A group of journalists took part in a preliminary presentation of the IPIS analysis on the process of managing the foreign funds received by the Moldovan government to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

International loans provided in 2020 to Moldova by external partners kept the country’s budget afloat. In the form of loans, Moldova received 418 million euros, while non-repayable assistance amounted to about 33 million euros.

Institute for Strategic Initiatives (IPIS) in partnership with Institut für Europäische Politik based in Berlin (IEP) and Institute for European Politics and Reform (IPRE) have launched a media course for young people, which is held within the project “infoMD – against misinformation in Moldova”.

(Română) Tot mai des ai nevoie să explici prietenilor că știrile pe care le distribuie pe canalele de pe Telegram nu sunt adevărate? Sau poate ai căzut și tu în capcana noutăților false atunci când navigai pe rețele de socializare? Dorești să știi cum poți lupta cu fenomenul dezinformării și cum poți să contribui la reducerea răspândirii știrilor false? Atunci avem vești bune pentru tine!

The Institut für Europäische Politik based in Berlin (IEP), in partnership with the Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE) and the Institute for Strategic Initiatives (IPIS) organized on May 12th a virtual kick-off workshop for a new project: inforMD – against disinformation in the Republic of Moldova.

(Română) Echipa IPIS a desfășurat prima întâlnire a platformei pentru promovarea studierii limbii române și găgăuze în UTA Găgăuzia. Participanții acestei întruniri au făcut un schimb de opinii privind situația generală ce ține de studierea limbii găgăuze și române în autonomia găgăuză, dar și au propus un set de recomandări pentru stimularea acestui proces.

  Our vocal social companies, which we conduct locally in six regions of the country, have also reached the Leova district. We met on-line with Mayor Alexander Bujoryan, Chairman of “Parteneriat social” Raisa Balan and her colleagues, director of Disctrict Youth Centre Ion Calalb, president of the Association of People with Disabilities Radu Raicu, representatives of the local library, Ethnographic museum, NGO “Băștinașii”, Vocational School, M. Spätaru Lyceum. We discussed with IPIS team and our invited experts Arthur Gurau and Mircea Esanu: – the development of the local community through the prism of access to internal and external monetary funds; – on digital activism tools and self-financing methods; – how to make journalists allies in solving local problems. In October, representatives of local activists, with the help of the IPIS team, will implement their initiative in the Leova district. The meeting took place within the programme “Vocal social campaigns at local level”, which is implemented within the Grant Programme “Development of civil society at local level in Moldova”, financed by the EU and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS).

The volunteers of the Falesti District Youth Centre met with IPIS experts to learn about the existing mechanisms for creating and promoting their own social campaigns.

Meetings with residents of Moldova from eight districts of the country, factual refutation of common myths about EU, video stories about successfully implemented projects with EU financial support, TV debates and, most importantly, communication, these are the main results of the program “EU in Moldova: Perceptions and Reality”, which were presented by three NGOs, including the Institute for Strategic Initiatives within the framework of the final conference.