Welcome to CMB Training Center!

GENERAL DATA "CMB" Training Center, founded and registered on April 4, 2002, with nr.2173 by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova. "CMB” Training Center has the License (Seria A MMII NR.016592 valid till august 2010) from the Licensing Chamber for its English Language Training Courses, as well as holds The State Certificate of Public Utility, from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova.

MISSION Our mission at "CMB” Training Center is to promote innovations in Communication, Management and Business. We aim at serving the community by providing short-term, career-focused education and training in a flexible, learner-centered and supportive environment.

EDUCATION "CMB” Training Center, as a collective, has an education background focusing on the Education and Training areas, Internet Governance, Diplomacy, Leadership and Management, History and English Philology. Our background stems from accredited Universities in the United Kingdom, Malta and Moldova.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION We specialize in Capacity Building Programs, Provision of Training and Elaborating Training programs, ICT4D, Internet Governance, Management and Leadership, Provision of Accelerated Language Training Programs, Organizational Development, Professional and Personal Development, Trainer of Trainers (TOT), Adult Learning and Teaching Theories, Alternative Development Programs for Children and Youth, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS Policies at the work place, Vote Mock Elections, Migration Management and others.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION HISTORY

August 2009 – present: "HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Eastern Europe - Moldova", supported by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ), implemented by GFA Consulting Group and CMB Training Center - national implementation agency.

October 2008 – August 2009: Vote Mock Elections project, supported by the European Commission to Moldova and implemented in partnership with Hilswerk Austria in Moldova.

May 2007 – May 2008: ‶Youth Leaders for Community Development through Internet Governance” – supported by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), Malaysia (contact person Justine Chew justine@gkps.org.my).

August 2005 - December 2006: ‶Developing Critical Thinking and Career Planning Skills" - supported by the Better JL World Institute from Los Angeles, USA (contact person - John J LaCorte, nostic@earthlink.net).

May 2004 – November 2005:‶Transforming the Moldovan Museum into a Cultural and Educational Center of the Rural Community”, supported by Moldova Soros Foundation (contact person - Victoria Miron, vmiron@soros.md).

October 2005 - March 2006: „Creating a sustainable informational framework in the area of Labor Rights in Moldova”, supported by UNDP Moldova. Contact person - Ecaterina Dociov, edoicov@un.md).

Years 2003, 2004, 2005: "Developing Critical Thinking Skills" 3 phased project supported by supported by the Better JL World Institute from Los Angeles, USA ( contact person - John J LaCorte, nostic@earthlink.net).

September 2003- November 2005:‶Creating job opportunities for Youth in Moldova”, supported by the Democracy Commission Small Grants Program. Contact person: Stelian Rusu, rusus@state.gov).

TRAINING EXPERIENCE
CMB Training Center has conducted in the past 5 years about 150 -160 training programs. For all of them elaboration of curriculum was done, monitoring and evaluation through the implementation stage, follow up and further recommendations for the organizations, participants, involved in these activities.

CMB Training Center team has experience in working with children (3-5 and 7-10 years old), with Youth (13- 18 years old), with parents with children of 0-18 years old, with civil society representatives, with women, with people living with HIV/AIDS, with International donor community, members of the parliament, with government officials, rural museographers, teachers and trainers, IT specialists and many other target groups.

CMB Training Center has experience both at the National and International levels:

Internationally CMB has experience in working with the Liberian Teacher Training Program for almost a year, supported by USAID, in Liberia, West Africa. CMB Training Center worked together with Open Society Institute (OSI), New York and provided training of trainers programs, did monitoring and evaluation of the C-Certificate Teacher Training Program, participated in the curriculum review as well as provided consultancy on Organizational Development in the institutionalization of the Critical Thinking program in Liberia.

CMB Training Center had provided Training of Trainers for the National Team of trainers, READ (Rural Education and Development project), World Bank Project, Mongolian Education Alliance and Mongolian Ministry of Education, Mongolia during the years 2008-2009.

As part of the OSI Critical Thinking Program, CMB Training Center is implementing the Critical Thinking project in Nepal throughout 2009-2010.

In April 2009, CMB Training Center conducted a series of training programs in Istanbul, Turkey with the Education Reform Initiative within the ‶Power of Thinking Project”, supported by Akbank of Turkey.

INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATIONS

CMB Training Center is actively participating in various international events related to education, ICT for Development, Internet Governance so that it can be updated ad informed about the recent developments in several content areas.

CMB was present in March 22-26, 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina, in the ‶Politics of Comparison” International Conference with several presentations.

CMB Training Center participated with presentations and conducted sessions/workshops during events in New Delhi, India; Monrovia, Liberia (West Africa); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Los- Angeles, USA; Warsaw, Poland; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Athens, Greece; Prague, Czech Republic; Msida, Malta; St. Petersburg, Russia – as well during many other events in Romania and Moldova.
AFFILIATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

CMB Training Center is a Member of Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) with the Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - http://globalknowledge.org

CMB Training Center works in partnership with:

*Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Consortium - Cluj-Napoca, Romania - http://ct-net.net/
*Better JL World Institute, Los-Angeles, USA - http://www.csudh.edu/ISCDI/LaCorte.asp

CMB LEADERSHIP

Veronica Cretu – President, ‶CMB” Training Center – vcretu@cmb.md
Nicolae Cretu -Director, ‶CMB” Training Center – nicucretu@gmail.com
Ion Cerevatii -Program Administrative Manager - ioncer@yahoo.com
Inga Frumosu –Financial Director, ‶CMB” Training Center – frumosuinga@yahoo.com
Irina Gaburici-INDIGO Program Coordinator - irina.gaburici@yahoo.com
Marina Ambrosi-Program Coordinator, ESL Program - ambrosima@gmail.com
Valeria Hangan-ESL Trainer, ESL Program - vallery_l@yahoo.com