Ministry of Education launches call for pilot schools

The Ministry of Education and Research (MEC) has officially launched the call for the establishment and operation of pilot schools, within the national network, for the 2025-2026 school year.

Interested schools can submit applications between June 23 and July 18, 5:00 p.m. The subsequent stages of the selection include: project evaluation: July 21 - August 4; display of the interim list: August 4; appeals: August 5-6, resolved on August 7-8; final list: August 11; official approval of the pilot school network: by August 22.

• Minister of Education: "We need paradigmatic changes”

"In the new world we live in, the Romanian education system needs paradigmatic changes. But these must be done carefully, using mechanisms through which we simultaneously ensure innovation and safety! Piloting is such a mechanism, so I encourage school units to be ambitious in piloting various aspects of the educational process. The ministry will do the same, through more systemic and strategic piloting. In this process, we will learn new things together, and good practices will then be able to personalize education and/or be generalized with confidence throughout the national education system,” said Daniel David, the interim Minister of Education, in a post on the institution's official page. The official emphasized that the pilot schools will allow the testing of innovative educational models, with the aim of generating good practices that can later be adapted or expanded at the level of the national education system.

Pilot school status can be obtained by pre-university education units that wish to experiment with new educational models, based on Ministerial Order no. 4.575/03.06.2024 and the framework methodology approved by the ministry. Through this initiative, the MEC aims to support educational innovation within a regulated framework, ensuring a balance between pedagogical freedom and institutional responsibility.