons)10-17.03 Teaching French Language (29 persons)17-24.03 Teaching Subjects in Primary School (29 persons)

Module 212-17.05 Teaching Romanian Language (25 persons)18-24.05 Teaching Geography (28 persons)26-31.05 Romanian as a Foreign Language (14 persons)26-31.05 Teaching English Language (13 persons)3-9.07 Teaching History (23 persons)23-29.09 Educational Management (19 persons)28.09-4.10 Educational Management (21 persons)6-12.10 Teaching French Language (27 persons)13-19.10 Teaching Subjects in Primary School (30 persons)

“The organizers from the Romanian part consider that this Program, initiated by theSoros Foundation-Moldova, offers dynamism to the modernization of the humanitiesprocess on both banks of the river Prut. The resulted achievements, differentprofessional experiences and exchange of opinions are beneficial for both sides”(from the evaluation report of ILC Program Director,1997)

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Programs initiated by Resource Centers teachers and school administrators

teams

By the end of the school year 1996-1997 the team members from the 18 ResourceCenters went beyond just informing their school teachers and neighboring teachers.Beginning with September these teams started to carry out programs on a highprofessional level by organizing seminars, training, conferences and other didacticactivities for school principals and teachers of the Humanities in their districts, andothers. In the framework of these activities the team members were able to apply allthe knowledge, abilities and experience accumulated in the training and seminarsorganized by the Program during the whole year. During this period, the teachersfrom these Resources Centers organized 32 seminars which were supported throughProgram grants on a project basis.

Programs initiated by local trainers teams

In the first half of the school year 1997-1998 the groups of trainers in theHumanities, primary education and educational management began to implementtheir projects. In the period from October-December 1997, working programs andprograms of seminars were devised, which will be implemented in the second half ofthe school year. The first seminars were carried out by the History group of trainersand they took place in December in Cimislia.

Among others there may be mentioned:Trainer Training for working with adults, $381.46Cycle of seminars: “The Specific Features of Teaching Adults”, “Class Management”, “UsingActive Teaching Methods”.Inspectorate Stefan Voda, Project Director Victor SINCHETRU

“Educational Management - Organization and Management of the Process of Teaching/Learningin an Educational Institution”. “Didactic Strategies of the Evaluative-stimulating Type”.“(Formative) Evaluation in History and Geography classes”, $1,227.67Theoretical Lyceum Lapusna, Hincesti, Project Director Lidia BEZNITCHI

Cycle of seminars (“Co-ordination of Student Research Activity in History”, “Managerial Issuesin a Secondary Education Institution”, “Student Creativity Development during Physics Classes”,“Teaching/Learning Issues in Foreign Languages”), $1,595.44Lyceum “Onisifor Ghibu”, Orhei, Project Director Eugenia BULAT

SECTION IV. OPEN PROJECTS


Objective I. Supporting Summer Schools in the Humanities for Students

Summer schools for students represent a program to support educational initiatives ofsome teacher teams, or individual teachers in humanities from the pre-universityeducation.This program was implemented through a competition where teachers submittedprojects with detailed working programs, including the objectives and the modes of


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completion. After a close examination of these projects the Foundation EducationalBoard selected only eight among the best, on the basis of which, during the summer1997, were implemented the following educational activities:

The “Young Talents” summer school of creativity in Romanian language and literature, organizedin the “Alexandru Donici” Writers’ Union House, Orhei, $3.836.90Cofinancing: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports - organization of theinstructional activities by the project; Writers’ Union - book donation to participants;Cultural Society “Limba noastra cea romana” - prizes for participants and bookdonation.The seminar had 70 participants, winners of republican competitions, from 15localities of the republic. The activity was carried out in the framework of threecreative laboratories guided by four co-ordinators (2 teachers, a poet and a journalist),where the children had as guests members of the Creative Unions, writers andjournalists from the republic.

The medieval town Orheiul Vechi summer school in history and archaeology, archaeologicalreservation near the village of Butuceni, $2,786.1345 children and 4 teachers from the nearby schools participated in the archaeologicalexcavations and other related activities. The project of this summer school forstudents was developed by a team of scientific researchers (7 members) from theCenter of Archaeological Research of the Republic of Moldova who wished in thisway to prepare some future specialists in the field.Cofinancing: The Ministry of Culture (by putting at the participants disposal theMuseum Complex “The medieval town Orheiul Vechi”, and IIUM (transport &research expenses).

Summer school in archaeology and local history, Giurgiulesti, $1,394.18A team of students guided by three scientific researchers from the “Social-Humanities Education EURO 2000” Association took part in the summer school.For this summer school named “Clio-Eco” the participants (20 children) wereselected from classes specialized in the Humanities studies from different schools inMoldova. This summer school represented a component part of a bigger project toorganize an archaeological expedition under the aegis of the Institute of Archaeologyof the Academy of Sciences of the Republic Moldova. Cofinancing: the RomanianInstitute of Trakology - $3,980.00. Association “Social-Humanities Education EURO2000”, $1,520.00

The summer school in French language following the method “Le Nouveau sans Frontiers”, healthcenter “Codru”, Calarasi district, $2,028.65The school was organized by a team of three teachers from different schools fromthe district. The participants (20 children) were selected among the winners ofregional and district competitions and among those children who studied in classeswith profound study of French. Besides the educational activities the childrenfollowed a course of medical treatment offered by the sanatorium.


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The summer school “Temerarii” for intensive study of French and English languages gathered 200children in the summer camp “Poenita vesela” in Danceni, Ialoveni district, $1,913.04The teaching activities were implemented by a team of 12 members, teachers andstudents from the Philological Department of the State Pedagogical University “IonCreanga” from Chisinau.Cofinancing: Inspectorate Botanica, Chisinau

Another summer school in the Humanities (Romanian as a Foreign Language, English, Historyand Geography) “Andries”, Ivancea, Orhei, $2,199.03was organized by a team of 9 teachers from the Linguistic Gymnasium-Lyceum fromBalti in the summer camp. During this summer school the computer class of thelyceum successfully used.

A summer school in French and English languages, summer camp “Planeta verde”, Rusca, districtof Hincesti. $2,094.29150 children of different age benefited in three shifts by an instructive program ofintensive language study. The project was implemented by a team of 4 teachers fromthe Theoretical Lyceum, Lapusna.Cofinancing SA “Lapusna” and by the CAI Hincesti Trade Union District Committee.

Another activity was a historical-ecological expedition to the Nistru river, $1,097.40in which 30 children and a team of 3 teachers participated, all of them from theTheoretical Lyceum #2 of Chisinau. Their activity, which became already a tradition,is known and encouraged by the General Education Direction from Chisinau whichsolicited the Foundation support for the project.Besides the study of historical monuments situated on the banks of the river Nistruthe expedition sought to take care and improve the sanitary conditions of theenvironment, thus introducing the children to the values of ecological culture.

A summer school in English, Straseni, $3,026.41 for 120 senior grade students was organized by the English Camp Foundation. Theworking team included 30 people: 15 university students and 16 Peace Corpsvolunteers. The major part of costs were covered by the USA Peace Corps in Moldova.

Objective 2. Support for Young Teachers from the Pre-university Educational Level

The “Young Teacher” competition permitted young school teachers to demonstrate their creativity andprofessional preparation by submitting projects to the Program of innovative teaching materials andapproaches in the respective subject. On the eve of September 1 the winners were awarded Diplomasof Honour at Pro Didactica. They also received book donations and merit scholarships whichconstituted 500 lei (first place) and 400 lei (second place), $1.073.00

The winners were:Sergiu OREHOVSCHI, teacher of Romanian, general school Nimereuca, CamencaLolita ONEA, teacher of Italian, “Dante Aligheri” Lyceum, ChisinauAna SLIVCIUC, teacher of History of Art, “M.Eminescu” Lyceum, BaltiAlexandru CERGA, teacher of Geography, general school #19, Chisinau


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Silvia STRELCIUC, psychologist, ‘Ioan Voda” Theoretical Lyceum, CahulAngela GRAMA, teacher of Romanian, “M.Eminescu” Lyceum, ChisinauGhenadie BUCICOV, teacher of History, Theoretical Lyceum #2, ChisinauConstantin COJOCARU, teacher of Romanian, general school #2, Edinet

Objective 3. Local Initiative Support

This last objective dealt with initiatives coming from teachers and teacher teams andwhich were worth being supported, even though their focus not always coincidedwith Program objectives. It was decided to offer a chance to original projects whichwould have a big impact on certain education fields support limited to one or severalschools.

The following projects were supported:“Computer in Teaching” (modernisation of teacher training process), $21,028.50National Institute of Continuous Education, Project director Vasile COJOCARU

“The Necessity of Change and Continual Teachers Development” seminar, $632.89General school Horodiste, Calarasi, Project director Valentina CHICU

“New Forms and Methods of Organising the Educational Process. School Results Evaluation”cycle of seminars, $632.46General school Satul Nou, Cimislia, Project director Iacob CIOBANU

“Heritage” - a Republican competition in Romanian language and literature and history for seniorgrade students, $1.447.92Project director Gheorghe BOLOGAN

“Modes of Teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language” cycle of seminars, Gymnasium-Lyceum#16, Balti, $1,522.22Project director Valentin BIRSAN

“Active Methods of Teaching and Learning. Evaluation Forms”. “Managing the Change”.“Professional Communities” cycle of seminars. General school Horodiste, Calarasi, $466.06Project director Valentina CHICU

Financial support for participation to an educational program in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, for a group of40 students from the Bulgarian School of Chisinau, $1,516.96Project director Vasile STOIANOV

Experience Exchange Program initiated by a team of teachers from the Prometeu Lyceum,Chisinau - Didactic House, Piatra Neamt, Romania, $3,501.55Project director Aurelian SILVESTRU

Financial support for a Cultural Program in Bucharest for 40 children from Transnistria,$1,086.00


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Project director Ecaterina BOLOCAN

Seminar in Applied Economy for school teachers, $3,537.23The “Junior Achievement Moldova - Moldova Youth Achievements” PublicAssociation, Project director Adela SCUTARU

“Waldorf Pedagogy at the fifth anniversary in Moldova: implementation in the practice of the freepedagogy concept”, $2,010.66Project director Liviu DASCAL

“New Technologies in Teaching and Learning History”, $282.27“Social-Humanities Education Euro Clio 2000” Association, Project director ValentinaHAHEU

“New Technologies in Teaching History”, $193.83Inspectorate Ialoveni, Project director Maria CALDARE

Competition between lyceums in school subjects “Codru - 97”, $568.57Theoretical Lyceum Calarasi, Project director Gheorghe SAPOVAL

“Behavioural Problem Correction in Children”, $802.24Rehabilitation Centre “Armonie”, Project Director Lucia SAVCA

“Evaluation in Primary School”, $160.37Inspectorate Soldanesti, Project director Svetlana TURCANU

Seminars (“Team Building and Team Activity”, “School Result Evaluation”, “Strategies forEfficient Communication with Parents”), $478.54Inspectorate Stefan Voda, Project director Victor SINCHETRU

Permanent Seminar for Lyceum Teachers of Mathematics”, $883.01A group of lyceum teachers from Chisinau, Project Director Ion GRATII

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Higher Education Support Program (HESP)expenses: $137,455.00


The mission of HESP is to promote and facilitate the advancement and restructuringprocess of academia in the field of the Humanities and Social Sciences in theRepublic of Moldova. By investing in scholarly and educational activities HESPhopes to assist the institutions to fulfill their potential and to integrate into theinternational academic community.

University Textbook Publishing Program



Inherent to the task of developing the Humanities and Social Sciences studyprograms is the augmentation of textbooks and original works in the Romanianlanguage, including new titles. To this aim, the program financially supports thepublication of textbooks by Moldovan authors, and these titles then enrich universitylibraries. The titles were selected on a competitive basis, resulting in publishingsupport provided for the following:Valeriu CAPCELEA, “Introduction in Philosophy”, $4,800.00Violina GALAICU, “The Ethnic Size of the Musical Creation”, $3,400.00Mariana SLAPAC, “Architecture of Cetatea Alba Medieval Fortification”, $6,800.00

Another opportunity to encourage and support course development was a textbookauthorship contest. The goal promt the develpoment of curriculum materials nowlacking in priority areas and to support textbook authors during this difficult economictransition. The authors had to submit a concept of the manual and write the firstchapter of the book. The following projects received a grant of $600.00 for thecompletion of proposed textbooks within 6 months:N. VICOL, Phonetics and PhonologyA. EVDOSENCO, Introduction in SemioticsI. BORS, International Financial RelationsP. FRUNTAS, Contemporary Political SystemsA. ESANU, V. ESANU, Culture of Romanian CivilizationC. POPOVICI, European Pre-philosophyI. CHIRTOAGA, Romanian History. Medieval EpochC. MARIN, Institutional CommunicationL. STOG, Responsibility - Personality Dimension

Transformation of University Curriculum

expenses: $870.00


The aim of this program was to support faculty members who are willing to introducenew courses in the curriculum or to restructure the existing ones in accordance with


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international standards. Grants of $250.00 for each project of analytical program inthe area of the Humanities and social sciences were offered to the following authors:Valentin ARAPU, A Study of Historical SourceEduard BAIDAUS, The History of Medieval EpochValentina COZMA, Valeriu COZMA, Historical ResearchMihail BURUIANA, International Economic Law

Informational Support: Subscriptions for Universities of Moldova

expenses: $9,900.00


This program had the objective to cover the lack of journals and newspapers fromdifferent areas, which are extremely needed in the universities but missing due to thelack of funds. The selection of journals and newspapers was made through thefaculties’ proposals in the most representative areas, presented by each university. Thefollowing universities and institutions received subscriptions: AESM, IIUM, SPU,MAM, BSU, APA, Center for Market Problems, AUM, International Institute ofManagement, and TUM.

Higher Education in Moldova: Problems and Perspectives


In 1997 the Soros Foundation Moldova and the Council of Rectors of Moldovainitiated a cycle of seminars and roundtable discussions under the topic“Transformation of Higher Education in Moldova: Problems of Implementation.”

“The Problems of the University Autonomy in the Republic of Moldova”, April 21-22, 1997Experts participating:Oleg Kouptsov, CEPES Office of Bucharest, Ewa Chmielecka, Director, Program ofModernization of the Higher Education of Poland, Institute for Public Politics inWarsaw, Cloude Daudel, Advisor of the Ministry of Education of France, Robert deGroof, Director of the Moldova branch, Newport University, USA, Voldemar Tomusk,HESP International, OSI-Budapest

All parties including rectors and the administrative body representatives from the mostimportant higher education institutions of Moldova, representatives of the Ministry ofEducation and other organizations and interested institutions participated in groupdiscussions concerning various issues on the agenda such as the concept of universityautonomy, presentation of the situation in different countries and perspectives; types ofuniversity autonomy and its components: didactic, scientific, administrative and financialautonomy; university autonomy in state and private area; teacher training and boardselection in the conditions of university autonomy, etc.

“Principles and Methods of the Quality Assessment in Higher Education”, November 27-28,AESMExperts:Don F. Westerheijden, Quality Department, Center for Political Studies in the field of


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Higher Education, University of Twente, Holland, Hugh Glanville, Assistance Centerin Quality Assessment of the Open University, London, Oleg Kouptsov, CEPESOffice of Bucharest, Robert de Groof, Newport University, USA, Renee Ribier, theNational Evaluation Commission from France, Gheorghe Popa, the National Councilfor Academic Evaluation and Accreditation from Romania, Iasi University, OleksandrShtokvych, CEP Director of Ukraine and Moldova

The topics presented at this seminar were: principles of assessment in higher education;assessment of curricula and educational standards; assessment of teaching and learning;quality of educational process organization; methods of knowledge assessment;teaching staff assessment; strategies for quality evaluation in higher education andresearch; experience of European countries in the field of quality evaluation of highereducation, comparative analysis of the quality evaluation of higher education inMoldova, Great Britain, USA and Europe, etc.

Grants for Postgraduate Students



The project aimed to provide grants to postgraduate students in the Humanities andsocial sciences in order to facilitate their creative work on theses and to stop the“brain drain”. The grant was offered for research study work within university,archive or educational center abroad, supporting accommodations and meals, andproviding some funds for copy services, textbook purchases, teaching materials, etc.,which might help them with their research. The criteria for selection were: therelevance of the topic, its originality, way of objective implementation and the socialimpact of the research. The program was announced twice - in spring and fall. Therewere three grant categories: level I - $800.00, level II - $500.00, level III - $300.00.

Level I

V. BUBULICI - History, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiS. MUSTEATA - History, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiG. DELINSCHI - English Philology, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiE. GROSU - Romanian Philology, Bucharest UniversityA. CARPOV - Architecture, Ion Mincu Architecture Institute, BucharestE. BOJOGA - Linguistics, Cluj UniversityD. DUMITRU - World History, SPU I. CreangaS. VALCU - Pedagogics, Cluj UniversityT. MACARI- History of Art, Cluj University

Level II

I. GUMENAI - History, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiG. DUHLICHER - Economics, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiM. ABRAMCIUC - Romanian Literature, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiL. BOLOCAN - Social Psychology, Bucharest UniversityL. BALAN - History of Pedagogics, SPUV. ARAPU - History of Romania, MSUM


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Level III

V. CRETU - History, MSUL. ANTONOV - History, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiS. CIUMAC - Economics, National Economics Research Institute, BucharestA. BARCA - Labor Economics, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiC. SPAC - Special Psychology, Bucharest UniversityE. ZIDU-HAHEU - General Pedagogy, SPUS. JANTUAN - Experimental Psycho-esthetics, Bucharest UniversityN. SLABU - Philosophy, Cluj-Napoca UniversityV. OLARESCU - Pedagogy, Pedagogical and Psychological Institute of MoldovaI. ILASCU - General Pedagogy, SPUL. HANDRABURA - Philology, Al.I.Cuza University, IasiV. BABARA - Law, Bucharest UniversityV. BORS - Political Sciences, MSUV. POPA - Philosophy Department, MSUI. MIRONOV - Geography, Geographical Institute, ASMM. ZAGAIEVSCHI - Pedagogics, SPUM HACHI - Economics, AESMA. STEFARTA - Special Pedagogy, Pedagogical Science Institute

Competition for Young Faculty Members

expenses: $8,000.00

commitments: $870.00

The process of transformation of university curricula could be assisted by selectingthe best students and creating for them conditions to be engaged as faculty lecturerswhile facilitating their continuation of postgraduate studies. This project aimed tosupport young faculty members by providing them with supplementary grants to theiruniversity salary, and encouraging them to stay employed at universities. On acompetitive basis 40 grants of $250.00 were given to young faculty members, at 12universities of Moldova:

AESME. HIRBU, A. TCACENCOAIMS. GUTANU, E. MORARU, A. TURCANU, A. CASTRAVET, N. COZARUCCUM. JALENCUIIUMV. BIRLADEANU, V. CELACHUMI. RUSU, N. ROSUSPUI. CIOCAN, V. MELINTE, A. MOLDOVEANUBSUA. GARABAGIU, V. OLARI, R. PRODAN, V. SOCHICHIUMSU


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D. CHEIANU, I. CIALENCO, V. CUMPATA, A. GROSU, R, STAVARACHE, V.UMANET, J. ANICHIN, V. HINCU, R. MELNICIUC, P. NEGURASMUR. PASCAL, V. BALTAG, R. BALTAGTSUV. BORDAN, A. BRAICOV, S. CODREANU, I. MELNICTUMV. BESCHIERU, E. SIRBU, V. TENTIUCAUMN. GAVRILAS

Internship Program for University Lecturers



This program aimed to support the internships of Moldovan lecturers and professors,research work on new course development, participation at various seminars,conferences, symposiums, workshops and training abroad for the purpose of curriculadevelopment, learning up-to-date teaching technologies, restructuring of teachingcourses, etc. Within this program travel expenses, meals and accommodation up to 2months were supported.

Internship at the University Complutense, Madrid, Spain, $820.00Raisa MIHAI, IIUM

Internship at the Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland, $1,340.00Liuba BURAVTEV, lecturer, AIM

Internship at the Theater Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia, $1,200.00Petru BALAN, lecturer, AIM

Internship on Diploma Project Development at the University Henci Poinrace, Nancy, France,$3,900.00Vitalie TAPU, Silviu AFTENI, students, TUM

Internship at the Medical University, Bucharest, Romania, $2,355.00Silvia CHEIANU, lecturer, MSU

Internship at the State University, Moscow, Russia, $900.00Nicolae ESANU, lecturer, MSU, Law Department

Internship in Romania, $885.00Simion ZAMSA, lecturer, AIM

Summer Course “Orheiul Vechi” by the History Department, SPU, $2,300.00Students in History from the MSU, IIUM and SPU


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Internship at the National Polytechnical Institute, Toulouse, France, $390.00Petru TOMITA, AUM

Internship at the Stendhal University, Grenoble and University Center of French Studies, Paris,$700.00Ana BONDARENCO, IIUM

Internship at the Agrarian High School, Toulouse, $1,360.00Svetlana LISNIC, AUM

Internship at the High School of Visual Arts, Dresden, $1,360.00Ion CAVARNALI, SPU

Internship at the State Pedagogical University, Moscow, $1,700.00Nicolae TUDOREANU, SPU

Internship at the High School of Economics, Arts & Communication, Paris, $2,050.00Alexandru SCHIOPU, AIM

Visiting Professor Program

Visiting Program of Professors from Romania, invited for the “Constantin Noica”conferences, organized during March-October 1997 at the MSUProject director - Gheorghe BOBANA, researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Sociologyand Law, ASM

Visiting Program of Teachers from Romania and Russia to the “Nicolae Milescu-Spataru Readings” scientific conferenceProject director - Stefan LUPAN, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, ASM,MSU

Invitation of professor Ernest John Ashby, University from Wales, UKProject director - Grigore JUNGHIETU, IIUM, SMU

Open Programs



Modernization of the Teaching/Learning process in Archeology and History of Romanians,$6,500.00Project director - V.GONTA, Chair of Romania History, Pedagogical State University“Ion Creanga”Scientific Student Conference in History, MSU, $330.00Project director - V.CROITORU

Scientific Student Conference in History, SPU, $330.00Project director - Sergiu MUSTEATA, Department of History, SPU


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Development of the psycho-pedagogical curriculum in higher education, $15,000.00Project director - Ludmila PAPUC, Chair of General Pedagogy, SPU

Laboratory of Rhetoric at the MSU, $5,000.00Project director - Irina CONDREA, Faculty of Romanian language, MSU

Students Conference CEP in Lviv, December 4-6, 1997, $2,945.00Project director - Justin CONNOR, CEP lecturer, AESM

Grants for original projects started in 1996:

Modernization of the teaching Process in Cultorology, $11,500.00Project director - Emil DRAGNEV, Chair of History of the Arts department, MSU

Introduction of the Clinical Psychology Course into the MSU Curriculum, $21,500.00Project director - carolina PLATON, Chair of the Psychology Department, MSU

Restructuring of the Linguistic Study at the MSU, $16,400.00Project director - Anatolie CIOBANU, Romanian Filology Chair, MSU

A Course in Distance Learning, organized in Bucharest by the Open University, $3,070.00Project director - Simion CAISIN, Director of the Information Center, MSU

The First Sceintific Conference of Moldovan and Roumanian Universities, $6,210.00Project director - Stefan CARTOFEANU, Head of the International RelationsDepartment, TUM

Basarabian Community Data Base, hitorical sceintific project, $6,400.00Project director - Vitalie VARATIC, Institute of History, AS


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Invisible College of MoldovaInternational HESP - Falanga Program

expenses: $152,045.41


This program was started in February 1996 in partnership with the Open SocietyInstitute and three universities in Chisinau as a special International HESP pilot-program under the title “ Development of Social Sciences in the Higher Educationof Moldova”.

The Invisible College of Moldova is oriented to the amplification of the teaching andresearch processes in the field of Social Sciences. The College focuses on fourdisciplines: Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy.

The main goal of the Program is to contribute to the preparation of a core group of academics inSocial Sciences and a new generation of leaders in Moldova’s growing democracy.

The Invisible College activity involves about 100 people, including 60 students fromthe different local universities and about 40 professors. The principal target of theInvisible College of Moldova’ programs are the most outstanding students in SocialSciences. They are selected by way of publicly advertised competitive exams. Theteaching staff is recruited from the best professors of the higher educationestablishments and research institutes of Moldova. Additionally, visiting professorsfrom the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the European Community andthe USA are involved in laboratory activities. They are an important aspect of theprogram as they bring new ideas, research and teaching practices otherwiseunavailable in Moldova.

At present the academic training and research work of the students occurs in theexisting framework of specialized laboratories organized in the buildings of thefollowing universities:Philosophy: MSU, #32 Gh. Casu str. room 210, Chisinau MD 2025Sociology: MSU, #32 Gh. Casu str., room 201 A, Chisinau MD 2009Political Science: IIUM, #52 Vlaicu Pircalab str., room 216, Chisinau MD 2012Psychology: SPU, #1 Ion Creanga str., room 60, Chisinau MD 2039.

The Program consists of several components, identified to address the stated objectives:

Tutorial programs

expenses: $6,629.11

The main form of the academic program work are regular meetings between studentsand their professors-tutors. Every professor in the program is a scientific adviser fornot more than 2 students. The student at the beginning of the semester selects thetopic of the research project. The topics are discussed and approved of at themeeting of the Senate of the College.


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Visiting Lecturers

expenses: $1,812.19

Laboratory Coordinators and Academic Advisors plan and organise visits foroutstanding lecturers from Central and Western Europe, the USA etc. who mayspecifically work with the Invisible College of Moldova students, but could also give alecture/course at any Moldovan University where the four disciplines are taught.

During 1997 year the Invisible College was visited by:Robert de GROOF, Newport University, USA: “The Human Psychosexology”Dr. BENCHETRIT, Toulouse University, France: “Breathing Personality”Ovidiu LUNGU, A.I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania: “Computer Utilization inPsychological Research”Ilie PARVU, Bucharest University, Romania: “Metaphysics 1997”Ion IANOSI, Bucharest University, Romania: “The History of Romanian Philosophy:Alternatives, Confrontations and Perspectives”Gheorghe BRATESCU, Bucharest University, Romania: “Medical Utopia”Andrei MARGA, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania: “Relativism and itsConsequences”Nicolae RAMBU, Iasi University, Romania “Classical German Philosophy”Cezar RADU, Bucharest University, RomaniaNeagu DJUVARA, Bucharest University, Romania “Some Modern Theories ofSpeculative Philosophy of History”Alexandru SURDU, Bucharest University, Romania “Importance of ConstantinNoica thought in Roumanian Philosophy”Victor STOICHITA, Freiburg University, Switzerland “On shadow”Stefan AFLOROAEI, Iasi University, Romania “Hermeneuthical Returning of thePhilosophy”Sorin VIERU, Bucharest University, Romania “The Socrate Process and its Echos inModernity”Mircea FLONTA Bucharest University, Romania “ Styles of Phylosophising andPhilosophical Traditions”Alexandru BOBOC, member of Romanian Academy, professor at BucharestUniversity, RomaniaAurel CODOBAN, Cluj University, Head of Philosophy Department, RomaniaBruno STEFAN, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania: “Elections Polls”Giovanna GIANTURCO, Roma University, Italy: “ Sociology of Communication”Ferdinand von KINSKY, member of Bavaria Academy, director of the InternationalCenter of european education of European community: “Federalism in the Philosophyof Politics”Alexandr ISCANDAREAN, director of the Institute of Caucasian Studies, Moscow:“Ethno-psychological Mutations - Consequences of the Modern Caucasian PoliticalScience”Stephen ROOPERT, Professor of New-York University,USA: “Comparative PoliticalSystem USA-Moldova”Alesandro FIGUS, Genova University, Italy: “Comparative Political Systems ofEuropean Community Countries”


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Cristian DAUDEL, Paris V University, France: “ Geo-strategical Analysis Method”Claude NIGOUL, director of the Institute of International Relations, Nice, France:“The System of International Relationships in the Mediterranean Region”Dr. Yu. LEANCA, Representative of the Foreign Ministry of Republic of MoldovaN.CHIRTOACA, Director of the Euro-Atlantic Center in Moldova

Modern Languages Training

expenses: $2,088.36

The Invisible College students & professors are offered compulsory English languagetraining at the Open World House in Chisinau and optional courses in French orGerman languages. The courses organized at the Open World House are carried outmainly with native speaking teachers.

Computer Skills Development

The Invisible College students have a compulsory computer training on using varioussoftware programs, e-mail and Internet. In the framework of the Invisible Collegetwo computer classrooms are organized:Computer Classroom-1: MSU, Mateevici str., 60, Chisinau MD 2009Computer classroom-2: SPU, Ion Creanga str., 1, Chisinau MD 2039.

Training, seminars, conferences and summer schools

Students participate in trainings, seminars, conferences and summer schools in order toshare acquired knowledge, gain organizational experience, develop the capacity to makepresentations to a large audience. These events are open for a broader audience,involving also other students and professors from various universities in the country,who are not members of the Invisible College.

First Summer University of Social Sciences in Moldova, July 13 - August 2, 1997, $40,376.12(The Invisible College in collaboration with the National HESP Program)In this forum about 40 students and 12 professors from Moldova participated. 19invited foreign professors presented their courses at the Summer University:Vlad SUZAN, psychotherapist, Experimental Clinics “ Fernand Vidal”, Paris, FranceFerdinand von KINSKY, member of Bavaria Academy, director of the InternationalCenter of european education of the European communityAlexandr LIDERS, Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology of LomonosovUniversity, MoscowAlexandr ISCANDAREAN, director of the Institute of Caucasian Studies, MoscowGalina CINARIHINA, Center of social and political studies “Epitzentr”, MoscowAlexandru BOBOC, member of Romanian Academy, professor at BucharestUniversity, RomaniaAurel CODOBAN, Cluj University, Head of Philosophy DepartmentMircea MICLE, Cluj University, Head of Psychology DepartmentIon MARGINEAN, Head of Sociology Chair, National School of Administration,Bucharest, RomaniaBruno STEFAN, lecturer at the Bucharest University, RomaniaElisabeta STACIULESCU, lecturer, Iasi University, Romania


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Nicolae RAMBU, assistant professor, Iasi University, RomaniaRobert de GROOF, Newport University, USA “The human Psycho-sexology”Cristian BOCANCEA, Iasi University, RomaniaGvozden FLEGO, Zagreb University, CroatiaMauro PALUMBO, Genova University, ItalyFranco PRAUSELLO, Genova University, ItalyGiovanna GIANTURCO, Roma University, ItalyAlesandro FIGUS, Genova University, Italy

Study visits of professors and students

A. Cuza University, Iasi, RomaniaBucharest University, RomaniaBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj, RomaniaCentral European University, Budapest

Participation in Conferences and Seminars


Conference “Tudor Vianu -100th Birthday”“Constantin Noica” International ConferenceMoldo-German International Seminar, Chisinau, November, 1997“Society in Transition” International Conference, Cluj Napoca, Romania, November 13-17, 1997International Workshop, October1997, Iasi, Romania“European Integration through Regional Integration” International Conference,Chisinau, December 11-12,1997“Refugees: current situation and perspectives for problem solving” InternationalConferenceScientific conferences and summer schools in Holland and Slovakia

Publications

The Invisible College members also share their knowledge in the academic communityof Moldova through the published academic papers which they write as result of theirparticipation in the framework of the Invisible College. The main published materialsare:- Newsletter of the Invisible College: one issue every two months- articles by students and professors, written and published in mass-media- students’ presentations at the conferences and summer schools- the innovative courses developed by the Invisible College professors

Acquisition of teaching materials

expenses: $6,352.04

Each laboratory has a specialized library including textbooks, dictionaries, books,journals, other teaching materials in the fields of social sciences, periodical journals,which is open to all the university students. For 1998 52 subscriptions of Americanand English periodical scientific journals in social sciences have been bought for the


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laboratory libraries through The East & Central Europe Journal Donation Project(New School for Social Research, New York), half of the $6368 sum being coveredby the mentioned project. In 1997 about 1400 titles of different teaching materials forthe Invisible College libraries were purchased. The libraries also purchasedsubscriptions of periodical journals from Moldova, Romania, Russia amounting to$333.50 worth in 1998.

Scholarships for selected students


Financial support for the best students in Social Sciences makes feasible theiraspiration to devote extra time to studies. The scholarships are aimed to rewardstudents for their academic activity and ensure that they will not have to work duringtheir studies in order to earn a living.

Student-members of the Program:

Philosophy Laboratory

First YearTatiana BULANCEA, MSULarisa CIORNEI, MSUTudor CLAPCO, TUMLiviu GHIDIRIM, MSULilia GLIJIN, MSUAngela POPA, MSUEugen MITROFAN, MSUSecond YearEugenia BOGATU, MSUMarin DOLINTA, MSULucia FARMACHI, MSUVlad PARASCHIV, MSUGalina URECHEANU, MSU

Sociology Laboratory

First YearMariana BUCIUCIANU, MSUCorina CAIREAC, MSUElena CARCEA, MSUCornelia DONI, MSUAdelina LABIC, MSUAliona SECARA, MSUNatalia SARAGOV, MSUSecond YearEugenia BIRIUC, MSUNatalia CHIRILOV, MSUDumitru GUTULEAC, AESMNatalia LUCHIAN, MSU

Marina MASCAUTAN, MSUArtur MUNTEANU, AESMEvelina STRATAN, MSU

Psychology Laboratory

First YearNicolae BESLIU, PSUIulia BUZENCO, MSUAngela CARAMAN, PSUStela DIMITRASCO, MSUOlga MOROZAN, PSULilia NACU, PSUDiana POSTU, MSUDiana ROSCA, MSUSecond YearInga CALIN, PSUAla CIORICI, MSUZoia COJUHARI, PSUMariana EPUREANU, PSUVitalie POPESCU, PSUDaniela SIMBOTEANU, PSUDiana SPULBER, MSUDaniela TERZI, MSU

Political Science Laboratory

First YearViorel ALBU, MSUElvira ANGHEL, MSUOtilia BOLOGAN, MSUVasile CHITII, MSU


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Alexandru GAMART, MSUOctavian MAMALIGA, MSUDorin PEREU, MSUAlexandru SIMIONOV, MSUSecond YearIgor BOTAN, MSUPavel CABACENCO, MSUEugenia CERBA, MSUAndrei COVAL, IIUMVadim GUZUN, MSUAlexandru OPRUNENCO, MSUSilvia SOLOMON, MSU

Professor-tutors involved in the

Program


Political Science Laboratory

Mihai CERNENCODr. in History, Head of Social SciencesDepartment, IIUMAla BELOSTECINICDr. in Political Science, Assistant Professor,Political Science Department, MSUNicolae CHIRTOACASenior Lecturer, Social Sciences Department,IIUM, Director of Euroatlantic StrategicStudies.

Sociology Laboratory

Valentin TURCANDr. in Sociology, Senior Lecturer, Sociology andPhilosophy History Department, MSU, Headof “The Sociology of Politics” scientificlaboratoryGheorghe CÃLCAIDr. in Philosophy, Chief of SociologyDepartment, Institute of Philosophy, Law andSociology, ASMLudmila MALCOCIDr. in Sociology, Scientific Researcher, Instituteof Philosophy, Law and Sociology, ASM,Assistant-professor of Mass-media andCommunication Department, MSUAna PASCARUDr. in Philosophy, Senior Scientific Researcher,Institute of Philosophy, Law and Sociology, ASM

Psychology Laboratory

Ion NEGURÃDr. in Psychology, Head of General PsychologyDepartment, SPULilian NEGURÃMA in Psychology, Lecturer, GeneralPsychology Department, SPUGrigore TAPUDr. in Psychology, Assistant Professor ofPsychology, MSUIGOR RACUDr. in Psychology, Dean of Psychology Faculty,SPU

Philosophy Laboratory

Gheorghe BOBANÃDr. habilitate in Philosophy, Head of Estheticsand History of Philosophy, Institute ofPhilosophy, Law and Sociology, ASMIon SARBUDr. habilitate in Philosophy, Professor, SocialSciences Department, IIUMEudochia SAHARNEANUDr. in Philosophy, Vice-Dean of Philosophyand Psychology Department, MSUGrigore VASILESCUDr. habilitate in Philosophy, Head ofPhilosophy Department, AUM

Informatica-1 Laboratory

Eugen CAISINLecturer of Computer Science Department, MSU

Informatica-2 Laboratory

Iurie GUZUNDr. in Technical Sciences, Assistant professor,Computer Science Department, PSU

Tutorial AssistantsPolitical Science

Ala COJOCARUlecturer, APAM

Philosophy

Vitalie POPApost-graduate student, MSUAngela STAFII


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Sholarshipsexpenses: $166,313.00


The regional and national scholarship programs addressed the professional trainingneeds of the local specialists in different fields. Total or partial financial support wasprovided for studies abroad; supplementary merit scholarships were given to studentsfrom Moldovan universities.

Regional Scholarship Programs


American University in Bulgaria, $933,75Lucia LAVRICGeorgeta GAVRILIUCIurie LAIUMarin CEBOTARIEugen HALZANOV

“Virtual University“ Undergraduate ExchangeProgram, $1,178.00Elena ANESTEElena BOCANCIA

University of Warwick, United Kingdom,$788.00Dorin DUMBRAVEANUIulia CONOPLINA

Central European University, Hungary,$5,798.00Igor MARDARIVeaceslav CANTEALudmila VASILOVVictor TODORIUC

post-graduate student, lecturer, MSU

Psychology

Tatiana TURCHINApost-graduate student, lecturer, MSUIna MORARUpost-graduate student, lecturer, MSUSociology

National Scholarships Programs

Supplementary scholarship grants

expenses: $123,165.00


International Management Center, HungaryCristian STRATANDan VULPE

Les Ecoles Normales Superieures, FranceAndrei BUZDUGANAngela DEMIANValeriu RAZLOGNatalia DOBINDA

College of Europe, Natolin, PolandOpen Society Institute, BudapestViorel URSUCristina CHEPTEA

College of Europe, Bruges, BelgiumEuropean UnionVictor BURACNatalia BALTA

Diana CHEIANUpost-graduate student, lecturer, MSUEduard MIHAILOVCenter of analysis and investigations inSociology, Political Science and Psychology,director


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Postgraduate studies

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,SpainAna GUCA

University III Stendhal, Grenoble, FranceMihaela MANOLE

Ecole Politechnique de Montreal, CanadaLiliana SURUGIU-BAJUREA

Case Western Reserve University, WeatherheadManagement School, Cleveland, Ohio, USAGeorgeta SOLOMITCAIA

Texas A&M University, USARadu DASCALIUC

John F. Kennedy School of Government,Harvard, Massachusetts, USALidia SPATARU

The University of Iowa, USAViorel BOSTAN

“Pierre Mendes France“ University, Grenoble,FranceNeonila VILCU

University of Denver, Colorado, USAVictor CULIUC

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USAPetru ZAMISNII

Gestalt Institute, Sanct-Petersburg, RussiaNadejda KRASNOPOLSKI

Institute d’ Etudes Europeenes, Universite Librede BruxellesEugen REVENCO

“P.I. Ceaikovschi“ State Conservatorium,Moscow, RussiaIulia GUBAIDULIN

Solvay Business School, Universite Libre deBruxelles, BelgiumOvidiu COTELEA

Universite Franche-Comte, Besancon, FranceEugen REVENCO

University Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, FranceTatiana ESANU

Sports Academy, Moscow, RussiaVictor PANUS

Institut fur Genetik, ForschungszentrumKarlstuhe, GermanyVladimir CHIRCHINNatalia NOVAC

University Pantheon-Sorbonne, FranceDumitirita DUMBRAVEANU

University Paris XII Val-de-Marne, FranceIleana-Tudora SAINCIUC

Laboratoire de Bagneux, Paris, FranceAlexandru MEREUTA

International Executive Development Center,Kranju, SloveniaAdrian BASOCAurel CASIANVeaceslav CODREANUMarian CUZMICIEmil GUTU

Graduate studies

Centenary College, Hackettstown, New-York,USAEugeniu Bidcenco

University of Oxford, United KingdomTatiana-Maria COMERZAN

University of Maryland, USAEugen FILIP


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James Madison University, Virginia, USAFlorin NEDELCIUC

Instituto Professionale Internazionale perL’Artigianato Liutario e del Legno, Cremona,ItaliaDmitrii CECODA

Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana, USAGleb BAHMUTOV

Jacksonville University, USAIrina GAINUTDINOVA

Western Kentucky University, USAVeronica KHADJI

Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, ChinaSilvia LUPASCO

Capital University of Economics and Business,Beijing, ChinaTatiana GAUGAS

Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaElena TURCANU

Politechnical Institute Hua Dong, Nanjing,ChinaAdrian HASNAS

Capital University of Economics and Business,Beijing, ChinaCorneliu EFTODI

Instituts Nationaux des Sciences Appliquees,Lyon, FranceNatalia NACUOxana CHELE

Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet, Bonn,GermanyVitalie ROTARU

James Madison University, Virginia, USAElena GREBINCEA

Universitaet Konstanz, GermanyVeaceslav ODOBESCO

State Academy of Choreography, Moscow,RussiaIon CUROSU

Ruprecht-Karl Universitaet, Heidelberg,GermanyCarolina BEJENARU

University of Perugia, ItalyLiviu LUCA

University of Athens, GreeceTudor VASILICA

George Washington University, USARadu PANTIRU

Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont, USANatalia VOROBIOVA

“Ovidius“ University, Constanta, RomaniaEcaterina PLATON

“O.C. Taslautanu“ Theoretical College, Toplita,RomaniaMihaela PLATON

Internships, Summer Schools, Other

Events

Ecole Tematique et Linguistique pour JeunesChercheurs en Sciences de l’Homme et de laSociete des Pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale,Sevres, FranceIgor KLIPIIVictor JUC

University Carmen de Las Guevas, Granada,Spain, summer coursesLilia TAP

Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany,conferenceMariana BUZU


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Institute International d’ AdministrationPublique, Paris, FranceElena TURCOVA

James Madison University, Virginia, USA,Students Exchange ProgramVladlena LISENCO

Institute de Droit, Universite de Nice, France,internshipIgor KLIPII

Universite Pierre Mendes, Nice, FranceOleg CURBATOV

HSBC, Investment Bank LTD, Paris, FranceCristina MOROSAN

Comitato della Dante Alighieri, Roma, ItalyLiliana BURDUJAVioleta BOTNARUTatiana SIRBU

American European Summer Academy,Vienna, AustriaElvira LEAHU

Sts. Cytil and Methodius University, Skopje,MacedoniaTudor CLAPCOTudor STRATEVICI

American Institute of Political and EconomicSystems, Prague, Czech RepublicAlexandru CULIUC

Charles University, Demography andGeodemography Department, Prague, CzechRepublicSilvia FUSUNicolae SALI

International Summer School in Political Scienceand International Relations, Warsaw, PolandCorina ROMAN

University of Athens, Department of

International Relations, GreeceAliona SEVERIN

Foundation for Freedom, University of Oxford,United KingdomNatalia CERNOVDenis PILEAVSCHI

Tel Aviv University, IsraelAnatol CHIRILOV

University of Nottingam, United KingdomProcop BURUIANA

Groupement pour le Development de laTeledection Aerospatiale, Ramonville, FranceAureliu OVERCENCO

Groupe EAC- Ecole Superieure d’ Economie,d’Art et de la Comunication, Paris, FranceNatalia RIBALCO

Merit Scholarship


The Soros Foundation Moldovaorganized the second annual MeritScholarship Program for students fromMoldovan universities in 1997. Thecompetition for this program was merit-based. In order to be considered for thecompetition students had to have a GPAmeasured by the Moldovan gradingsystem of no less than 9.0 and shouldhave completed at least two years ofstudies. A special committee includingfaculty members and researchers did arigorous analysis of students’ applications.The students’ extracurricular activitiessuch as publications, reports, participationin conferences and symposiums,membership in science organizations,NGOs, etc. were decisive in the finaldecision process. One hundred and fifteenstudents from thirteen institutionsparticipated in the competition. Seventyeight students were awarded scholarships.


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First Grade Merit Scholarship

(2500 Lei)

MSUGheorghe KARASENILiliana COROBCADaniela TERZIAngela MUNTEANU

SPUDaniela SIMBOTEANU

Second Grade Merit Scholarship

(1200 Lei)

MSUCorneliu CIRIMPEISergiu MATVEEVDiana NANUNatalia NICORICIRodica CIORANICAAlina BRASOVEANUCorina BARLADEANUAla CIORICISnejana DIMITROVAOlga CHIRILIUCAlexandru GAMARTOxana AGACHIViorel ALBURodica GHERASIM

SMUAurelia GROSUAndrei MUSAJIAlina BATARCalin STOICOVEugen SCHITCO

SPUVitalie POPESCUElena JOSAN

TSUElena FOTESCU

TUMMaria COPACIVladimir BESCHIERUIurie TERNA

Veaceslav VERDESLucia BUZDUGAN

HUMSergiu CHIRIAC

AESIon AMARFII

IIUMFlorentina BODNARI

Third Grade Merit Scholarship

(500 Lei)

MSUAlexandru TRIFAUTANCornelia BOLDUREANUEcaterina BOCANCEAIon CRETUOleg OLEINICOVOlga IRIMCIUCOlga KISELIOVRodica PAVELCIUCRodica ROSCAVasile CUMPATAVitalie LUNGUVitalie MEAGCOVVladimir FONOBEROV

SMUIrina APOSTOLOVLarisa CEBANElena IURI-APOSTOLNatalia SIPITCOAna BOLOCANPetru CEPOIDAElena DASANUTatiana BALECAVlad NUTURuslan FLOREATatiana IAROVOIVeaceslav FULGASemion CHIOSEASergiu RUSUAlexandra PLUGARUElena VOVCSergiu ZLOBIN


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SPUNicolae BESLIUAngela CARAMANVictoria PASCANAna NIVNEAOleg GRAURAngela PRODANLudmila BACUMENCONatalia BULMAGAAngela TUDOSELudmila SCAREVNEALilian CULEAMariana TATARU

AESMLiliana CURTOVAVilen SPINUDumitru GUTULEACTatiana VELICOGLOCorina ROMANOxana SAVCIUCValeriu RAZLOGEduard GHERMANSergiu BUGAISergiu TOMESCUVitalie SAJINDorina TRICOLICIVladislav CHIRIACNatalia ZBIRCIOGMihai GORGOSDorin PANTELEICIUCDan GATCANAnatol GRAURAlexei KLADCOV

AIMSteliana GRAMALudmila GAINAVeronica BUJORAnatol PINZARUGelu CAPROSRodica SFECLAFlorentin LEANCAMaia GROSUFelicia VISTERNICEANU

TUMDumitru CERNELIOVIgor ENESergiu LANGAVitalie BESLIURuslan TARNAOlga CHIABURU

TSUIrina ANDRIANOVVeronica GUTUOdetta GRAMAVera VELICOJONIulia COREAVSCHIMaria GALITMihai DEMCENCOMariana IANACHEVICIGalina TENENBAUMOxana LASIHSvetlana CONONENCOGheorghe PARMACLIAla BACALUIrina GRISCENCO

AUMIgor DODONGheorghe NICOLAESCUIana NICULCEARoman HARUTAMarcel BEJENARUAlexandru STRATANDragos CIMPOIESAliona STRELICIUCAndrei BUSUIOCIanos CHIPERVladimir PASENCO

BSUNatalia DOBINDAGeorgeta CISLARUNina MATERINCALudmila POPESCUAliona COLIBABA

IIUMDragos CUCEREANUIrina PANIBOG


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Educational Advising Centerexpenses: $13,092.00

The Educational Advising Center in Moldova (EAC) is a partnership project of theOpen World House, and the USIA financially by the Soros Foundation Moldova. TheEAC appeared as a partnership between the United States Information Agency(USIA) and the Open World House. The major objective of the EAC is to provide allnecessary information concerning the opportunities of degree and non-degree,college and post-graduate education in the United States by means of attendingspecialized courses and obtaining grants for everyone who is interested in education,research or training in the US.

Since 1994, EAC has administrated two American Programs: Edmund S. Muskie andthe Freedom Support Act. The Muskie/FSA Programs provide opportunities forgraduates of NIS universities to come to the US for degree and non-degree Programsin several fields. These fields include Business Administration, Economics, Law,Educational Administration, Public Policy, Library and Journalism. EAC carries outrecruitment activities including program publicity, testing, interviewing, and pre-departure processing.

Statistics 1997

Number of visitors 2055Correspondence 860Telephone calls 5600Total 8515

Consultations

High school students 460University students 1300Graduate students 250Post graduate students 45Total 2055

Number of distributed bulletins for

standard tests

TOEFL 800GRE 300GMAT 200SAT 40Other types of information materials 700Total 2040

Visitors by field of study

Total 2055American Studies 20Architecture 30Arts 120Banking 60Biology 20Business Administration 560Communications 120

Iulia TROMBITCAIA

HUMGheorghe VLASIulia TIMOTIN

PAMAlexandru ZOSIM


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Computing 300Dentistry 5Design 30Economics 650Education Administration 60Engineering 30History 20English 500Finance 305French 23Law 40Library Science 30Linguistics 20Marketing 75Medicine 70Philosophy 6Photography 9Physics 26Political science 112Psychology 26Public Administration 69Sociology 25

Tests Administered

February 7, 1997, GRE, Ed.S.Muskie/FSAProgramEconomics, Journalism, Public Healthadministration - 15

January17, 1997, GMATBussines Administration - 23

February 8, 1997, TOEFLEconomics, Journalism, Public HealthAdministration, Business Administration,Law, Public Policy, Public Administration- 40

Interviews organized for the Edmund

S. Muskie Program

January 11-15, 1997Education, Administration, BusinessAdministration, Law, Journalism, PublicHealth, EconomicsIvanna M K REED & Ronald NelsonVAN FLEET II - director, ACCELS/Kiev & professor from Louisiana State

UniversityConferences and Seminars

April 29 – May 4, 1997, East-Westconference, between the EAC from CIS andEastern Europe.Conference participants: Henry SCOTT(CSI REAC), Catherine ALDERTON(USIA-EASA), and many other EACcoordinators

June 17-23, 1997, Conference for ScholarshipCoordinators of OSI, Balaton Hungary

September 20-26, 1997, Seminar for mid-leveleducational Advisors organized by the MoscowEAC (IREX).Seminar speakers: Ion GHILESCU (EAC– Chisinau), Dova WILSON (EAC –Moscow) & others.

Interviews and testing for Soros

Scholarship programs

April 16, 1997TOEFL - 15May 13, 1997GMAT for the International ManagementCenter in Budapest - 15April 30, 1997TOEFL (CEU) - 15May 6, 1997Interviews (CEU) - 15May 14, 1997Interviews (College of Europe) - 15June 6, 1997Interviews (Warwick University) - 15

Lectures, presentation & video-

presentations of the educational

system of the US and different

scholarship programs

September 8, 1997, Presentation of the EACfor the Peace Corps VolunteersJulianne PAUNESCU, USIS ChisinauPAOAngela DRABENCO, InformationSpecialist


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Ion GHILESCU, EAC coordinatorApril 19, 1997, Presentation of EAC toPeace Corps VolunteersAngela DRABENCO, Informationspecialist

November 18, 1997, How to write arecommendation letterIon GHILESCU, EAC coordinator

September 13, 1997, Edmund S. Muskieprogram presentationIon GHILESCU, EAC coordinatorSonia SKINDRUD, Coordinator of theEdmund S. Muskie program from OSI-NY

Octombrie 13, 1997, Video Presentation of theAUBG program, Information about theEducational System in US, Colleges,Universities, Scholarships and Financial AidIon GHILESCU, EAC coordinatorIulia CAPROS, Coordinator of theAUBG program

November 7, 1997, Presentation of the EACIon GHILESCU, EAC coordinator

November 15, 1997, How to write a statementof purposeIon GHILESCU, EAC coordinator

Programs Advertised

Virtual University Undergraduate ExchangeProgram,1997-98The 1996-97 ACTR/ACCELS UniversityStudent Exchange ProgramThe Joan B. Kroc Institute for InternationalPeace StudiesThe Central European University Foundation:Post Graduate Scholarship, 1996-97The Fund for American Studies / AmericanInstitute on Political and Economic Systems(Summer University in Prague)Academia Istropolitana for the academic year1996/97: Public Administration, AppliedEconomics, Environmental Planning and

Management, Architectural and UrbanHeritage ConservationThe 1997 Edmund S. Muskie & FreedomSupport Act Graduate Fellowship ProgramsSoros Foundation Moldova High SchoolExchange ProgramLibrary of Congress - Soros FoundationsVisiting Fellow ProgramCommunity Connections (USIS)The 1996 Curriculum Consultants ExchangeProgram (IREX)Regional Scholar Exchange Program and FSAin Contemporary Issues (IREX)Undergraduate Exchange Program 1997-98American University in BulgariaThe Stanford University New DemocracyFellowship Program: Fellowship for Doctoral(PhD) Study at Stanford UniversityThe Fulbright Program: Advanced Research andUniversity Lecturing Awards in the USCollege of Europe Program (1997)Central European University Program (1997-1998, 1998-1999)The University of Warwick Graduate SchoolInternational Management Center, Budapest,MBA ProgramCEU Summer UniversityIMF Summer Intern ProgramCEP Eastern Scholar Program

Books acquisitions

Catalogs of US universities 30TOEFL 10GRE 5GMAT 5Total 50

EAC - Moldova collaborated with the

following foreign foundations and

organizations:

- Soros Foundation Moldova- USIA: United States InformationAgency- ACTR/ACCELS: The American Councilof Teachers of Russian / AmericanCouncil for Collaboration in Education


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and Language Study- IREX: International Research andExchanges Board- REAC: Institute of InternationalEducation- NAFSA: National Association for

Foreign Student Affairs- Peace Corps - Moldova- CIEE: Council on InternationalEducational ExchangeCenter for Social InnovationsMoldova-Pensilvania

Debate Programexpenses: $113,035.00

Debating as a challenging and competitive game complements present educationalactivities. It combines the elements of logic, thought and rhetoric, and demandstolerance, concentration, intelligence and cooperation between debaters - all essentialqualities for the creation of a good social model.Debate changes the educational process. More than 300 of our country’s teachers saythat debating improves traditional education by changing the teacher-studentrelationship towards cooperation and performance.

Debate activities are facilitated through the efforts of the National Debate Center,University Centers, Regional (North, South) Centers and debate clubs. By the end of1997 the activity of 45 English, Romanian, Russian and Gagauz clubs had widened toinvolve 1300 students, for whom debate is considered the best course of solvingcontroversies through the stormy seas of everyday life. The expansion of the program’sreach into Gagauz and Bulgarian speaking districts was anticipated in 18 seminarsinvolving some 600 teachers, judges and students under the slogan “If a language can’tunite us, debate will!”.

Moldova also has the experience of hosting seminars with international experts; in 1997,two such seminars took place. The experts’ participation in an international conferencesetting quickly infuses new information which allows us to continually reassess theprogram and apply new formats, experiences and ideas. At present the program’sadvanced participants are fielding new formats - high school students with Lincoln-Douglas and university students with Parliamentary Debates.

During the past year 8 regional competitions were held, involving 900 student -followers, judges and teachers. A national team was selected from outstandingcontestants of the 16 best teams in the National Competition, and the team provedcompetitive at the Summer Camp in Latvia.

The following exchange experiences had a great impact on the clubs’ activities:- Moldo-Romanian Competition, May 1997- Faros Competition 1997, Ukraine- International Universities Competitions in Brasov, Athens and Budapest withadditional meetings between clubs from Romania, Ukraine and Belarus.


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Where the University Debate Program is concerned, we would further point out 6“Introduction to Debate” seminars, 4 training seminars, 3 interuniversity competitionswhere 16 teams from 6 colleges participated, and also many public debates.

Moldova State University Debate Center is planning to create an NGO that wouldultimately evolve into a National Debate Association. This association wouldinterconnect all existing debate centers, clubs and independent judges in order topromote and develop the program and, thereby, an open society.

Intercultural High School Exchange Program(CCI Summer, CCI Semester, CCI Year, Syracuse Summer, Choate, West

Chester, British Schools).

expenses: $4,692.00

The program is available to 10th grade students from the lyceums of the republic,awarding scholarships to attend British and American high schools. English languageimprovement is sought alongside cultural awareness through classes, sports activities,excursions and different kinds of entertainment. This program promotes self-confidence, develops linguistic potential and changes concepts and views towardspromoting the development of a highly educated and democratic society centered onintellect and harmonious relations.

In 1997, 18 high school students benefited from study in the USA and Great Britain.The effectiveness of the program can certainly be certified as pupils return withinspiring linguistic skills, new ideas and knowledge, and have released a flow ofmultilateral information which contributes to new insights and attitudes.

Students provided with stipends in 1997:Andrei CERVONIASCYAlexandru BIRSADorin DUSCIACNicolae CIUMACCarolina CEBANIrina COSTROMITSCAIAAna VETIULAlexandru COSOVANIon STEFANUCAVictoria BRASOVSKIIlinca JITARICorina COMENTDANTIrina NICORICIElena GAVRILITSAAngela AMOASIIVitalie EREMIA


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Marina URMASUOlesea BARBAROS

Health Educationexpenses: $39,878.00

One of the basic goals of the program was its expansion to the college level, a goalthat was fulfilled through a special order of the Ministry of Education, Youth andSports of the Republic of Moldova. In 1997, sixty-seven training seminars werecompleted to promote healthy lifestyles. These included 44 Health Educationseminars, 11 seminars on Conflict and Communication, 5 thematic seminars and 7seminars concerning ecological problems.

Following a February 1997 International Seminar in Budapest in which 3 of ourinstructors received training, the program on Conflict and Communication wasstarted in Moldova for pre-university groups interested in the science of “conflict andcommunication”. In this way, the logical continuity from physical to social health wasstressed.

1860 adult participants received instruction at these activities who then transmittedthe formative models of education in school programs. Guided activities wereapplied from the sections which constitute the “Health Education” teacherhandbook. To date, the topics of Nutrition, Smoking Prevention, Alcohol, Drugs,Human Sexuality, AIDS, and ecology have been completed. A Russian Handbook on“Conflict and Communication” was published.

Calendars, posters and thematic illustrations were published from the works of 10winners of the Health Education Youth Poster Contest (May-June 1997). HealthDays, AIDS actions and the art contest entitled “For a Healthy Lifestyle” wereimportant social events that drew press attention.

A variety of interested organizations contributed to the program’s expansionincluding the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports; the Ministry of HealthProtection; the General Board of Education; the Harmony Center for Diagnosis andRehabilitation; the Association for Family Planning; the AIDS Center; the RepublicanNarcotics health unit; and the Peace Corps.

The Pro Health Association provided multilateral support and cooperation duringthis year. This association, which has valuable experience in promoting healthylifestyles, will help solve the most daunting problems.


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Soros English Language Program (SELP)expenses: $65,924.00


With enough fanning, coals eventually give rise to flame, and in this the fifth year ofthe SELP program we have truly begun to see new energy take hold in the area ofEnglish Language Instruction. During the country’s difficult transitional phase towardwide-scale privatisation, our lone endeavours in combating, among many needs, thedirth of qualified teachers remaining in the public sphere has met recognition byother organizations, who have in turn set parallel goals. As a result, SELP hasrestructured major programs to exploit collaborative opportunities with the BritishCouncil, the ILC, Iasi, and others.

Meanwhile, the priorities of the SELP program have turned towards furthering newinitiatives including Resource Centres and the Regional SPELT initiatives in TeacherTraining (especially ESP) and the promoting of teacher associations. We continue tosupport two programs with proven effectiveness—the publication TEAM Report andthe Open World House Scholarships.

Teacher Training


As a result of several years’ presence of American SPELT and Peace Corps teachersin Moldovan schools and universities, an awareness of the benefits of professionaldevelopment has been cultivated and nurtured. The demand for language andmethodology seminars and workshops has increased dramatically. Furthermore, greatvalue is now attached to the training of highly knowledgeable and theoreticallyprepared specialists who will have an impact in the English for Specific Purposesareas of new technologies, business, and foreign relations. Another issue of vitalimportance was the training of the national team of trainers. This year’s activities,capitalizing on collaborative projects, have included:

An 8 day Course in Translation Studies - a joint project between 2 institutions - the SorosFoundation Moldova and the International Language Center, Iasi. The course wasintended for 15 members of the Departments of Translation and Interpretation atthe State Universities in Chisinau and Balti who were initiated in theoretical andmethodological approaches to translation as well as ways of organizing translationworkshops with their own students.

A two week training course - a group venture between the Foundation, National Institutefor Professional Development of Teachers, Ministry of Education, InternationalLanguage Center Iasi.Participants -35 teachers from different districts - were exposed to modern trends ofELT methodology with focus on practical issues that deal with teaching integratedskills in a learner- centered approach.


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Seminar on “Process Writing”, conducted by Aaron Stander, a professor from OaklandCommunity College, Michigan, USA. About 25 English teachers from high schoolsand universities in Chisinau attended the event.

In-service Teacher Development Program for 80 English language teachers from Balti andsurrounding regions. This project was practical in nature: each session providingteaching activities and materials that participants could use with their students in theirown schools. The course focused on improving the participating teachers‘ ownEnglish language skills. The workshops held weekly at the English LanguageResource Center Balti were conducted by two SPELT Fellows.

Inset Program for 40 teachers from key high schools in Chisinau which comprises twodirections:In-service ELT Methodology training for 20 Chisinau High School ELT teachersTrainer Training for a future team of Moldovan ELT Inset trainersOrganizers: ILC Iasi/British Council, Soros Foundation Moldova

“EFL Methodology -Communicative Classroom Activities” - a summer course for 35 youngEnglish teachers was held in Balti in June. The main aim of the course was tointroduce the teachers to new methods of teaching, procedures and materials, toinvolve them in solving meaningful tasks and to help them enrich and share theirteaching experience.

English Summer School in Romania with 12 teachers from Moldova participating - acollaborative program between the British Council, Ministry of Education Romaniaand the Soros Foundation Moldova.British Council’s contribution: $4,800.00

Course of Simultaneous and Consecutive Translation organized in collaboration with theHESP Program for 15 professionals. Organizers: the Soros Foundation Moldova andILC Iasi.

Resource Centers


This year the program focused mainly on setting up 2 English Language ResourceCenters in Chisinau and Balti. Rather than disbursing materials to individualinstitutions in small parcels, Resource Centers not only provide more comprehensivecollections and facilities, but serve as important meeting places for community-building activities among teaching professionals. Centers serve as venues forinstructional programs in didactics and methodology, and as an organizing center forcooperation between teachers leading towards teacher associations. Finally but verycrucially, Resource Centers offer institutions practice in serving teaching professionalsas valuable assets who deserve professional support and with whom relationships oftrust must be built. Two centers have already been set up in universities, one at BaltiState University and the other at the Academy of Economic Studies in Chisinau, andmore are planned for the future.


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TEAM Report

expenses: $2,635.00

The Newsletter of the English Language Program is a source of authentic Englishmaterial both for classroom use, as it contains practical lesson ideas and activities, andalso as reference through articles on teaching methods. Produced by SPELT Fellowsin Chisinau and containing contributions from local English teachers, the newsletterhas also become the best means of reaching all English teachers in the country andfor disseminating program Information. Publication run is 2000 copies.

Scholarships at the English Language School

expenses: $6,997.00

The project of scholarships for the English Language School (at the Open WorldHouse) encourages and supports the most gifted students and pupils to study theEnglish language intensively. The project also allows for the scholarship grants forlecturers who teach special courses in the English language in various subjects withinthe framework of university curriculum. Selection was made by the Education Boardand the School through a contest. During 1997, 80 beneficiaries were selected from 300applicants.

SPELT Program


SPELT is a regional program of collaboration with American teachers for the purposeof English language instruction in institutions of higher education. By means of thisprogram the American teachers can be hired as full-time workers for the entire school-year. Besides teaching, the American fellows take part in a number of out-of-schoolactivities, such as English Language Clubs and school newspapers. They also becomepromoters of some activities within the framework of the English Language Program,the editorship of the “Team Report” newspaper being one example. They also helporganize the club of English language speakers and hold instructive workshops forMoldovan teachers. This academic year (1997-1998) Moldova is home to 5 Americanteachers:Hamilton BECK - “A. Puskin” Lyceum, Moldova State UniversityMary Beth YOUNG - ULIMAnne STANDER - AESMWilliam HUGUELET - BSU “A. Russo”Kimberly VAUGHN - BSU “A. Russo”In 1997 SPELT program developed new initiatives, using SPELT fellows as teachertrainers, resource personnel to develop English Language Teacher Associations, and asteachers and teacher trainers for English for Specific Purposes

SPELT Seminars

expenses: $8,270.43

This program aims to provide teachers from Moldova with new methods of teachingEnglish. Instructors were SPELT fellows, local teachers and Peace Corps volunteers.During this year, 12 seminars were organized for about 160 participants. Theparticipants also received books and handouts.


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Youth Programexpenses: $30,369.00


The goal of this program was to support extracurricular activities of pupils as an important part ofthe educational process.

In 1997 the program was designed to cover the following directions:- Financial support for Creative Centers for Children- Support for school newspapers and magazines- Travel grants for groups of children to different cultural activities- Support for various projects initiated by boy-scouts- Support for various projects initiated by different groups of children

Contest for Creative Centers for Children

In May-June 1997, the Contest for Creative Centers for Children was organized.Based on materials presented to the contest, 6 centers received grants:-Creative Center for Children, Leova-Creative House for Children, Falesti-Creative Center for Pupils, Telenesti-Creative and Leisure Center for Children and Teenagers, Chiscareni, Singerei-Curcubeu Center for Extracurricular Activities, Riscani sector, Chisinau- Ghiocel Creative Center for Children, Ciocana sector, Chisinau

Contest for School Newspapers and Magazines

In June 1997 the Contest for School Newspapers and Magazines was held. 15newspapers and magazines participated in it. The content and the structure of thesenewspapers (magazines) were assessed, and also the variety of the topics included, thesocial impact and the way all of the above contribute to the development of a newgeneration. The participants received prizes as follows :

The Ist prize:PROMETEU magazine, the Prometeu Lyceum, ChisinauARCA LUI NOE newspaper, teorethical Lyceum, CauseniNOUA GENERATIE newspaper, V. Alecsandri Lyceum, UngheniTHE CIMISLIA NEWS newspaper, M. Eminescu secondary school #3, Cimislia

The 2nd prize:ALACRITAS newspaper, school #32, ChisinauLYCEUM newspaper, theoretical Lyceum, OrheiGAUDEAMUS newspaper, theoretical Lyceum #2, ChisinauATENEU newspaper, school #2, Edinet


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Travel grants

Several travel grants were given to groups of children to participate in differentevents.

International children’s festival, Edirne, TurkeyIzvoarele Dance group, gymnasium #4, Chisinau

School theaters festival, Tirgu-Mures, RomaniaMasca School Theater, Mircea Eliade Lyceum, Chisinau

International folklore festival, Voru, EstoniaLia Dance-group, Abaclia, Basarabeasca

Creative camp, Bucsoaia, Suceava, RomaniaIgor Vieru Republican Boarding School of Arts, Chisinau

Ritmurile secolului International festival, Moscow, RussiaRitmurile secolului Modern dance group, Cultural Center Orion, Chisinau

Sanziana Camerata Experience exchange with the formation, Pitesti, RomaniaDoinita Chorus, Nicolae Iorga Lyceum, Chisinau

The program also supported projects for scout camps and many other initiatives

of different groups of children such as dance groups, folklore groups, literary andEnglish clubs, handicraft producers, etc. All the projects were designed to support thecreativity and initiative among young people, to develop useful daily skills and tostimulate their active participation in an open society.

In 1997 the Odyssey of the Mind program was initiated in Moldova and the firstteams were founded. Following this event, Moldova became a member of theInternational OM Association.


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Travel in Education Programsexpenses: $24,000.33

The Soros Foundation Moldova supported the participation of academics and

students from Moldova in different meetings, stages and workshops.

Business trip, Heugelo, Netherlands, January17-31, 1997Mihail SAJIN, superior lecturer, TUM

Business trip, Andre Malraux Lyceum,Remiremont, France, March 11-25, 1997Leonid AMOASII, director, M.Eminescu Lyceum, Balti

Specialization trip, Charleroi, Belgium, March2- June 2, 1997Galina PAVALACHE, teacher of French,secondary school #2, Soldanesti

Annual Conference for Teachers of English as aForeign Language, Harkiv, Ukraine, April23-26, 1997Natalia ALHAZOV, Ph.D., MSU

International Federation of French LanguageTeachers’ Colloquium, Paris, France, June 26 -27, 1997Ana GUTU, French teacher, IIUM

Courses of Spanish Arts and History,Granada, Spain, June 29- July 27, 1997Nadejda PRISACARU, Spanish teacher,MSU

International Workshop “European Formationof Trainers“, Esneux, Belgium, July 2 - 6,1997Emilia MORARU, school psychologist,Mircea Eliade Lyceum, Chisinau

Professional Trip to the Institute of Languageand Communication, Rennes, France ( incollaboration with Alliance Francaise fromMoldova ) in 2 steps : July 4- August 1, July15 - August 12, 1997

Ana AIRINEIMSUDoina BATRANUSPUTamara CAIREACMAMIrina CORDUNEANUPAMCaterina MARCHITANAlliance FrancaiseVeronica MUNTEANUV.Alecsandri Lyceum, ChisinauValentina RUDICOAlliance Francaise, UngheniAda SAMOILENCOM. Eminescu Lyceum, ChisinauOlga SBARCIOGM. Eminescu Lyceum, BaltiLucia UNTILAIoan Voda Lyceum, CahulAnastasia CRACIUNAlliance FrancaiseTatiana PETCUG.Asachi Lyceum, ChisinauRaisa ANDRIUTAB.Cazacu theoretical Lyceum, NisporeniAla ANTONOVtheoretical Lyceum, CauseniVictoria DOBATUMMaria DOMINTEstudent, MSUNatalia GROSUstudent, MSUEugenia ONUFREIschool #65, ChisinauDiomid SANDUsecondary school, Marandeni village,FalestiValentina STRATULA


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secondary school, Abaclia village,BasarabeascaOlga TCACITUMNatalia ZAGARSCHIgeneral school, Chisinau

EUNIS-97 Congress, Grenoble, France,September 9-11, 1997Grigore SECRIERUdirector, Information Center, ASMConstantin GAINDRICdirector, Mathematics Institute, ASM

Training for Teachers who teach in Romanian incountries around Romania, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Romania, July 28- August 6, 1997Galina MATCOVSCHIteacher, Nicolae Iorga Lyceum

IV Congress of Germanists from Romania,Sinaia, Romania, June 2-5, 1997Veaceslav LAGUTINBSU, Balti

“Biological and Technical Development inHorticulture“ internship, Brno, Czech Republic,September 7-16, 1997Elena DERIDASM

Workshop “Working with children withdisabilities“, Moscow, Russia, November 3-10,1997Elena JIGAUSPU

Conference of the Association of EnglishTeachers, Iasi, Romania, October 10-12, 1997Eugenia BALAURTatiana STEFIRTAOxana ABRAMOVAVirginia JASTREMSCHIteachers of EnglishNicholas FLETCHERBritish Council, expert

“Science Evaluation and its Management“NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Prague,Czech Republic, November 25-28, 1997Veaceslav AFANASIEVdirector, Marketing Center, ASM

Internship, University of Liege, Belgium,October 15- November 30, 1997Ilie NASUSPU, Balti

Internships in “Problems of Game Psychology“and “Psychological basis of the Preschooler andSecondary School Education“, MoscowUniversity, Russia, December 10-25, 1997Irina CAUNENCOSPU

Internships and students’ travel to

various workshops, conferences and

other events.

Internship in Dialectology of 42 students fromCSU to Gabrovo, Bulgaria, April 25-May 11,1997

Internship in Sociology of 22 3rd year students,MSU at the Sociology Institute of RomaniaAcademy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, July8-18, 1997

The Didactic Internship in Geodesy of studentsfrom the TUM, 21 people, at the TechnicalUniversity of Construction, Bucharest,Romania, July 7-30, 1997

International Students Conference, Trondheim,Norway, March 7-16, 1997Alexandra MIRCIUC, AESM

Conference of the Association of Nationalities,New-York, USA, April 24-27, 1997Oxana DONCILA, CEU

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Ileana PUICAMSU

International Youth Gathering, Foundation forFreedom, Bristonas, Lithuania, December 28-January 3, 19978 students from Moldovan high schools

International Student Conference “Europe andEuro...“, Eindhoven, Netherlands, December 9-16, 1997Olga HAVRONINAESM

Participation of representatives from

Moldova to international academic

competitions:

Annual Contest of Latin Language “XVIICertamen Ciceronianum Arpinas“, Arpino,Italy, May 8-15, 1997Corina STOICAVeaceslav PAPANAGA, studentsSilvia RUSU, teacher, Dante AlighieriLyceum

World University Debate Championship,Athens, Greece, December 30, 1997- January 6,1998Adrian CATAN, Alexandrina ROMAN,Irina GUTUNational Debate Team

Step by Stepexpenses: $330,700.00

In the fourth year of existence the “Step by Step” Program continued to expand in thethree directions it had in 1996 - pre-school, primary school and higher education(training student teachers) - and added a fourth direction, that of training foreignlanguage teachers for primary schools. Through a special order from November 1997,the Ministry of Education approved the quality of education promoted through theProgram in both budget and volunteer classrooms and also advised the regional andmunicipal educational authorities to implement formative education using the “Step byStep” model and ensure all the necessary conditions for the teachers interested in theProgram to attend re-training courses.

Pre-School Education


By the end of 1997 the Program was active in 29 kindergartens (207 classrooms, withover 480 teachers and administrators). For the quality of education and the degree offamily/community involvement, two model sites were identified as regional trainingcenters - Chisinau kindergarten # 216 and Balti kindergarten # 43, with a third center tocome (Chisinau kindergarten # 188).

Teams made out of the kindergarten methodologist and the best teachers of these sitesto train new teachers from the region. The centers also offer regular workshops for themethodologists and teachers already working in the Program and for the administrators


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willing to start formative education in their schools. The centers, alongside otherProgram kindergartens, serve as training bases for the student teachers in their activepracticum and for the in-service teachers that come for re-training courses.

Continuous training of teachers is Priority Number One for the Program staff, with ageneral average of four seminars and workshops offered each month. The topicsaddressed varied depending on the needs of those who joined the Program at differentstages. Among others the following issues were dealt with:- Dimensions of integration in “Step by Step”- Ways of promoting literacy through play- Peculiarities of adult teaching/learning (for trainers)- Practical ways of using projects- What makes a good teacher in a child-centered classroom (a teacher that encouragesstudent’s success)- Efficient observation techniques, etc

The staff continued to have regular conferences and focus groups with kindergartenprincipals and methodologists, organized mutual visits of the teachers (especially ofthe trainers to various Program kindergartens) followed by consultations, discussionsand modification of the strategy used in classroom work.

In September another week-long training session with the participation of Americanexperts took place, focused primarily on the activity of model centers and trainingtrainers for the Program.

To cover the professional development needs of teachers involved in the Program, thestaff provides them with the latest sources appearing in Moldova and Romania, withdigest versions for the sources in English, dictionaries and books for children (in manycases with such books that might inspire them to produce new books together withtheir children), etc.

The kindergartens also benefit from the Program support in the acquisition of didacticmaterials, though a major focus is laid on training teachers to create such materials fromreusable stuff.

The changes produced in the children - and teachers - that strike everybody who entersthe Program classrooms, the response from the parents and the community, and thenumbers of people willing to learn about the Program speak about its efficiency andrecognition. A specific evaluation of the Program from outside was made by:- representatives of the World Bank and OSI NY who visited several kindergartens andprimary schools in May, 1997 and gave very positive feedback- the participants of the Second Balcan conference of “Step by Step” programs, whobecame very interested in the reports and Program materials presented by Moldovanteachers and faculty- the pedagogical university and teacher training college faculty

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presented in a conference that was attended by representatives of the Ministry andlocal educational authorities, other educational institutions and faculty.In December, 1997 a new initiative was started addressing the development ofchildren from birth to three (budget $104,475 .00) that raised special interest in thecommunity of professionals, since this age was less targeted up till now from theeducational perspective (the focus was mostly on childcare).

Primary Schools

expenses: $144,469.00

In the first half of the year the primary school initiative included 20 first grades. Theseteachers were pioneers who started changes themselves, from the changes in classroommanagement through focusing more on learning than on teaching and on partnershipwith families.

In September, 1997 the Program was extended to 30 other budget classrooms, thenumber of those willing to join being much larger. The selection of classrooms wasmade, as in the previous year, on the basis of a number of spring workshops offeredto everybody who expressed a desire to take part and through site visits. Since in thesecond year the number of aplicants was much beyond the budgeted number, theselection of budget classrooms was postponed till late fall, when the site visits mightgive an answer as to which classrooms could be really considered Programclassrooms. Thus, in the summer training for the first grades, with the participationof American experts, 50 teachers were initiated in interactive teaching strategies,planning, observation and evaluation.

At the present time the Program is implemented in 50 budget and 21 volunteerclassrooms. The classrooms were partially provided with furniture, educational materialsand literature.

In the program classrooms, children learn through discovery, working in activity centersindividually, or in small or large groups. All the educational materials and hand heldequipment are accessible to them. The classroom environment stimulates children’scommunication, both oral and written and the thematic units studied in class are basedupon their needs and interests. Teachers help the students identify topics of theirinterest and work out projects. Students’ independence is also promoted by the fact thatthey become used to understanding and correcting their own mistakes.

Parents in the program classrooms are viewed as partners and experts and are alwayswelcome.

A special priority for the staff is teacher training. This is done through regularworkshops, seminars and site visits followed by consultations, teacher exchanges, etc.The workshops have an interactive character and in many cases they are preceded byclassroom observations accompanied by discussions. Beginning in September therewere separate workshops for the first and second grades, but also joint workshops inwhich many of the second grade teachers got some experience in the role of future


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trainers. Here are some of the issues discussed in the seminars:- Group learning strategies in primary grades- Developing reading and writing skills in “Step by Step”- Teacher’s roles in a child-centered classroom- Math for children 8 to 10- The importance of integrated teaching- Choice and its importance in child development, etc.

In March the Program teachers (then first grade) visited their colleagues from the similar program inRomania (Tulcea). It was a very useful exchange.

The summer training for the second grade teachers with the participation of American experts was ajoint one -- for teams from Moldova and Romania - and took place in Brasov (Romania).

A group of teachers had training, together with teachers from the ProDidactica project, in Iasi (Romania).

Viorica BOGDAN, primary school teacher from Chisinau gymnasium #4, had a two-weektraining session in USA.

Maria ROSCA, primary school teacher from Chisinau school # 83, participated in the SecondBalcan “Step by Step” conference in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Training Teachers of Foreign Languages in Primary Schools

A new local initiative was the seminar for teachers of foreign languages in the secondgrades that are implementing the Program. Besides the fact that, through this seminar,these teachers get a chance of being exposed to new teaching methods, the initiative hasas its purpose promoting co-operation between the main teacher and other schoolteachers for the benefit of the children. The English language teachers might also helpthe main teachers to get access to the various materials in English that the Programresource center has.

Higher Education

expenses: $8,819.00

In 1997 a seminar was initiated for faculty from the three major pedagogical universitiesand 6 teacher training colleges that train future pre-school and primary school teachers.

The seminar is conceived as a series of workshops aimed at familiarizing faculty withthe philosophy and practices of “Step by Step”.

The workshops in the first half of the year replicated the modules offered at summer’96 Balaton training for faculty: Individualization, Partnership with family and Learningthrough play. The modules were presented by the Program staff in co-operation withthe faculty who attended the Balaton training. At Balaton (summer of 1997) -2 newfaculty training modules were presented - Child centered curriculum, Observation andrecording, Interactive learning, etc. - and new faculty were trained to become trainers.The latter got actively involved in the fall republican seminar. Besides the core


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contingent that attends the republican seminar (about 26 faculty), the faculty trainersorganize regional trainings that help cover the needs of larger numbers of facultyinterested in formative education. They have a very good relationship with the modelcenters. Faculty at some institutions managed to change the curriculum so as to includenew courses and to revise the student practice at school: students are supposed tospend no less than 50% of their time in “Step by Step” classrooms.

East - Eastexpenses: $84,916.00


The East East Program was conceived by the Foundation as a tool to encourage theexchange of ideas and open dialogue among institutions and individuals in Central andEastern Europe. The program focuses on sharing and learning from each other’sexperiences in the post-communist transformation and developing skills to address thecommon problems of post-communist societies.As in many other societies which try to reject a totalitarian past, the current stage ofMoldova’s transition from the communist past to democracy and market economyremains full of contradictions. Some sources of this confusion are the lack of a cleareconomic reform strategy, lack of an overall and adequate legislative framework for thedevelopment of democratic processes, and limited efficiency of emerging civilinstitutions and political/ social organizations. Furthermore, the majority of thepopulation lacks experience and self-improvement to assist itself in the newenvironment of political and economic democracy.

Under internal and external conditions, some countries from Eastern Europe wentfurther in their effort to pursue a political and social democratization, and to create amarket economy. They also managed to find the possibilities of cultural andprofessional synchronization with general human values. Cooperation between thecountries of Central and Eastern Europe could encourage a faster recognition and moredynamic, mutual acceptance toward world values and culture, which is the mainprecondition for new strategic alliances among old continent nations.

The East East Program in Moldova offers great opportunities to exchange ideas andknowledge accumulated by Central and Eastern Europe countries on building ademocratic society. The strongest arguments in favor of this Program are the resultsachieved during 1997. 13 projects were accomplished within the framework of the EastEast Hosting Programs, which involved efforts of two or more foundations from theregion. These programs were addressed to more than 200 active participants from localcommunities. 36 Moldovan experts were invited abroad and 62 experts from outsidevisited Moldova during the year. Within the East East Participating Programs, 99Moldovan representatives had the opportunity to attend 44 East East events, organizedby foundations in the region, which involved 19 countries.


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Hosting and Joint Programs


Social Development: From Marxism-Leninism to Open Society Values. Visit to Bucharest of youngsociologists from Moldova, April 3-10, 1997(joint project between Bucharest and Chisinau; co-funded by International HESP OSI-Budapest)Participants: V.TURCANU, Head, Laboratory of Sociology, MSU; Head of theInternational HESP Laboratory of Sociology; N.Sali, lecturer of Sociology, PoliticalSciences Department, MSU; E.MIHAILOV, post-graduate student in Sociology,journalist, Flux weekly; E.STRATAN, M.MASCAUTAN, N.LUCHIAN, N.CHIRILOV,E.BIRIUC - second and third year-students, Department of Philosophy, Sociology andPsychology, MSU

Regional Environmental Advocacy and Public Interest Conference, May 25-28, 1997, Holercani,Moldova(ABA/CEELI, Soros Foundation Moldova)Participants - 45 representatives of NGOs and environmental lawyers from the region,9 experts from CEE

Post-Privatization Problems. Visit of Czech experts to Moldova, June 18-22, 1997, Chisinau(Soros Foundation Moldova and OSI-Prague)Participants: Jan MLADEK, Director of the Czech Institute of Applied Economics,Miloslav MULLER, Deputy Director of the Czech Geographic and Map Office; IvanPRIKRYL, Director of the Union of the Czech and Moravian Cooperatives; EduardREZNICEK, Deputy Mayor of Cesky Krumlov; Ivan SYNEK, translator; VlastaHIRTOVA, EEP Coordinator, Open Society Fund-Prague

International Cultural Seminar: Sacred Rupestrian Architecture within the South-East EuropeanCivilizations, June 22-27, 1997, Chisinau, Capriana, Orheiul-Vechi, Tipova, Saharna(Soros Foundation Moldova, Archaeological Investigation Center of the Republic ofMoldova)Program Director: Gheorghe POSTICAParticipants: 45: 16 experts from Romania, Ukraine, Jugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria,Georgia

Visit to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Moldova of Representativesof NGO Resource Centres in Ukraine (Kiev, Lviv, Cernauti), June 12, 1997, Chisinau

Brainstorm’97: Summer School in the Art of Communication, July 20 - August 4, 1997,Holercani, Moldova(Soros Foundation Moldova, SFOS-Romanian branches: Bucuresti, Timisoara, Cluj,Iasi)Project director - Antonina SARBUParticipation: 14 students from Moldova, 10 students from Romania, 3 professors fromWest Timisoara University and Iasi University, 2 journalists from Moldova


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Internship Program in the Czech Republic for Young Doctors of Moldova, Prague, Plzen, CzechRepublic(Department of Social Work of Charles University, the Open Society Fund-Prague,Soros Foundation Moldova)Mariana PASECHNIC, Clinic of Cardiology in Plzen, October 2-31, 1997Sergiu SANDRU, Clinic of Motol, Intensive Care Unit in Prague, November 2-30, 1997Loreta ESANU, Clinic of Internal Medicine in Plzen, November 2-30, 1997Oleg PULBERE, Clinic of Orthopedics in Prague, November 2-30, 1997

Strengthening Civil Society in Eastern Europe: First Forum of Moldovan NGOs, November 3-6,1997, Chisinau(Soros Foundation Moldova, “Contact” Center for NGOs)Participation: experts from NGOs in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Ukraine,and NGOs representatives from Moldova.

South-Eastern Europe: Through Regional Integration toward Integration in Europe, December 10-13, 1997, Chisinau(International Center for European Formation Moldova (ICEM), Euro-Atlantic Centerof Moldova, Soros Foundation Moldova).Participants: 6 experts in political strategy issues, representatives of NGOs, sociologists,independent analysts and mass media representatives, international organizations, thepolitical community and government representatives in Moldova

Information Exchange Program: Baltic Countries and MoldovaMoldova-Estonia-Lithuania: Visit of Vlad Berco, journalist from Moldova, September23-October 6, 1997, Tallinn, VilniusLithuania-Moldova: Visit of Lauras Bielinis, journalist from Lithuania, October 13-17,1997, ChisinauMoldova-Latvia: Visit of Vasile Cioaric to Riga, November 3-13, 1997Latvia-Moldova: Visit of Andris Berzins to Chisinau, November 24 - December 2, 1997

Internship Program for Women NGOs, December 14-21, 1997, Warsaw(Stefan Bathory Foundation, Soros Foundation Moldova)Participants: Liliana Ciobanu, journalist, Business Women’s Club; Adela Zabolotnaia,Democratic League of Women of Moldova; Maria Bulgari, Women with UniversityDegree Association; Ana Gorea, professor, IIUM; Antonina Sirbu, Women’s ProgramCoordinator, the Soros Foundation Moldova

Transformation of Economics. Visit to Prague of Moldovan Experts, November 30 - December 5,1997, Prague(OSF-Prague, Czech Institute of Applied Economics, Soros Foundation-Moldova)Participants: Valeriu CAPSIZU, Ministry of Privatisation, Head of the Department forInvestments; Ion STRATULAT, Director of the National Agency for Surveying,Mapping and Cadaster; Tatiana UNGUREANU, Ministry of Justice, Head of Attorneyand Public Dept.; Daria ZANOGA, consultant for external relations, Ministry ofEconomics and Reforms of Moldova; Anatol RAU, municipal government ofChisinau, Head of the Land Dept.; Ceslav CIOBANU, Agency for Restructuring of


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Industry, Chair of Economics of the International Independent University ofMoldova; Igor VERLAN, Universalbank, Head of the Credit Dept.

Management of Change and Health Care Reform in Slovakia, September 21-October 5, 1997,BratislavaParticipants: Valeriu SAVA, deputy-director of the Sientific-Practical Center for PublicHealth and Sanitary Management; Ion ARTENI, doctor, deputy-chief, hospital #4;Adela GLAVAN, Doctor, deputy-chief, the Direction for Health of the ChisinauMayor’s Office; Iurie GUZGAN, doctor chief of the Sanatorium of the Academy ofSciences of Moldova; Valeriu JARDAN, Director of the Medical College fromUngheni; Natalia POPLAVSCHI, doctor, deputy chief for organisational andmethodological activity of the City Clinic; Mihail CIOBANU, Director of the Hospitalin Carpineni, Hancesti; Sergiu COBALETCHI, Executive Director of the MedicalInformational Center of Moldova

Participating Projects


The Role of Further Education of LocalGovernment Personnel in the Democratization ofSocieties in Central and Eastern Europe,Jurmala, Latvia, January 29 - February 1, 1997Tudor DELIU, Arcadie BARBAROSIE,lecturers, APAMLidia SPATARU, Director, Center forSocial Innovation in Moldova

Exchange Program for Representatives of LocalGovernment: Poland and Moldova. Visit toPoland of Representatives of Local Governmentfrom Moldova, Warsaw and Bialystok, March17-22, 1997V.DIDENCU, professor, APAM,V.STRIMBANU, M.MAMALIGA,G.FOCSA, V.GROZDEVA, V.COTAGA,N.CURTEV, S.BOLDURATU,I.CATAN, T.PAPANA - representativesof local government from variouslocalities of Moldova

Better Perception for the Future: Kazakhstan inthe Process of Transformation, Almaty, March18-20, 1997E. ABILDAEV, director of theIndependent TVK-Asket, Tiraspol

The Role of Emotional Components in

Human Activity and World Perception, March25-27, 1997, DnepropetrovskOlga RUSU, post-graduate student inSociology, MSU

First Central and Eastern European JuniorAchievement Students’ Companies Fair,Sosnowiec, Poland, April 2-6, 1997Adela SCUTARU, Galina BRAILEANU,Alina CUCIUC, Serghei TURCAN, ElenaSAVCA - participants in the JuniorAchievement Program of Moldova

Phenomenon as a Philosophical Problem, Prague,April 6-11, 1997Stefan Lupan, researcher, Institute ofSociology and Philosophy, ASM

Personality and Change: Psychologists’ Role inDiagnosis of Socio-Political Processes, Jurmala,April 21-28, 1997Mircea BORDEAN, Ala CIORICI,Moldovan Association of YoungPsychologists

Mass Media and Law, Bishkek, April 22-24,1997Elena Iepure, TVK-Asket, TiraspolVioleta COJOCARU, Moldovan


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Committee for Freedom of Press

Issues of Western Cultural Expansion in Post-Communist Countries, Nijhny Novgorod, May5-7, 1997Natalia ALHAZOVA, lecturer, ModernLanguages Department, MSU

NGO Involvement in Reforming the LegalFramework of NGO Tax Issues, Varna, May15-18, 1997Piotr GORBUNENKO, Helsinki CitizenAssembly of Moldova

Modern Teaching Techniques in BusinessEducation, St.Petersburg, May 24-25, 1997Larisa LUBAROV, lecturer of EconomicsDepartment, IIUMGrigore BELOSTECINIC, Dean ofMarketing Department, AESM

Traces of German Culture in Eastern Europe,Poiana Brasov, May 30-June 1, 1997Tamara LISNIC, MSU, President of theMoldovan Association of Teachers ofGerman Language, and 9 professors ofGerman from Universities of Moldova,members of the Association

Violence in the Contemporary World: Power,Society and Criminality, St.Petersburg, June27-29, 1997Stanislav MELNIC, post-graduate studentin Sociology, Institute of Philosophy,Sociology and Law, ASM

1997 Summer School of Czech and RussianStudies, Pilsen, July 7-25, 1997A. SARBU, journalistF. BODNARI, student, IIUMM. MOCREAC, student, SPUA. GROSU, student, MPSUM

Practical School on Field Ecology, Sevastopol,July 20-31, 1997Domnica ANDREEV, Ecological Club,Calarasi

Alexandra DOROSENCO, “Izvoras”Ecological Club, CricovaValentina BUREATINSKAIA,“Kolokol” Gutta Club

Seminar: Children with Disabilities andIntegration into Society, Bukova, CzechRepublik, July 24-August 2, 1997Victoria PLAMADEALA, lecturer,Department of Psychology, SPUValentina STRATAN, HumanitasAssociation

Interface: Celebration of Diversity, Chtelnica,Slovakia, August 10-20, 1997Daniela TERZI, student, SPUIgor BOTAN, student, MSUElena VOVC, student, MPSUM

Fathers for the Rights of Disabled Children,Slavyansk, Ukraine, August 18-22, 1997Serghei ERMURACHI, Association ofLarge Families of MoldovaOleg TABARANU, “Save the Children”Association

Human Rights for Persons with MentalHandicaps, Prague, September 7-12, 1997Irina CARPENCO, lecturer at thePsycho-Pedagical Department, SPUVasile LICHII, Humanitas Association

SECI Student Conference, Belgrad, October16-19, 1997Luciano POPA, “Ignis” Youth ClubVadim GUZUN, deputy-chief of the“European Time” NGO

Competitiveness of Countries in Transitionduring Economic Depression, Ljubljana,October 2-4, 1997Igor FETINIUC, expert, Agency forEnterprises Restructure and AssistanceVictor CIOBANU, director of theResearch Economic Institute, ASM


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Mass Media and the Citizen’s Right, Iasi,September 18-21, 1997Igor NAGACERSCHI, journalist,“Flux” newspaperAlexandru CANTIR, journalist, BASA-Press

Civicus World Assembly, Budapest, September23-26, 1997Stela MOCANU, Pro-DemocracyAssociation

Congress of International Federation ofEnvironmental Journalists, Budapest, October15-18, 1997Stefan TERIS, editor of “Nature”magazineAndrei DUMBRAVEANU, journalist,State Teleradio Company of MoldovaConstantin PARTAC, Deputy Director,State Teleradio Company of Moldova

Regional Program for Improvement of InterethnicRelations, Tallinn, October 15-18, 1997Victoria MAZUROVA, Chief of theUkrainian Women Association fromMoldova

Social Activism in Urban Environment,Novosibirsk, October 6-12, 1997Veronica TANASOVA, Greek MoldovanCultural Association

Restructuring the Social Field, Iasi, October22-25, 1997Lidia TROFAILA, professor, MSULarisa STOG, professor, MSUGrigore TAPU, lecturer, PsychologicalDepartment, MSU

Cooperation on Environmental Issues,N.Novgorod, October 22-25, 1997Elena ZUBCOV, researcher, Institute ofZoology, ASMAndrei VASILIEV, researcher, Instituteof Zoology, ASM

East European Network against Male Violence,Belgrad, October 27- November 1, 1997Svetlana FILINCOV, lawyer, advisor ofthe Women Beijing Group Association

Relationship between NGOs and Authorities,St. Petersburg, October 27-31, 1997Natalia IZDEBSCHI, chief, Departmentfor NGO registration, Ministry of Justiceof MoldovaLidia LOZOVAN, chief of the LegislativeDepartment, Ministry of Justice ofMoldova

Regional Workshop: Identity, Ljubljana,November 9-11, 1997Ana PASCARU, researcher, Institute ofPhilosophy, Sociology and Law, ASM

Baltic Criminological Seminar, Riga, November18-23, 1997Serghei VOROSILOV, doctor insociology, director, “Contranomia” PublicResearch Institute

Religion and Community, Osh, Kirghizia,October 29-November 1, 1997Angela ZUBCO, Ph.D.in history, lecturer,HUM

Visit to Poland of Young Historians, Warsaw,December 7-11, 1997Ion SISCANU, senior researcher,Institute of History, ASMOctavian CIUMAC, student, HistoryDepartment, SPU

Youth on the Way to Civil Society, Samara,November 17-19, 1997Silvia CARP, member of the HelsinkiCommittee, student, TSU

Evaluation of Political Orientations, Samara,November 6-10, 1997Iulia GORINCIOI, professor at thePolitical Science Department, MSUHuman Rights Education, Kharkiv, October


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29-November 4, 1997Valeria CIOBANU, member of theHelsinki Committee, student at LawDepartment, MSUElena GRATINICI, member of the“ALTAIR” Ecological Agency

Fundraising Seminar, Sofia, November 26-30,1997Aliona NICULITA, Director of the“Contact” NGO Center

Medical and Social Aspects of Rehabilitation,Donetsk, Slaveanogorsk, December 8-22,1997Maria GOTONOAGA, “ChildNeurology” department head, Motherand Child Health Care Center ofMoldova

Alternative Rights Activity Movement,Kharkiv, October 27-31, 1997Veceaslav TURCAN, President ofAmnesty International

Democratic Youth Leadership, Donetsk,December 10-17, 1997Cabac SERGIU, member of MoldovanHelsinki Committee

Participation of Women in EconomicTransition, Kharkiv, December 16-20, 1997Tatiana PARCALAB, Business Women’sAssociationValentina TESELCHINA, member ofthe Beijing Women Group

Summer School SIDU, Croatia, Lastovo,August 31 - September 10, 1997Natalia SINEAEVA, member of theHelsinki Citizen’s Assembly of MoldovaAndrei COVAL, member of the PoliticalScience Laboratory

Evaluation of the “Brainstorm’97” SummerSchool, Timisoara, December 10-14, 1997Antonina SARBU - summer schooldirectorAlexandru EFTODI - summer schoolparticipant, student MSUAnatol ADAM - summer schoolparticipant, AIM studentGheorghe BUDEANU - professor,journalist at the “Flux” newspaperNatalia COSTAS - summer schoolparticipant, MSU studentAna MELNIC - summer schoolparticipant, high school student

Libraryexpenses: $141,418.00


The Program strategy in 1997 came about due to the precarious economic situation oflibraries, and an appreciation of their vital role in assuring access to information in atransitional society. The main objective of the Program was to support prioritylibraries activities: book stock completion, library automation, and professionaldevelopment.

The priority areas of library support were determined by professionals from the libraryand information fields. They presented a large number of activities to help Moldovanlibraries meet international functional standards based on advanced IT.Thus, the Program covered three main areas:


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- Book acquisition and subscription to periodicals- Professional development for library staff- Library automation

The Book Foundation, a non-governmental organization, set up to distribute books,Soros Foundation Program publications, additional donations from publishing houses,was supported within the Library Support Program.

Book acquisition and subscription to periodicals


The program’s purpose was to complete the central libraries’ stock with major foreignperiodicals, and also to provide public libraries with subscriptions to national culturaland art journals as “ Sud Est”, “Contrafort” and “Basarabia”.

Library subscription to foreign periodicals - $12,370.00including:The National Library - 26 titles - $4,846.00Ion Creanga National Children’s Library - 12 titles - $2,895.00The Republican Technical Scientific Information Library - 20 titles - $4,331.00

385 subscriptions of the journals “Sud Est”, “Contrafort” and “ Basarabia” for central, universityand public libraries - $5,761.00

Financial support was offered to the National Library for the publication of a catalogue “Foreignperiodicals acquired by the Moldovan libraries in 1995” - $130.00

The Central Scientific Library of the ASM received a grant for maintaining the internationalpublication exchange, constituting the main stock of this library’s collection - $2,035.00

Professional development

expenses: $9,811.00

The program covered three aspects:- participation of librarians in major international events in the related field- organization of training courses in collaboration with Network Library Program(NLP)- encouraging the initiatives, regarding the organization and development ofprofessional reunions or retraining activities

Travel to seminars & conferences

The selection of Moldovan participants was done on a competitive basis.

expenses: $4,699.68

Annual Conference of the International Librarian FederationAlexe RAU, president of the Library AssociationFaina TLEHUCI, director of the BSU Library


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International Conference, CrimeaPetru RACU, director of the Republican Technical Scientific Information Library

“Work with Foreign Publications” international conference, February, 1997E.BOLGARINA, librarian, Foreign Language and Literature Department, The NationalLibrary

TINLIB user group conference (integrate library system) in Cluj, June, 1997L. VEDRASCU, head of the Library Automation Department, Central UniversityLibrary

“Library - the Center of Culture and Knowledge” conference, Cluj, June, 1997Valentina LOZINSCHI, librarian at the Central Scientific Library, ASM

In correspondence with the program strategy and training activities, suggested by theRegional Library Program, OSI Budapest, two seminars with major topics for libraryactivities were organized. Leading specialists with valuable experience in the field wereinvited from abroad.

“Project Design and Stock Search” seminar, October 14-15, 1997, $900expert- Julia PIKSHILINGAITE, Program Coordinator at the Open World Institute inLithuania.32 librarians from central, university and public regional libraries took part at theseminar. The audience was familiarized with project development mechanisms,fundraising, sources collection and project presentation for examination. Specialattention was offered to projects designed for presentation to the Regional Program orother organizations offering grants.

”Collection Development” seminar, November 18-20, 1997, $1,260.00Led by Lyndon Pugh, independent expert from Great Britain and professional with agreat experience in library management and continuous training for librarians.The seminar was addressed to specialists involved in acquisition and stock completionand also management staff.Number of participants - 30 people.The main aspects discussed were:- collection development in a transitional period- management of the completion and acquisition process- necessary skills for collection development- new technologies and stock completionAs a result of the course, participants received a large number of didactic materials.

Within continuous training activities, the Management Courses for librarians hold a special place.$850.00It is a project of the Library Association and the National Library and is supportedby the Soros Foundation Moldova, NLP, OSI Budapest, ALA and USIS in Moldova.The project is responsible for organizing a number of training seminars in librarymanagement for various categories of librarians ( around 200 people), held by Beau


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David Case, expert from the USA. The courses are held starting in January, 1998 andtook place over a 4 months period.

The third important aspect of the Program was supporting library initiatives,

for the organization of professional meetings which would provide an exchange

of experience.

On May 26, 1997, just before the Soros Foundation anniversary, the round table meeting “Library- an informational and knowledge center for the society development” was organized, at which 60specialists from various libraries participated, $201.00The discussions were held around diverse aspects of library functions withinchallenging social and economic conditions, integration in the internationalinformation circuit, changes in the professional awareness of librarians, in satisfyingthe information requests of users.The round table was followed by a Book Foundation presentation together with anexhibition of books donated by the Soros Foundation and distributed by the BookFoundation.The third event was an exhibition of foreign journals subscribed to through theSupport Library Program of the Soros Foundation during the last few years forlibraries in the republic.

The Libraries Program was pleased to support an initiative of the AESM Library, which organizedthe “International Conference on Information Services Modernization”, held September 25-26, 1997at the AESM Library, $2520Approximately 100 library specialists participated at the conference, brought together forthe first time from Moldova, Romania, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and France, in orderto share their experience. Topics included: development based on IT, electroniccatalogue use, financial administration of information resources, and librariansretraining. During the conference, a number of automated library systems weredemonstrated, including the AESM Library automation network, the RomanianNational Libraries Shared Catalogue (USIS), and the George Pompidou Center/PublicInformation Library’s Server, from Paris. Invited experts and local participantsexpressed appreciation for the conference’s level of organization and the quality of thepresented reports.

Library Automation



This program aims to prompt libraries to meet the international standards of information manufactureand library process automation through the implementation of advanced informational technologies.

The project “The implementation of the Integrate Library System TINLIB” of theNational Library, that concluded the automation process and the creation of a localautomation network was supported within the Program. The project is very valuable forthe republic’s library automation and the libraries’ integration in a national automationsystem.


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Book Foundation

expenses: $5,662.00

The Book Foundation - a non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by the SorosFoundation, Library Association from Moldova and the Ion Creanga NationalChildren’s Library, continued its activity of didactic and reference book delivery,published within the Soros Foundation programs.Another important aspect of the Book Foundation’s activity was the establishment ofrelationships with publishing houses and private individuals interested in making bookdonations to complete libraries’ collection. The Book Foundation has also becomeactive in announcing new publications to libraries and interested individuals. TheBook Foundation, in accordance with its legal status, undertook limited bookmarketing.During the year, the Book Foundation received for distribution 86 book titles inaround 100000 copies, 27 of which (67180 copies) were published with the supportof the Soros Foundation and 59 titles (32595 copies) from other donation sources.64000 copies of book donations were distributed to 3058 libraries throughout therepublic, including public, university, school, and other secondary education libraries.In order to distribute book donations as quick and efficient as possible, the BookFoundation staff visited 22 regions of the republic.The most vulnerable aspect of the Book Foundation’s functions is the development of aviable mechanism of self sufficiency in which book marketing would be the main sourceof self financing. 924 book copies were sold in 1997, that represented only 1% of thetotal number of donations available for sale. The income obtained as a result of themarketing activity (13113 lei) hardly covered the salary expenses of the engaged staff.

Internet and Computers for High Schoolsexpenses: $84,912.00


ComSoros - a computerisation program in the field of education - aims to install advanced personalcomputers in education institutions throughout the Republic of Moldova. The main objectives of theprogram in 1997 were implementing Internet connections for schools, as well as traditional projects likesummer camp, training courses, and equipment donation.

Summer Camp


Summer camps organized by the Soros Foundation Moldova in collaboration with theCenter for New Information Technologies have demonstrated their efficiency inextending pupils’ knowledge in the field of computer science.The third Summer Camp (SVI’97) took place during July 7-21, 1997 in Camp Andries,located 30 km from Chisinau. For the first time computer labs in the camp had on-lineconnection to the Internet. For 2 weeks more than 100 pupils from around Moldova


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benefited form Internet access, training courses in surfing the Net, WWWdevelopment, etc.Also, for the first time the attendees of the camp had an English Language course.At the end of the camp a conference for teachers of informatics took place. Themain issues discussed were teaching techniques, resources and new teaching software.Pictures from camp life as well as the daily issues of the camp newspaper can be foundat http://www.cnti.moldnet.mdWe want to express our gratitude to the Ministry of Communication and Computingwho provided a free leased line to the summer camp.

The “One Lab” Contest


The experience of past years has shown the necessity of equipping high schools withmodern computers. In 1997, a contest named “One Lab” was announced. The contesthad no eligibility restrictions, but priority was given to regional high schools. 25 highschools applied to the contest. Soros Foundation Moldova chose 3 finalists, which waspossible due to lower equipment prices.

- Constantin Stere High School, Soroca. Computer lab consisting of 11 Pentiums 133, a printer,and a modem.- Pentiums were added to Calarasi Regional High School Computer Lab.- The Soros Foundation Moldova financed 50% of Dubasari High School Computer Lab. The other50% waz provided by the School.

Center of New Information Technologies


The Center for New Information Technologies is a Center of the Ministry ofEducation, responsible for the development of Computing teachers and which is also apartner of the Soros Foundation Moldova in running the ComSoros Program. Incollaboration with the Center, the Soros Foundation organized training courses forpupils, summer camps, and special courses for school staff.

For three years CNIT had no permanent building, which caused difficulties in using theCenter to its maximum potential. In the beginning of 1997, a contract between theCenter and a Chisinau high school was signed regarding the allocation of space for theCenter. After the opening, many people (pupils, teachers, and professors) benefitfrom 2 computer labs. Qualified specialists, the library and public classes have accessto the Internet.

Other Programs

expenses: $8,676.39

Within the framework of this Program, the course “IBM Compatible Computers in School” wasorganized.11 village -school Computing teachers attended the course. The course was limited to


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teachers 35 or younger.

The Soros Foundation Moldova also supported participation at conferences, training courses andseminars.

Internet for Schools



During 1997, 30 high schools were connected to Internet. The on-line program hadno restrictions. Any school that asked to be put on-line and had IBM compatiblecomputers was connected.Also, two permanent connections (via leased lines) to Academic and Research NetworkMoldNET were financed. Beneficiaries of these connections are the Ministry ofEducation and the Computing College. The project presented by the Ministry ofEducation planned to create an information exchange point for its regional departments.Computers and modems for the regional departments of the Ministry will be grantedby the World Bank Project.

Internet and E-mailexpenses: $125,435.00


The main aim of the Internet and E-mail Program is to develop the MoldNET academic andresearch network (http://www.moldnet.md), created in 1996. The network interconnectsuniversities, research institutions, schools, non-governmental organizations, as well as provides accessto individuals (scientists, professors, students and pupils) that have technical possibility (computerwith modem) to connect to the Net.The network offers the most-demanded Internet services as E-mail, WWW, FTP, NEWS, etc.

By the end of 1997 to MoldNET were connectedUniversities and research institutions - 9High schools - 30NGOs - 37Mass-media organizations - 13

Projects supported in 1997:

Public Access Class, $34,967.16The Class equipped with modern computers connected on-line to the Internet will beopen 24 hour for the public interested in surfing and using Internet services. In thisclass will also be held Internet related courses for the popularization of the Internet inMoldova.


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Administration of the MoldNET, $17,964.55The Soros Foundation Moldova supports the costs related to the administration ofthe Academic and Research Network. Also financed was their participation atdifferent conferences and seminars and acquisition of specific literature.

Connectivity Projects, $13,465.44During the year several connectivity projects coming from academic and researchinstitutions of Moldova were supported.

The Academy of Studies in Public Administration (http://www.asdap.moldnet.md) wasconnected via a leased line. Beneficiaries: 500 students and more than 50 professors.

The Soros Foundation Moldova is financing the LAN development project of theComputer Center of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (http://acad.moldnet.md). The main aim of the project is connecting of 9 researchinstitutions (Institute of Physics, Institute of Chemistry, Institute of Zoology, etc)situated on the Academy Street to the Computer Center LAN and providing fullInternet access to these Institutions.

A connectivity project for the CCU was approved. Beneficiaries: more that 1000students and 180 professors.

Regional Program


During 1997 the Regional Internet Program supported expenses related to Internetconnectivity. In November the VSAT connection to Internet was up-graded to 256KBPS. This up-grade significantly increased the quality of service offered by theMoldNET Academic and Research Network.


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Civil Societyexpenses: $190,575.00


The Civil Society Program fosters the essential norms of a civil society - individualrights, free association, the opening of public and private sectors, legality, opinions,initiative, as well as sustaining the creation of mechanisms for social control andinfluence over the state and its institutions.The projects accomplished in 1997 aimed to support NGO activity, both Chisinau-based and especially regional ones. Supported projects respond to some acutecommunity needs, are innovative, can provide models, contribute to the promotionof NGO activity and involve citizens in their achievement.

The NGO grant competition “Strengthening the collaboration among the three

sectors of the society and NGO development in the Republic of Moldova”

expenses: $9,665.00


(co-financed by Eurasia and the Soros Moldova Foundations)

The goals of the competition were to:- increase the social importance of the non-governmental sector in Moldova- improve the communicational and informational possibilities of local non-governmental organizations- stimulate the partnership among different local NGOs and those from Chisinau- consolidate the relationship and collaboration between non-governmentalorganizations and governmental and commercial structures- reduce the significant difference between the level of development of Chisinau basedNGOs and those from the regionsAbout 70 non-governmental, non-profit, non-political, non-religious, registered NGOsparticipated at the competition. The proposed projects had concrete goals, related to thefollowing problem areas:- collaboration between the government and non-profit sector- collaboration between the private business and non-profit sector- supremacy of law- development of professional associations- development of local public administration- development of entrepreneurial relations- interaction with mass-media

The winners (25 organizations) received grants in the value up to $5,000.00 forcarrying out the projects during one year. The grants were followed by seminars andtraining related to NGO activity and the use of purchased equipment. Between June16- July 10, 1997, the National Assistance and Information Center for NGOs and theSocial Innovation Center organized seminars with the topic “Proposal Writing” inStefan-Voda, Ceadir-Lunga, Edinet, Vulcanesti.The Soros Foundatiopn-Moldova financed projects of the following organizations:


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“Pro Democratia” Association, branch Hincesti, $5,000.00“Rezina Info” Association, Rezina, $5,000.00The Association of Independent Press, $4,735.00“Pro Natura” Organization, Drochia, $4,737.00“Ocno v mir” Information Center for Youth, Tiraspol, $5,000.00

Support for NGOs Open Program



The Soros Foundation Moldova continued to finance various intiatives of the non-governmental organizations on a competitive basis throughout 1997.Program objectives:-to encourage and develop non-governmental organizations which express a socialinitiative and concern-to encourage contact between NGOs and State structures, in order to help resolvesocial problems-to improve the professional level of the non-profit sector specialists in Moldova-to promote tolerance between individuals and social groups-to promote social integration and protection of human rightsThe grant-decision making for the program were made at the Board monthlymeetings.

Anti-AIDS week “Give Youth Light and Love”, $1,173.00The “Youth for the Right to Live” organization, project director Antonita FonariThe project had the goal to inform youth about the danger of AIDS and drugdependence. The program included press conferences (Chisinau, Balti), meetings withpupils from the Drochia district, a seminar in Balti with the topic “AIDS preventionand overcoming psychological barriers”, a radio marathon at the National Radio andcharity actions for people infected with AIDS. The project was co-financed by theMinistry of Education, Youth and Sport and by the Clinic of Esthetic Medicine.

The register of socially dependent senior citizens, $2,250.00The “Kindness” (“Bunatate”) national association of senior citizens, project directorSamoil Cojocaru.The goal of the project is the creation, in collaboration with the National Center formedical-social rehabilitation, of a medical-social register of socially dependent seniorcitizens (surviving without relatives). The register will improve medical-social assistancethat is given to senior citizens, and the premature diagnosis of characteristic geriatricsicknesses.

“Human Rights in Penitentiaries” International Seminar, September 4-6, 1997, $2,260.00The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of Moldova, project director Stefan Uritu.Experts participating at this seminar came from the Council of Europe, from Denmark,Poland, Rumania and Russia, workers from the penitentiary system and representativesof NGOs from the Republic of Moldova. The project was co-financed by theCouncil of Europe.


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The “Environment, NGO and law: public interest and the strengthening of NGOs” conference,May 22-24, 1997, Calarasi, Moldova, project director Victoria DERGACIOV, $5,294.00The conference was organized with the support of CEELI, CEP, USIS, Counterpartand the Soros Foundation Moldova and brought together environmental NGOs fromMoldova, representatives from the Moldovan government, higher educationinstitutions, ministries and departments, students and representatives of NGOs fromRumania, Ukraine, Hungary and Russia. The conference was co-financed by CEELI($7,000.00), CEP ($6,000.00), USIS ($5,000.00), BKHF ($4,000.00).

The second annual charity ball, $1,500.00International Association for Charity in MoldovaThe collected funds (on the UNICEF’s account) were designed for diagnosis andtreatment of the Juvenile Diabetes, which endangers the youth’s health in Moldova.

Publishing of “The young psychologist” informational newsletter, $1,000.00The psychologist student association from Moldova (ASPM), project directorSvetlana PRODAN“The young psychologist” monthly informational newsletter, published from September1996, is conceived as a source of information about the development of theoretical andpractical psychology in Moldova, methods and techniques for professional self-improvement and a place for research, opinions and suggestions of the youngpsychologists, in order to support their involvement in scientific and practical work.

The micro-reservation “The cliff ”, $1,000.00The association TABIECOM, project director Aurel LOZANThe goal of the project is to confer micro-reserve status for “The cliff ’ (“Stinca”)(near the village of Cosauti, Soroca). The project involved research activities of thefield, ecological expertise, and determining the factors that pollute the environment,and production of the film “The path to the cliff ”. Co-financed by the ISARfoundation - $1,164.00

“Polish Culture Days in Moldova”, October, 16-26, 1997, $860.00Project director Liuba BURAVTEVAFamous art personalities from Moldova, Poland, Ukraine and Russia participated at thisevent. This promotional event of Polish culture took place in collaboration with thePolish Embassy of Moldova, International Society “Wspolnota Polska”, and theNational Television of Poland.

Violence-free society, $2,000.00The “Woman today” (“Femeia Azi”) organization, project director Liuba URITUThe goal of the project is to create a psychological rehabilitation center for womensuffering from rape, unemployment, armed conflict, detention and poverty. Assistenceoffered within the project included psychological counceling, legal consulting, andorganized training for women suffering from violence. Co-financed by USIS - $2,135.00

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project director Ecaterina BOCANCEADuring the conference students and members of NGOs were informed about theestimation and management of the chemical risk, and environmental legislation ofthe Republic of Moldova.

Revived customs, $1,500.00The Union of the popular craftsmen from Moldova, project director PetruBUCATARU“Revived customs” developed from a project, financed by the Counterpart Foundationduring June, 1995 - July, 1996, to aid the unemployed in villages of the republic. As aresult of the project were trained for the following professions: pottery, weaving,embroidery and crochet, in Vasieni at the Handcraft Learning Center about 125unemployed. The process of stocking information and selecting participants isassisted by the offered equipment.

Study case in Moldova, $1,000.00AEGEE-Chisinau (Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l’Europe-Chisinau), project director Mihai VASILACHEThe project contributed to establishing cooperation and exchange of experience betweenstudents from Moldova and other European countries. A schedule of trips, culturalactivities, and lessons at higher education institutions from Moldova for a group of40 people (10 citizens from Western Europe, 5 people from NIS, 5 people fromRumania, 20 citizens from Moldova) was planned.

The “Regionalism: origin and tendency” seminar, $1,000.00The Center of Analytical Information for Development Issues of the Republic ofMoldova, project director Alexandru PALIIThe seminar is a part of a huge project of the Center including round-tables, seminars,TV and radio programs, and publications in mass-media with the general goal ofclarifying and producing solutions for the problem of regionalism.

The “Search for freedom” seminar, May 23-25, 1997, the village of Ivancea, $500.00The “Ecological field” organization, project director Mircea ILADIThe seminar organized with the Foundation for Freedom discussed the formation ofyoung leaders for solving the problems of the society in transition. 25 persons fromMoldova and Great Britain participated.

Monitoring of pre-election campaign reflecting political life through central TV stations, $3,460.00CIVIS, project director Eduard MIHAILOVThe goal of monitoring was to register and provide results to interested institutionsabout the quality of the information in TVM and Catalan TV programs during theelection campaign and of public opinion. Quarterly public opinion polls, based on afixed questionnaire, (with a sample of at least 1300 people) direct journalists and TVmanagers to public opinion and present its evolution. The results were published in 3reports of analysis and syntheses.


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The “Scripta Scientarium Mathematicarum” publishing, $1064.00The society of topology, finite systems and their applications in the Republic ofMoldova, project director Cosma OSMATESCUA grant for publishing the first edition of the “Scripta Scientarium Mathematicarum”magazine, which contains materials from international seminars on finite spaces. Themagazine is created as a periodical scientific publication numbering 500 copies.

Entrepreneurial training course, $669.00Student league from ASEM, project director Oleg BRAGAAn “Entrepreneurship” training course (158 hours) was given to developentrepreneurial abilities in the participants. Its objective was to develop the aptitudes andabilities of entrepreneurs for business practice (the final result - to write their ownbusiness plan, with certification from the Swiss Neuchatel University). The course hadan interactive character, emphasizing case studies and individual study on the materialbase for the course. The project was co-financed by FREE Foundation.

Cultural program “The D. Caraciobanu days”, $1,000.00The “Dunarea si marea” (“The Danube and the Sea”) cultural society, project directorPetru GROZAVUThe cultural program lent homage to the renowned actor Dumitru Caraciobanu, on theoccasion of 60th anniversary of his birth. “D. Caraciobanu days” represent the start ofthe biennial “D. Caraciobanu theatre festival” in villages populated by Moldovans fromthe South of Basarabia.

“Modern scientific thinking: achievements and perspectives” conference, Chisinau, October 2-4,1997, $601.00The Association of professionals in science, arts and culture, project director IonODAINICThe conference had participants from Moldova, Romania, USA and Israel andincluded discussions on the following aspects: culture, education and science, ecologyand industry, urban architecture, energy and thermoenergy, economy in transition,and medical assistance. The project was co-financed by the townhall of Chisinau. TheSoros Foundation provided a grant for stationary.

Republication of the United Nations Convention for Children’s Rights, $2,127.00The organization “Salvati Copiii” (Save the Children), project manager MarianaPETERSELThis document, signed and ratified by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova onFebruary 25, 1993 became law for protecting and defending Children’s Rights within theConstitution of the Republic of Moldova. The Document is necessary both for thedevelopment of children themselves and for the adults surrounding them. “Save theChildren” had already distributed 9000 copies of the Convention in Moldova, 4000from which were published with the Soros Foundation support. The Convention wasdistributed among teachers, law specialists, and doctors throughout Moldova. Thelarge number of requests for this document necessitated its republishing.


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Grant for accommodating Peace Corps Volunteer, $600.00The ”Secolul XXI” (“XXI Century”) youth’s foundation, project director IorguAPOSTOLA volunteer from the Peace Corps offered his assistance to the “Secolul XXI” youth’sfoundation in fulfilling its activities - promoting values of a civil society, supporting thedevelopment of the youth third sector, promoting authentic national values and theprotection of the environment, helping vulnerable social groups.

Basic course for scout leaders, March 23-28, $1,064.00The National Organization of Scouts of Moldova, project manager Lia SCLIFOSThe course contributes to the creation of a new team of trainers at the local level, indeveloping their own educational models and training in developmental psychology.Information was also given about national and international scout history, citizen’srights and NGO legislation in Moldova. The project was co-financed by BCA“Moldincombanc” - 1,500.00 lei, BCA “Moldova-Agroindbanc” - 1,700.00 lei, TheDepartment for Youth and Sport - 3,500.00 lei

The first forum of non-governmental organizations from Moldova, $3,696.00“CONTACT” National Information and Assistance Center for NGOs from Moldova,project director Aliona NICULITAThe first forum of non-governmental organizations from Moldova, held betweenNovember 4-6, 1997 in Chisinau, had a huge impact not only among the non-profitsector but also among the whole society. The forum was attended by representativesfrom more than 120 national and local NGOs of Moldova, representatives fromBulgaria, Ukraine, Rumania, Poland, mass-media, local and foreign donorsorganizations and authorities.During the forum problems faced by NGOs were discussed such as legislation,organization and finance. Attention was paid to creating a development strategy of theThird Sector, giving priority to regional and local development of the entire republic.Another topic that was discussed was moving to concrete actions in collaborationbetween associations and the state, an objective that was supported by representativesfrom Parliament, Executive Branch, and the Presidency.The problems discussed during the forum were put in “White Papers” of 7 fields ofactivity: civic, human rights, ecology, economy, youth, mass-media, and culture. Thesebooks will be published and will reflect the current situation of the associations andproblems and perspectives of its evolution. The “White Papers” constitute the finaldocuments of the forum where participants from non-governmental organizations setthe priorities, strindent problems of associations and the actions designed tosynchronize efforts of all three sectors of society.Co-finance: World Bank - $12,600.00, Eurasia Foundation - $2,998.00, USIS -$2,500.00, The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport - $1,535.00.

Prut 97 Ecological expedition, $1,000.00TERRA NOSTRA Association, project director Gheorghe DUCAThe expedition represents the third phase of the research of ecological situation of theriver Prut; the first two expeditions took place in 1995 and 1996 (with the financialsupport from ISAR). This expedition seeks to bring the ecological problems of the


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river and of the region to the attention of the public and state services, andfurthermore, to promote ecological knowledge and distribute the results of theexpedition through mass-media.

“Political Arena”, $7,000.00The Foundation for Political Culture, project director Gheorghe COJOCARUThe “Political Arena” publication for civic culture and political science intends tocontribute to democratic changes in Moldovan societal behavior and mentality byinforming the indigenous public about the essential values of democracy and Westernculture, including the traditions behind contemporary arts and social sciences. Theimplementation team includes researchers and local political commentators andanalysts, especially young people with specialized studies, an open mind, andanalytical skills. Their goal is to establish a new, independent, impartial and profoundreflection and analysis of the socio-economic, cultural, and political changes inMoldova and neighboring regions. The publication involves the readers (students,political elite and Moldovan intellectuals) through accurate information aboutproblems with public impact in order to enlighten public opinion. The publicationbenefited in 1996 from a grant of $20,000.00. The project recently obtained a grantof $7,500.00 from USIS.

Sholarships in Human Rights


These scholarships are offered within the Human Rights Advocacy Program of the Utica College,Syracuse University, USA.It offers consulting and training for NGOs and lawyers specializing in Human Rightsfrom societies in transition. Scholarships for a semester at Utica College are createdfor young lawyers from Eastern and Central Europe, who have working experiencewith NGOs. The registration fee ($7,103.00) is paid by the University.The scholarship for the spring 1998 in Moldova was awarded to RodicaIORDANOV, member of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights from Moldova.

NGOs Moldova/Romania Exchange Experience

expenses: $3,387.00

project director Oleg BRAGAThe goal of the project was to facilitate the experience exchange between non-governmental organizations from Moldova and Rumania in different fields. The firstevent of the program was the visit of 10 representatives from different youthorganizations from Moldova to the Suceava district at the invitation of the“BUCOVINA” student association. During the visit activities like the mini-parliamentand “The youth and human rights” conference, a course for leaders took place.During the visit of 10 Romanian representatives (members of NGOs for youth fromUniversity Center of Suceava) joint plans were developed between the groups.


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Internet Access for NGOs

expenses: $2,092.00

This program aims to facilitate the electronic communication of NGOs and theirInternet use. Grants for access were given for one year on a competitive basis to NGOsfrom the following areas: Civic, Culture, Economic Development, Human Rights,Mass-media, Environmental Protection, Social, Youth.

The selected NGOs receive e-mail and part of them benefit from larger Internetservices. The Soros Foundation covers all costs, except phone bills. The beneficiariesreceived software and training. The connection is made for a single PC.

Grants for Internet access have been given to the following organizations:Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in MoldovaThe ”For a World Without Guns” Pacifist MovementThe “Inqua-Moldova” Scientific Association“Gutta-club” Center for Children and Youth“TABIECOM” AssociationCounterpart Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Investments“SIEDO”The Acupuncture AssociationThe Foundation for Political CultureThe “Perspectiva” Center for National and International ResearchesThe “XXI Century” Youth FoundationThe Society of NeurologistsThe Ecological MovementThe ”Mold-Eco” Ecological FoundationThe “Management and Insurance in Medicine” SocietyThe Accountants and Professional Auditors Association

Public Opinion Barometer


In order to promote proper and transparent means of reflecting the social - politicaland economic life in the Republic of Moldova and, equally, mecanisms of access toinformation for the civil society, the Soros Foundation Moldova, at the initiative of itsNational Board, has launched the Public Opinion Barometer - a program of publicopinion research. The Public Opinion Barometer will apply surveys on a regular basisthrough the same questionnaire using a national representative scale. The first twosurveys were completed by the Center for Urban and Rural Sociology (CURS),Bucharest and the Institute for Marketing and Polls (IMAS), Bucharest.Investigation topics included:- political options, popularity and knowledge of parties and political personalities in theRepublic of Moldova- living standards and quality of life- economic and social policy of the Government- other major interest issues


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The research results (in form of written reports) were publicly announced duringpress conferences, held at the end of surveys. Mass-media, the public and allinterested persons had free access to the results. The program was supervised by ajury which evaluated the survey application and results. The jury included:Iurie LEANCA, Ambassador with special missions, Ministry of External Affairs ofthe Republic of Moldova, member of the Soros Foundation National BoardLudmila MALCOCI, PhD in sociology, Microproject specialist, The SocialInvestment FundIgor BOTAN, program coordonator, IFESVictor MOCANU, PhD in sociology, scientific secretary of the Institute of Philosophy,Sociology and Law, ASMValentin TURCANU, director of “Political Sociology” laboratory, MSUThe program will continue in 1998.

“Information and Ecologist Education in the Republic of Moldova” Micro-

grant Competition for Ecologist NGO in Moldova


The aim of this competition is to provide NGOs, local authorities, officials, counselors,and citizens of the Republic of Moldova with free access of to up-to-dateinformation concerning ecological problems in Moldova and thereby to increasepublic awareness of the impact of human activities.The Program offered financing for:- local information activities- selection of rules, education programs, instructions for students, population andpublic administrationLocal, regional and national NGOs were encouraged to participate.Selection criteria included:- grants (up to $2,000.00) for concrete projects and not for general support of theNGO- cofinancing was encouraged- collaboration with governmental structures (central and local)- priority to projects for rural regions of MoldovaThe Program will be carried out during 1998.

CONTACT

National Training and Information Center for NGOs



The “CONTACT” National Training and Information Center for NGOs is a non-governmental institution which continued its activity in 4 major fields.Information

The collection of information about national and local based NGOs led to publicationof the first edition of the NGOs from Moldova Catalogue. To the center’s library newmaterials were added, including books, newspapers, catalogues of NGOs fromRumania and Bulgaria, and of donor organizations. The entire activity of the center in


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1997 was represented in the “CONTACT” informational newsletter (seminars andtraining, new projects in the field, information about NGOs from Eastern andCentral Europe and NIS). The increasing number of national and local NGOs andtheir interest for the information confirms the necessity of maintaining andamplifying this aspect of the center.Training

The team of the Center organized seminars and training for national and localNGOs. Topics included: “The legal framework of NGOs from Moldova”, “Theevolution and perspectives of association development in Moldova”, ”Working withvolunteers”.Technical assistance

The center offers temporary equipment use to NGOs for the completion of projects.Between July 1, 1997 - January 1, 1998, about 110 non-governmental organizationsbenefited from technical assistance. 129,144 copies were made. Another servicesolicited was the use of the computer (more than 336 hours) and the services of thesimultaneous translation during seminars organized by NGOs.Consulting

The Center provides consulting services to local NGOs regarding theirestablishment, registration, administration, financial management and fund-raising.Special interest arose regarding NGOs legal framework and the process of a NGOre-registration. Aspects still to be explored include proposal writing and itssubmission to donors organizations.

Assistance and Information Center for NGOs in Northern and Southern

regions of the Republic of Moldova (Balti, Cahul)

Soros Foundation Moldova’s expenses: $25,000.00

Eurasia Foundation’s expenses: $25,000.00

The resource centers from northern and southern regions were created and serve tooffer to local organizations information, consulting and training. Mass informationabout the development of the associative sector started by advertising the centers,collecting information about local NGOs and donor organizations, and publishingthis information in the “CONTACT” newsletter.Seminars were organized for representatives of local NGOs and initiative groupsfrom the regions:“Team building and work within a NGO” seminar, (Balti, April 20-25, Cahul, July 8-11, 1997)Topics included principles and methods of teamwork, intercultural relations, anddaily functions of a NGO.The “Proposal writing” seminar (Balti October 24-25, Cahul, October 25-26, 1997)To further strengthen local NGOs abilities, the seminar discussed aspects of theassociative activity like fund-raising, democracy and civil society, the framework ofNGOs functions, communication techniques, organizing a press campaign, andNGOs and advertising.The seminar “Techniques of project writing” (Cahul, December 13-14, Balti, December 21-22,1997) offered information about the donors from Moldova, priorities and their programs.


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Open World House


alloted from the 1998 budget: $20,000.00

Established in 1994, the Open World House continues to work in fields of majorimportance for the transformation of Moldovan society. The institution workedthrough projects proven necessary for the transition to an open society: theIndependent Journalism Center, the TV Studio, the Educational Advising Center, theEnglish Language School, the Computer Class, Radio D’or. Functioning under thesame roof not only reduced the administrative expenses, but also stimulated thedepartment collaboration and joint projects. Crucial for a civil society, independentmedia (independent not only politically, but also economically) is the major focus ofthe OWH activities. Print and broadcast journalists participated in numerous projects,such as seminars, conferences of the IJC, training at the TV studio and in thecomputer class, English language scholarships, and visits and training at radio stationsin Bucharest. All these projects carried out the institution’s principles of freedom ofexpression and access to information.The Open World House, which is a non-governmental institution with plural directionsand forms of activity, has accumulated unique experience in combining economicprofitability with public interest. We would mention that besides the grant received fromthe Soros Foundation Moldova, the OWH obtained from other sources grantsamounting to $17,516.00 and has allocated from its own budget $46,299.00 for non-profit activities.

Women’s Program

expenses: $2,175.40

The goal of the program is to support valuable initiatives of non-governmental women’s organizationsand promote new ideas for changing the situation of women in the Republic of Moldova. TheProgram formally began on January 1, 1998, but even at the end of 1997 several projects in thefield were supported.

Participation to the Women’s Forum, September, 1997, Budapest, Hungary, $1,433.00Florentina BODNARISofia BOLDURATUAntonina SARBUSupport for the “Femeia Moldovei” magazine, $671.63“Project writing” seminar, $70.08

The “Big friends, little friends of Moldova” Program


The aim of this project was to create, develop, and consolidate an educational programand a national agency which would offer services for parents and children and contributeto the parent-children mutual understanding, and to maintaining whole families which arethe basis of a prosperous society. The program works on couples of big friends(volunteers, students or young people) - little friends (children with family problems).


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The Center for New Educational Strategies, created within this Program, started itswork with a community study of communicative needs of children and methods forwork with families. The needs were very high, especially for teenagers from singleparent household or new “blended families”.

1997 activities included: developing a strategy, establishing an office, methodspreparation and promoting the program, volunteer training, forming big friends- littlefriends pairs, supervising teams’ work, evaluating and consulting volunteers workingin the program and developing public awareness through mass-media.In March, 1997 a group of program participants went to the first regional Big Brothers/Big Sistersof America training in Vilnius, Lithuania.

In the preselection process 29 children were selected; from these only 3 come fromcomplete families. Volunteer were recruited through the Volunteers Club.

Participation to seminars and conferences


Congresso Nazionale Ragionieri Commercialisti, Torino, Italy, October 22-26, 1997, $525.00Steliana BURLACU, member of the Association of Professional Accounters and Audits

National Session of Scientific Reports “Science, culture, civilization”, Oradea, March 7-9, 1997,$160.00five members of the Students’ League of SPU, students at the History Department

“Election Administration and Monitoring” Seminar, Warsaw, Poland, April 8-11, 1997,$1,518.00Stela MOCANU, “Pro Democratia” AssociationSilvia CARP, Helsinki Committee for Human RightsIgor BOTAN, IFES, program coordonator

Grants Administration Seminar, Kiev, April 14-15, 1997, $90.00Aliona NICULITA, director, CONTACT Center

European Networks Congress, Berlin, May 5-16, 1997, $1455.00Igor MUNTEANU, Viitorul Foundation

Visit to the Ministry of Culture in the Ciuvash Republic, April 11-21, 1997, Ceboksari,Ciuvashia, $134.00Iurii SOLOVIOV, Ciuvash community in Republic of Moldova

Second International Conference on Future Planning of European Jewry, Strasbourg, June 29-July 1,1997, $466.00Efim CIORNII, member of Jewish Cultural Society

Human Dimension in Promoting Women’s Participation in Society Seminar, October 14-17, 1997,Warsaw, $1,308.00


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Liuba URITU. “Femeia Azi” NGOAntonina SIRBU, Soros Foundation Moldova

Pro Silva Europa Congress, Apeldoorn, Holand, May 29-31, 1997, $410.00Vitalie GULCA, Ecologist Movement of Moldova

Study Visit to Romania of a group of children from the Tighina orphanage, $264,00group of 36 children

IV International Conference of the Social Ecologist Union, Karaganda, Kazakhstan, September 26-28, 1997, $480.00Larisa MILOVANOVA, member of the “ALTAIR” International Ecologist Agency

Migration, interaction and conflicts in an European democracy constituency, Bologna, Italy, December16 -19, 1997, $530.00Sergiu RAILENANU, Moldova open to the World

Creation of An Efficient Medium Education Workshop, Flatford Mill, UK, September 5-12, 1997,$527.00Mircea COJUHARI, “Cimpul Ecologic”

Summer holidays of children from boarding schools in Moldova, $1,277.00in collaboration with “Clipa Siderala” NGOgroup of 60 students from different schools

Improving Agricultural Products Marketing, Verona, Italy, October 20-26, 1997, $481.00Gheorghe BARBAROSIE, National Federation of Farmers

Pure Processes Implementation, Oslo, Norway, November 1-3, 1997, $1075.00Sergiu GALITCHII, Agroeco

Bulgarian Language and Culture Seminar, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-24, 1997, $280.00Ana PAGUR, Lidia DIMOVICI, Ludmila GERMANOV, Galina BALTAGI

Journalism Internship, Piatra Neamt, Romania, July 2-10, 1997, $443.00group of 36 children, members of “Mostenitorii” NGO

Inauguration Concert of the “Frederic Chopin” Cultural Society, $636,00Liuba BURAVTEVA, “Frederic Chopin” Cultural Society

Meeting of the Committee for European Affairs of the International League for people withMental Disabilities, November 12-20, 1997, Fornaz -Voltaire, France, $520.00Vera CEPOI, “Humanitas” Charity Association for children with disabilities

Multilateral Seminar for Youth Leaders, August 1-12, 1997, Gating, Germany, $1,113.00Diana PASCARU, Iosif MOLDOVANU, Scout National Organization of Moldova


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Public Administrationexpenditures: $90,987.00


The main goal of the program was to enhance the process of local governments’development and transformation with a specific focus on the following five directions:- promoting the development of a modern system in local public administration inMoldova- enhancing the capacity of local governments to develop the local social and economicpotential- promoting popular understanding of the empowerment and responsibilities of localgovernment in a democratic society- fostering the involvement of civil society and NGOs in the processes of local servicesadministration- improving the knowledge and skills of local elected and appointed governmentofficials

Participation in Seminars and Conferences

Modernization of Public Administration on the Threshold of the 21-st Century: WorldwideExperience and the Central Asia, April 24-26, 1997, Almati, Kazahstan, $1,961.37Victoria DERGACIOV

General Assembly of OSI, July 23 - 29, 1997, Budapest, Hungary, $573.23Victoria DERGACIOV

Looking for alternative sources of financing, July 22-25, 1997, Chisinau, Falesti, Calarasi, $83.01Victoria DERGACIOV

Flagship Projects: Their Place in Urban Development and Regeneration, September 21-25, 1997,Lisbon, Portugal, $1,937.66Alexandru TARANU

Wirtschafsforum der Regionen Europas, September 8-11, 1997, Vein, Austria, $784.10Petru MALIC

The Role and Structure of National Local Authorities Associations, November 5-9, 1997, Seville,Spain, $1,426.88Mihai PEREBINOS

The engineering of formation in public administration, January 7-9, 1998, Paris, Montpellier,Marselle - France, $380.00Nadejda DEMIAN

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Seminars, Workshops, Courses



“Fundraising: how to write a project proposal”, $5,018.39The Center of Social Entrepreneurships and Investigations “Counterpart”, DirectorSvetlana ARIONESCUThe purpose of the project was to organize a set of workshops for developing socialprojects, preparing applications for funding and training representatives of the LocalPublic Administration in their search for financial sources.

“The art and science of local administration and management” training for trainers workshop, May21 - June 3, 1997, $16,033.13The workshop was organized for elected officials, public officers and counselorsaccording to the program and manuals developed by the United Nations Center forHuman Settlements (UNCHS). The manuals aim to support local authorities inadministrating local public interests, promoting civic management and the establishmentof effective relations both with the central government and other local institutions. (Themanuals discuss the roles of a counselor: policy maker, decision factor, communicator,mediator, mobilizer, negotiator, financier, supervisor, factor of power, organizer of theadministration institution and manager.)The workshop consisted of three parts. During the first week three experts fromRomania (the Foundation for Local Development and Public Services) trained 12trainers from Moldova according to the program and manuals of UNCHS. During thesecond week the Moldovan trainers under the supervision of the Romanian expertstrained 20 counselors, elected officials and public officers. During the third week, theexperts evaluated the training and helped to develop an activity plan.

Workshop “Performing management in local public administration”, $8,827.05Center of Social Innovations, Executive Director - Elina PETROVICIThe purpose of the workshop was to improve the managerial capacities of local publicadministration when operating and maintaining some qualitative public services. Thetopic focused on the problems of the public sanitation service and administration ofrefuse. The workshop was moderated by the experts Ana VASILACHE and DoruBULARDA, the Foundation for Local Development and Public Services, Romania,based on the manuals and program developed by the UNCHS.

Workshop “Art and science of local management and administration”, $5,856,71Association of administrative assistance and counselors, Drochia districtProfessional training for a group of 20 public counselors and servants of the LocalCouncil, Drochia district. The training was based on the manuals and program of theUNCHS.

Series of workshops “The art and science of local administration and management”, $6,260.00Association of MayorsThe workshops were based on the manuals and program of the UNCHS and wereorganized in 6 district centers: Ungheni, Cantemir, Leova, Stefan Voda, Anenii Noi,


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Telenesti.

Seminar “Lodgers’ Associations: international experience and the Republic of Moldova”, August28-30, 1997, $10,645.86The purpose of this seminar was to exchange experience regarding the activity of theLodgers’ Associations from the CIS countries, Central Europe, and Eastern Europewith the participation of the representatives of International Associations ofManagement of communities (ICMA/USAID).

Grants for the House Reform


As a result of the seminars an open contest of grants was announced for the supportof dwelling reforms in Moldova, to be continued in 1998. The purpose of thiscontest is to provide updated information on dwelling reforms and, especially, tosupport creation and operation of the Associations of Owners of Privatized Housing.The grants were given for:- performing studies that would cover the analysis of the current situation, prognosisand recommended strategy on the housing reforms, owners’ associations- developing and publishing sets of regulations and guidelines for the establishment andfurther activities of the Lodgers’ Associations- publishing of informational periodicals in order to support the effective functioningand the creation of a new Lodgers association; participation in seminars andconferences on this issue

Grant Competition

“The arrangement plans of the territory and their impact on the local public administration activity.General town planning of Orhei”, $17,764.16Production and projects office of the Chief architect of OrheiThe aim of the project is to develop a general urban plan of Orhei by a synthesis of theWest-European methods and the local legislative base.

“Information center of the Mayors’ Association of the Republic of Moldova”, $4,994.37Mayors’ Association, Chairman Mihai PEREBINOSThe purpose of this project is to provide information and consulting in thelegislative, economic, and financial sector for the Mayors’ Association members andfor the public officers.

“Sustaining local development through innovative villages”, $7,222.14The “Viitorul” FoundationThe project launches a pilot development program for three villages of Moldova:Circaiesti (Causeni district), Dominteni (Drochia district), Costesti (Ialoveni district).The aims of the project are:- to establish a model of market development in the countryside through the activesupport of the local public authorities by preparing a feasibility study of pilot villages’potential and priority directions for development


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Support of Economic Reformsexpenses: $200,753.00


Analysis of the achievements and difficulties of the restructuring process reveals thequality and experience of management as the major factor of successful restructuringprograms. Therefore, in the course of restructuring programs an increase share ofresources has been devoted to management training and human resourcedevelopment. In collaboration with other institutions training activities, seminars,workshops and conferences, visits and training abroad were organized.

In 1997 the Economic Reform Programs were oriented to the following key areas:- Microcredit program for farmers and rural entrepreneurs- Training programs related to agrarian reform- Economic education through the organization of seminars and workshops forstudents, faculty, bank and department representatives

- to prompt such villages to write and implement their own development strategy- to stimulate private initiative in villages- to diversify local services and increase the role of local self-administration in thetransition to a market economy- to create offices for economic and trade consulting under the local councils of pilotlocalities- to connect the communities through e-mail and Internet to institutions andmechanisms of the market economy- to establish a model of economic emancipation from the state and new forms ofproduction that differ from the collective ones- to establish a Clearing House on a national level

“The school of democracy for youth”, $3,166.84DVA Center “Alternativa”Its aim is to assist the local government of Falesti in improving youth services and toestablish a new type of public officer - a specialist in the problems of the youth. Thisproject stipulates the creation of an informational data base about youth, organizing aseminar for youth, performing a public opinion survey, and preparing a round tableof youth leaders and NGO with the district administration.

In 1997 a Board in Public Administration was created, which had regular monthlymeetings to examine and evaluate projects applying to the Soros Foundation Moldovafor financial support, decide and monitor project implementation. The boarddeveloped the strategy and activities in the Public Administration program for 1998.

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- The implementation of an Applied Economics course in secondary schools in Moldova

Microcredits through Savings and Credit Associations

expenses: $112,876.00

Primary objectives of the project are to improve private farmers and ruralentrepreneurs access to financial markets and to stabilize the new private farm sectorthrough the promotion of income-creating activities. These objectives were achievedthrough the creation of village-based savings and credit institutions which providesustainable financial services to their members.

Land privatization in Moldova has created a large number of private farms during thelast two years and the ongoing reform process will increase this number. Most of thesenew farms and enterprises are excluded from formal lending through commercialbanks. The amounts needed and interests earned are too small to cover the costs of aclassic bank lending approach. In a lot of countries farmers have access to creditsthrough Savings and Credit Associations (SCA). Eleven SCAs were created in 1997 inthe framework of the Rural Finance Project. Eight SCAs received loans with thesupport of the Soros Foundation Moldova.The credits were requested for seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, fuel, tractor parts, and alsofor a large number of income-creating diversification activities, such as livestock,handicraft, processing and rural trade. 95% of the loans did not exceed $2000, whilemost of loans were around $500.

Summer School of Management


The Summer School of Management program was launched in 1995 and is oriented toundergraduate students and young professionals. This year the Summer School offeredtwo-week training in International Management and Capital Market. The lectures weregiven by Professor William CORNEY and Professor Jagdish MEHTA, of Universityof Nevada Las Vegas. 26 students from eight institutions attended this program.

Internships for Farmers in Switzerland


This program is being implemented in collaboration with a branch of PROFORDARFoundation of Switzerland. The Moldovan Fellows worked on farms, shared theirexperience and ideas, and attended courses of professional education at the AgriculturalInstitute of Jura. Visits to different farms helped them to understand the structure andfunctioning of Swiss agriculture. 3 farmers from Moldova participated in a three-monthinternship and 11 in a two-week one.

Training and Education programs

Accounting Training Program, $13,282.00The Soros Foundation and the Association of Professional Accountants and


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Auditors of the Republic of Moldova organised two training seminars with thefollowing title “Management and Financial Accounting” . The seminars wereorganised for lecturers from universities and colleges with economic profile, andprofessionals from enterprises and factories who showed interest and managerialskills in organising similar trainings at their work places.

Junior Achievement Moldova, $21,326.00 (commitments: $17,000.00)Junior Achievement Moldova (JAM) supplied textbooks and trained teachers to teachApplied Economics (AE) to the 10th,11th and 12th grade students. In January, 1996,JAM purchased Romanian language textbooks (2500 sets of textbooks and guides)with funds received from the Eurasia Foundation. These books enabled 57 classes in28 schools to offer the AE course sponsored by Junior Achievement. In the pastyears, JAM trained 91 secondary education teachers and was able to send fivestudents from Moldova to international competitions in Israel and Denmark.

“Post-privatization Period in Eastern Europe: a Chance for Enterprises and Shareholders”International Conference, Chisinau, October 15-17, 1997, $1,200.00The conference was organized by the Ministry of Economy and Reforms, InternationalManagement Institute of Moldova, Pierre Mendes – France University, MSU, AESMand the Agency for Enterprise Restructuring and Assistance.The conference was funded by TACIS ACE program and the Soros FoundationMoldova.

Summer School in Economics, University of Economy, Budapest, Hungary, $2,020.00Nicoleta HANGANU, student, AESMMarian TURCANU, student, IIUMoldova

Summer school in Applied Economics, Kirghistan, $4,500.00A team of high school students from Singerei participated at this program.Viorica BIRSANUVeronica BOLOCANNatalia CONDORACHINatalia TIMOTICAZinaida ORFIN

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Law programexpenses: $50,920.00

The Law Program of the Soros Foundation Moldova was initiated in 1994 with thegoal to support reforms of the legislative system of the Republic of Moldova. Fromthe beginning, the Law Program carefully staged its contribution to reforms andstarted with the adoption of the Decision of the Parliament of the Republic ofMoldova # 152 – XIII from 21.06.1994, “Regarding the creation of the CoordinationCouncil for developing of the legal reform” and # 219 – XIII from 22.09.1994,“Regarding activity program of the Parliament for implementation of provisions ofthe Constitution and Concept for Judicial and Law Reform in the Republic ofMoldova”.

Because Judicial Reform is considered an area that needs to be implemented under thedirection of state institutions, collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and otherappropriate institutions has resulted in a clear and open understanding of the Lawprogram’s priorities, which work to facilitate and support judicial reform. Beginning in1997, the strategy of the program has concentrated on educational law programs, basedon the idea that judicial reform begins with restructuring legal education. Programswere oriented towards popularization of law, development of relations among lawyersin the Republic of Moldova and their colleagues abroad, augmenting university libraryfunds with law books, and financing the participation of practicing lawyers and lawstudents in different forums and international conferences, (for example, internshipsfor the teaching staff of law schools from Moldova at the Institute for Legislative andConstitutional Politics (COLPI), Budapest, Hungary).

Participation in International Moot Court competitions

expenses: $7,214.00

International Moot Court competitions offer law students excellent possibilities fordeveloping practical professional skills. In 1997 Law Program of the SorosFoundation Moldova supported financially participation of Moldovan teams in thefollowing competitions:

Telders International Law Moot Court Competition, Hague, Netherlands, March 23-30, 1997.Central and East European Moot Court Competition, Gdansk, Poland, April 16-19, 1997.Rene Cassin, Human Rights Moot Court Competition, Strasbourg, France, April 16-19, 1997.

Telders and CEP teams were composed of students from both Law Schools – StateUniversity and IIUM. The team from the MSU placed 26th out of 52 possible, whilethe IIUM team placed 39th in general classification.Participants:Natalia CATRINESCUVeaceslav BALANOtilia BOLOGANMarina FOLTEA


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Diana SIRCUOxana AGACHINatalia SUCEVEANUIurii LUNGUAlexandru ZARAAlina BRASOVEANUDragos CUCEREANUEcaterina RADVANConstantin SMOCHINAAlexandru SAMOILATeam coaches were Mihai BURUIANA – lecturer, International Law School, MSU, NeilBRENNAN – CEP Lecturer for Moldova and Ukraine; Igor CIOBANU, Lecturer,International School, IIUM.

Summer Law Schools


Summer Law School, Chisinau, July 14-25, 1997, Open World House.The summer program offered two courses: International protection of Human Rights(Prof. Theodore S. ORLIN, Utica College, Syracuse University, USA) and EconomicInternational Law (Prof. David BUSBY, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Washington, USA).Courses were attended by 16 students of the Law Schools from Moldova, including theLaw School of the TSU.

Summer Institute in Transnational Law, Geneva, Switzerland, July 6-August 5, 1997In accordance with the project co-funding strategy, presented to the Foundation by theorganizing committee of the Summer Institute “Duke – Geneva summer Institute inTransnational Law” (Law Faculties of Universities in Duke, USA and Geneva,Switzerland), the Soros Foundation Moldova funded two people to participate in thesessions of this prestigious institute. As a result of the selection process, financialsupport was given to Iurie LUNGU, graduate of the Law Faculty of the MSU andElena MOCANU, lecturer, “Civil Law and Procedure” Department, MSU.The Summer school offered the following courses:Protection of Intellectual Property: Comparative LawAdministration of Funds in the World EconomyInternational Criminal LawSolutions in International LitigationInternational OrganizationsIntroduction to Legal System of the United States.

Summer Law School, Almaty, Kazahstan, August 4 – 23, 1997Marina USTUROI, Catalina SCORTESCU, lecturers, Civil Law and Procedure Chair,IIUM.


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Law Book Donation


In 1997, the national program for donations of law books to university librariescontinued (beneficiaries: MSU, IIUM, HUM, PAM). Law books were purchased fromRomania (2283 USD), the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris (36465 FFr),and also from Russia.At the same time, the following books written by Moldovan authors were purchased:Gh. AVORNIC, Gh. LUPUL, “General Theory of Law”Gh. AVORNIC, S. BAIES, T. NEGRU, I. GUCEAC, “Basis for State and Law”Nicolae ROMINDAS, “Labor Law”

In 1997 the regional programs for donations of law books continued, funded byConstitutional and Legislative Policy Institute. The first group of law books ($10,000.00)was distributed in March, 1997 to law faculty libraries of MSU, IIUM and HUM.

English Language Sholarships

Within this program, 16 students from Law departments from the republic benefitedfrom scholarships. The program was launched to facilitate the access of the studentsfrom law departments to law books and to establish relationships with students andteachers at law departments from other countries.

Other activities

- Organization of the first Republican Olympiad for law students in Moldova, $1,244.00- Financial support for publication of conference materials “Strategies for fighting organized crime inMoldova”, $2,942.00organized by the Independent Association of Criminology and the PAM “Stefan celMare”- Financial support for the activity of the Judicial Training Center of Moldova, $5,007.00- General meeting of the ILSA (International Law Student Association, Porto, Portugal, October18 - 25, 1997, $720.00Marina FOLTEA, president of the Law Student Association

operational expenses: $558.00

Conference and Travel

expenses: $1,724.36

“Draft for the new Civil Procedure Code” international conference, Moscow, April 24 - 25, 1997,$289,05.00Alexandru COJUHARI

Summer session of the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems, Prague, CzechRepublic, July 12 – August 3, 1997, $748Alina BRASOVEANU


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Medical Programsexpenses: $262,508.00


Information and Education

Virtual Medical Information Center



(in collaboration with the Open Society Institute of New York)

The following goals were achieved during stage I of the project:- Completion of the technical decision of the project- Establishment of Medical Information Center- Purchase and installation of equipment for Medical Information Center- Purchase of medical databases from OVID Technologies- Upgrade of bandwidth of Internet connection of the Soros Foundation Moldovaup to 256 kbps

Professional Training Grants


The following grants were awarded for training of medical professionals:

Scientific research project “Immune and GeneticPatterns of Tardive Gestoses Associated withCirculation of Antiphospholipidic Antibodies”at CHU Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France, March1 - April 19, 1997V. BALTAG, MD

Training in ultrasonographic doppler imaging atInstitute of Neurology of Academy of MedicalSciences, Moscow, Russia, March 31 – April30, 1997S. BILAN, MD

Training “Morphological Diagnosis of RenalDiseases” at Academy of Medical Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia, March 24 - April 19,1997V. RUBAN, MD

Practical course in “Echocardiography for theClinician. A Case Study Oriented Approach”,European Society of Cardiology, Sophia

Antipolis, France, May 2-3, 1997A. CRACAN, MD, N. CIOBANU, MD

Training in Ear Microsurgery at theDepartment of ENT, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,Minnesota, USA, April 11– May 23, 1997S DIACOVA, MD

Support of scientific and practical collaborationbetween Chair of Neurosurgery and Neurology,SMU and Clinic of Neurosurgery ofUniversity of Bundeswehr of Ulm, Germany,March 17-23, 1997D. GHERMAN, MD

International course “L’Evaluation Economiquedes Programmes de Sante de la Mere et del’Enfant”, International Center for Childhoodand Family, Paris, France, June 3-27, 1997V. BERDAGA, MD


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Training at Schutz-Dental GmbH onequipment operating for production of dentalprostheses and implants, Rosbach, Germany,April 14-17, 1997S. RUSACOV, Medical Engineer

Course “Current Problems of Rheumatology”,Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies,Moscow, Russia, May 20– June 30, 1997I. SIRBU, MD

Course “Intervention Echography”, CentreHospitalier Regional et Universitaire deMarseiile, Marseiile, France, June 1 – August15, 1997T. SECANIA, MD

Organization of lectures and seminars inneurology with participation of internationalexperts for students of SMUD. GHERMAN, MD

Course “Iron in Biology and Medicine”, SaintMalo, France, June 16 -20, 1997V. BUSUIOC, MD

“Classical Homeopathic Course”, InternationalAcademy of Classical Homeopathy, Alonissos,Greece, October 13-24, 1997T. BOLBOCEAN, MD

Training and scientific research at the Clinic ofNeurology and Neurosurgery of University ofULM, Germany, July 12-27, 1997M. GAVRILIUC, MD, V. PEREV, MD

Training and scientific research at the Clinic ofUniversity of Notre Dame de la Misericorde,Libramont, Belgium, June 19 – July 17, 1997A. GHEREG, MD

Course “Molecular and Genetic Aspects ofEndocrine and Metabolic Diseases”, AmsterdamInternational Medical Summer School,Amsterdam, Holland, July 20 – August 9,1997N. BOTAN, MD

Postgraduate training in acupuncture at theUniversity of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, September1, 1997 – January 31, 1998V. LACUSTA, MD

International training in neurosciences forstudents and residents of SMU, September 24 -25, 1997N. ESANU, MD

Training in Anesthesiology and Intensive Careat Soroka Medical Centre, Beer-Sheva, Israel,November 1-30, 1997T. ANDRIUTA, MD, T. COTRUTA,MD, V. GULCA, MD, A. PERCIUN,MD

Salzburg Seminars for Physicians


(in collaboration with the AmericanAustrian Foundation and the OpenSociety Institute of New York)

E. IAVORSCHI, MD“Neonatology”, February 7-15, 1997D. LUPASCU, MD“Obstetrics and Gynecology”, February 14-27,1997Z. CARAGAT, MD“Surgical Oncology”, March 7-15, 1997I. CIOBANU, MD“Emergency Care in Pediatrics”, April 25 -May 1, 1997R. STRATU, MD“Internal Medicine and Cardiology”, May 3-10,1997M. GAVRILIUC, MD, V. LISNIC, MD“Neurology”, July 18-26, 1997L. ROMANCIUC“Advances in Pediatrics”, July 25– August 2,1997T. STEPANOVA, MD“Psychiatry”, October 25 – November 1, 1997V. TULGARA, MD“Otorhinolaringology”, October 17-25, 1997A. OPREA, MD


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“Urology”, October 17-25, 1997L. REZNIAC, MD“Anesthesiology”, November 2-8, 1997F. RUSNAC, MD, O. BERBECA, MD, A.GURAGATA, MD, V. ROTARI, MD“Infant Mortality”, November 5-8, 1997A. VITIUC, MD“Medical Imaging”, November 9-15, 1997

Training Program for Physicians

expenses: $1,166.00

(in collaboration with the Open SocietyInstitute of New York, Albany MedicalCentre, and Allegheny General Hospital)

A three month merit based fellowship inPediatrics at US clinics was awarded to L.DANILOV, MD (April 15 – July 15,1997).

Medical Textbook Purchase

expenses: $9,106.00

More than 60 titles (1,500 textbooks) werepurchased and donated to SMU.

Curriculum Reform of studies at

SMU, Support of Scientific Research

Primary Health Care Curriculum

Reform

budget 1997 – 2000: $115,000.00

(in collaboration with the Open SocietyInstitute of New York, CareliftInternational, and Allegheny UniversityMedical School)

In 1997 a program for theimplementation of a specialization inFamily Medicine at SMU, training offaculty members, and establishment ofFamily Medicine Centers was started.

Schweitzer Seminar

expenses: $6,154.00

(in collaboration with the Open SocietyInstitute of New York and AlbertSchweitzer Institute for the Humanities)

The Albert Schweitzer Institute for theHumanities organized an internationaltraining seminar called “Health Promotionand Disease Prevention: Community BasedPrograms that Work”, Budapest, Hungary, June9-15, 1997.Participants: N. OPOPOLI, MD, U.STURZA, MD, E. URSU, MD, L.VLASOV, MD, V. COJOCARU, MD.

Two additional events were organizedunder the Schweitzer Seminars program:Oral Health Seminar, October 31 – November2, 1997, and HIV/AIDS Seminar, December15-17, 1997. The seminars were attendedby faculty members, residents, students ofSMU and members of governmental andnon governmental organizations.

Support of Young Scientists


The following grants for scientificresearch work were awarded on a meritbasis in 1997:G. ANDRUSCIAC, MD“Immune and Genetic Analysis and ClinicalPolymorphism of Reactive Arthritis”A. BOTNARI, MD“Cariostatic Effect of Bioadhezive PreventiveRemedies”S. CAPCELEA, MD“Clinic and Genetic Study of Renal PolychisticAutosomal Dominant Disease”T. CEAICOVSCHII, MD“Immunologic Characteristic of AllergienicDrugs of Regional Origin and their DiagnosticEfficiency”I. CEMORTAN, MD“Molecular Diagnostic of Renal PolychisticAutosomal Dominant Disease”


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I. CODREANU, MD“Certain Aspects of Immunologic Profile andAdministration of Immune Modulators inPatients with Subacute and Chronic InfectiousEndocarditis”A. CORDUNEANU, MD“Clinical and Immunologic Particularities ofTreatment of Uveitis and Cheratouveitis inPatients with Hepatitis B Infection”N. DAMASCHIN, MD“Analysis and Standardization of HomeopathicPharmacological Forms”C. DASANU, MD“Certain Immunologic and Phenotypic Aspectsof Acute Myeloid Leukaemia in Correlationwith Administration of Retinoic Acid andChemotherapy”D. DMITIEV, MD“Pregnancy and Delivery in Teenagers”G. GOREA, MD“Antiphospholipidic Syndrome in ChronicHepatitis in Women of Fertile Age”E. MAXIMENCO, MD“Chronic Viral Hepatitis C in Children:Clinical Particularities, Diagnosis, andConsequences”V. NACU, MD“Plastic Biomaterials in Treatment of NonConsolidated Fractures and Pseudoarthrosis ofScaphoid Bone”A. NOGAI, MD“Role of Hyperlipidemia in Cerebral VascularAccidents. Antilipidic Treatment andApplication of Plasmapheresis”I. OUS, MD“Antiphospholipidic Syndrome in SystemicLupus Erythematosis”A. POPA, MD“Elaboration, Analysis, and Standardization ofNew Antimycotic Azolic Derived Drugs”V. RUDI, MD“Tendencies in Risk Factors of IschemicCardiopathy in Rural Population”L. RUSNAC, MD“Role of Viral Infections in Septic PostsurgicalComplications”I. STANCIU, MD

“Efficiency of Extracorporal Methods ofActive Detoxification in Complex IntensiveTherapy in Acute Drug Intoxication inChildren”

Hospital Development Program

expenses: $6,934.00

(in collaboration with the Open SocietyInstitute of New York and CareliftInternational)

During 1997 10 containers of medicalequipment, supplies, and drugs werebrought into the Republic of Moldova.The supplied goods were donated tohealth care institutions.

Health Care Initiatives



(in collaboration with the Open SocietyInstitute of New York)

The following projects were selected forfunding on a merit basis for 1997-1998:

“Improvement of Neonatal Health Care in theRepublic of Moldova”, $22,000.00presented by the Institute of Pediatrics

“Development of Mechanism for Patients(Clients) Participation in the Decision Processwith Respect to their Health”, $29,815.00presented by Management and MedicalInsurance Organization

“Medical Instructional Center”, $10,830.00presented by Service of EmergencyMedical Care of Municipality of Balti

“National Electronic System for Surveillance ofthe Infectious Diseases and Immunization”,$83,250.00presented by National Center of Hygieneand Epidemiology


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Child Abuse Prevention




Three practical seminars (April 6-11, July 27 –August 8, November 9-15, 1997) and a teambuilding conference (November 30 – December6, 1997) were organized for specialists in childabuse prevention during 1997.

A grant of $20,000.00 was allocated foractivities of “Training and Intervention in thePrevention of Child Violence and Neglect”project presented by Center “Adolescentul” ofOrhei.

Geriatrics and Gerontology



One practical seminar (May 5-16, 1997) wasorganized for specialists in geriatrics andgerontology during 1997.I. BAICALOVA, MD was selected on amerit basis for a fellowship program atthe clinics of geriatrics and gerontologyof Cleveland, Ohio, USA, August 14 –October 30, 1997.

A grant of $47,060.00 was allocated foractivities of “Second Breath for the Elderly ofNorth Moldova” projectpresented by I. BAICALOVA, MD, Balti.

Harm Reduction




A conference on issues of harm reduction,HIV/AIDS, and the possibilities ofimplementation of harm reduction policies inthe Republic of Moldova was organized for

representatives of Ministry of Internal Affairs,Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health,governmental and non governmentalorganizations (May 5-9, 1997)

Representatives of governmental and nongovernmental organizations participated at the“Harm Reduction Workshop”, Kiev, Ukraine,September 29 – October 3, 1997, and the“Heroine Addiction in Europe” conference,Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 17-20, 1997

Two practical seminars in “Psychological andSocial Assistance for HIV Infected People andAIDS Patients” were organized for the policeof Chisinau.

A one-month Anti AIDS campaign wasorganized in November 1997 in collaborationwith the National Center for Prevention andFight against HIV/AIDS.

A grant of $1,000.00 was allocated foractivities of “Education and Cultural Action:A Healthy Spirit in a Healthy Body” project,presented by the Youth for Reforms Foundationon the occasion of World Anti - AIDS Day.

A practical seminar on the problems ofpathological chemical addiction was organized forpsychiatrists, social workers, psychologists andother professionals in Warsaw, Poland,September 3-8, 1997Eight practical seminars on the problemsof pathological chemical addiction wereorganized in prisons of the Republic ofMoldova in collaboration with theMinistry of Justice and the Directoratefor Penitentiaries. Eight “12 Steps ofAlcoholics Anonymous” practicalseminars were organized in districts ofthe Republic of Moldova.

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Mass - Mediaexpenses: $240,616.00


Mass Media Programs have existed at the Soros Foundation Moldova since 1993; thegoal of the foundation’s activities in this field is to support the independent media, toencourage the initiative and the objectivity, facilitate the cooperation and informationexchange between journalists and media institutions and to defend freedom ofexpression.

The main principle of designing projects in mass media is collaboration with mediaorganizations in joint projects and a continuous communication with otherorganizations, which fund and implement projects in mass media.

The activity of Mass-Media Program is continuously related to the one of theIndependent Journalism Center. The Center focuses on training and resources, while theSoros Foundation Media Program focuses on technical, infrastructure assistance andgrant giving to independent media.

Local Media Support


comitments: $2,662.00

The given assistance was structured at several levels: equipment grants, newsprint,subscription to news agencies, support for mass-media initiatives. A result of thecomplex activity for a single subject - the regional press - was the “birth” and activity ofthe Association of the Independent Press, NGO for independent media in the regions;its members are publications registered in last three years: Business-info (Cimislia),Cuvantul (Rezina), Cugetul (Balti), Gazeta de Vest (Nisporeni), Aciic ghioz (Comrat), EST-curier (Criuleni), Accent Provincial (Glodeni), Cetatea (Orhei), Unghiul (Ungheni), theIndependent Journalism Center and two news agencies- DECA -press (Balti) and BASApress. The Association is operating an information exchange network and is elaboratingprojects for the benefit of its members - a project of a syndicate article, distributedthrough the Association, a joint advertisement project, a series of seminars in theregions, etc. The Association could exploit the possibilities of e-mail communicationand create a Web page.

Equipment Grants

Equipment grants were given through two competitions, anounced for March 1-May 1 and September1-October 10, 1997.Print media, radio and TV stations could participate in the competition, on condition

not to be financed by the state or political structures. Grants were received by:

“Accent Provincial” weekly, Glodeni

“EST Curier” weekly, Criuleni

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Within this program consulting, development and collaboration projects for localmedia were supported:

Consulting “Management and Development of Publications”, March 25- April 8, 1997, $1,990.00expert Judy YABLONKY

Consulting “Software and Use of Computer in Editing a Newspaper”, July 8-9, 1997, $690.00expert Dan DUMITRESCU, PDG, Gazeta de Transilvania

Grant for the news agency “DECA press”, $750.00

Project “3 Round Tables in the Regions of Moldova”, $1,472.00Association of Independent Press

Newsprint donations

Newsprint donations were given for a 6 month period to existing and appearing localnewspapers.Beneficiaries:EST curier, CriuleniBusiness-info, CimisliaCugetul, BaltiCuvintul, RezinaLimba Romana, ChisinauAccent provincial, GlodeniCetatea, OrheiUnghiul, UngheniGazeta de Vest, Nisporeni

Subscription to news agencies

Subscription to news agencies, which was offered to local press, intended to provide acontinous and diverse flow of information. Subscription was given through a contest.Beneficiaries:Gazeta de vest, Nisporeni (Flux news agency)Cuvintul, Rezina (Flux news agency)Cugetul, Balti (Infotag news agency)“TiViK ASKET”, Tiraspol (BASA press news agency)

The Independent Journalism Center (IJC)


The activities of the Independent Journalism Centre, a part of the Open World House,are based on the principles of a profitable, free and open press. Its primary intent is toprovide media instruction and resource materials for professionals, students andtrainers of journalists, thus contributing to the independence of media in Moldova.

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journalism. The topics vary from media law and basic reporting to mediamanagement and financing, advertising as a revenue source, production of local TVand radio stations.The IJC also publishes a weekly bulletin “Lumea Deschisa” which releases informationfrom mass-media abroad and an analytical magazine “Mass Media in Moldova”.Data base files are formed in response to the demand of journalists and mediaorganisations and also as a result of field studies.The Press Club from Chisinau, a project accomplished with the efforts of theCommittee for Freedom of the Press and IJC is unfolding its activity.An independent radio station Radio d’Or began to broadcast on October 10, 1996. Atelevision production studio has been already functioning for two years. Theseassociated training laboratories are very useful for journalists.

Programs run in 1997:

In 1996 the computer courses were the most demanded. Lack of knowledge regarding computerusage is still a major problem of Moldovan journalists.On this account, in 1997, the IJC organized a series of courses for journalists, the aimof which was to make them familiar with WINDOWS’ 95 and WORD 7(February 10- 21, June 30 - July 11 and November 3 - 14, 1997); Page Maker - March 18 - April 8,1997. Nowadays over 40 journalists from different publications, radio and TVstations use in practice the knowledge obtained at the courses organized by the IJC.

Advertizing for Newspapers, May 13- 19, 1997The seminar was organized for the new media structures (for both print media andradio stations) which try to become profitable businesses. Lloyd Donaldson, publisherof the English bi-weekly The St. Petersburg Times from Saint Petersburg, Russia wasinvited to hold this seminar. During the seminar and consulting sessions whichgathered directors, managers, editor-in-chiefs, sales people from 8 newspapers, 2 newsagencies and 2 radio stations, subjects were touched upon competition increase amongmass media, creation of the organization’s image, advertizing as a source of revenue,introducing new technologies, newspaper distribution.

Production and Organization of Programs on Local TV Stations and Courses for cameramen,September 15 - 21, 1997Thirty-five Moldovan television professionals, picture editors, cameramen took part inthe seminar held by Peter Zimmermann and Alexander Boneff, instructors fromGermany. The topics that were covered during the theoretical part of the course werethe following: Modern Technology Working with the Digital Equipment, AudienceResearch, Responsibility of TV in a Modern Democratic Society, Regional and LocalProgramming. Within the practical hours the trainees produced interviews, newsbulletins and documentaries.

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independent newspapers and the second week (September 22 - 26) for Russiannewspapers published in Moldova. One of the goals of this project was to developmanagers’ skills (who very often don’t have required knowledge in the field) toanalyze the advertizing market and the way the institution is managed. The lecturesand discussions were mainly focused on classified advertizing, defining a market,advertizing market strategies, advantages / disadvantages of foreign ownership,business plans, journalism ethics etc.The seminars were attended by 22 editors and managers from 13 Moldovan dailiesand weeklies. The participants of the seminar enjoyed the discussions with the USISexperts J. HERMAN and Betty Nan OBERMAYER who presented a lot ofinteresting information to them.

Seminar for Radio Reporters and News Presenters, November 17 - 20, 1997In order to improve the professionalism of radio journalists, the IJC organizedseminar for radio reporters and news presenters. The seminar was held by ChristianWEHRSCHUTZ, editor at Osterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Austria and member ofthe International Institute of Strategic Studies from London.23 journalists from Radio d’Or, Unda Libera, Radio Moldova Actualitati, RadioMoldova International, Micul Samaritean, Journalism School from Balti etc. gotacquainted with the principles of radio news writing, ways of news presenting,informational signals, types of interactive programs. The seminar offered to the traineesthe possibility to test their level of knowledge and to find out the experience of RadioORF, the most popular radio station in Austria.

Press Club (project launched in 1995)

In 1997 the guests of the Press Club from Chisinau were:January 30Ion CIUBUC, prime minister of the Republic of MoldovaFebruary 20Dumitru MOTPAN, president of the Democratic Agrarian Party of MoldovaFebruary 27Anatol TARANU, special mission presidential counsellorMarch 14His Excellency Marcel Dinu, Romanian ambassador in the Republic of MoldovaMarch 18Eurasia Foundation in Moldova, press conferenceMarch 23His Excellency Alexandr PAPKIN, Russian ambassador in MoldovaApril 14Mircea SNEGUR, president of Revival and Reconciliation PartyMay 8Soros Foundation Moldova, fifth anniversaryMay 22Vladimir ATAMANIUC, president of the Supreme Soviet of TransnistriaJune 5Serafim URECHEANU, mayor of Chisinau


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June 19Dorin TUDORAN, IFES director in Moldova and RomaniaJuly 10Iacob POPOVICI, Minister of EducationSeptember 12His Excellency John Todd STEWART, USA Ambassador in MoldovaOctober 9Mircea RUSU, president of the Liberal Party of MoldovaOctober 21Hungarian Embassy representatives in MoldovaOctober 31Tudor BOTNARU, National Security MinisterNovember 6representatives of Great Britain’s Embassy in MoscowNovember 27the launching of the Handbook “Mass Media and Freedom of Expression”,published by Article XIX and the IJC with the financial support of the Council ofEurope.

On July 12, 1997 the launching of the TV version of the Press Club took place. Thefirst independent TV studio from Chisinau, Catalan TV, broadcast the meeting of thePress Club with the participation of His Excellency Marcel Dinu, Romanianambassador in the Republic of Moldova. In 1997 Catalan TV viewers had thepossibility to watch four programs from the series “Press Club”.

On December 26, 1997 the traditional festivity of awarding the ten best journalists of1997 and celebrating the Center’s third anniversary took place. 150 people took partin it: journalists, press secretaries, deputies, international organizations’representatives. Special prizes were awarded by: Xerox representation in Moldova,Moldovan Parliament, UNICEF, Television Journalists’ Association, UkrainianEmbassy, USA Embassy, Information Resource Center, OSCE Mission in Moldova,Soros Foundation Moldova.

The Open World House TV Studio


Founded in 1995, the OWH TV Studio was conceived as an experimental lab for youngTV producers, where they could manifest their aptitudes and implement their projectswithout fear of “making mistakes”. The existence of this experimental lab in theMoldovan TV environment is as timely as it is the only place where TV production isnot perceived through the prism of immediate financial profit.The first two years of the Studio’s activity not only confirmed the necessity ofpermanent scholarship for TV producers, but also proved that the Studio could provideinformative programs and films of high quality in comparison to traditional MoldovanTV. The continuing effort served as the basis for creating a permanent production teamwhich started its activity in 1997. At that time it launched new types of programs onNational TV and kept its most successful programs which had debuted in 1996.


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The themes of the studio reflect problems of everyday social life and in particular thetransition to a market economy and a democratic society.

Throughout 1997 a series of programs called “The portrait of my generation” (producer - LeontinaVATAMANU) was launched in an attempt to touch youth problems as they are seenby and discussed among themselves. The theme of each broadcast presents only oneside of young people’s lives, however, it tends to present it from different points ofview. Thus, a series of issues like “Youth and Religion”, “Youth and Money”, “Youthand Politics” and “My Classmates” was produced and broadcast on national TV.The first musical show “Rock Vagon” (producer - Igor COBILEANSCHI and Marin TUREA)was produced by the OWH TV Studio and broadcast on national TV in 1996. It was and stillremains the only show of alternative music in Moldova. The success of “Rock Vagon”among the fans of musical non-conformism ensured the further appearance of similarshows in 1997. “Rock Vagon” shows served as a leitmotiv as well as a source ofinspiration for the appearance of the first rock marathon in Moldova which took placeon May 25, 1997 with the title “ Tomorrow Begins Today”. More than 20 prominentrock groups took part in the performance which was appreciated by about 12,000people at the Summer Theater.In December 1997 the program “Cinestezia” (producer - Marin TUREA) debuted, the goal ofwhich was to inform the audience about world-wide video and cinema achievements. It is a nobleand necessary task if one takes into account the avalanche of sub-quality broadcastswhich had been falling on the big and small screens of Moldova.Apart from permanent programs, the OWH TV Studio has produced ad-hoc programsas well, prompted by public interest. The most successful works of this type was aseries of reports from the summer camp carbonART’97 organized by the SCCA, whichwas held in Radenii-Vechi. The works were shown at the second annual exhibitionorganized by the SCCA in October 1997.The Studio produced a series of works on the occasion of the 5th Anniversary of theSoros Foundation. Within this series is a film presenting the Soros Foundation,produced especially to celebrate this event.“Moldova FM”, a festival organized by Radio d’Or on October 6, 1997 was anotherevent involving the OWH TV Studio. On the International Day of Youth, anentertaining program “Karaoke-show” was organized by the OWH TV Studio incollaboration with national TV.As an “experimental lab”, the OWH TV Studio produced test-works with the aim ofinventing new programs and enlarging its team. The program “File” produced byAngela Brasoveanu and Vsevolod Ciornei was an attempt to bring the life and work ofprominent people to the public’s attention.Even though it is less than in previous years, the OWH TV Studio still continues toprovide technical equipment for training organized by the OWH Journalism Center. 35journalists from 11 independent TV Studio in Moldova have benefited from theseprojects.The end of 1997 for the OWH TV Studio marked the attempt to broadcast more oftenon National TV. Monthly programs were transformed into weekly programs, makingthem more diversified. Two other programs “Impact” (producer - LeontinaVATAMANU) and “Megapolis” (producer - Igor COBILEANSCHI) appeared as afollow up to this transformation.


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Open World House Radio d’Or station


Moldova FM festivalThe Festival took place on November 5, 1997 in the form of a concert held at PiataMarii Adunari Nationale on City Day. The concert included 4 radio stations which hadaccepted the idea of promoting the frequency FM wave which is, for the time being, theonly frequency wave that can be used by independent radio stations in Moldova.The motivation for this manifestation was the extension of the frequency FM wave inthe radio business, through private stations. Also, the major goals were theestablishment of closer contacts among other radio stations, which in the future needto be associated in order to promote certain values and common interests as well asthe creation of united manifestations in the radio environment.The initiation of Radio d’Or was the first step on the road to approaching “rivals”which would be followed by a more ample collaboration in the future.The invitation was addressed to all local radio stations in Chisinau with their ownprograms (at that time “Eldoradio” had already been broadcasting a Moscow program“Evropa plius”).The following radio stations accepted to join the project: Radio d’Or, Unda Libera,Modern-Club 805 (Radio Moldova), Polidisc.The concert was directed to obtain a radiophonic effect reflected in a musical radioprogram accompanied by DJ comments between songs. This is an innovation for ourmarket.The impact was surprisingly positive. Due to the successful promotion carried out bythe participating stations, about 100,000 people came to Piata Marii Adunari Nationale,according to the estimation of the police. This idea of bringing the station and theaudience together was a big success.

Internship in BucharestThe project was based on the necessity of radio staff gaining more advanced experiencefrom independent radio stations in Bucharest. Along with the training of its own staff,another goal was to attract new staff members who, after an internship could become ahuman resource prepared to work at any radio station in Moldova. As a matter of fact,the goal of the project was to contribute through additional training in radioproduction to already qualified specialists as well as to a new staff in the sphere ofindependent radio business.

The formulated goals were advertised in media and interested applicants went through apreliminary selection process which was followed by initial training provided by Radiod’Or, and later the candidates were sent to an internship at Uniplus Radio in Bucharest.

The selected group of candidates was made up of 12 people:Mariana ARSENEAla BETISORGalina MARDAREVitalie CUSNIRTatiana CURCHI


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Viorel TIGANASIrina CHIPERINicu POPESCULuciano POPAAliona CHETRARIVadim CUSNIRENCOTatiana COMAN

The experience gained from Radio d’Or as well as practical knowledge received inBucharest were supported by the accumulation of a series of practical skills: e.g. gettingto know the technology of automated music programming on the radio; accumulatingspecial techniques of attending to clients soliciting advertisement services; beginning tostudy the possibilities of transmission via satellite with the goal of establishing a radionetwork. Irina CHIPERI was hired by Radio Unda Libera, Viorel TIGANAS andLuciano POPA were selected for the Radio Contact Chisinau (as it appeared) and NicuPOPESCU became an assistant DJ at Radio d’Or, which also hired Tatiana COMANand Vadim CUSNIRENCO.

It was difficult to carry out the entire planned project, due to the fact that, at that time,a tendency opposed to that of Radio d’Or unfortunately appeared on the Moldovanradio market. Two local stations took their programs almost completely from Moscowradio programs. The absence of interest in raising the professionalism in production ofnative programs promoted the decrease in the number of participants in the internshipproject.

Support for Radio d’OrThe reason Radio d’Or received a supporting grant lies in the fact that it still remainsto be a unique radio with its independent services in the informational environmentof Chisinau. Unlike other stations, which are oriented exclusively to the use ofsecond hand information or to minimizing this information in the broadcast, Radiod’Or uses its own news room and continues to explore the alternatives of radiobusiness. Lately, the maintenance of some information became more and moredifficult due to the financial limits and insignificant profit from the advertisingmarket. At the beginning of 1997, the station had a debit of about 10 pieces of newsdaily (50 - weekly and 210 - monthly) which comprised a monthly share of about1.75-2 hours of pure information, prepared exclusively on the basis of reliability ofinformational sources, i.e. a share of great importance from the point of view ofquantity and quality of information in general. On the other hand, the marketappears to be more favorable for the stations derived from Moscow which are mostlyguided by the advertisement business. By the end of ’97 the financial situation madethis debit of information decrease to about 2 hours. The main reason for supportingRadio d’Or was the fact that it is keeping its capacity of information production by allmeans, the fact which is of major importance in development of native informationin the independent radio business. The market conditions for advertisement businesshave become more favorable for Evropa Plius and Russkoe Radio stations, whichaccording to a poll appear to be the top stations in Chisinau. As a matter of fact,according to the Audiovisual Intermediate Counsil, Radio d’Or acts as the leader in


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promotion of the development of nativeprograms and does lots of work in thissphere. This includes: Moldova FMfestival, destined to a consolidation oflocal radio community, internships forattracting and training new staff which isin a great demand among beginningradio stations in Moldova. A lot ofstudents from the JournalismDepartment of the State University whoshowed keen interest and manifestedtheir aptitudes in radio have entiresupport from Radio d’Or, some of themwere even hired by the station. Theseefforts will definitely bring success butonly in the future, till then qualifiedprograms well financed from Moscow,will easilly compete with a station whichis trying to plant seeds of anindependent, powerful, and native radio.

Acquisition and Publishing of Media

Books

expenses: $9,803.53


The goal of the program was reducingthe lack of contemporary book injournalism field and provide access tolast editions on the market, which arerequired especially in the academic andpost-graduate studies. Books werebought to donate to the Journalism andCommunication Sciences School at StateUniversity and Independent JournalismCenter. Grants were also given forjournalism materials publishing projects.

RMI Brochure, $446.00Radio Moldova International

Research on access to information issues,$7,525.00Committee for Freedom of the Press

Internet

expenses: $3,326.22

Access to Internet was offered to mass-media independent in order to facilitatecommunication between journalists,stimulate interest for new technologiesuse and placement of media informationon Internet.Beneficiaries of e-mail and Internetservices were:Limba RomanaContrafortFluxMoldavschie VedomostiBASA pressLogos pressTiViK ASKETInfotagBusiness-infoCuvintulCugetulGazeta de VestEST curierAccent ProvincialBroadcasting Coordinating Council

Open Grants for Media


The 1997 program “Open Grants forMedia” was designed to support differentinitiatives of mass media. Grants weregiven to the Center for Development ofIndependent Television, the Association ofPhilosophers and CIVIS for projects ofstudying the media market, to the Unionof Journalists for the General Conferenceand the 10th Congress, to the VIPAssociation for a news program, to theCommittee for Press Freedom for a Study ofthe access to information in the Republicof Moldova with a draft of Law onInformation, the Radio Moldova for a“Journalism Training” seminar.


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English Language Scholarships


One of the main problems thatMoldovan journalists experience is thepoor knowledge of English. The needof this knowledge is felt in everydaywork with the computer, foreign sources,Internet, etc. Many of them can notbenefit from different scholarships,seminars, workshops abroad becausethey do not know English.The program was administrated by theEnglish Language School at the OpenWorld House.

Beneficiaries in 1997:Ada FODORGrigore BRINZAAla BELOSTECINIIDumitru TIRAGheorghe DONIValeriu CORCIMARISvetlana CALICENCOLarisa SILVESTRUAla CORNESCUIurie COLESNICIon ROBUDinu SCOBICIVioleta CIOCANUVeronica CERNEIVlad TURCANUIurie BODRUGVadim VISLOGUZOVAngela BRASOVEANUOxana SOLOVEITatiana PLACHIDATatiana LAZARVioleta GRIGORECorina RAIUSerafim ISAC

Travel to seminars, conferences


BBC School, Bucharest, February 24 - May 2,1997, $774.34

Elena HORNET

Professional Ethics Seminar, Sinaia, October22-24, 1997, $780.00Rodica IUNCUAneta GROSUValeriu SAHARNEANUDina CLAPCOLudmila POVSTENCOIon MAZURValeriu RENITARodica STAVARACHE

Summer School “Social Implications of theInformation Society”, Dusseldorf, August 11-22, 1997 $1,315.11Luminita DUMBRAVEANUVadim VISLOGUZOV

European Seminar on Promoting Independentand Pluralistic Mass-media with Special Focuson Central and Eastern Europe, Sofia,September 5-11, 1997, $724.00Steliana HANGANU

Atelier de la Radio Educative, Warsaw, May30-31, 1997, $624.00Vasile MIJACarolina MORUSEAC

III Festival of local TV stations, Kosice,October 15-20, 1997, $1500.00Aneta GROSUAlina RADUTatiana PLACHIDAAngela SIRBU

Journalism school, Trnava, Slovak Republic,November 13-22, 1997, $334.00Oxana SOLOVEIMass-media in European Unification Seminar,Klingenthal, March 17-22, 1997, $1,107.90Alexandru CANTIR, Fidel GALAICU

Seminar “Media Management”, SlovakRepublic, February 26 - March 7, 1997,$754.00


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The Soros Foundation Moldova Programs in Arts and Culture have developed a strategy formaximum impact in overcoming conditions which hamper Moldova’s social transition toward a moreopen, civil society. The support for cultural and artistic projects was based on the fundamentalprinciples of an open approach to the world and promotion of civil society values.

Currently, the artistic and cultural structures are exclusively state budget financed, inwhich case the real financial needs are far from being met; in addition, an efficientmanagerial and printing infrastructure suitable to the new production effects in thefield is not yet in force. In this context, the Soros Foundation oriented its activity inthe following essential directions: promoting cultural values, supporting artisticperformance, integrating the artistic structures from Moldova in the internationalvalue circuit, stimulating a spirit of initiative and creativity in Arts Management.

Famous Cultural and Artistic Events Program



First International Competition for Instrumental Interpretation (piano, cello, violin), April 1-14,1997, Chisinauorganized by MAM, 45 young performers participated from 8 European and Asiancountries

Andrei PORUBIN, AlexandruBURDEINII

60 Congress of the International Associationof Sport Press, Oviedo, Spain, May 13-19,1997, $761.03Ion ROBU

“Journalism in CIS in 1996” Seminar,Moscow, February 4-5, 1997, $563.00Vasile BOTNARU, ConstantinCHOROSCO

“Press and Parliaments” Seminar, Stockholm,May 12-13, 1997, $117.46Ion UMANIUC

XIX European Television and Film Forum,Lisbon, November 6-8, 1997, $1766.6Corina CEPOIMass-media Coordinators Annual Meeting,Vilnius, October 22-26, 1997, $884.48Steliana HANGANU, Angela SIRBU

Festival Prix Europe, Berlin, October 5-13,1997 $645.00Natalia ANISIMOV

Internship at Radio France, Paris, September15- November 15, 1997, $375.00Valentina TESTEMITANU

“NGO Awareness in the media “ Workshop,Kiev, December 10-11, 1997, $1,069.00Steliana HANGANU


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“The Eugene Ionescu Theatre Biennial” International Festival (2nd edition - “Tradition andModernism”), May 24 - 30, 1997remarkable productions from Romania, Japan, USA, Russia, Moldova were broughttogether.

“Eugene Coca” International Competition of Young Performers (piano, cell, violin, viola, double bus),Chisinau, June 23 - 28, 1997organized by Ciprian Porumbescu Cultural Foundation

First Book Show for Children, April 10 - 13, 1997This exhibition took place under the aegis of the National Section of IBBY andparticipating publishing houses ("Cartier", "Litera", "Prut International", "Stiinta").

“Zdob and Zdub” (Chisinau) and “Bouches Metaliks” (France) artistic friendship tour, March-April, 1997

8th European Encounters International Conference “Aspects of the social consequences of transitionin central Europe”, Festival Est-Ouest, Die (France)Lidia TOMOZEI, editor at the editing department, Constitutional Court of MoldovaElvira LEAHU, teacher of European Economics and International Services at ULIM

A series of cultural-artistic events, May 1997:modern music Marathon Rock VagonBrahms recital, held by A.LAPICUS and I.MAHOVICIcontemporary music performance, group of Liviu STIRBUart-folk trio “Trigon”concert bringing together young performers of classical and contemporary music, national andinternational competition laureates.

Grants for Establishment of Cultural Infrastructure


Arts Center “Coliseum”Grants for purchase of technical equipment and organizing cultural activities:“Theatre Poster and Program” Art-show, May 1997, focusing on previous results andcurrent situation of the theatre poster“Theatre Carnival”, organized on City Day

“Guguta” Municipal Children TheatreGrant for updating the technical level

Access to International Information


One of the acute problems in Moldova is the extremely poor access to information,especially external information, plus the lack of mechanisms to integrate artisticstructures with the international value and information circuit. Taking the above into


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consideration, the Soros Foundation supported the external relations department ofthe Ministry of Culture by providing the necessary equipment, for a systematic andqualitative inflow of information.

The Foundation sustained the creation of a media library for the AIM. All artseducation institutions in the country will be granted access to the Media library. It willcontain the art works and materials needed both in cultural/artistic education and forprofessionals. The library holds the necessary equipment although its audio, video,book and catalog sections are still to be completed.

The Annual Theatre Prizes Program

expenses: $1.584.37

This program is oriented towards attracting the public’s attention to artistic andcultural events in Moldova. The Gala of Theatre Prizes 1997 was financed as acompletion of the Top Theatre program of the Soros Foundation. Owing to SorosFoundation’s support, theatres from Balti, Cahul and Tiraspol were able to participateat their professional celebration in Chisinau.

Participation at International Festivals, Competitions, Conferences and

Workshops


International Theatre Festival, Budapest and International Festival of Animated Images, Perugia,Hungary-Italy, August 29 - September 7, 1997Licurici Republican Puppet Theater

Cultural Dialogue China -Moldova, Beiging, August 25 - September 3, 1997Arts people from Moldova

Annual Informal European Theater Meeting IETM 97, Paris, April 10 - April 13, 1997Mihai FUSU, Artistic Director, Luceafarul theater

6th International PEN Congress, Edinburgh, August 5-14, 1997Valeria GROSU, Serafim SAKA, members of Writers International Association PEN

“April spring” Festival in Korea, 15th edition, Pyongyang, April 4-19, 1997Musicians from Moldova

“The Search for a New World Culture for the 21st Century: Western Literary Perspective”International Conference, Washington, July 13-17, 1997Arcadie SUCEVEANU, writer

50th International Film Festival, Cannes, May 7-8, 1997Larisa TUREA, journalist, lecturer

“The book within the Regions of Europe” First European Forum, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France,


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September 10-14, 1997Gheorghe IERIZANU, Director, "Cartier" publishing house

International Competition of Accordion Players, Klingental, May 2-8, 1997Andrei TASNICENCO, student, MAM

“O. Danovschi” International Ballet Competition, Costanta, June 8-15, 1997group of students from Choreography Lyceum, Chisinau

7th International Festival of the Composition of Fine Arts of Children “Golenov’97”, Poland,July 6-8, 1997Ana NECEAINICU, pupil at the school # 60 with arts profile, Chisinau

International Violin Competition in Kloster Schontal, July 26- August 4, 1997Ala BENDERSCHI, Ilian GARNET, C. Porumbescu Musical School

Jeunesse Musicale International Music Competition, Bucharest, May 9-15, 1997Zinaida BRANZILA, C. Porumbescu Music School

“Citta di Senigallia” International Competition, Italy, August 26-31, 1997Stanislav JAR, C.Porumbescu Musical Lyceum

International Competition for Pianists, Kiev, April 21 - May 5, 1997Anastasia LEVANDOVSCHI, Rahmaninov Musical Republican School

International Competition for Young Pianists, S. Petersburg, March 24-31, 1997Alexandr CULICOV, Rahmaninov Musical Republican School

Completion of the CDlaunching project by “Trigon” art-folk trio

Performing Arts Grants

expenses: $1,030.48


The Soros Foundation Moldova sustained contemporary forms of artistic expressionand original ways of collaboration in theater, music, literature, visual arts, choreography,etc, thus helping to define the role of performing arts in an open society. In thiscontext, support was further offered for artistic projects by means of grants andinformation on other possible local or foreign financial sources.

“Carmen” Ballet-fantasy, realised by Mihai TARNA, a graduate of Directing Faculty fromthe AIM in collaboration with Liviu STIRBU, composer, a ballet company run by VictoriaBUCUN, choreographer, Angela JOSANU, designer, and Licurici Puppet Theatre.

Modern Ballet “Daphnis and Cloe”, performed by students from the ChoreographySchool in Chisinau, advised by Alkis RAFTIS, professor, Greek dance specialist, and


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Eleni CHRYSANTHAKI, choregrapher, dance and ballet professor in Greece.

Education and Professional Development Program in Performing Arts



The program of workshops and studios for Arts students and for performing artsprofessionals is a large program that emphasizes the Soros Foundation’ s priorities inarts and is oriented towards developing contemporary ways of artistic expression.This program is part of Performing Arts Network Program, run by OSI Budapest,and involves inviting experts, artists, and professors from abroad to run artsworkshops in Moldova, plus supporting young artists participation from Moldova inworkshops abroad.

As part of this program, the following events took place in Chisinau:

“Acting Technique in European Theatre” Creation Workshop, May 24-27, 1997presented by Vazkressia VICHAROVA and Zarco OUZOUNOV (Bulgaria)

Theatre summer school, August 15-25, 1997Workshops run by Guy SONNEN (the Netherland), Claudia CRACIUN (Moldova)

Workshop for students at the Choregraphy Faculty of State Arts Institute and for youngchoreographers from Chisinau, October 13-24, 1997Kilina CREMONA (France), Iva NERINA GATTIN, Irma OMERZO (Croatia)

Choreography and modern dance seminar, November 24 - December 7, 1997presented by Zuzana BACOVA (Slovakia)

Modern dance workshop, December 1-11, 1997presented by Raido MAGI and Merle SAARVA (Estonia)

Arts and music workshops, October 27- November 8, 1997run by well-known artists from the USA, France, Russia, Ukraine, Romania andMoldova, as part of the Autumn University organized by MAM

“Internationale Tanzwochen Wien. Dance Web” Contemporary Dance courses, Vien, July 16 -August 14, 1997Angela DONII, choreographer at Eugene Ionesco theatre

Performing Arts Summer School, Sofia, September 15-29, 1997Daniela MUDREAC, actress at Eugene Ionesco theatreMaria CRACIUN, student at the Theatre and Film Academy in Bucharest

Master - class Margess International, Swiss, July 13 - August 3, 1997Adrian MUSTEA, Ciprian Porumbescu Republican Music School


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Ecumest European Master Specialized Management Cultural ProgramDoina DUMBRAVEANU-MUNTEANU

Training Courses in Cultural Organization Administration, Paris, October 24 - November 21,1997Angela SOLTAN, Latin Union representative for Moldova

Training Courses at the Amsterdam Conservatory, piano section, academic year 97/98Mariana IZMAN, student, MAM

Open Society Cultural Link (Regional Program)

expenses: $12, 510.00

Through the common efforts of artistic and management structures and institutionsin different countries, the OS Cultural Link program sustained a series ofinternational cultural activities including, on occasion, the participation of artisticgroups from Moldova.With the Foundation’s support, the Mihai Eminescu national theatre, Eugene Ionescu theatre, andrepresentatives of the Licurici puppet theatre participated in the International Theatre Festival inSibiu (May 30 - June 8, 1997)

The Soros Foundation financed the International Conference of New Music Festival Directors inCentral and Eastern Europe, Chisinau, October 5-9, 1997, as part of the 7th holding of the NewMusic International Festival.Festival directors, composers, performers, musicologists, and journalists from Bulgaria,Romania, Estonia, Russia, Tatarstan, Ukraine, Croatia, Sweden and Germany tookpart in the conference.

Publishing Program

Three Literary Debutsexpenses: $8,817.98

ccommitments: $6,638.00

The "Arc" Publishing House launched 3 new names in the “Prima verba” series:Margareta CURTESCU, “The Courage is a Relish” (poetry)Iurie BODRUG, “It is Too Late to Revive” (prose)Mihai VACULOVSCHI, “Immortal in Corn” (poetry)

Elaboration and unfolding of training for specialists in publishing area

Grants for Arts and Culture Journals

expenses: $6,035.00


- By technically endowing the Contrafort, Sud-Est and Basarabia journals, the Soros Foundationcompleted a long-running program extended over several years that provides technical assistance to


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culture and art jounals.- A grant was given for a special issue of the “Basarabia” journal. This edition compiles andconcludes a long series of discussions on the present state of Basarabian prose.- A grant was allocated for a special issue of the “Sud-Est” journal entitled “Sacred cavearchitecture in the context of South-East European civilization” containing the materials of theinternational conference on the same subject, which was held under the journal’s aegis as part of theSoros Foundation “East-East” Program.


“Advertising - the Marketing of Aesthetics or the Aesthetization of Market”

exhibition


The “Advertising - the Marketing of Aesthetics or the Anesthetization of Market”exhibition, organized by the Soros Foundation Moldova on September 19-28, 1997,was the first event in graphic design and advertising in the Republic of Moldova.

Premises of the project:Advertising and the graphic design as its representative are imposing themselves in Moldova withinthe broader social and economic transformations and they have a clear cultural education role. Asinterdisciplinary activities, advertising and the graphic design combine traditional arts, mass-mediaand business elements. In several years, our country has already got a market, which stimulates theactivity in the field.

The objectives of the exhibition were:- to underline the professionalism and the creativity of local graphic designers- to offer to the client a spectrum of up-to-date works of Moldova artists, contributingto educating the advertising perception- offering to the designers a possibility to meet each other and to the clients- to learnthe individual style and manner of each designer.

The exhibition was non-profit. Almost 400 works were exposed, presenting 32 authors:(independent designers or graphic design studios.) The participation of young designers,graduated from the AIM, was a singular feature of the event.The components of the exhibition followed the domain’standards: corporate identity,advertising campaigns, advertising photography, package, art-design, miscellaneous. Thevideo advertising was not represented in the exhibition. Still, there were shownadvertising spots, produced in Moldova (by Diver Studio, Dixi Studio, P & P, OWHTV-studio). Western video spots were not part of the exhibition; they served toillustrate the essays of the international seminar’ participants: Radu BUDES - DaKINOFoundation, Bucharest/The night of advertising eaters, Andrei DOBRUNOV -“CLASSIKA” Studio”/Moscow.

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“Advertising - the marketing of aesthetics or the anesthetization of market”

Seminar, September 21 - 22, 1997

The seminar included presentations of local specialists and ones invited from abroad,and discussed the advertising current situation in Eastern and Western Europe.Participants were students and professionals in advertising and graphic design and allinterested persons.

Issues discussed:- Advertising - the marketing of aesthetics or the aesthetization of market- Depersonalization of advertising- Social, economic, cultural relationships between advertising producers and clients in asociety in transition

Arts specialists and critics, experts from France, Romania, Russia and Republic ofMoldova participated in the seminar:

Prof. Sylvere PIQUETEcole superieure d’Economie, d’Art et deCommunication, Paris, France*contemporary promotional techniques,

marketing studies, sponsoring

Claire NOGACKI

Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut -Cambresis, Valenciennes, France*advertising research

Cristina SABAU

Design Bulletin, Bucharest, Romania*Arts critic, editor of Design Bulletin

Radu BUDES

DaKINO Foundation, Bucharest, Romania*coordinator of the Night of Advertizing

Eaters

Andrei DOBRUNOV

“Classika” Production studio, Moscow, Russia*video advertising

Alexandru SCHIOPU

AIM, Visual Arts Department, Chisinau,Moldova*advertising and graphic design research


Marin TUREATV Studio at the Open World House,Republic of Moldova*video advertising

Olga RUSUSoros Center for Contemporary Art, Moldova*psychology, sociology

Silvia HARNAUAESM, Chisinau, Moldova*marketing, semiotics research

Prof. Ion MACARIIIUM, Chisinau, Moldova*marketing studies

Serghei BLANDUMarketing Studies Center,Komsomolskaia Pravda - Basarabia newspaper,Chisinau, Moldova*marketing studies

Grigorii BOSENCOAdvertising Producers and Distributors’Association, Chisinau, Moldova*chairman


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The Soros Center for Contemporary Artexpenses: $150,801.71


Exhibitions



Case Multiple (Multiple Homes), May 1997

expenses: $712.63

Curators: Steve Lee WEST (USA), Bradley J. ADAMS (Moldova), Octavian G. ESANU(Moldova)

CSAC Chisinau and Artlink, (a multimedia project based in New York), have organizedan international cultural exchange. The project is made up of two exhibitions: one onInternet, and another one on posters to be displayed in public places. The posters willbe displayed on the walls of the buildings and kiosks in Chisinau and New York, or onboards and other advertisement venues.The exhibition focuses on HOMES, for example the Architectural Idea-PleasantEnvironment-Virtual Home (Internet)-Dream(ed of) Home-Place of Birth-WhereThings are Familiar or Feel Homey-A Place You Can Call Your Own.Twenty artists are involved in this event - ten from Moldova and ten from the UnitedStates.The posters are to be in offset print, black&white, 50 X 70 cm. The artists will take intoconsideration the non-institutional framework of the project (Internet/the street) andthe unique nature of the prints in this context, for instance their ephemeral anddisposable nature.The Internet Exhibition contains the posters, the event’s record of and the artists’biographies. Two essays, one written by a critic from Moldova and the other by a criticfrom the US, depict the event.The project includes the publication of a bilingual catalog, which will contain thenatural-size posters and the material mentioned above.*Note: The first stage of the project has been finished (the placement on Internet of 20selected pieces). The project will continue as soon as our American partners secure theirshare of the financial contribution.Multiple:Homes, <http://www.artlink.org/visual_arts/feature/moldova/home.html>

Photography exhibition: Lay an Eye (PUNE OCHIUL)... June 1997

expenditures: $905.75


Curator: Bradley J. ADAMS

Lay an Eye is the first CSAC-Chisinau financed, exclusively photographic exhibition.The first 50 visitors who came to our Center have been given a film to represent by wayof photography what they “laid their eyes on.” The returned films (46) have beenprocessed and prints made, offering “raw material” for the exhibition (more than 1100


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pictures). At least one enlargement from each of the films has been exhibited. Since theambient light in the exhibition place was wanting, special lamps had to bemanufactured, so that a negative from each of the participants could be exhibited in aminiature light box.The prints made from the negatives represent a diversity of approaches to the project.Some of them are a combination of disparate moments, a “curiosity” record of“everyday” life: transportation, solids (whole or fragmented), cuisine items, musicalinstruments, sculptures in progress, architectural details, instants of still life, abandonedbuildings, etc. Others are structured according to certain topics, such as: studioactivities, views from an apartment, a cemetery, the city at night, dogs and cats, women,hands, the family, etc. Still others represent records of performance or narration set upfor the photographic camera, such as intrusions by the body (re-setting the hair,accessories, dyed skin), TV programs, “nightmares”, etc.In simpler terms, they can be categorized as objects, pictures, experiments. They presentcontrasts: some people use the film directly, effectively, while others express the innernature of photography. The photographs may be regarded as pieces of time, capturedon film, fractions of a second, sometimes overlapping or enlarged. When compared toother practices of the author (sculpture, painting, anything) this represents a differentway of seeing. They may be regarded as psychological/sociological studies. In a finalaccount, the project triggered a subjective reaction, “something which is desirable,appreciated, unusual, queer, etc.” They can be analyzed within the context of theauthor’s biography. For some people this was the first photographic film shot, while forothers the camera is an everyday item and they all come from different environments(artists, students, journalists, teachers, etc.). Moreover, they can be analyzed according tothe project’s mechanisms, for which the process is entirely and literally in the hands ofthe author or is a reflection of the available means. Only one artist changed manuallythe emulsion by means of ceramic tools and chemicals. All choices made by theparticipants have been taken into account, which were sometimes corroborated byadditional images. The images by those who didn’t show up at the Center were selectedby the supervisors, who tried to reconstruct the author’s attitude. Although what thesupervisors “read” might have not coincided with what the authors meant, the displayof the printed negatives-besides the prints-served to further demonstrate the authorsvisions.

Participating in the AnaART 97 Performance Festival in Romania, 8th edition

(organized by the ETNA Foundation from Sfantu-Gheorghe)

expenses: $500.00

The live art festival at the St.Ana lake, Harghita district, is a laboratory for alternativefine arts and performance. Several names of renown in this kind of art were present,including Karen RANN (England), Artur TAJBER (Poland), Sandor ANTIK(Romania), Giovanni FONTANA (Italy).Moldova was represented at such an event for the first time by Pavel BRAILA. Hepresented, in pouring rain, a very dynamic performance full of hidden meanings andmultiple interpretations, based on the Sisyphus Myth in a contemporary stylistic andformal key. He rolled a huge spool which unfolded a paper strip to be stepped onto bythe artist, who was also packaged in perishable paper garments.


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The second annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art

(September-October 1997)



Curator: O.Esanuvariations in RE REprint REincarnate REname REvive REbirth REmark REplaceREmedyMessages from Tzara (countryside Rom.) — reflections in RE

The Annual Exhibition of this year lined up a whole series of events: two soloexhibitions, a textile art and garment design exhibition (the first of its kind in Moldova),and the Center’s exhibition in a number of locations.Two ideas define the concept of this event. The first one relates to the culturalenvironment at the beginning of this century that triggered the dadaist movement,which was the starting point for a number of directions in contemporary art. Thesecond major idea is that of a recycled object. What brings the two together? The driveto recycle-objects, materials, and first of all ideas, denying ideological and aestheticconstraints, and following the example of the founders of dadaism. An absolutepremiere for Chisinau was the TZARA RERUM NOVARA video workshop(September 22-October 2), conducted by Dutch artists Ron SLUIK and ReinierKURPERSHOEK, which ended by a video art marathon during the night of October4. The audience had an opportunity to see the most representative work done inEastern and Western Europe. This show would have been impossible to organizewithout the support granted by the entire network of Soros Centers for ContemporaryArt.The series of events around the annual exhibition ended with the “Recycling Mode(l)s” internationalsymposium (“REciclarea Mode(le)lor”, October 5-8).The discussions at the symposium focused on two major topics: the new media incontemporary art and postmodernism in the context of Moldova.

Participants:

MoldovaSerghei ALESENKOVVasile RATAValentin TARNAVictor DOROSENKOIurie CIUBOTARUVeaceslav DRUTAPavel BRAILAMihai TARUSMarc VERLANIgor SCERBINAAlexandru TINEILilia DRAGNEVLucia MACARI

Lucia JUNCAAlexandru SCHIOPUSimion ZAMSAElena KARACENTEVStefan RUSUConstantin CIOBANUConstantin SPANUIrina GRABOVANEleonora BARBASVladimir BULAT

RomaniaLia PERJOVSCHIDan PERJOVSCHI


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Eugen STANCULESCUAdrian GUTA

UkrainePhil PERLOVSKI

HollandHarry HEYINKKees DE GROOTRenier KURPERSHOUEKRonnie SLUIKMaarten SPRENGER

GermanyBarbara BARSCHWerner KLOTZThomas MUNZ

FranceNicolas MENET

RussiaIuriy EIDERMANTatiana MOGHILEVSKAYA

USABradley ADAMS

The SCCA Club

expenses: $400.00

The project is meant for artists, art critics,art historians, art students, mass-media,and officials in art-related ministries andinstitutions, etc.

CSAC Seminar on the 20th century art

(“ARTA SEC. XX”)

expenses: $893.00

commitments: $43.00

Presenters:Pavel SUSARA, art critic (Romania)Constantin PRUT, art critic (Romania)

Grants for artists



English language courses for fine-arts artists(February), $1,700.00

Grant, Solo exhibition, $998.00Maria MARDARE

Travel grant (Symposium, Boarding Museum ofMasks, Binche, Belgium), $887.02Constantin SPANU

Solo art catalog, $1,986.00Marian VERLAN

Fine arts exhibition (History Museum),$256.00Iurie LASCEVSKI

“PNEUMOFORIA” solo exhibition,“TREZVIA” activity, “Brancusi” Gallery,$1,829.41Stefan RUSU

Equipment Grant for UAM, $2,700

Graphics exhibition “The Other Side” (“Parteacealalta”), $659.71Simion ZAMSA

Graphics exhibition “The Other Side” (“Parteacealalta”), $440.47Elena KARACENTEV

Materials for The Photographic Art (“Artafotografica”) catalog, $1,746.50Valeriu KORCIMARI

Solo art catalog, $3,000.00Vasile RATA

Travel grant (VIDEO POSITIVES ’97Festival, Liverpool, GB), $1,089.29Marin TUREA


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“STUDIO’ 97” contest, $486.56Departments: painting, graphics, sculpture,video/photography, media arts, object, decorativearts, criticism

Travel grant, Amsterdam (Contributing from hisworks to the Matria Europa project), $402.39Pavel BRAILA

Twenty Years of the Fine Arts Faculty of the“I.Creanga” Institute catalogPublishing grant, $2,651.91

Travel grant, Belgium ( European TextilesNetwork, Brussels), $827.00Liudmila SEVCENKO

Internship with the “I. Andreescu” ArtsAcademy, Cluj-Napoca, $660.58Anatol TOMOIANU

Solo exhibition, Satu Mare, Romania, $329.85Victor COBZAC

Theater Poster (“AFIS TEATRAL”)exhibition, $504.13“COLIZEUM” Association

Group travel grant, Kiev (Contemporary artexhibition), $394.0725 artists

“Multimedia Development” mediatheque forartists, $2,622.57

Travel grant, Moscow (Research for the “MihailGrecu” archive), $311.66Liudmila TOMA

Travel grant, The First Symposium on TextileArts, Tbilisi, $523.98Iurie BABA

Travel grant, Amsterdam, Contributing from hisworks to the “XXX Festival”, $438.05Iurie CIUBOTARU

Travel grant, Amsterdam (Contributing from hisworks to the “XXX Festival”), $405.00Stefan SADOVNIKOV

Travel grant, Amsterdam (“XXX Festival”invitee), $791.40Silvia URSACHI

Travel grant (Solo exhibition, Paris), $375.64Ion SEVERINGrant (“REFLECTII” Textile ArtsExhibition, Chisinau), $674.99Lilia DRAGNEV

Grant (“REFLECTII” Textile ArtsExhibition, Chisinau), $943.85Iurie BABA

Grant (“REFLECTII” Textile ArtsExhibition, Chisinau), $758.36Ludmila SEVCENKO

Grant (“REFLECTII” Textile ArtsExhibition, Chisinau), $774.83Elena PAVLOVSCHI

“REFLECTII” Textile Arts Exhibition$14,3842.06

Group travel grant (visiting exhibition halls inBucharest), $361.65“A. Plamadeala” Fine Arts School

Computer courses for fine artistsGroup grant, $293.13

RUGINA art catalog (Sculpture by artists fromthe Sculeni workshop)Publishing grant, $3,400.00

DrobahaTravel grant, Poland (Creativity camp on textilearts, Wroklav), $69.71

Equipment grant, $6,222.57The Graphics Chair of the State ArtsInstitute


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Documentation Program

expenses: $8,424.41


The program envisions expansion of thearchive by adding art files of the artistsfrom Moldova and aims at storing anddistributing information on contests,competitions, exhibitions, biennial events,education and training programs. Thisyear the files of six Moldovan artists havebeen put together: Igor SCERBINA, IuriePLATON, Mircea PUSCAS, MihaiTARUS, Ghenadie TACIUC, SimionZAMSA.The Center has established contacts withsimilar organizations abroad, adding to itslibrary periodicals, catalogs, videos, audiotapes on similar organizations.

The CSAC Art-Hoc bulletin

Four issues in 1997

expenses: $4,583.43


CarbonART open-air creativity camp

for fine artists, June 1997



(Rregional SCCA’s project)

Participants: 8 artists (Moldova), 5 artists(Romania), 1 artist (USA), 3 artists(Ukraine).The 1997 CarbonArt was the second suchevent, this time an international one andwith the involvement of the CSACBucharest and CSAC Odessa; the firstCarbonArt had took place in Sadova,Calarasi, in the summer of 1996.CarbonArt-97 took place in Radenii Vechi,Ungheni, in a national park.All the printed materials related to theevent started with defining what carbon -the chemical element is according to theRomanian Encyclopedia. The first andmost important thing was to suggest to

the artists the direct use of the naturalenvironment in their projects. Sincecarbon is a basic element in all othernatural substances, we afforded it themeaning of being synonymous withnature. On the other side, thephenomenon of carbonization explainsanother aspect of the camp - theephemeral quality of the works createdthere. Being produced in open air, theycan survive only in records. The presentedworks have had a range of styles—fromelements particular to the techno culture,to sculptures made of the most accessiblematerials. Topics ranged as widely—frompolitics to metaphysics.

The participants at the summer camp:

MoldovaVasile RATAMark VERLANIurie CIBOTARIIgor SCHERBINAAlexandru TINEIAlexandru TARANUMircea PUSCASU

RomaniaSimona TANASESCUEcaterina ORBULESCUCosmin PAULESCUMaxim DUMITRAS

USAThomas GEORGE

UkraineKatchiuk GLEBPhillip PERLOVSKYDulifan DMITRII

The project ended in December 1997,upon the publication of the catalogcontaining illustrative material and reviewsof the 1996 and 1997 editions ofCarbonART.


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Internet

expenses: $5,742.21


Computers and the Internet are not onlynew means of study and means of artisticexpression but also new ways ofpublicizing a work of art.The program envisions the creation of aVirtual Museum of Contemporary Art byjoint effort of artists from Moldova andFrance. Besides the idea of promoting thecontemporary Moldovan art at home andabroad, the program will also function asa workshop where young artists fromMoldova will learn to use new fine artstechnologies. The museum will displaymaterials from the CSAC Chisinau

archives. The Museum Project is part of alarger program for implementing newtechnologies in fine arts; it was also bycourtesy of this program that CSACChisinau donated equipment to theGraphics Chair of the State Arts Institute.At present the Chair has a fully equippedcomputer lab.Within the same program CSAC Chisinauorganized the first workshop on thebasics of computer use in fine arts fromOctober 7-15, which was taught byNicolas MENET from France.

Publishingexpenses: $49,751.00


In the framework of the Publishing Programs, the Soros Foundation’s aim is twofold:First, to support book publishing for the promotion of critical thinking and the values of an opensociety, second, to encourage the development of a viable, diverse and independent national publishingindustry, which is one of the most important components of an open society.

National Publishing Program



The National Publishing Program is primarily focused on supporting the publication ofbooks in the fields of Social Sciences and the Humanities: Economics, Law,Sociology, History, Philosophy, and International Relations. This, however, does notexclude the participation of the Foundation in the publication of some importantstudies, monographs and article collections from other areas.

The priorities result from the necessity to support book publishing with a real socialimpact within the conditions of a small market and with a limited buying potential. Thefinancial support provided by the Foundation makes it possible to offer books toconsumers at an affordable price, thus facilitating real access of readers of Moldova to



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these books.The Publishing Programs are based on the principle of collaboration between theFoundation and the Publishing House and not with the author of the manuscript. Inthis case the Publishing House assumes the responsibility for book publishing anddistribution. The Programs are based on open competitions and are publicly advertised.Before making financial decisions the Expert Committee in Publishing estimates thecomplete process: from authors, publishers, and publishing houses to distributors,booksellers, and, finally, consumer.In 1997 the Soros Foundation provided support (around 50 % of the publishingexpenditures) for the publication of the following books:

"Stiinta" Publishing HouseC. CIOBANU “Virgin Mary’s Assumption Church in Causeni”, print run - 1000E. POSTICA “Anticommunist Resistance in Basarabia, 1944-1950”, print run - 1500C. GAINDRIC “Making Decisions: Methods and Technology”, print run - 1000

"Museum" Publishing HouseA. COSMESCU “Reminiscences and Bibliographical Index”, print run - 2000S. TABAC “Basarabia in the XIX-XX Centuries and Its Heraldry”A. ESANU “Chisinau: Historical Files”, print run - 3000

"Arc" Publishing HouseB. P. HAJDEU “Journalism”, print run - 1000D. TUDORAN “Kakistocratia”, print run - 5000

"Cartier" Publishing HouseD. POSTARENCU “A History of Basarabia in Data, Images and Documents”, printrun - 3000

"Cartea Moldovei" Publishing HouseV. ANDRU “Destiny therapy”, print run - 5000

Publishing House of Union of WritersL.PURICE “The bird in alarm”, print run - 2000, “Arc of Noe”, print run - 2000

Regional Translation and Publishing Program

expenses: $6,359.00


(in collaboration with Central European University and the Regional Publishing Center)

The Program strategy is similar to that of the national Program. However, the RegionalTranslation Program has the possibility to propose a book title list to PublishingHouses of about 300 classical books from the West in the fields of Social Sciences andthe Humanities.

Also, on the basis of an open competition announced in press, the Foundationnominates the Publishing House to be given financial support for copyright acquisition


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and for translation and publishing of the books. In 1997 within this program thebook “Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Program, Myth, Reality” by E. J.Hobsbawn, ("Arc" Publishing House) was published and printed. The book wasfinanced from allocations of the 1996 budget of the Regional Translation Program.

In 1997 won the competition:

"Arc" Publishing HouseWilliam MCNEIL “The Rise of the West: A history of the human community”, printrun - 3000Ronald DWORKIN “Taking Rights Seriously”, print run - 2000

"Cartier" Publishing HouseT. EGGERTSSON “Economic Behaviour and Institution”, print run - 2000

"Stiinta" Publishing HouseS. HOFFMANN “Janus and Minerva: essays in the theory and practice of InternationalRelations” print run - 2000

Author grants

With a view to direct Publishing Houses towards the production of quality books, theFoundation supported the writing process of some books by giving grants to authors.The Publishing House, in such cases, assumed the responsibility for the bookdeveloping and its production.In 1997 the following grants were awarded:Gh. POSTOLACHE“Lifeguard or the Entimology of the Sacred”, "Cartier" Publishing House, $800.00Gh. COJOCARU“Foreign policy of the Republic of Moldova, 1990-1998”, Civitas Publishing House, $1,000.00I. SISCANU“The Republic of Moldova: from totalitarianism towards a Democratic Society, 1990-1998”, CivitasPublishing House, $1,000.00T. STAVILA“Modern Arts in Basarabia, 1870-1940. Premises, Constitution, Biographies”, "Stiinta"Publishing House, $600.00I. HINCU, Gh. POSTICA“Ancient Orhei - Home of History and Civilization”, "Stiinta" Publishing House $1,000.00

Professional development



The goal of the program was to assist publishing houses in accumulating experience inmodern publishing practices and in competing in the international book market, and inthis way to stimulate an independent and viable publishing industry capable ofassuring an open society.


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In 1997 the Foundation financed the participation of Moldova publishers(representatives of Publishing Houses "Cartier", "Cartea Moldovei", "EUS", "PrutInternational", "Tehnica", "Museum", "Arc") with common book stands at the BookFair in Paris (11.03-18.03 1997), in Budapest (25.04-27.04.1997), and in Frankfurt(15.10-20.10.1997).


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Soros Foundation Moldova National Board 1997

Lorina BALTEANUOazu NANTOIAlexander MURAVSCHIVasile NEDELCIUCArcadie BARBAROSIEIurie LEANCAAureliu BUSUIOCTudor PANTIRU

Mass-media, Arts & Culture, Publishing Programs Board

Svetlana BIVOLEmilian GALAICU-PAUNConstantin CHEIANUClaudia CRACIUNConstantin MARINValeriu VASILICATudor IASCENCOIlie LUPANSerafim SAKA

Civil Society, Economic Reform, Law, Public Administration, MedicalPrograms Board

Pavel COJOCARUSvetlana ICHIZLIVictor MOROZVictor POPAVictor VOVCIon MOLDOVANUValeriu ZUBCOMihai BURUIANAVictor SURUCEANU

Educational Programs Board

Grigore BELOSTECINICSofia BOLDURATUNicolae MISAILªtefan TIRONLudmila STEPANAnatol GRIMALSCHIVasile GIRNETIon PARASCAAurelia POSPAI


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Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Board

Eleonora BARBASVladimir BULATConstantin CIOBANUConstantin SPANU


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Soros Foundation Moldova Staff

Lorina BALTEANU PresidentVictor URSU Executive DirectorVarvara COLIBABA Programs DirectorDona SCOLA Programs DirectorSergiu BOTEZATU Finance Director

Mariana ALECSANDRI LibrariesVitalie BORDENIUC Internet, ComSorosAna CORETCHI HESP, East- EastCorina COTOROBAI Visual ArtsSteliana HANGANU Mass -mediaIulia IGNATIUC Balti officeLiliana IVANOVICI MOE Program DirectorDmitrii MAXIMENCO Medical ProgramsEmilia MIHAILOV Health EducationVictoria MIRON Arts & Culture, PublishingVictor MUNTEANU LawIulia MOLDOVEANU English Language ProgramsIgor NEDERA Civil SocietyIgor PADURE Economic ReformOctavian RAZLOG Alcohol & Drug Addiction

Liuba COTOROBAI CashierVioleta FRUNZE Administrative AssistantVasile GIRLEA AdministratorKarine HACIATUROV ReceptionistAngela MUSET ReceptionistElena VACARCIUC Chief AccountantElena VITIUC Accountant

Soros Center for Contemporary Art

Octavian ESANUDan SPATARUOlga RUSU

Debate

Liliana CALMATUIAdrian CATANSilviu STEFIRTA


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Invisible College

Ion CULEACEleonora GROZAVU-DUPOUYVeaceslav GHITIU

Step by Step

Cornelia CINCILEISvetlana SOIMARUSvetlana SEMIONOVValentina LUNGUOlga OLEVSCHI

Modernisation of Education ProgramPro-Didactica Center

Mariana KIRIAKOVNelli MITCHEVICIViorica GORASLilia STIRCEASilvia BARBAROVVioleta DUMITRASCURenata CHITOROAGAVictor EFRIMNicu CRETUMarin BALANUTAViorica BEJENARUEcaterina RUDAKOV

CONTACT

Aliona NICULITAIgor GROSUEugen MASLOVRaisa GUTUVeacelav SCAFARUOleg EFRIM


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List of abreviations

MOE Modernisation of Education ProgramMSU Moldova State UniversityTSU Tiraspol State UniversityCSU Comrat State UniversityBSU Balti State University “Alecu Russo”AIM Arts State Institute of MoldovaSPU State Pedagogical University “I. Creangã”AUM Agrarian State University of MoldovaSMU State Medical and Pharmaceutical University “N. Testemitanu”AESM Academy of Economic Studies of MoldovaCCU Cooperative-Commercial University of MoldovaIIUM Independent International University of MoldovaHUM Humanities University of MoldovaTUM Technical University of MoldovaAPA Academy of Public AdministrationPAM Police Academy “Stefan cel Mare”MA Music Academy “G.Muzicescu”ASM Academy of Sciences of Moldova

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