Moldovan legislative body organizes first issue of intellectual game for youth, Know Your Parliament

Chisinau, 11 December /MOLDPRES/ - Twenty four learned pupils from Ungheni, Criuleni, Hancesti and Chisinau have tested their knowledge dealing with the legislative process within an intellectual game, Know Your Parliament, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.

Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu congratulated the winners and awarded them prizes.  

”Congratulations for your participation in the first project of this kind organized by the parliament, which will be part, starting from the next year, of a larger educative block, for young people, related to the political processes. I hope that, starting from 2019, as many as possible young people from Moldova go though the emotions you experienced today and pupils from more lyceums and schools will participate in the events organized by the parliament,” the parliament speaker said.  

Divided into four teams, the young people answered a string of questions on the history and work of the legislative body, covering a route set by the organizers. The museum of the parliament, library, conference hall and the Europe Hall met the participants at a contest with an intellectual exam, both the knowledge of the young people and their abilities of team work being put to test. The teams had access from one hall to another, after they had found a password due to lead them further, by answering all questions prepared by the organizers. The final exam of the contest was held in the session hall.  

Those four teams selected by the parliament are the winners of the string of intellectual games, What? Where? When?, on electoral subjects. It is about a team of the Vasile Alecsandri theoretical lyceum from Ungheni, team of the Boris Dinga theoretical lyceum from Criuleni, team of the Mihail Sadoveanu theoretical lyceum Hancesti and the team of the Aristotel theoretical lyceum from Chisinau.     

The intellectual game takes place within a campaign for the promotion of education for human rights and democratic citizenship, organized in the context of marking the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event is organized in partnership with the Moldovan Club of Intellectual Games and the Education, Culture and Research Ministry.

Presently, at an initiative by Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu, a national project on civic education is under elaboration. The programme due to be launched next year will include interactive working sessions, popularization of instruments of people’s involvement in the decision-making process, as well as informative sets, projects which, after the approval of the Education, Culture and Research Ministry, will be distributed to schools as support for civic education classes.