On 6 November 2026, in accordance with the Plan of Research Activities, the Faculty of National Culture held the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference “Scientific and Educational Environment: Realities and Prospects for Improving the Quality of Education”. The conference took place in a hybrid format, both on-site and online.
The conference brought together researchers, university and college lecturers, school teachers, preschool educators, heads of educational institutions, doctoral and master’s students. Alongside renowned scholars and experienced educators, early-career authors also presented their work; for them, a scientific conference is an opportunity to share their ideas and receive professional feedback.
260 researchers and educators from 16 countries registered to take part in the event: Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Brazil. More than a third of the participants (37.2%) represented institutions from abroad. The conference programme included 234 к
The conference was opened by the Dean of the Faculty of National Culture, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor O. Curteva. Welcome addresses were delivered by:
Acting Rector of Comrat State University, PhD, Associate Professor T. Racovcena;
Deputy Head of the Main Department of Education of ATU Gagauzia M. Shtiroi;
Director of the Mihail Ciachir College A. Glavcheva;
Director of the M. V. Marunevich Scientific Research Center of Gagauzia I. Konstantinova.
The guests noted that cooperation between the university and the region’s education system, colleges and research centres strengthens the link between teacher training and the needs of schools, as well as the study of Gagauzia’s cultural heritage.
The following papers were presented at the plenary session:
Adrian A. Adăscăliței, PhD, Professor, Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania (AȘTR), Bucharest, Romania. “AI-Supported STEAM Education: From Traditional Teaching to Cognitive Partnership”.
Stepan Bulgar, PhD in History, M. V. Marunevich Scientific Research Center of Gagauzia. “Christian Books from the Vatican Library as Historical Sources on Gagauz Culture”.
Lyubov Tkach, PhD, Lecturer, Comrat State University. “Cultural and Semantic Transformation of the Content of Teacher Education: Combining the Future Teacher’s Professional Competences with Cultural Values”.
The work continued in seven sections: pedagogy; psychology; Gagauz philology and Turkish language and literature; history and ethnology; linguistics and literary studies; didactics of Romanian as a non-native language; and education in culture and the arts. On the initiative of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gina Aurora Necula (Romanian Language Institute, Bucharest), the section “Didactics of Romanian as a Non-Native Language” was held within the conference for the first time. Following the discussions, the section moderators drew up resolutions.
An exhibition of publications by the faculty’s teaching staff was organised as part of the conference. It featured proceedings of previous conferences, including student conferences, as well as monographs, textbooks, study guides and methodological recommendations. The exhibition showed how colleagues’ research is connected with teaching and the development of educational practice.
The day concluded with an International Concert in the Assembly Hall of Comrat State University, prepared by the lecturers and students of the Department of Culture and Arts together with colleagues from Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University and the State Conservatory of Çukurova University in Adana (Türkiye).
The Faculty of National Culture thanks the university administration for its organisational and financial support of the conference. Special thanks go to Home Imob SRL (Romania) for its financial support and to Ms Gina Aurora Necula, who made this support possible. We thank the section moderators, the members of the organising committee and the staff of all the faculty’s departments for their commitment and attention to detail.
We thank all participants for their presentations, questions and exchange of experience, which help to connect research with the tasks of educational practice. The conference proceedings will be published in a collection of scientific papers.
Published by: O. Curteva, PhD, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of National Culture
