Category: Good News

  • CSM Bucharest wins European Challenge Cup

    CSM Bucharest wins European Challenge Cup

    Romanian female volleyball team CSM Bucharest has won the Challenge Cup on Sunday, beating Trabzon Idman Ocagi team from Turkey. The team beat Turkey with a score of 3-1.The team beat in semifinals also teams Bursa and Trabzon from Turkey. The team, formed by Bacsis, Tataru, Ozun, Majstorovic, Rosca, Pincerato, Carbuneanu, Fales, Karakasheva, Pihlajamaki, Ruzzini, Susic…

  • Young man catches thief who attacked girl and stole phone

      A young man from Bucharest has caught a thief who stole a girls’ mobile phone. The girl was attacked in a bus stop on the Mihai Bravu street. The brave man saw how an individual attacked the girl and stole her phone. He decided to run after him and managed to stop him and…

  • Over 2,000 people visit Cluj-Napoca National Theatre on World Theatre Day

    Over 2,000 people visit Cluj-Napoca National Theatre on World Theatre Day

      World Theatre Day was celebrated this week all over the world.  On the 27th of March in Cluj-Napoca was however celebrated with open doors. The National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca was open for the public and over 2,000 people came to visit. The public was able to have a tour of the theatre, guided by…

  • Romanians in Italy get together to donate toys to children in Vatican hospital

    Romanians in Italy get together to donate toys to children in Vatican hospital

      A group of Romanian volunteers have donated toys and games to children at a hospital in Vatican. The Romanians who reside in Italy have formed an association called Românii din Roma (Romanians from Rome) which focuses on charity events. It all started with a four year old Romanian child who went to Rome for a…

  • Students from Iasi university win silver and bronze medal at International Math Olympiad

    Students from Iasi university win silver and bronze medal at International Math Olympiad

    Students from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers in Iasi have won one silver medal and three bronze medals at the South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students SEEMOUS 2016 in Cyprus. The students: Marian Mereu, Andrei Alexandru Baciu, Andrei Diaconu, Cosmin Crihan have competed with over 90 students from different universities from Romania, Great…

  • Classical music concert held for raising money to build telemedicine centre

    Classical music concert held for raising money to build telemedicine centre

    The event wanted to draw attention to the fact that in Romania there are 400,000 epilepsy sufferers, however the number of people registered with this illness is much smaller than this. Neurologist doctor Bogdan Florea said for TVR that people living with this epilepsy are stigmatised by society. Moreover individuals have to travel hundreds of…

  • Romanian students win silver and bronze medals at International Robot Challenge competition

      A silver and a bronze medal have been secured by three students from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers in Bucharest at the Robot Challenge international competition. Ionut Cristian Dobre, Maria Circiumaru and Mihai Craciunescu formed a team called HBFS (Harder Bette Faster Stronger) and were supervised by professor Stefan Mocanu. Stefan Mocanu has stated…

  • Cluj-Napoca to host NASA International Space Apps Challenge

    One of the largest hackatons in the world will be organised by NASA in many countries all over the world and for the first time Romania will also host one in Cluj-Napoca. NASA International Space Apps Challenge will take place between 23-24 April and for 48-72 hours people will work together to develop different projects, such…

  • Romanian painter Florin Stefan to open Paris painting exhibit

    Florin Stefan’s paintings will be exposed Thursday, 31st of March in Paris in order to mark the opening of the Anne-Sarah Benichou contemporary art gallery. Within this exhibition 13 personal oil paintings will be exposed and the paintings represent scenes and people that inspired him. Florin Stefan’s latest exhibition called Dead Man was set in…

  • Aferim!movie wins all nominations at Gopo awards

    Aferim!, the Romanian film drama directed by Radu Jude has won all 12 awards from 12 nominations at the Gopo awards. The movie has won the categories: the Best Movie award, Best Director, Best Actor in a Main Role, Best Actor in a Secondary Role, the Best Actress in a Secondary Role, the Best Script, the…