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The Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Life Sciences from Iași (IULS), in partnership with the Institute of Zoology, organized a knowledge transfer training within the project 2SOFT/1.2/47 Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin – TeamUp HealthyFish on 19 May 2022. This was the last major event held within the project, which brought together in the Green Conference Hall of IULS forty participants – didactic staff and students of IULS, researchers of the Institute of Zoology, fish farmers (Dracșani fish farm) and representatives of the local authorities (Iași...

The Institute of Zoology joined on Saturday, 4 June 2022, the ecological community of the Republic of Moldova to mark the World Environment Day. The event was organized in Valea Morilor Park in Chisinau by the Association of Environmental Journalists, with the generous support of international funding organizations. The Institute of Zoology presented pieces from the collections of the Museum of Fossil Faunistic Complexes of Moldova and the Museum of Entomology, a collection of aquatic mollusks and several books dedicated to the fauna of the Republic of Moldova, thus capturing the attention of...

Between May 14-15, 2022, in the village of Văleni, Cahul district, the ninth edition of the National Ethno-Folk Festival “Sweet Acacia Flower” took place. On the first day of the festival the museum night was celebrated and the Museum of History and Ethnography of Văleni village opened its chest with memories to get acquainted with the roots, values and customs of the ancestral people. There were speeches about the first families of mocans who settled on the banks of the Prut river and about the folk clothes they wore proudly. On the second day there was the official opening of the festival...