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A kindergarten classroom with new furniture and equipment, no identifiable children.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

173 children at Ungheni's „Delia” kindergarten receive equipment through EQIP — on a grant, not a loan

The „Delia” nursery-kindergarten in the municipality of Ungheni is one of the 200 preschool institutions selected nationally for equipment through the „Improving the Quality of Education” project (EQIP) — position 68 on the Ministry of Education's list and one of 9 kindergartens in Ungheni raion. The institution's 173 children represent 4,1% of the children enrolled in early education in the raion. The equipment comes from a non-repayable World Bank grant, not from a loan — unlike the equipping of schools in the same project, among them the „Ion Creangă” Lyceum in Ungheni, which comes from a loan. In parallel, the municipality's strategy shows that at „Delia” the roof needs major repair, the building is not thermally insulated and access ramps are missing.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
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A file with enrolment documents, a lower-secondary graduation certificate and a pen, laid out on a school desk in front of a blackboard, illustrating lyceum admission.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Lyceum admission 2026 in Ungheni: eight lyceums, the full calendar and how the competition average is calculated

The Ungheni Education Department opened admission to the 10th grade for the 2026–2027 school year on Monday, 13 July. Eight lyceums in the district receive files — five in the town of Ungheni and one each in Pîrlița, Sculeni and Măcărești — while Cornești has no lyceum, so its graduates must look elsewhere. Files are submitted until 22 July, online or on paper, and a pupil may apply to several lyceums at once. Here is the list of institutions, the two-stage calendar, the required documents, how the competition average is calculated for the real and humanities profiles, and who is admitted without competition.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· News
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Dozens of graduates in black gowns and mortarboards, wearing white stoles, applaud lined up along a red carpet in the college courtyard on a sunny summer day.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's Medical College has turned out 125 nurses — its largest class in four years, in a district that has lost 94

The class of 2026 collected its diplomas on 14 July: 125 graduates, in four groups. The number climbs year after year — 85 in 2023, 119 in 2024, 119 in 2025 — and it arrives in the very district that has 59 mid-level medical staff per 10,000 inhabitants against 94 nationally. How many of the class stay home is unknown: neither the hospital nor the health centre publishes its nursing vacancies, and the state's 96,000-lei grant is written for villages.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· Analysis
Photograph from the «Linii în dialog» exhibition: three works by the Ungheni pupils hung on a red gallery wall — a city with green umbrellas, a blue archway with a figure, and an orange cat holding a «STOP» sign.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Seven pupils from Ungheni's art school are exhibiting in Iași, in a Municipal Museum gallery, until 31 July. Entry is free

The exhibition «Linii în dialog» («Lines in Dialogue») brings together 17 young artists from Iași and Ungheni at the «Dumitru I. Grumăzescu» Galleries in Iași — a section of the «Regina Maria» Municipal Museum, the museum network of Iași City Hall. It is open until 31 July, and its opening was held on Thursday, 16 July. Seven of the exhibitors are pupils of the «Raisa Cojocaru» School of Fine Arts in Ungheni, coached by the school's headmistress. The show is run not by the school but by an association from Iași, through a project whose partners include Ungheni City Hall. Entry is free.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· News
The «Elegie» children's choir of Ungheni's Music School, in blue capes, arranged in rows on a hall stage, with the conductor in the foreground.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The «Elegie» children's choir of Ungheni's Music School wins the Grand Prize at an international competition

The «Elegie» children's choir, conducted by Ala Beleac, won the Grand Prize at the Elite International Arts Competition 2026 — a first-edition contest held entirely online. The distinction is a real victory for the children of Ungheni's Music School, and an occasion to look at the system behind it: a network of municipal art schools with nearly six decades of tradition, in a district that has lost more than half of its young people in twelve years.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· News
A stack of colourful books arranged on a wooden table, next to a poster urging people to donate books for the library.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni District Youth Council collects books for a community library, through July 25

The young district councillors have launched a book-donation drive: anyone with volumes in good condition — for children, teenagers or adults — can offer them through a message on the council's Facebook page, until July 25. The books go to a community library that the announcement does not name. The gesture lands on a local nerve: the district's book stock has thinned by a quarter over two decades.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· News
A container for hazardous medical waste, marked with the biohazard symbol, next to emergency medical equipment in a hospital.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

A €375,000 project with the nurses of Iași would bring the Ungheni District Hospital emergency equipment and a unit for medical waste

The Ungheni District Hospital announces that it is a partner in a cross-border project for responding to health crises — an outfit of emergency-care equipment and a unit for neutralising hazardous medical waste. The official document shows, however, that this is a provisional selection, with a European grant of at most €375,438.90 for the whole partnership: the contract has not yet been signed.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· News
The construction site of a building going up: reinforced-concrete foundations and wooden formwork, with apartment blocks in the background, at Ungheni's “Vasile Alecsandri” high school.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Ungheni's “Vasile Alecsandri” high school builds its first gym: 13.7 million lei for the first stage alone

The oldest high school in Ungheni district, whose roughly 620 students have had no indoor gym until now, finally has a construction site. The state procurement registry shows a 13.72-million-lei contract for the building's structure, won by COLASS SA. The walls go up this year, the interior follows in 2027 — and the total cost will be higher, because the second stage is not yet budgeted.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· News
A modern digital mammography machine in a clean, well-lit medical room, in white and blue tones, with no patient in the frame.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

The Ungheni centre screens for breast cancer free of charge for four districts — who it is for and how to reach an ultrasound or a mammogram

One of Moldova's regional centres for the early detection of breast cancer operates at the IMSP Ungheni Health Centre: it serves women from the Ungheni, Nisporeni, Călărași and Fălești districts, and the services — clinical examination, ultrasound and digital mammography — are free, covered through CNAM. We explain who has access, how to get there and what is done, depending on age.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· Explainer
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