Positive News about Romania

  • 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…

  • 1200 people planted 30,000 trees this weekend in 3 counties

       On the 26th of March a national tree planting took place in 3 counties. The planting has been organized by the Crestem Romania Impreuna Association (We raise Romania together)together with the environment ministry, Brasov and Covasna council, Transilvania Brasov university, the Ardeal metropolitan church and the arhiepiscopate of Arges and Muscel. Over 1200 people…

  • If you have a book, you can enter for free at the Cluj botanical garden on the 23rd of April!

      On 23rd of April, on the International Day of the Book, for the third time in a row, the Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden in Cluj-Napoca will allow people to enter for free as long as they have a book. The campaign promotes books and reading. For this purpose, a special reading of the Little…

  • Romanian student wins second place at Francophonie international competition

    Diana Militaru has won the second place in the International Francophonie competition that was held in Cluj- Napoca this year.The student was also invited as a guest by president Iohannis  to a special reception which celebrates the International day of the Francophonie. Every March is marked by various celebrations that focus on Francophonie all around the…

  • Romanian students win 41 NASA competition awards

    Romanian students from several high schools from Bucharest, Constanta, Medias, Brasov, Ovidiu,Ploiesti, Calarasi have won several prizes and honourable mentions at the NASA Space Settlement Contest. Over 3,000 students participate in this competition every year. This year entries came from : Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Rebublic, India, Ireland, Japan, Malayasia, Mexico, Montenegro, Venezuela, Nepal, Pakistan, Romania,…

  • Romanian photographers nominated for the Sony World Photography Awards

    Four Romanian photographers have been shortlisted for one of the biggest and most important photography contests in the world, Sony World Photography Awards. The biggest prize consist of 30,000 dollars and the winners will be awarded on the 21st of April in London. Over 230,000 photographers from 186 countries have  signed in this competition. The number of…

  • Vlad Darie wins Vienna World Poker Tour

    Vlad Darie, from Satu Mare, has been crowned the 2016 partypoker WPT Vienna champion. The competition gathered 215 participants and in the end, six finalists were set to play on Sunday in Vienna. Vlad Darie has managed to beat chip lead Zoltan Gal. With a total prize of 680,000 euro, Vlad Darie has taken the…