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  • Inspirational story: the poor boy who almost quit school twice becomes a judge

    Romania also has its share of rag to riches kind of stories and one of them is of magistrate Marcel Nechita, the vicepresident of Suceava law court. Marcel Nechita comes from a very poor family and because of that he never forgot where he came from and now helps others in his situation. Nechita now…

  • Kind-hearted person leaves envelopes with money all over Cluj-Napoca

      An anonymous charitable person from Cluj leaves envelopes with money all over the city. The envelopes contain 50 lei or 100 lei and a piece of paper with instructions on it. The instructions encourage the person to give at least half the money to someone who really needs it. The mysterious person who does…

  • Cristian Iamandi, the blacksmith who creates Dacian weapons

    Cristian Iamandi has a pretty unusual job for our times, he is a blacksmith. But not any kind of blacksmith, because he is creating Dacian weapons. Now, it might be a bit too late for us to fight against the Roman empire, but you have to admit his job is pretty cool. At age 30,…

  • Roxana Maria Chiorean awarded best translator from Romania by the European commission

    Roxana Maria Chiorean, a highschool student from Cluj-Napoca has won the European translator competition called “Juvenes Translatores”, organised by the European commission. The competition gathered around 3,000 students from the European Union and 28 of them have been awarded, each from every country. Roxana Maria Chiorean, from the Emil Racovita national college has translated fom…

  • An owl colony takes over a commune in Romania

    The little commune of Slobozia hosts 100 owls, from which 60 live in the mayor’s yard. The owls have started coming in the area in the last 10 years when the winter began. According to digi24.ro the Ornithological Association comes every year to count them and photograph them. The mayor believes that the owls come…

  • Romanian female firefighters win World Police Fire and Games competition

    Two Romanian female fire fighters have won the World Police and Fire Games competition that gathers every year over 5,000 police officers from all over the world. The athletes compete in around 67 sports and have to go through 40 rounds. Adriana Paraschiv and Daniela Soare from ISU Banat have won the canoe and the athletics competition.  According…

  • Romanian researcher receives 1.5 million grant

    Romanian researcher dr. Alida Iulia Gabor from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj has received 1.5 million euros for her project. This grant is sponsored by the European Union and will be used to develop a new technique of dating glacial periods and global warming periods for a 2,5 million years period. The objective of the…

  • Romanian nun adopts and raises 12 orphan girls

        Mother Serafima has raised all by herself 12 young orphan girls since they were infants. The orthodox nun lives in Marcus Monastery in Brasov county. In this place twelve girls grew up in a familial home built by the nun. From the begining since the monastery was built the nun wanted to do…

  • Spiridon Vangheli nominated for Astrid Lindgren prize

    Spiridon Vangheli, author of the “Abecedar” book for primary school students and author of children book series with Guguta, has been nominated for the children literature prize Astrid Lindgren 2016. Spiridon Vangheli’s work was honoured in 2013 when Moldova declared the year the “Spiridon Vangheli year”. Vangheli was also awarded in 1974 with the International…

  • The Romanian who creates books for Eton college

    If you ever wondered who creates the books that William and Harry learnt from, well…it’s a Romanian guy and his name is Paul Balogh. He is the founder of a company that creates digital educational materials for the famous Eton college, a college where the Royal Family members attend. Paul Balogh started his project due…