This project is a direct link to the Moldova ICT Excellence Center Project
The overarching goal is to create opportunities for people from the regions to get better employment opportunities

Ensure a transparent and informed GDPR implementation in Moldova, while passing
through all public consultations procedures and ensure that all relevant parties including
social vulnerable groups are involved in the process. Another goal is ensuring general
data protection awareness and a smooth transition by ensuring a consistent awareness
campaign among all relevant stake holders

The assignment aims at working
with two major issues of the Moldovan IT ecosystem:

1. scarcity of human resources
and/or difficulty in quickly finding personnel for current internships/job
openings; and

2. numerous blockers that require
lobbying needs at the government level to facilitate further local ICT sector
and solutions development.

The Assignment aims at economic
empowerment of participants through enhanced digital and entrepreneurship
skills. The Assignment envisages organisation of series of trainings for refugees
structured as per below:
Training
1: Social Media Management (5 modules, including 16 webinars)

Training
2: WordPress Development (HTML/CSS) (13 modules, including 24 webinars)

Training
3: Graphic design (16 modules, including 30 webinars)

Training
4: Software testing (16 modules, including 30 webinars)

Training
5: Soft skills relevant in employment and/or entrepreneurship, such as:
communication skills; critical thinking, teamwork, work ethics, etc. (10
modules, including 20 webinars)
There will be a total number of
attendees of min. 75 and max. 100 participants.

The Assignment aims at economic empowerment of participants through enhanced
digital and entrepreneurship skills. The Assignment envisages organisation of
series of trainings for refugees structured as per below:

Training 1: Social Media
Management (5 modules, including 16 webinars)

Training 2: WordPress Development
(HTML/CSS) (13 modules, including 24 webinars)

Training 3: Graphic design (16
modules, including 30 webinars)

Training 4: Software testing (16
modules, including 30 webinars)- 2 groups

Training 5: Soft skills relevant
in employment and/or entrepreneurship, such as: communication skills;
critical thinking, teamwork, work ethics, etc. (10 modules, including 20
webinars)

There will be a total number of attendees of min. 125 and max. 160 participants.

The overall objective of the project is to develop cooperation between Slovakia
and Moldova on labour migration and foster economic exchange between the ICT
sectors of the two countries.

Specific Objectives:

Specific objective 1: Develop and establish an opportunity-driven legal migration
scheme between Slovakia and Moldova supporting young Moldovans starting their
careers in the ICT sector by establishing a viable temporary labour mobility
scheme. The scheme will offer young (20) Moldovan talents – students or
graduates of ICT related fields – short-term employment (12 months) or
internships (3 months) in leading ICT companies in Slovakia, enabling them to
gain practical knowledge, skills and experience in professional environment
and later use them after integration back at home.

Specific objective 2: Support the development of Moldova by reintegrating successful
graduates of the scheme upon their return to Moldova via their effective
placement on the labour market or business start-ups, in cooperation with
relevant stakeholders. Through individual professional growth and subsequent
return of participants to Moldova, the scheme will support transfer of
knowledge and skills between the Slovak and Moldovan ICT sectors as well as
development of business relations between private companies in both
countries. To build capacities of the local partners, the project will
support the creation of a public-private partnership in order to establish an
educational platform, the Digital Academy Social Programme.

Specific objective 3: Share experiences and best practices in relation to the
implementation of labour migration scheme, return policies and policies aimed
at attracting migrants.

Under this Project an ICT
Excellence Center in Moldova is developed by a number of strategic partners
with the financial support from the United States Agency for International
Development. During 36 months the project will: 1) support the setup and
equipment of the facility; 2) support the creation of a business plan
integrating relevant IT educational content and entrepreneurship activities;
3) Train and prepare qualified staff; 4) Initiate and expand educational,
training and entrepreneurship development activities. The Technical University of Moldova will
host the Center on its premises.

Extension period:

Institutional development and
capacity building for the Tekwill (Chisinau) Center and creation of makers
space/fabrication laboratory (FabLab)

Continuous support for the
Moldova ICT start-up community, integrating relevant ICT educational content
and entrepreneurship activities

Develop Tekwill regional Centers
through deployment of relevant ICT educational content and entrepreneurship
activities in the regions (Chisinau, Balti, Cahul, Comrat, and potentially
Tiraspol)

Capacity development of the
potential regional Centers’ governing bodies and management teams

The three main objectives of the project are:
Foster partnerships for innovation and entrepreneurship between the private sector, public sector,
and educational institutions in the region of Cahul.

Promote technology, problem solving and creative solutions in learning and make STEM topics (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) more attractive for women and men, girls, and boys

Facilitate the emergence of start-ups in innovative sectors, build their capacity and investment
readiness

ICT Career Promotion, Build awareness that ICTs are tools that enable gender equality and women’s
empowerment and are integral to the creation of societies in which both women and men can substantively contribute and participate, close human capital gap due to lack of people.

The project will create a nurturing learning environment that will provide a series of diversified
activities, including fun ones that require hands-on application of science,
technology and crafts (including mechanics, electricity, electronics).
Students will be challenged to choose from a variety of Tekwill based
programs- from more IT-oriented and technical workshops and meetups to
activities that include make, build, “think with their minds hands” and
design while solving individually or in group a variety of tasks or real-life
problems. Importantly, the project will feature an environment that
encourages students to trust themselves, to take ownership of their own
learning, and to feel safe while making mistakes. Beyond the technical skills
gained at Tekwill as part of the project, students will be able to strengthen
essential soft skills like problem solving, communication skills, critical
thinking, basic digital skills and working in teams. To achieve the objective
and contribute to the aim of the project a certain number of activities will
be implemented. Some of them will be focused on taking the students out and
putting them simply in a different working environment, acquiring new skills
and abilities, others on working in a team and implementing joint projects. A
part of activities will familiarize students and their professors with the
new technologies, will introduce them to the Tekwill community.

Support consolidation of the national eco-system for innovation by bringing modern
ICT technologies closer to other sectors of the economy

Provision of matching support to private sector companies to generate prototypes, test
and commercialize new products or services or solutions that are conducive to
a more sustainable social and economic development of the nation

Further invest in the area of ICT education, strengthen and develop new partnerships
for ICT and soft skills and education

4 month course to support entrepreneurs

Startup Academy is a program in which we educate first-time entrepreneurs about the product validation process and the startup mindset.

During this program entrepreneurs learn how to validate their ideas and prototypes.

It is an environment that is conducive to helping early stage startups every day by surrounding them with
people who mentor, inspire, and challenge them, determining the strategy structure and prepare to connect startups with investors.

The goal of the Project is to expand the educational robotics programs and increase in the number of
students involved in training activities and to encourage young people to apply for IT studies.

The project aims at supporting the libraries to develop and provide the younger generation with alternative educational services and innovative learning solutions through the creation of Library Robotics clubs. The clubs will be equipped with relevant robotics sets and the key personnel involved in teaching robotics will be trained and provided with necessary resources, materials and tools.

The project “Partnerships for quality and relevance in ICT vocational education in Moldova” aims at assuring the quality and relevance of ICT vocational education for local, regional and national economy in Moldova, through the support in launching and in qualitative functioning of the Centre of Excellence for the VET ICT education thus advancing the harmonization of ICT education in Moldova with labour market demands, and to support the initial activity and functioning of the National Agency For Quality Assurance in Professional Education as an independent, functional and professional body.

In 2015, ATIC has been chosen as an implementing Agency for the Smart Classroom project with a focus on the following components:

1. Development of the Action plan of ICT in Education

2. Development of the Digital Manual Concept

3. Development of an Educational Portal

4. Development of Digital Repository for teachers

5. Training for Trainers in ICT Education

The purpose of the initiative is to promote the IT Career as an attractive option for the younger generations, orient talented pupils towards ICT specialties, and also inspire young people that are pursuing IT studies to work harder in order to develop tech and soft skills needed on the market place.

Another objective the project strives to achieve is encouraging the ICT students to undertake more active actions to gain useful knowledge and develop important skills for their future employment.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the harmonization of ICT education in Moldova with labor market demands. The project supports the qualitative improvement of content and process of ICT professional education in 6 institutions (colleges and vocational schools), thus fostering the improvement of quality of knowledge and practical skills of the young ICT specialists.