Eastern European Journal for Regional Studies

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Authors: Valentina TÎRŞU

Higher education institutions in Moldova go through a difficult transition period requested by implementing the principles of the Bologna Process, which lead to the restructuring of the national university education. The work includes a study of implementing e-learning in higher education institutions in Moldova. The results presented are obtained from the investigation conducted at Moldova State University on the quality of higher education. The platform MOODLE is growing. The importance of developing Moodle is significant and allows improving the quality of higher education. We believe that Moodle is an effective tool to facilitate the integration of young professionals in the labor market.

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Authors: Alla LEVITSKAIA, Svetlana GHENOVA, Svetlana CURAXINA

In this paper, an analysis of government programs to support innovation development in the Republic of Moldova. Existing program of collaboration and cooperation between business and science and implementing a program of grants for the development of innovative SMEs under the leadership of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Emphasizes the importance of decentralization existing National Innovation System, necessity of its connections with regional emerging innovation systems. As an example the experience of the Innovative Educational cluster with the leading role of innovation incubator “InnoCenter” of the Comrat State University. Since 2012, Innovation incubator implements innovation projects and developing the infrastructure both inside and outside of the university borders - in close cooperation with the main actors of the regional innovation space.

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Authors: Petru BOGATENCOV, Ion COVALENCO

The transition of the traditional science and higher education to e-Science and e-Education is fueled by the ever increasing needs to have access, process and visualize of exceedingly large amounts of data that can’t be managed without modern communication and computing instruments. In the past years the European Commission has funded, through a number of targeted initiatives, creation of specialized eInfrastructures for providing IT services to research and educational communities to support collaborative research and education. In Eastern Europe, including in Moldova the existing resources of eIfrastructures are less developed than in Western Europe (ANTUN BALAZ, et. al., 2011). Advancing the Information Society, strengthening of the local eInfrastructures, activating new user communities, enabling access to modern educational content and technologies, to new instruments for collaborative research, would strongly contribute to closing the existing gap, and thus bridging the digital divide, stimulating research and consequently alleviating the brain drain in the region. At present the main facilities like Research and Educational networking infrastructure for effective data exchange, access to large-scale computing and other e-Infrastructures services is rapidly increasing in Moldova. eInfrastructure designates a new generation of integrated ICT based infrastructures and is widely considered as a key enabler of research and education development.