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THE ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, YOUTH AND SPORTS

(MECTS)

MISSION

The assurance of the basic education for all the citizens and the development of the key

competences.

Achieving equity in education.

The substantiation of learning based on the personal and professional development need of youth, regarded from a sustainable development and the assurance of an economical and social

cohesion.

Opening of the educational system and professional training to the society, to the economic, social and

cultural environment.

The assurance and recognition of the complementarity between formal, non-formal and informal education, since life-long learning has

become one of the fundamental pillars of educational policy.

Increasing the quality of the learning/teaching process, as well as of the other educational

services.STRATEGICAL

PRIORITIES OF MECTS

CURRICULAR POLICIES OF METCS

Assurance of equal opportunities and of

the individual process of learning

Selecting and grouping of knowledge in curricular arias.

Decentralization.

Assurance of the performance and

coherence of schooling.

Assurance of the social relevance of

the teaching/learning process.

Compatibility with international standards.

Efficiency.Flexibility.

PRIORITARY OBJECTIVES OF

MECTS

Increasing educational quality in a knowledge –based

society in Romania.

Assurance of human resources training through pre-university and life-long

education.

Personal development of students for long-life learning.

Developing the social cohesion and increasing the

citizens’ participation to economic and social

development programmes of the social community.

KEY COMPETENCES

Cultural awareness and expression

Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship

Social and civical competences

Communication in mother tongue

Communication in foreign languages

Mathematical competences and basic

competences in science and technology

Learning to learn Digital competences

THE NEW LAW OF EDUCATION-2011

Synchronising education cycles with the requirements of a modern education system and the European Qualification Framework;

Modernization and decongestion of school curriculum; Reorganization of students’ assessment system; Ensuring a high degree of decentralization, accountability

and financing of the system; Ensuring equal opportunities to education for

disadvantaged groups; Upgrading vocational education and training (VET); Reform of human resource policies in education; Stimulating lifelong learning-focus on the eight key

competences; Competitive financing and incentives for academic

excellence in higher education

Innovative programmes for European Plurilingualism

Strategies for inclusion and

student entrepreneurshi

p Challenges using ITC

Plurilingualism

 “Policies for language education should therefore promote the

learningof several languages for all

individuals in the course of their lives, so

that Europeans actually become plurilingual and intercultural

citizens,able to interact with other

Europeans in all aspects of their lives.”

(Council of Europe, 2003: 7)

General Aims

Enabling all European citizens the necessary means to overcome the obstacles of internationalization (in education, culture, science, trade &industry)

Promoting:•mutual understanding and tolerance•cultural diversity

Maintaining richness and diversity of cultural life

in Europe through mutual knowledge of

languages

Meeting the needs of a multicultural

Europe

Avoiding perils as a result of possible exclusion of those

who do not posses necessary abilities to communicate in an interactive Europe

PLURILINGUALISM

Equal opportunities

for disadvantaged

groups

gender

Socio-economic

background

disability

Learners with an ethnic

minority or migrant

Religion or belief

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SOCIAL INCLUSION

SOCIAL INCLUSION

Key actions to reduce the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion in Romania:

reforming the social assistance system; facilitating the access and participation of

persons belonging to vulnerable groups on the labour market

balanced economic and social development of Romanian regions.

improving the access of vulnerable persons to healthcare services

Developing programmes to reduce the number of children who abandon school.

ITC

E-skills and digital

competences

Organizational change

ICT infrastructur

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New educational approaches

needed

E-learning platform

s

challenges

ICT in ROMANIA

Directions (based on the recommendations of the European Commission - “ICT in Education & Training “)

Linking ICT implementation to long-term education objectives;

Attending to the needs and demands of educational actors involved with ICT by developing new services;

Training educational actors for change with ICT’ Developing evaluation, measuring results and

linking ICT educational use with research.

Entrepreneurship

aimsresult

s

to stimulate and encourage innovative and to stimulate and encourage innovative and creative mindsets;creative mindsets; to generate more growth and better jobs.to generate more growth and better jobs.

• taking initiatives to make things taking initiatives to make things happenhappen

• solving problem creativelysolving problem creatively• managing autonomouslymanaging autonomously• taking responsibility for, and taking responsibility for, and

ownership of, thingsownership of, things• networking effectively to manage networking effectively to manage

interdependenceinterdependence• putting things together creatively putting things together creatively • using judgment to take using judgment to take

calculated riskscalculated risks

Entrepreneurship

Romania has adopted the Entrepreneurship Action Plan – the strategic framework for developing an integrated entrepreneurship policy – that includes as a prime key action fostering entrepreneurial mindsets through school education.

Achievements: development of entrepreneurship curricula for primary schools, gymnasium, high schools and higher education; promotion of “Junior Enterprise” concept (entirely student-run consulting companies) as one of the best practices in the field of entrepreneurial education and an aide to foster entrepreneurial mindsets among young people.

Entrepreneurial Education

Primary Schools – help students to have more faith in themselves, through making and accepting responsibility, exploring their creativity through trial and error and learning about the resources of their local community.

Lower Secondary School – students develop core skills such as decision making, ability to work in a team, problem solving and establishing networks.

Upper Secondary School – learning through doing and applying practice and theory whilst incorporating resources, finances, environment, ethics and working-life relationships can be developed by establishing youth enterprises.

Higher education – developing products, identifying business opportunities, customer and market relationships, creativity and innovation are all part of business planning and establishing and running a company

PROJECTS

Leonardo Comenius

Both for students and teachers

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