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  • An owl colony takes over a commune in Romania

    The little commune of Slobozia hosts 100 owls, from which 60 live in the mayor’s yard. The owls have started coming in the area in the last 10 years when the winter began. According to digi24.ro the Ornithological Association comes every year to count them and photograph them. The mayor believes that the owls come…

  • Romanian female firefighters win World Police Fire and Games competition

    Two Romanian female fire fighters have won the World Police and Fire Games competition that gathers every year over 5,000 police officers from all over the world. The athletes compete in around 67 sports and have to go through 40 rounds. Adriana Paraschiv and Daniela Soare from ISU Banat have won the canoe and the athletics competition.  According…

  • Romanian researcher receives 1.5 million grant

    Romanian researcher dr. Alida Iulia Gabor from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj has received 1.5 million euros for her project. This grant is sponsored by the European Union and will be used to develop a new technique of dating glacial periods and global warming periods for a 2,5 million years period. The objective of the…

  • Romanian nun adopts and raises 12 orphan girls

        Mother Serafima has raised all by herself 12 young orphan girls since they were infants. The orthodox nun lives in Marcus Monastery in Brasov county. In this place twelve girls grew up in a familial home built by the nun. From the begining since the monastery was built the nun wanted to do…

  • Spiridon Vangheli nominated for Astrid Lindgren prize

    Spiridon Vangheli, author of the “Abecedar” book for primary school students and author of children book series with Guguta, has been nominated for the children literature prize Astrid Lindgren 2016. Spiridon Vangheli’s work was honoured in 2013 when Moldova declared the year the “Spiridon Vangheli year”. Vangheli was also awarded in 1974 with the International…

  • The Romanian who creates books for Eton college

    If you ever wondered who creates the books that William and Harry learnt from, well…it’s a Romanian guy and his name is Paul Balogh. He is the founder of a company that creates digital educational materials for the famous Eton college, a college where the Royal Family members attend. Paul Balogh started his project due…

  • Romanian invents smartphone case that transforms WiFi signals and phone movements into electricity

      A young man from Cluj has invented a smartphone case that can charge a phone without needing an electricity socket. The project is called ArKase and was created by Razvan Marcus. His idea came during his commute to university from Hunedoara, when he noticed that his smartphone battery never resisted the five hour trip. He noticed that…

  • Fun sledge competition to be organised in Cluj this February

      Saturday 6th of February, the Feleacu Winter Games, in Cluj county will open for the first time. During the event people are invited to come and compete with sledges built out of carton and to be as creative as they can with their sledge. The fastest and most creative sledge will receive an award.…

  • Local people donate money to help local cart salesman

    Thousands of people gathered together this weekend to help Robert Lukacs, a young man who works in the center of Cluj selling diverse products from a cart. The local people got together to help him change the cart and to help him get a home. Thousands of people queued for hours to buy products from…

  • So what happened to the first Romanian who arrived to the UK after work restrictions lifted? You would be surprised!

    You might remember the whole scandal about Romanian immigrants coming to the UK by the millions after the work restrictions had lifted off. You also might remember that the media ran to the airport to find how many Romanians would come on the 1st of January 2014. And who is the one Romanian who moved…