On 20 November 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), an online knowledge transfer training will be organised by the Institute of Zoology in partnership with the Aleco Russo State University from Balti. The training aims to transfer knowledge on the diversity, diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of the most common diseases encountered in fish, the stress factors that lead to fish disease, as well ...

The World Science Day for Peace and Development, marked every year on 10 November, was established on 2 November 2001, at the 31st session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), by Resolution 20/31C, in order to highlight the important role of science in society and the need to engage the general public in debates on important contemporary issues relevant to science. World Science Day was celebrated for the first time worldwide on 10 November 2002, under the auspices of UNESCO. The proposed by UNESCO theme of 2021 edition is ...

The volume “Fauna of Collembola (Hexapoda: Collembola) from the Republic of Moldova” includes the results of faunal studies, which have been conducted by doctor habilitat, assistant professor Galina Bușmachiu on the representatives of the class Collembola (Hexapoda) on the territory of the Republic of Moldova during almost 30 years of scientific activity. Collembola are some of the oldest known organisms in the World, which fossils date back about 400 million years, attesting to their presence on Earth since the Paleozoic era (Devonian period). The representatives of the class Collembola ...