Positive News about Romania
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Vatra Dornei city organizes a series of folk concerts
If you are interested in folk music, you might be familiar at least with Vasile Seicaru’s music. Well, in April you can enjoy some of his music as he is going on a mini tour in Iasi,Vatra Dornei and Gura Humorului. The folk concert held on the 14th of April in the beautiful Vatra Dornei city, in…
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Romanian female dance group wins 3rd place at World Dance Trophy in Venice
A Romanian dance group from Ramnicu Sarat has won the third place in a dancing competition held in Italy. The group called “Craitele”( The Marigolds) formed by young female students has participated in the international Dance Competition called World Dance Trophy held in Venice, Italy at the end of March and has competed with over…
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Romanian IT group creates software system to rival Windows
A Romanian IT group has created a software system to rival Windows, and they called it Kogaion Linux. This system was created in Romania and it is said that it can save money as it will be available for free. The name of the software “Kogaion” comes from the sacred mountain of the Dacians and…
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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…
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Romanian expats in USA: Alex Nichifor, professor at Stanford
Many Romanians expats who moved to the USA have developed great careers. We could mention here Viviana Gradinaru, who was awarded by president Obama for her scientific work ( read about it here) and Anda Gansca, who was chosen as one of 30 under 30 list . Another Romanian who made himself favourably known to men of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…