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  • Brasov hospital, one of the cleanest in Europe

    One of the cleanest hospitals in Europe can be found in Romania. More precisely, in Brasov city. Sf. Constantin Hospital has been designated as the laureate of the European Hand Hygiene Excellence Award 2013, within the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean care is safer care. The hospital has also a partnership with a…

  • A new World Record for 12 year old Romanian climber

    She is only 12 years old, but she has already reached  Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Western hemisphere. Her name is Dor Geta Popescu and Saturday, 6th of February she became the youngest person to climb this mountain. Aconcagua is 6960 metres high and it is considered the highest in South America. According to…

  • Romanian team wins Robotics competition held in South Korea

    The robotics team Autovortex Romania has won the gold medal at the Robotics festival First Tech Challenge which took place in Seul, South Korea, last week. The Romanian team was composed of Ducu Andrei, Edi Diaconescu and Rares Badici from National Informatics college Tudor Vianu, Diana Zlotea, student at the International American School, Ion Rares student…

  • “Romania is a paradise!”, says Dutch woman who moved to Romania to work in agriculture

    Agnes Jansen is a Dutch woman who moved to Romania to work in the agriculture. It would seem a strange idea, given the fact that many Romanians abandon the countryside to move to the city for better opportunities. Agnes, who is an agronomist, bought and renovated a house and now grows berries, tomatoes, peppers and…

  • Piatra Neamt students help family affected by house fire

      A family from Dobreni, Neamt county, went through a tragedy this January when their house burnt down and since then the parents, grandchildren and their four children( aged 2 to 12) were left homeless. Now the family lives in a small kitchen that was not affected by the fire. The young people from the…

  • Madalina Ghenea chosen to present San Remo festival

    Mădălina Ghenea was chosen to present the San Remo festival this year along with Carlo Conti, the artistic director of the festival and Virginia Raffaele and Gabriel Garko. The festival will include 20 established Italian artists and 8 new Italian artists. Special guests of the festival include Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Renato Zero, and Nicole Kidman. The…

  • Inspirational story: the poor boy who almost quit school twice becomes a judge

    Romania also has its share of rag to riches kind of stories and one of them is of magistrate Marcel Nechita, the vicepresident of Suceava law court. Marcel Nechita comes from a very poor family and because of that he never forgot where he came from and now helps others in his situation. Nechita now…

  • Kind-hearted person leaves envelopes with money all over Cluj-Napoca

      An anonymous charitable person from Cluj leaves envelopes with money all over the city. The envelopes contain 50 lei or 100 lei and a piece of paper with instructions on it. The instructions encourage the person to give at least half the money to someone who really needs it. The mysterious person who does…

  • Cristian Iamandi, the blacksmith who creates Dacian weapons

    Cristian Iamandi has a pretty unusual job for our times, he is a blacksmith. But not any kind of blacksmith, because he is creating Dacian weapons. Now, it might be a bit too late for us to fight against the Roman empire, but you have to admit his job is pretty cool. At age 30,…

  • Roxana Maria Chiorean awarded best translator from Romania by the European commission

    Roxana Maria Chiorean, a highschool student from Cluj-Napoca has won the European translator competition called “Juvenes Translatores”, organised by the European commission. The competition gathered around 3,000 students from the European Union and 28 of them have been awarded, each from every country. Roxana Maria Chiorean, from the Emil Racovita national college has translated fom…