The Institute of Zoology participated in the Moldova 2021 Environment Day Festival, which took place on 26 June at the EcoLocal fair (Chisinau), at the invitation of the Association of Environmental and Ecological Tourism Journalists (AEETJ).

The Institute of Zoology invites everyone to join the open informational event within the project BSB27 “Black Sea Basin interdisciplinary cooperation network for sustainable joint monitoring of environmental toxicants migration, improved evaluation of ecological state and human health impact of harmful substances, and public exposure” – MONITOX. Project is implemented within the Joint Operational Program Black Sea Basin 2014-2020, financed by the European Union. 

On 24-26 May 2021, within the on-going 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), a joint field expedition was made with the participation of researchers of the Institute of Zoology and the Iași Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Life Sciences (former Iași Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine).

The methodological guide ”Parasitofauna, the impact of parasitosis on the common pheasant’s (Phasianus colchicus L.) organism, prophylaxis and treatment” is elaborated within the projects of the 2020-2023 State Program (project code: 20.80009.7007.12 and 20.80009.7007.02, leaders: academician, university professor Ion Toderaş, doctor habilitat, associate professor Galina Buşmachiu).

The Institute of Zoology organised on 20 May 2021 an online public informational seminar within the project eMS BSB 27 Black Sea Basin interdisciplinary cooperation network for sustainable joint monitoring of environmental toxicants migration, improved evaluation of ecological state and human health impact of harmful substances, and public exposure – MONITOX.

On 23 April 2021, the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and Research (in Romanian – Agenția Națională de Asigurare a Calității în Educație și Cercetare, ANACEC) handed, in a special ceremony, the awards ”Crystal of Quality” in the field of research for 2020.

The BSB165 project „Creating a system of innovative transboundary monitoring of the Black Sea river ecosystems transformation under impacts of hydropower development and climate change”, HydroEcoNex, foresees a series of events aimed to bring into attention of the general public the problems of management of aquatic resources in the Black Sea basin and disseminate the results obtained within the project.

On 27 March 2021, within the project BSB165 ”Creating a system of innovative transboundary monitoring of the Black Sea river ecosystems transformation under impacts of hydropower development and climate change”  – HydroEcoNex, the Institute of Zoology organised the knowledge transfer workshop ”Modifications of the functioning of aquatic ecosystems under the impact of hydropower construction and climate change”. 

Based on the collaboration agreement no.31/26 of 25.01.2021 between the Institute of Zoology and the National Agency for Food Safety (NAFS), between 22 and 26 February 2021, in the premises of the Institute of Zoology, the training of collaborators of the central apparatus of NAFS and the inspectors from state border inspection posts on the determination and identification of the presence of parasites in fish took place.

Dear colleagues, we kindly invite you to participate in the 10th International Conference of Zoologists Sustainable Use and Protection of Animal World in the Context of Climate Change, dedicated to the 75th anniversary from the creation of the first research subdivisions and the 60th anniversary from the foundation of the Institute of Zoology, which will take place on 16-17 September, 2021 within the Institute of Zoology (MD-2028, Chișinău, 1, Academiei Street).