Moldovan government increases salaries of employees from self-financed education institutions

Chisinau, 11 January /MOLDPRES/ - The staff of the education institutions working in regime of financial and economic self-management will benefit from annual salary increase of 1,300 lei starting from January 2023. The cabinet approved a decision to this effect today, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

The draft sees also the increase in the minimum salary of these institutions’ employees from 3,500 lei to 4,000 lei.   

Also today, the government approved the norms for the payment of the members of the teams who participate in projects in the fields of research and innovation, financed from external sources. The goal of the increases is to turn to good account opportunities provided by the status of country associated to the Horizon Europe European Union’s Programme for Research and Innovation. 

The modifications will allow the institutions of the research and innovation sector, who work in regime of financial and economic self-management, to access European funds in equal conditions with similar organizations from European Union member states.  

A considerable number of teachers and people employed in Moldova’s education and research system are to benefit from these amendments nationally.

The draft was worked out by the Education and Research Ministry and has the goal to ensure the same conditions of paying wages to the teaching and research staff from the institutions that work in the regime of financial and economic self-management and in the ones from the public sector, in order to cease the exodus of qualified specialists and to contribute to their professional development and evolution in career, as well as to involve, as intensely as possible, Moldova’s scientific community in the elaboration of proposals of research projects announced by the European Commission.   

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