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Illustration: the valley of the Prut river at sunset, with an old iron bridge over the water and wooded hills on both banks.
LOCAL

What the «Prut heritage strategy» that Ungheni is developing with Iași really is

Ungheni City Hall has announced that it has begun drawing up a strategy for harnessing the cultural heritage of the Middle Prut Valley for 2027–2033. Behind the wording lies a concrete European project: «Gateways for the sustainable integration of the culture of the Middle Prut Valley into European tourist routes», funded through the cross-border Interreg NEXT Romania–Republic of Moldova programme, in which Ungheni is the lead and Iași the partner. The first of the five August working sessions, on 4 August, brought together online over 60 participants from about 50 institutions on both banks of the Prut. A first inventory found approximately 2,500 cultural sites across ten districts of Moldova and three counties of Romania.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· Explainer
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Urban garden laid out in the centre of a small town, with flower beds, young shrubs, paths and benches, bordered by low buildings; warm summer light, no identifiable people.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Ungheni City Hall calls itself „just a partner” in the downtown garden — but it puts up half the budget

The green space between Înfrățirii Square and the Episcopal Cathedral, covering 0,8 hectares, is being turned into an „urban garden” through a cross-border project funded by the European Union. The total budget is 303.802,50 euros, and Ungheni City Hall states on its page that it is „just a partner”. Programme documents show, however, that the municipality holds the largest individual budget in the project — 152.261 euros, or 50,1% — more than the organisation leading the project. Work begins about five months before the completion deadline.

Ion Calmis·18 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
An excavator digs earth along the line of a dike by a riverbank while two men watch the works; in the far background, the wooded floodplain of the Prut.
LOCAL

Ungheni reinforces its Prut dike over 2.3 km and adds a riverfront promenade on top

Ungheni city hall has started work to reinforce the protective dike along the Prut and its tributary, the Delia, in the Ungheni-Vale neighbourhood — the area threatened by Prut floods in 2008, 2010 and 2020. The 2,341 metres of dike will carry a riverfront promenade with walkways, bike lanes and viewpoints over the river. The project is funded by the European Union with a €922,715 grant, through the cross-border Interreg programme, together with the twin city of Dorohoi in Romania.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
On a workshop table, handmade textile bows and accessories in grey and yellow fabric with white lace; in the background a woman sews by hand, with industrial sewing machines around.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Old clothes turned into new pieces: students at the Ungheni vocational school learned upcycling in a European circular-fashion project

In May and June, the Ungheni vocational school hosted two creative workshops — „Cercul inovativ al tradiției” and „Firul memoriei” — in which participants gave a second life to old clothes and made objects from recycled materials. The workshops were brought in by ZIPHOUSE, Chișinău's creative and fashion-industry hub, through TEX-DAN, an initiative of the European Interreg programme dedicated to the circular economy in textiles. For a school that trains tailors and garment makers, it is a bridge between the core trade and one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time: fashion-industry waste.

Ion Calmis·3 July 2026· News
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The two façade-modernisation options for the Palace of Culture in Ungheni, shown side by side: on the left Option 1, in light tones of cream, grey and wood; on the right Option 2, with a contrasting anthracite grey.
LOCAL

Ungheni residents pick how the Palace of Culture will look: two options, voting until Wednesday morning

Ungheni City Hall has opened a public vote on the exterior look of the Palace of Culture, now undergoing an energy-efficiency overhaul. There are two façade options — one in light tones of cream, light grey and wood, the other with a contrasting anthracite grey — and residents can choose through an online form until Wednesday, 1 July, 8.00. The works are part of a cross-border project with Iași, funded through Interreg.

Ion Calmis·29 June 2026· News
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A family doctor in a white coat works at a new laptop bearing an Interreg sticker, next to a printer, in a consulting room at the Ungheni Health Centre.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

A Romania–Moldova project equips 15 family doctors in Ungheni with laptops. The real stake isn't the devices, but catching the «silent» cancers early

Fifteen family doctors in the Ungheni district have received laptops and printers through «PREVENT», a cross-border project funded by the European Union, in partnership with the city of Iași and the «Grigore T. Popa» University of Medicine. The equipment is the visible part; the stated goal is another — to shift family medicine from treating disease to preventing it, with a focus on the cancers that don't hurt until it is too late: cervical, breast and colon. The project, worth about 415,000 euros, runs until April 2027.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· Explainer
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A participant speaks while standing at the PLASTICWISE technical workshop in the meeting room of the Ungheni District Council, with other participants seated around a table and project materials in front of them.
LOCAL

More than 40,000 people in Ungheni drink water from the Prut. A Romania–Moldova project has started looking for microplastics in the river, and the workshop was held in Ungheni itself

PLASTICWISE, a cross-border project funded by the European Union, is monitoring plastic pollution in the Prut — the river from which the town of Ungheni draws its drinking water. On 25 June, partners from Romania and Moldova met at the Ungheni District Council and went down to the bank of the Prut, by «Micul Cluj» Park. The measurement results are not yet public — the study is still under way. And how dangerous microplastics in drinking water really are remains, according to the World Health Organization, a question without a final answer.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· Explainer