Romanian educational platform aims to reduce school dropout with online courses for students

Naradix.ro, a Romanian educational platform launched last year to help local students catch up with the courses missed during the pandemic, will diversify its content this summer with new extra-curricular courses and applied courses focused on skills and active learning.

The platform’s goal is to support and continue the much-needed post-pandemic remedial education process and to help the younger generation be prepared in a practical way for future challenges.

In addition to the already existing subjects in the compulsory curriculum for grades 0-8 (Romanian, mathematics, history and geography), NaradiX offers students new courses and lessons, such as STEM content (biology, physics and chemistry), English language courses, as well as extracurricular subjects in civic education, environmental education, personal development, including training for teachers, integration of refugee students and Ukrainian language introduction lessons, with Ukrainian-English and Ukrainian-Romanian options. This complementary curriculum is developed in collaboration with other organizations and specialists in the field.

"With NaradiX.ro we aim at preparing for the challenges of the future, a new generation of young people who have both practical skills and knowledge of emotional intelligence, personal development etc., all necessary for balanced and complete training. The NaradiX.ro platform is the place where students not only learn but also discover something completely new: that school can be instructive and a lot of fun if it is adapted to the times we live in", says Andra Munteanu, President of Narada.

More than 20,000 students have caught up on school content in the last year on NaradiX.ro with the help of 2,039 teachers. The platform was designed by Narada with the support of strategic partner Global Vision to prevent dropouts.

The pandemic has caused a global learning crisis, and Romanian children experienced learning delays of 4 to 6 months. Furthermore, about 259,000 children had no access to courses online due to the lack of technology, connectivity, or electricity, data from the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research