39 persons applied for 20 places offered by the.

Most of the applicants are graduated the journalism departments – 18 persons. Seven persons studied at philology departments and three at international relations. The other finished the law, accounting and auditing, cybernetics, management, pedagogy, international economic relations. Two persons have master degrees and one is a psychology post-graduate.

Most of the applicants graduated the State University of Moldova – 25 persons, four of them graduated Pedagogical State University Ion Creanga and three have degrees from Free International University. Other persons studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, European Studies University and Pedagogical State University Alecu Russo.

For the study year 2008-2009 applied 6 boys and 33 girls. The average age of the applicants is 23 years old. Three candidates from four are from regions and the other from Chisinau.

A special commission composed by journalists and media managers will analyze and evaluate all applied documents. The results of the first evaluation will be announced in the second part of April.

The selection process of the candidates planned for April 18-20 will finalize with a written test, and the interview will be done in the second week of the May.

The Chisinau School of Advanced Journalism is a joint project of the Independent Journalism Center (Moldova) in cooperation with School of Journalism at Missouri University (USA) and Paris-based Journalism School and Training Center (France). The project is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by Press Now.