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Month: April 2015

  • Amalia Tataran wins Bronze medal at European U23 fencing championships

    Romanian fencing competitor Amalia Tataran has secured the Bronze medal on Saturday at the European fencing competitions for under 23, which took place in Vincenza, Italy. After defeating Polish competitor Anna Mroszczack with a 15-20 score, and Russian competitor Iulia Liceagina, she lost in semifinals to Russian Victoria Kuzmenkova. Other Romanian competitors such as Cezara Constantin…

  • Bucharest’s cyclists march for better roads

    Bucharest’s cyclists have taken the roads on Saturday, 25th of April in an attempt to protest the lack of proper infrastructure. According to totb.ro the cyclists wanted to raise attention to the lack of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure as Bucharest only has 5,97 kilometres of cycling friendly roads. They have noted that there is a…

  • Twenty countries gather at Cluj-Napoca to celebrate the Francophone festival

    The fourt edition of the regional Francophone Student Festival has been organized this year in Cluj between April 20-24. This year’s festival has gathered around 100 participants from 20 countries such as France, Albania, Letonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukine and Turkey. The festival’s theme was focused on celebrating the colours of youth. According to ziuadecluj.realitatea.net the…

  • Romanian family succesfully lobbies for the introduction of ecology courses in primary schools

    A family from Bucharest has managed to introduce ecology courses in Romanian schools. The parents have noticed a few years ago that their children were not aware about climate changes and they did not have any knowledge related to the environment. The parents, Felicia and Marius  have worked on several educational projects with the purpose…

  • You have a book? You have free entrance to Cluj-Napoca’s botanical garden!

    For World Book Day, which is celebrated on the 23rd of April, the Alexandru Borza botanical garden from Cluj-Napoca allows free entrance to anyone who carries a book. Hundreds of people have already signed in for this event and other people have asked for this activity to be introduced in their town. This event took…

  • Romanian team wins four medals at the 2015 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad

    The Romanian team has won four medals at this year’s European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad.The Romanian team has brought home two gold medals, a silver one and a bronze one.  Romania has earned the third place out of 23 participant countries. The fourth edition of the Olympiad has taken place in Minsk, Belarus between 14-20 of…

  • Romanian engineer wins gold at the International exhbition of Inventions of Geneva

    Corneliu Birtok Baneasa has won the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva for an invention called “Good Fill”. The invention is a system that fills the cars with windshield fluid in the gas station. The Romanian engineer has also been awarded with special mentions by the delegations of Iran and the…

  • Romanian gymnast wins gold at the European champsuonships

    Romaniangymnast Andreea Munteanu, 16, has won on Sunday, 19th of April, the gold medal on the beam event at the European Championships in Montpellier. According to enational.ro the gymnast got a mark of 14,366 and the exercise has been considered as the most difficult compared to the other eight finalists. The competition has gathered 167…