The Ungheni Territorial Football Association organized a football festival for 100 students from the 'M. Eminescu' high school on August 27, the fourth day of the 'Football and Independence in Ungheni' program. The Summer Cup in mini-football reached matchday six.
Gabriel Mironiuc, an 11-year-old pupil at the “Alexandr Pușkin” Lyceum in Ungheni, was the best-placed player from the Republic of Moldova in his section at the “Open Bohumín” international chess festival, held in July in the Czech Republic. The section — a classical FIDE-rated tournament — had 26 participants. Ungheni City Hall announced a bronze medal for him. He trains at the Ungheni Sports School — a town with a chess tradition that hosted, in 2021, a simultaneous exhibition with former world champion Anatoly Karpov.
From 13 to 17 July, the Costuleni Public Library is hosting a summer camp for the village's children: educational, creative and recreational activities coordinated by librarian Adriana Leiba. The mayor's office funds it, parents chip in, and the children also get a snack every day.
The group of children born in 2018 — the youngest athletes at Ungheni District Sports School — returned with the silver medal from the ‘Junior Mamaia Cup’, a children’s football tournament held in Mamaia, Romania. It is the youngest link in a district school that, in the same summer, promoted its U16 juniors to the National League and that already held, since 2023, a national bronze in beach football. Behind the trip are coach Constantin Lungu and the parents who accompanied the little ones.
The boy, disoriented, could not find his own way home. Carabinieri on patrol identified where he lived and took him back to his parents. Across the whole country in 2025, carabinieri returned more than 20 lost children to their families — and the official rule when a child goes missing is to call 112 immediately, not after 24 hours.
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.
On Thursday evening, 9 July, gymnasts from two local studios and young soloists held the audience captive on the Micul Cluj Park stage in Ungheni, at a new evening of the „Vara Culturală-n Parc” (Cultural Summer in the Park) project. Beyond the show, it is about something concrete for the town's families — a free, open-air cultural programme that runs all summer and, this year, carries extra weight: with the House of Culture building going into renovation, the town's main hall has moved outdoors.
Another group of pupils from Ungheni district arrived on Tuesday at the "Arcul de Triumf" National Sports Complex in Bucharest, at one of the ARC camps run by the Romanian state. It is the second batch of children from the district to leave this summer through the programme, after the group of about 100 children that set off, at the end of June, for Padiș and Oglinzi.
The children's team „Viitorul” of Ungheni says it has started in the 2026 edition of the national beach soccer championship, on the arena in Chișinău. It is not a first for Ungheni on the sand: in 2023, the district sports school of the same name took a squad of youngsters to third place in the country. The results of the opening round have not yet been made public.
