The Ministry of Education and Research has begun distributing equipment and technology worth 69 million lei to the country's schools.
According to the head of the ministry Anatolie Topala, laptops, tablets, computers, equipment for physics, chemistry and biology classrooms, as well as other digital devices will be delivered to hundreds of schools in the country by the end of April. Part of the equipment was purchased by the Ministry of Education and Research, and part was donated by partners in the field of education: UNICEF Moldova, Salvați copiii (Romania), the State Department of Education of Jeju Province from South Korea, the People's Republic of China, the Israeli Embassy in Moldova and others. In particular, physics, chemistry and biology laboratories in 160 educational institutions will be equipped with new equipment: microscopes, digital sensors, webcams, laptops, projectors, monitors, printers and speakers. Devices worth 34 million lei were purchased as part of a project supported by the World Bank. Digital laboratories will be created or modernized in 69 educational institutions. To equip them, with the support of UNICEF, 1,000 laptops were purchased, which will be used by students to access educational platforms, including children from refugee families from Ukraine who study in schools in our country. At the expense of budgetary funds (0.9 million lei), the ministry will equip 15 classrooms of the Romanian language and literature in 15 schools teaching in the languages of national minorities - they will receive sets of IT equipment. Another 208 schools teaching in Russian will receive specialized literature and dictionaries. In addition, 227 schools will receive 2,118 tablets purchased with support from China and Israel. Korea provided Moldova with 340 computers, 235 programming devices, 56 tablets, 25 USB drives, 100 textbooks.// 07.04.2023 — InfoMarket
