Category: Good News
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Romanian scientist wins the “Oscars of inventions”
Romanian physics professor Flaviu Turcu, from Babes- Bolyai university in Cluj, has won the R&D awards, also widely recognized as the “Oscars of invention”. Every year R&D awards 100 most innovative breakthroughs of the year and this year Turcu was one of the winners. Flaviu Turcu was recruted among with other scientists in 2010 to…
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Romanian wins paragliding World title
George Cotet from Brasov has won the world title for paragliding at World Air Games which took place in Dubai this year. Cotet has competed with 18 other paragliders from around the world. At the moment he is also considered the best pilot at fixed point landing in Romania and the fourth best in the…
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Romanian students invent machine that recycles leaves
Three students from Iasi have invented a machine that recycles leaves that fall from the trees. They came up with the idea when they noticed that there were a lot of trees surrounding their high school and a lot of leaves went to waste. “We realised that we needed to do something in order…
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Maria Boldor wins Fencing World Cup
Maria Boldor from Steaua Bucuresti has won Sunday the World title for Fencing, junior section, after beating Flora Pasztor with 15-12. According to the Romanian Federation of Fencing, Boldor has also beat Tatiana Yu Rong Wong from Singapore with 15-8, Beatrice Argenti from Italy, with 15-10 and Marie Soriano, from France with 15-6. Besides Maria Boldor,…
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Romanian-Japanese student excels in Informatics and composing music!
Nakajima Tamio-Vesa is a Romanian- Japanese young man who have been proven a genius not only in the mathematics- informatics field but also in the music field. He now lives in Beius, Romania with his parents. At age 15 he has won the first place in the inter county Olympiad for Mathematics and he has…
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Brasov chosen as a perfect destination for Christmas
Brasov was among the 8 lesser known destinations for a traditional European Christmas chosen by outret.com Other destinations that were included in the list are Ljubljana, Slovenia, Poznan from Poland, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Coburg, Germany, Cazma, Croatia, Broadway in England and Pertisau in Austria. Brasov was chosen because of its Gothic architecture and medieval…
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Romanian engineer wins gold medal at Bruxelles invention salon
Romanian engineer Corneliu Birtok Baneasa has won a gold medal and the Thailand special prize at the Innnova Bruxelles international salon of inventions. The engineer has developed a device that increases the car engine power up to 5% while reducing the petrol consumption and gas with 7%. According to agerpres.ro the device is called “termic…
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Horia Tecau donates breathing ventilator to hospital
World champion tennis player Horia Tecau has donated a breathing ventilator to the Constanta Emergency hospital. Thanks to the efforts of the Save the children campaign that worked with Horia Tecau, now the hospital’s neonatology section has this special ventilator that will save lives. The ventilator is worth 80,000 lei and this action is part…
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Romanian priest builds homes for single mothers
A priest from Iasi, Romania has decided to help single mothers by building a centre in which they can live together with their children. According to digi24.ro the project is sustained by donations and the block of buildings that will be built will be able to house around 50 mothers and their children. Another positive…
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NGO serves hot meals to poor residents
“A hot meal” ( O masa calda) is a civic action through which 50 individuals with limited income receive food worth of 100 lei for a whole week. Last week it was reported thst they got indian chicken curry worth only 2 lei. Now the NGO behind it managed to spread their activities to other…