The Erasmus+ Program is launching a Problem-Based Learning (PBLMD) Project in six universities of the country, announced Project Coordinator Romeo Turcan during news conference at Infotag.

“The project was created for raising students’ competitiveness and facilitating their further employment. The introduction of a new method of teaching will contribute to improvement of teaching culture in Moldova. The modernized instructional process will be organized in such a way that the teacher poses to students a problem and gives them a complete freedom of action, confining himself to a role of an active observer, while students will have the opportunity to find problems and ways of their addressing, which will help them get ready for their future profession”, he said.

According to him, within the framework of the project, there will be reorganized the following training programs: Business and Administration in the Economic Academy; Right in the State University;  IT-technologies in the Technical University; Medicine – in the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy; State Administration in Balti State University and Entrepreneurship and Business Administration in Cahul University.

Special groups will be created in each university, which will include a leader, 4-5 lecturers and 2-3 mentor-partners from the European Union, who will implement the project. Students will begin studying according to the new method starting from September 2017.

“We are very glad that the project has finally started in Moldova. It will allow improving teaching and learning in participant universities”, said Olav Sorensen, professor from the Aalborg University (Denmark).

The Project also implies visits of Moldovan students to EU universities, where the updated instruction method has already been introduced.

The three-year project will be financed by the European Union. Its budget is worth over 1.5 million euros, 657 thousand of which are designed for covering students and teachers’ trips.