People who want to start a business — or have only just started one — have three days of free schooling in Ungheni next month. From 14 to 16 July 2026, the town hosts a new cycle of training for first-time entrepreneurs, open to participants from the Ungheni, Fălești, Nisporeni and Călărași districts. Attendance is free, but it requires being there in person.
What is taught in the three days
According to the announcement, participants will discuss with specialists their tax obligations, bookkeeping, import-export procedures and useful tools for managing a business efficiently — that is, exactly the things people tend to stumble over with their first firm. For details and registration, the organisers give a single phone number: 022 822 024. The exact venue in Ungheni and any registration deadline are not stated in the announcement.
Who is actually organising it
Although the announcement comes through the State Tax Service’s channels, the training is not the work of a single institution. It is part of a programme run under the European Union project “Moldova is Europe – Support for EU integration”, on which the Ministry of Finance, the State Tax Service, the Customs Service and the publication Monitorul fiscal FISC.md work together. In other words, it is a state tool funded with European money, not an image-building gesture by the tax authority.
The eighth round of a year-long programme
Ungheni is neither the first nor the last town on the list. The “Training for start-ups” programme was launched in 2025: the first round, in July 2025, gathered about 120 entrepreneurs, and by February 2026 roughly 450 people had been through the courses. The most recent edition, in Edineț, on 10–12 June, drew 101 participants from four districts. After Ungheni (the eighth round) comes Comrat. That also sets a realistic expectation for next month’s host: recent rounds gather around a hundred participants.
Why it matters: an economy that is shrinking
Beyond the announcement, the figures explain why such a programme is more than a formality. In the Ungheni district, enterprises had 8,033 employees in 2024 — over 700 fewer than in 2021, when there were 8,741, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. At the same time, the turnover of the district’s firms rose to about 7.93 billion lei. Translated: there is more money, but it is concentrating in fewer jobs — the local economy is deepening, not widening.
To that is added an average wage which, in 2024, was 11,321 lei gross in the Ungheni district — almost a fifth (19%) below the national average of 13,990 lei. In a district people are leaving, new small businesses are one of the few ways to create income at home, without a ticket abroad.
Training is half the road; the other half is money
Training teaches you how to run a business, but it does not start it for you. The other half — the start-up capital — comes, for those eligible, from other state programmes. The Organisation for Entrepreneurship Development runs, among others, “Start for the young” (for people aged 18–35, with grants of up to 200,000 lei and an own contribution of at least 30%) and “Women in business”. Anyone crossing the threshold of the July training can also use the three days to learn how such financing is reached.
The announcement comes from the State Tax Service; the programme framework (organisers, European funding, previous rounds) is confirmed by statements from the Ministry of Finance and the State Tax Service. The economic figures are official data from the National Bureau of Statistics for the Ungheni district. The number of active enterprises in the district is not published by the Bureau at territorial level, so it is not given here. The exact venue and the registration deadline were not specified in the announcement at the time of publication.