Together with the Moldovan Ministry of Education, DW Akademie has set out to teach students directly in the classroom 
on how to use media competently.

“I notice that the students love it when I give them the tasks. Even when it’s homework,” said Lina Gorceag, a teacher at the Principesa Natalia Dadiani secondary school in the Moldovan capital Chișinău. She is one of 20 Moldovan teachers who have included media and information literacy (MIL) in their Romanian curriculum since 2023.

In Moldova, where one in five children grows up with only one parent or without parents, school is often the only place where children can be encouraged to engage critically and competently with media. With so much propaganda and disinformation from Russia, young media users need to know how to access reliable information and recognize fake news.

Together with the Independent Journalism Center (IJC), DW Akademie has entered into a strategic partnership with the Moldovan Ministry of Education and Research and educational institutions to integrate MIL into the Romanian and English school curricula. MIL has already been included in the national curriculum as a compulsory subject since 2020 and by the end of 2025, around 1,500 pupils at lower and upper secondary levels in the Republic of Moldova will have strengthened their media skills and armed themselves against disinformation. Through the partnership, teachers also learn how to engage their students interactively to enhance their MIL skills.