Embassy of Germany in Moldova ends campaign on promoting German language

Chisinau, 12 May /MOLDPRES/ - An event on closure of a campaign on promotion of the German language, German? Of Course!, took place at the Chisinau-based Spiru Haret lyceum today. The action was organised by the Embassy of Germany in Moldova.  

The campaign lasted several months. On this period, 36 schools were visited throughout Moldova, where lessons of German were taught.

At the event, the Spiru Haret lyceum got the status of PASCH school (Schools: Partners for Future). The PASCH project was initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008, and is aimed at promoting and backing the studying of the German language, as well as at creating new relations between education units were German is learned.   

In her speech, German Ambassador to Moldova Ulrike Knotz highly appreciated pupils’ participation in diverse cultural actions and a contest of essays organised by the embassy.  

“Today, this work is rewarded: the Spiru Haret lyceum is awarded the title of PASCH school. In this way, the lyceum becomes the fourth school of Moldova to be part of this network,” the German diplomat said.  

The ambassador noted that, worldwide, 1,800 schools from Russia, China, Brazil, the United States and other countries, which included the profound studying of the German language in their syllabus, were members of the PASCH network.

“The initiative provides all participating schools a diversity of additional offers: for teachers’, for instance, possibilities of advanced training, including in Germany, for schools – support for endowment and for pupils – good offers, such as summer camps. School partnerships enjoy increased support,” Ulrike Knotz said.    

For his part, the head of the international relations and European integration directorate at the Education Ministry, Ludmila Popov, said that the PASCH school was really a school of the future. She thanked the German government for the programmes and projects launched in Moldova.

According to the headmaster of the Spiru Haret lyceum, Victor Ambroci, 1,156 pupils learn at the institution, of whom about 600 deeply study the German  language.  

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor A. Raileanu)