Knowledge transfer training for the students of the Alecu Russo State University from Bălți

On 20 November 2021, the Institute of Zoology organised a knowledge transfer training within the project 2 SOFT/1.2/47 Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin – TeamUp HealthyFish (Joint Operational Program Romania-Republic of Moldova 2014-2020 funded by the European Union). Restrictions on the COVID-19 pandemic imposed the online format of the event.

Training had a total of 85 participants, of which 68 – undergraduate students, master students and didactic staff of the Alecu Russo State University from Bălți, Faculty of Real, Economic and Environmental Sciences. It was also attended by the representatives of the project partner beneficiary – Univ. Prof. Dr. Liviu-Dan Miron, project manager on behalf of the Iași University of Life Sciences, and Univ. Prof. Dr. Vasile Vulpe.

As the moderator of the event, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Elena Zubcov, head of the Center of Research of Hydrobiocenoses and Ecotoxicology, scientific coordinator of the TeamUp HealthyFish project, recalled the past successes of fish farming in Moldova, which demonstrates the potential for the development of this branch of agriculture in the region, and reviewed the main problems, which fish farming in the Republic of Moldova has to face – water shortage, lack of training/consuling centers for fish farmers, laboratories for analysis of water quality for the needs of fish farmers, lack of at least one full-cycle household, etc.

Dr. Nadejda Andreev, head of the Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Ecotoxicology, project manager on behalf of the Institute of Zoology, made a brief presentation of the project and demonstrated the connection of the knowledge offered in the training with the curricula of such disciplines as Ecology, Geography and Biology, Didactics of Biology, Applied ecology.

Program of event consisted of such issues as diversity, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of the most common diseases encountered in fish (Dr. Ștefan Rusu, head of the Laboratory of Parasitology and Helminthology, Ion Gologan, scientific researcher in the  Laboratory of  Parasitology and Helminthology), determinant factors of the fish wellbeing in fish farming and amelioration methods (Dr.Hab. Dumitru Bulat, head of the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Aquaculture), zooplankton as live feed in fish rearing (Liubovi Lebedenco, scientific researcher in the Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Ecotoxicology), regulatory framework of the Republic of Moldova in the field of aquaculture and aquaculture products (Dr. Lucia Bilețchi, leading scientific researcher in the Laboratory of Hydrobiology and Ecotoxicology).

The TeamUp HealthyFish team of the Institute of Zoology highly appreciate the contribution of the didactic staff of the Alecu Russo State University from Bălți, in particular, Dr.Hab.Prof. Boris Boincean and Dr. Assoc.Prof. Stanislav Stadnic, to the organization and good development of the training and brings many thanks.

Download the press release in pdf format HERE.

Lucia Bilețchi