FERM managed to provide certain demographic models for the first time for the two countries and is expected to have a major impact on the academic community (see our works in the Papers section)

• The identification of the phases of the Fertility Transition based on Frejka’s model for the period 1971-2023 has not been done before for Romania, and for the Republic of Moldova, the staging was developed also for the first time, for the period 2015-2023.
• Identification of the reference generation (1960 for Romania and 1970 for Moldova) and quantification of fertility postponement/recovery in the generations of women born in 1970-1985 have not been carried out so far for Romania, and for Moldova they have been extended to the generations of 1985 and 1990.
• The process of fertility postponement and recovery was analyzed for the first time differentiated by birth rank I, II, III+, which allowed the identification of the contribution of each parity to the decrease in fertility in both the Republic of Moldova and Romania.
• The fertility postponement index was calculated for the period 1971-2023 for the first time for Romania and the calculation was extended for the period 2015-2023 for Moldova.
• The fertility deficit was calculated for these generations for the first time for both countries.
• The average age of the mother at first birth in the generations of women from 1955–1980 was calculated for the first time for both countries, which determined the correct identification of the age at which the maximum decrease in the fertility of the generations occurs.