Category: Good News
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Romanian students win the Microsoft Office Specialist 2019 World Championships
Two amazing Romanian students have won the Microsoft Office Specialist 2019 World Championships, the Word and Excel sections. Mihaela Florea and Adrian Boier have managed to beat 850,000 candidates from 119 countries. Mihaela Florea is from Braila and is now studying Computer Science at the University of Southampton the UK. According to Romania Journal she…
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How an association brings mobile showers to the homeless in Bucharest
People without a home will have the possibility now to shower thanks to a project founded by Carusel. The association has launched a new project called The Mobile Shower. More than 200 homeless people will be able to use regularly this service. This project will also help around 850 people who don’t have a home…
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Astra museum wins prestigious Micheletti award
You’ve heard of the British Museum, the Guggenheim museum, but maybe you haven’t heard of Astra museum from Sibiu. Well, add it to your list as this lovely outdoors museum has just been recognised on an European level. The museum has recently received the Micheletti award which an award given to prestigious and innovative museums…
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Daniel Dines: the story of an IT programmer who has become the richest man in Romania
If you didn’t know, there are 16,000 millionaires in dollars in Romania, and 3,720 Romanians with a wealth of over 5 million dollars. But how many billionaires do we have? Well, not many, if you can count to 2 until last year. While the richest man in Romania was for several years, the well known…
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The story of how the European bison returned to Romania’s forests
In a time where species are disappearing and nature seems to lose more ground, there are places like Romania where nature has been preserved and species are brought back to life. The bison is one example. There are several reservations for bisons in Romania and researchers are working on growing their numbers. What happened to…
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Romanian researcher receives 1.5 million euro grant from the EU commission
A Romanian researcher has received a 1.5 million euros grant which will go towards the development of a DNA data analysis technology. This technology will be useful in medical diagnosis. His name is Alexandru Tomescu and he is a researcher in computer science at the Helsinki university. The Europea Research council has announced the grant…
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Tour of Romania cycling competition to be organized in September
We all love to watch the Tour de France, if not for the competition but for the beautiful landscape. Did you know there is also a Tour of Romania? It’s been organized since 1934, however it was not popularised like other tours. This year the cycling race’route will start in Cluj-Napoca and then continue to…
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10 best Romanian startups to watch out for in 2019 and beyond
Romania has become quite the popular startup destination and Cluj has become the Silicon valley of Central and Eastern Europe ( we wrote about this in a quite recent article). Not surprisingly, many IT companies that have been established in Romania are thriving. Recently, the eu-startups website has listed 10 Romanian start-ups we need to…
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Two Romanian women named among MIT’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35
Romanian women Mariana Popescu and Raluca Ada Popa have been nominated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ” World top 35 innovators under the age of 35“. MIT creates a list like this every year to celebrate accomplishments that have a dramatic impact on the world. The top includes researchers and innovators and generally focus on the fields of biomedicine,…
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New dinosaur eggs discovered in Romania
Several nests with dinosaur eggs were discovered by a team of students recently in two villages in Tara Hategului area. The student teams led by professor Csiki-Sava and Stefan Vasile discovered the nests in Livezi and Boita villages and now they are working on restoring them. They are supported by Dino Parc Rasnov, which is…
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