Positive News about Romania
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Romanian teacher awards olympic students with prizes from her pension
Maria Panaitopol, a Romanian teacher, organises math competitions each year and offers money prizes that she pays from her pension. The competitions are made to honour her husband, who was also a math professor at the Bucharest Mathematics University and editor at the Math Gazette. According to greatnews.ro, Maria Panaitopol, who is now 70 years old,…
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The Romanian national debate team wins 2nd and 3rd place at Debate Europen in Hamburg
The Romanian national debate team has won the second and third place at the International debate competition Debate EurOpen 2016 in Hamburg. According to republikanews.ro, among the nine students that participated in the competition is Petre Draghici, student at the Mihai Viteazul national college in Ploiesti. He is part of the ARGO debate club which…
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“Bacalaureat” and “Sieranevada” win five awards at Listapad International movie festival
Romanian movies have won five awards at the Listapad International Movie festival. The festival took place in Minsk, Belarus, between November 4-11. According to Agerpres, “Bacalaureat” directed by Cristian Mungiu and “SieraNevada” by Cristi Puiu were awarded last weekend at the Ending Gala of the festival. The press specialty award was given for creating a…
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Romanian-American couple who moved to Maramures:”We love Romanians’ willingness to give and help”
After travelling the world, spending time in the US, UK and Hungary, a Romanian-American couple has moved to Maramures in search for a simple life. Here, in the beautiful village of Breb, Cheryl and Roland have gotten closer to nature, they have started to create their own clothes and shoes and they are documenting it all…
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Romanian movie festival opens in London this weekend
If you care to see Romanian movies but you live in the UK a Romanian movie festival begins this weekend and ends on November 14. The 13th edition of the festival takes place in London,at the Soho Curzon festival. The audience will be able to view movies such as Baccalaureate, directed by Cristian Mungiu, Seranevada,…
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Romanian business women celebrated at Entrepreneurship Gala
Romanian women were awarded yesterday during the Beauty of Entrepreneurship 2016 gala. Business women were congratulated for their courage and their success in the business world. The winners were: Paula Dobrescu who founded Business Travel, Cori Gramescu, who owns LadyFitGym and Amalia Iscu who owns Tango Tangent. Other awards were also given to Magda Bei,…
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Charitable ball organised by college to raise scholarship money for students
A college from Romania is raising money to offer scholarships to exceptional students. Transylvania College from Cluj-Napoca, a school that teaches Romanian curriculum and also Cambridge curriculum organises a Scholarship Society ball. The school hopes to raise over 50,000 euros, money that represent 60% of the money needed for 10 scholarships for students with exceptional…
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Young man from Satu Mare organises campaign to help the homeless during the winter season
A young man from Satu Mare has started a campaign in order to help the homeless. Florin Brindusan has appealed to local people and to anyone willing to help to bring food and hot drinks. The young man posted his appeal on his Facebook page and people seem to respond to it. He wrote on…
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Romanian worker saves German man from death by giving him first aid
A Romanian worker in Germany has saved his colleague from death. Adrian Marcu, 29 years old, has been working for 10 years in Germany as an electrician. In March, this year he was working together with his colleague in a mall at the electric instalation. His 61 year old colleague was electrocuted by an uncovered…
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Octavian Eusebiu Halici wins first place at the International French language Olympiad
A 17 year old student has won the first place at the International French language Olympiad. Octavian Eusebiu Halici, from Dorohoi, Botosani county, won the big prize with an essay. The student is in grade XI at the Regina Maria highschool in Dorohoi. He has won the maximum points in the individual category. According to adevarul, Octavian…
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