The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports (MECTS) aims to provide equitable, high-quality education for all citizens through strategies like ensuring basic education, developing key competences, and increasing education quality in a knowledge-based society. MECTS prioritizes personal and professional development, complementarity of formal/informal education, and opening education to society. MECTS assures curriculum performance and coherence, social relevance, international compatibility, flexibility, efficiency, and human resources training. Key objectives include lifelong learning and social cohesion. The new 2011 education law modernizes curriculum and decentralizes the system. MECTS promotes inclusion, entrepreneurship, ICT skills, and European plurilingualism through

1. THE ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH,
YOUTH AND SPORTS
(MECTS)
MISSION
DESIGN SUBSTANTIATE APPLY
global education & the training strategy

2. The assurance of the basic education for all the
citizens and the development of the key
competences.
Achieving equity in education.
Increasing the quality of the learning/teaching
process, as well as of the other educational
services.
STRATEGICAL
PRIORITIES The substantiation of learning based on the
personal and professional development need of
OF MECTS youth, regarded from a sustainable development
and the assurance of an economical and social
cohesion.
The assurance and recognition of the
complementarity between formal, non-formal and
informal education, since life-long learning has
become one of the fundamental pillars of
educational policy.
Opening of the educational system and professional
training to the society, to the economic, social and
cultural environment.

3. CURRICULAR POLICIES
OF METCS
Assurance of the Assurance of equal
performance and opportunities and of
coherence of the individual
schooling. process of learning
Assurance of the Selecting and
social relevance of grouping of
the teaching/learning knowledge in
process. curricular arias.
Compatibility with Decentralization.
international
standards.
Flexibility.
Efficiency.

4. Increasing educational quality Assurance of human
in a knowledge –based resources training through
society in Romania. pre-university and life-long
education.
PRIORITARY
OBJECTIVES OF
MECTS
Developing the social
cohesion and increasing the
Personal development of citizens’ participation to
students for long-life learning. economic and social
development programmes of
the social community.

5. KEY COMPETENCES
Cultural awareness
Communication in mother tongue and expression
Communication in foreign languages Sense of initiative and entre
Mathematical competence
s Social and civical
and basic competences in science and technology competences
Digital competences Learning to learn

6. THE NEW LAW OF EDUCATION-2011
∗ Synchronising education cycles with the requirements of a modern
education system and the European Qualification Framework;
∗ Modernization and decongestion of school curriculum;
∗ Reorganization of students’ assessment system;
∗ Ensuring a high degree of decentralization, accountability and
financing of the system;
∗ Ensuring equal opportunities to education for disadvantaged
groups;
∗ Upgrading vocational education and training (VET);
∗ Reform of human resource policies in education;
∗ Stimulating lifelong learning-focus on the eight key competences;
∗ Competitive financing and incentives for academic excellence in
higher education

7. Innovative programmes for
European Plurilingualism
Strategies for
inclusion and student
entrepreneurship
Challenges using ITC

8. Plurilingualism
“Policies for language education should
therefore promote the learning
of several languages for all individuals in the
course of their lives, so
that Europeans actually become plurilingual
and intercultural citizens,
able to interact with other Europeans in all
aspects of their lives.”
(Council of Europe, 2003: 7)

9. General PLURILINGUALISM
Aims
Enabling all European citizens the Promoting:
necessary means to overcome the •mutual understanding and
obstacles of internationalization (in tolerance
education, culture, science, trade •cultural diversity
&industry)
Maintaining richness and
diversity of cultural life in Europe
through mutual knowledge of
languages
Avoiding perils as a result of possible
exclusion of those who do not posses
necessary abilities to communicate in
an interactive Europe Meeting the needs of a
multicultural Europe

10. SOCIAL INCLUSION
Religion or
belief gender
Equal
opportunities for
other
disability disadvantaged
groups
Socio-
Learners with
economic
an ethnic
background
minority or
migrant

11. SOCIAL INCLUSION
Key actions to reduce the number of people at risk of
poverty and social exclusion in Romania:
∗ reforming the social assistance system;
∗ facilitating the access and participation of persons
belonging to vulnerable groups on the labour market
∗ balanced economic and social development of
Romanian regions.
∗ improving the access of vulnerable persons to
healthcare services
∗ Developing programmes to reduce the number of
children who abandon school.

12. ITC
E-skills and
ICT E-learning
digital
infrastructure platforms
competences
challenges
New educational
Organizational
approaches
change
needed

13. ICT in ROMANIA
Directions (based on the recommendations of
the European Commission - “ICT in Education &
Training “)
∗ Linking ICT implementation to long-term education
objectives;
∗ Attending to the needs and demands of educational
actors involved with ICT by developing new services;
∗ Training educational actors for change with ICT’
∗ Developing evaluation, measuring results and linking ICT
educational use with research.

14. Entrepreneurship
 to stimulate and encourage innovative and • taking initiatives to make things
creative mindsets; happen
• solving problem creatively
 to generate more growth and better jobs.
• managing autonomously
• taking responsibility for, and
ownership of, things
• networking effectively to manage
interdependence
• putting things together creatively
• using judgment to take
calculated risks
aims results

15. Entrepreneurship
Romania has adopted the Entrepreneurship Action
Plan – the strategic framework for developing an
integrated entrepreneurship policy – that includes as
a prime key action fostering entrepreneurial
mindsets through school education.
Achievements: development of entrepreneurship
curricula for primary schools, gymnasium, high
schools and higher education; promotion of “Junior
Enterprise” concept (entirely student-run consulting
companies) as one of the best practices in the field of
entrepreneurial education and an aide to foster
entrepreneurial mindsets among young people.

16. Entrepreneurial Education
∗ Primary Schools – help students to have more faith in themselves, through making
and accepting responsibility, exploring their creativity through trial and error and
learning about the resources of their local community.
∗ Lower Secondary School – students develop core skills such as decision making,
ability to work in a team, problem solving and establishing networks.
∗ Upper Secondary School – learning through doing and applying practice and theory
whilst incorporating resources, finances, environment, ethics and working-life
relationships can be developed by establishing youth enterprises.
∗ Higher education – developing products, identifying business opportunities,
customer and market relationships, creativity and innovation are all part of business
planning and establishing and running a company

17. PROJECTS
Leonardo Comenius
other
Both for students and teachers