Project – Capacity Development for the National Center for Digital Innovation in Education – Future Classroom

The project, funded by Liechtenstein Development Service during 2018-2023, successfully established CNIDE as a leading competence center for active learning and innovative educational strategies. The project developed a comprehensive portfolio that now serves as a dynamic platform for sharing experiences, best practices, and lessons learned, thereby driving continuous improvement in teaching methodologies.

The project provided capacity-building support for CNIDE to promote modern methodologies for active learning and to lead digital innovation in Moldova’s education system. As a result, currently CNIDE serves as an educational platform for sharing experiences, best practices, and lessons learned from the implementation of the STEAM teaching model—an educational approach that integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry, dialogue, and critical thinking—alongside activity-based learning.

The main project components:

• Capacity development for CNIDE trainers on didactics for the use of innovative teaching/learning methods
• Support for CNIDE trainers in developing teacher training modules on didactics for the use of innovative methods
• Organizational development for CNIDE and subsidizing the training delivery

Project Outputs:

• CNIDE trainers were trained in innovative teaching techniques and active learning.
• Trainers learned about best practices in modern teaching/learning methodologies from different educational systems.
• CNIDE submitted new modules for preliminary authorization and subsequent accreditation.
• CNIDE trainers delivered the newly developed modules.
• CNIDE trainers promoted concepts of active learning embedded in the developed modules by showcasing best practices during a series of demo workshops.
• CNIDE experts developed a snapshot of the digital maturity of the education system.
• The CNIDE management team benefited from several inputs and coaching sessions designed to increase their organizational capacity.
• CNIDE obtained accreditation as a training service provider.

Project Partners:

Moldova Competitiveness Project, Orange Company, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Research, State Pedagogical University “I. Creanga,” and State University of Tiraspol.