Last year, Romania awarded 2,150 scholarships to students from the Republic of Moldova.
According to a Government decision approved Wednesday, 550 of the 2,850 new scholarships will be granted to students in the pre-university education system.
The Romanian Government decided to double the number of scholarships for Moldovan students in the 2011-2012 academic year to 5,000, the Education Ministry said in a press release Thursday.