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A crowd of cheerful young people at an open-air evening concert, hands raised toward a stage lit with warm colored lights; a summer-festival atmosphere.
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Twice a national "Youth Capital," Ungheni dedicates a week to a shrinking youth

From 10 to 16 August, the Ungheni city hall and the Municipal Youth Centre are holding "Youth Week" (ZiT 2026) around International Youth Day on 12 August. Ungheni has good reason to call itself a "city of youth" — it held the national title of Youth Capital twice, in 2011 and 2023. But the celebration takes place in a district the young leave first: the number of people aged 15–34 has halved over the past decade, faster than the national average. We explain what the event is, where the "city of youth" identity comes from, and why, here, a youth week is more than a summer party.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
Two high-school graduates, a young woman and a young man, stand side by side beneath the coat of arms of Ungheni municipality, each holding a tablet box and a gift bag with the maib logo.
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Two tablets for two volunteers, in a town that was once the «Youth Capital» yet keeps losing its 20-year-olds

The Ungheni city hall and the bank MAIB awarded tablets to two high-school graduates — Sorina Iachimovschi and Maxim Angheluță — for their volunteering at the Municipal Youth Centre. The gesture is small, but it rests on a surprisingly dense youth infrastructure: two centres, the title of «Youth Capital» and a municipal grants programme. The question it raises is bigger than a tablet: can all this machinery keep a generation at home? National Bureau of Statistics figures show that the number of 20–24-year-olds in the district has fallen by 62% in a decade.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· Explainer