The winner of the competition was the National Child Abuse Prevention Center (CNPAC).
The contract is worth 2 million lei and the programs will be implemented within 11 months. It is planned to train about 2,200 teachers from about 110 educational institutions. The training will provide methodological support to the participants, regular reports on the progress of the program and a final analytical report with recommendations for scaling up at the national level.
The Ministry of Education and Research expects that the implementation of the program “Development of Educators’ Competencies in Bullying Prevention” will reduce bullying and violence in schools, improve the educational climate and strengthen the role of schools as safe and inclusive spaces for every child.
According to data from the Inspectorate General of Police, confirmed by the Ministry of Education and Research, one in five pupils experience bullying in schools. In 2024, 1,718 cases were reported and in 2025, 100 more cases are tentative. Specialists attribute the increase in the number of incidents to greater detection.
The concept of “bullying” is formalized in the amended Education Code. The law gives the following interpretation of bullying: a form of aggression manifested deliberately, repeatedly and through unequal distribution of power in the relationship between children, pupils or students and refers to those forms of behavior in which a child, pupil, student or a group of them cause pain, harm, suffering, cause powerlessness or damage to human dignity. This type of aggression occurs mainly in educational institutions.
