Students from Moldovan Technical University to benefit from advanced laboratories, modern syllabi

Chisinau, 22 February /MOLDPRES/ - The students and teachers of the Moldovan Technical University (UTM) will benefit from advanced laboratories and modern syllabi. This will be possible after the launch of four subprojects worth 3.5 million euros in all, won by UTM at the second round of calls of the Higher Education in Moldova Project. The latter is implemented by the Education and Research Ministry and is financed by the World Bank.      

With the resources allocated, the institution will improve the university infrastructure, will endow the laboratories with last generation equipment and will modernize the syllabi, curricula and participant handbooks for more fields of training.  

„We will continue investing in the higher education, both through World Bank’s projects and from the state budget, especially for the renovation of student hostels, so that we become competitive both nationally and internationally,’’ Education and Research Minister Dan Perciun said.   

A project manager from the World Bank, Sergiu Harea, said that, due to these investments, qualified specialists would be educated in more priority sectors of the national economy.   

The first UTM’s subproject is dedicated to engineering and provides for the modernization of the curriculum at more disciplines in the field. The second subproject is meant for the sector of training, Information Technology. Within it, a platform based on artificial intelligence is to be worked out, which will process diverse data and, at the same time, will be able to cope with simulated cyber attacks. Also, the curriculum for disciplines in the field will be modernized and another physics lab will be endowed.    

The third subproject is in the field of veterinary medicine and implies the endowment of laboratories with diverse equipment and installations, which will allow managing infectious diseases of animals. The fourth subproject concerns the agricultural, forestry and environmental sciences. Within it, laboratories needed for the cultivation in vitro and in vivo of diverse species of plants, resistant to climate influences and changes, will be purchased and endowed.   

About 24.7 million euros is allocated within the Higher Education in Moldova Project in all for the modernization of seven universities and six pedagogical colleges from Moldova and over 35,000 students and about 2,300 teachers will benefit from these results.