About Us

As an organization the National Association of European Trainers of Moldova (ANTEM) was registered in 2008. Since then ANTEM has become the leading provider of adult language teaching services throughout the country and a sound promoter of bilingual education for children.

ANTEM’s mission is facilitation of civil, socio-cultural and professional integration, promotion of inter-ethnic tolerance through training and creation of favourable linguistic environment.

ANTEM is an association specialized in provision of language training services to representatives of national minorities (adult speakers of other languages) and foreign citizens. The key strategic directions of ANTEM are to promote the standards of State language command and use, according to the European norms and to share the positive experience of linguistic integration of national minorities.  As well one of the main objectives of the organization is to become an implementing partner for an eventual state policy of promotion of the use of the state and minority language.

Geographical area of ANTEM’s activity includes 30 rural and urban settlements:

ANTEM fields of interest:

• Intercultural dialogue;
• Rights of national minorities;
• Social-cultural and professional integration of national minorities;
• Developing the teaching and learning methodology of the language.

ANTEM main activities:

• Romanian language courses for national minorities;
• Romanian language courses for foreigners;
• Trainings of trainers;
• Elaboration of didactic materials;
• Methodological and practical conferences;
• Linguistic and cultural immersions;
• Information campaigns;
• Volunteer Activity;
• Network Expansion

From creation of ANTEM until now there are 5000 adults who benefited of the multi-year project Language Training for Civil Servants in Minority-Populated Areas of Moldova, 1800 young people who enjoyed Romanian distance learning as well as 471 children and 399 parents who have benefited of the bilingual education program.

ANTEM experts have elaborated more than 70 didactic materials (manuals, curricula, guides etc.) for language education for national minorities and foreigners. 

The organisation’s team includes 105 local teachers from the Central, Northern and Southern part of Moldova, the Autonomous Region of Gagauzia, Transnistrean region.

ANTEM partners:

• Agency of Interethnic Relations of the Republic of Moldova;
• Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova;
• „Ion Creangă” Pedagogical University;
• Bureau of Migration and Asylum of the Republic of Moldova;
• Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family of the Republic of Moldova;
• Local public authorities of the Republic of Moldova representing the regions where ANTEM carried out training programmes;
• Gagauz Education Department;
• Bashkanat of Gagauzia

Portfolio of ANTEM projects: