Jeju-Moldova Education Exchange Program


The video conference room is full of excitement.
School teachers from Jeju are giving IT lessons using coding kits.
On the monitor, dozens of westerners are paying attention to the class.


They are teachers from the Republic of Moldova, a neighboring country of Ukraine, and 8,000 kilometers from Korea.
In 2015, the Jeju Provincial Office of Education established a relationship with the country as part of a support project in the field of education.


Due to the prolonged pandemic and the war between Ukraine and Russia, they cannot meet in person, but continue the relationship through video classes.

INTERVIEW
Kim Tae-hun / Teacher, Donam Elementary School
As computers are not widely distributed in the Republic of Moldova, the Provincial Office of Education has provided computers to the country. We, as teachers, can expand our experience and teaching capacity through the exchange program.


The island has provided 1,200 computers, drone sets, and coding kits over the last seven years to Moldova, where the internet and information infrastructure are not sufficiently built.

The POE is widening the scope of exchange by offering coding education, teacher training, classroom teaching consulting, and textbooks in addition to equipment support.

About 600 Moldovan teachers have participated in the exchange project that has been held for the past eight years, and they express their hope for more active exchange.

Angela Prisakaru / Senior consultant, Ministry of Education, Republic of Moldova
Exchange and cooperation with Korea in the field of education provides an opportunity to improve the insufficient educational environment of Moldova and help our teachers improve competence.


Among provinces and cities in Korea, only Jeju has an international cooperative education project in which both sides regularly meet three or more times a year.


INTERVIEW
Kim Myeong-gi / Representative, Jeju POE
With the topic of artificial intelligence coding, 10 elementary and secondary school teachers from Jeju will serve as lecturers for 39 teachers from Moldova. The program will greatly contribute to improving the IT competence of teachers from Moldova as well as the global mindset of teachers from Jeju.


The exchange project, which aims to bridge the information and communication gap and improve the educational environment, will continue until 2024 through contents and know-how that Korea has developed in the field of information and communication technology and coding.