Category: Good News
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Romanian engineer wins MIT competition for inventing high-tech face mask
Masks have become increasingly important this year and many companies have started producing masks that are either fashionable or ultra-efficient against viruses. A new futuristic looking anti Covid-19 mask that has been designed by a Romanian engineer has recently won the top prize at a contest organized by MIT Media Lab. MIT has organised a…
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Visit Bucharest Today: a new app that promotes Romania
Bucharest, Romania’s capital and largest city has been quite popular with tourists last year. Around 2.7 million foreign tourists have visited Romania in 2019, before the pandemic restrictions. For 2021, when tourism might pick up again, depending on each country’s restrictions, a new platform was created. The platform called Visit Bucharest today is an online…
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Romanian startup invents glasses for the blind
A Romanian startup called Lumen has invented the first innovative glasses for the blind. The glasses have an assistive technology system that helps blind people’s mobility. The glasses basically are an alternative solution to having a guide dog because they replicate their main features, such as understanding the environment, the movement of objects, the objects,…
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Brasov to test autonomous public transport shuttle bus
Brasov city is going to be one of the ten European cities that have been chosen to test an autonomous ( driverless) public transport vehicle. The project which was named „Smart urban mobility involving autonomous vehicles” will be financed by European funds and will be supported by Siemens. The project involves ten cities across Europe: Barcelona,…
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The story of Romanian men and women who were elected mayors in European cities
Berlin, Gorlitz, Stavenhagen, Germany and Paramo de Boedo, Spain all have one thing in common- Romanians as their mayors or deputy mayors. We will look in this article at who they are and how they were chosen by their locals to care for their cities. Ramona Pop- deputy mayor for Berlin, Germany Ramona Pop…
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Romanian midwife praised in national NHS campaign in UK
A Romanian midwife has become the image of the National Health Service in the UK and her photograph has been featured all over the country on bus stops and billboards. Claudia Anghel is one of the three people chosen in the Midlands ( area of the UK) for a special project that celebrates 72 years…
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Bucharest voted world’s best city for remote work
Best city in the world for remote working? Bucharest. Why is that? Besides the really fast cheap and fast internet ( one of the fastest internet in the world is in Romania), the cost of living is relatively low and there are many jobs available that allow remote working. A recent study by the British website…
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Monica Ulmanu and her team win Pulitzer Prize for climate change story
Monica Ulmanu and her team have won one of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The team was awarded for the “2C:Beyond the Limit” series which is considered a ” groundbreaking series that showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.” The team has written the series for The Washington Post and…
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Daniela Rus elected to the White House science council
Daniela Rus, the head of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has been chosen in the White House Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The role of the advisor involves giving advice on security and economy issues such as recommending certain policies in science and technology, data privacy and STEM education and to…
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Self-isolation: volunteers deliver and donate food to the elderly
An association from Bistrita has been helping the elderly that have been under isolation and were not able to go out and shop or could not afford the shop. The association called ” Imparte bucurie” ( Share joy) wanted to help them so they reached out on Facebook and asked people to help. Several people…
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