L 273/126
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
21.10.2022
— within 7 years: — Enhance digital economy in the Republic of Moldova, notably regarding digital skills, ICT education programmes, uptake of space-based data and services, digital innovation and start-up ecosystems and cybersecurity; — Facilitating Digital Governance through standardisation of spatial data for Digital Transformation according to the EU best practices.
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Education, training youth and sport The Parties will work together on the overall modernisation and quality of the education and training systems.
This cooperation will include work to: — Continue to carry out education reforms to increase efficiency and relevance of the education provision. — Develop and implement a new national education strategy "Education 2030" and its implementation program. — Digitise the educational process.
Mainstream innovation and digital in all learning contexts. — Better connect and integrate education, research and innovation to serve the economic and social development of the Republic of Moldova. — Encourage a strategic approach to vocational education and training to ensure its accessibility, quality and relevance. — Strengthen cooperation, capacity building and mobility through EU programmes and initiatives and promote the Republic of Moldova’s active participation in the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes. — Increase the quality of initial and in-service teacher training and improve attractiveness of teacher careers, as well as improve teacher career development. — Increase the quality of teaching materials, including textbooks adapted to the new curricula. — Strengthen a strategic approach to youth policy, enhance exchanges and cooperation in the field of non-formal education. — Strengthen inclusive education and training at all levels. — Create a Lifelong Learning ecosystem, including functional validation of prior vocational experience.
As part of overall efforts in enhancing the quality and relevance of the education system and closer links with the labour market the Parties will work together in order to: — within 3-4 years: — Continue the adaptation of the vocational and university education, including fields such as medical education, to European minimum training requirements. — Reform of Moldovan universities, in particular pedagogical ones, both in terms of resource optimisation and in terms of relevance and content of program studies; — Consolidate the quality-control system, including through internationalisation of evaluation. — Continue strengthening anticorruption measures across the board. — Integrate school-based VET and dual VET, to increase relevance and employability. — Realise a full round of teacher training according to the new curricula. — Realise a reliable database of education, so as to be able to produce evidence-based reforms followed by evaluation of the measures taken. — Update the policy framework in the field of education in line with lessons learned. — Continue up-grading institutional capacity of all relevant administration and agencies involved in education governance.