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 ...

Current state of fish farming in the Republic of Moldova was one of the topics presented in the edition of the show "Codul Eco" from 9 May 2022, broadcast by the national television channel Moldova 1. Film shooting was done in the fish farm from Nimoreni village, Ialoveni district, having as interviewees Vitalie Bortă, fish farmer, Gheorghe Gheorghiu, executive director of the Association of Fish Farmers of the Republic of Moldova, and researchers of the Institute of Zoology – cor.mem. Elena Zubcov, dr. Nadejda Andreev and dr.hab. Dumitru Bulat. The initiative to address this issue in a TV ...

On 8 of April 2022, within the cross-border 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 scientific workshop on the current state of fish farming in the basin of the Prut river and perspectives for its improvement was held. Workshop was organised by the Institute of Zoology jointly with the project partner – Iasi Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Life Sciences. The mixed format of the event allowed to bring together a ...