- Several initiatives to improve learning through mobile technologies were presented during the Mobile Learning Week 2017, a recently-concluded five-day event held at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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- Persons interested in innovations and technologies learned more about blockchain - a popular incorruptible and efficient technology- at a presentation made by the United Nations at Moldova ICT Summit 2017, on its eighth edition.
UNDP continues to collect stories about jobs and unemployment, in particular from young women and men, via the website http://www.eucred.md. The platform does not require the users to submit personal data.
- Nine south-eastern European countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Israel, Montenegro, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – are set to sign a new, far-reaching cooperation pledge to continue improving the health and well-being of their populations. The signing is expected at the end of the 4th South-eastern Europe Health Ministerial Forum, being held on 3–4 April 2017 in Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova. Chisinau currently holds the rotating Presidency of the South-eastern Europe Health Network.
Throughout 3 years, the European Union funded Clima East Project, implemented by the UNDP, developed and implemented innovative systems of public pastures and forests management in the Orhei National Park region, aiming at preventing soil erosion and carbon capture and storage. The results of the project were presented today at a closing workshop in Orhei.
- In just one year, 31 young entrepreneurs created more than 120 jobs and introduced new goods and services in the market. They started their business with the financial support from the European Union provided under the Support to Confidence Building Measures Programme (SCBM), implemented by the UNDP Moldova. The results of the Youth Business Empowerment Project (part of SCBM) were presented today, at an event in Tiraspol.
The corruption risks for the Chisinau city hall services are estimated to 117.7 million lei annually. Only for the issuance of permits in the field of construction, advertising and trade, the informal taxes would constitute approx. 6 million lei per year, according to a study of the Independent Analytical Centre "Expert-Grup", released today at a roundtable.
World Health Day 2017 focuses on depression – the second-largest contributor to disability or health loss and a leading underlying cause for the 128 000 suicide deaths that occur each year in the WHO European Region. The number of people with depressive disorders in the Region amounts to 40 million, with prevalence in countries ranging from 3.8% to 6.3% of the total population, according to newly released WHO global health estimates for 2015.