Tag: positive news

  • Young man from Satu Mare organises campaign to help the homeless during the winter season

    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…

  • Amazing 86 year old Romanian man donates two incubators to Slatina hospital

    Amazing 86 year old Romanian man donates two incubators to Slatina hospital

    86 year old retired English teacher Ion Mihai Giuran has donated 21,000 euro for the Slatina emergency hospital. The hospital has bought two incubators for premature newborn babies. Ion Mihai Giuran is not a rich man, however, he donated money to help the lives of babies. It is well known that hospitals in Romania suffer…

  • Romanian students win gold medals at the International Geography Olympiad

    Romanian students win gold medals at the International Geography Olympiad

    Romanian students continue to impress the world. These days they have won four medals at the International Geography Olympiad. Maria-Sabina Calisevici from Campulung Moldovenesc and Ioan-Adrian Toma, from Focsani, have won the gold medals. Radu Artiom, from Jean Monnet high school in Bucharest, has secured the silver medal and Sorina Avadanei, from the Calistrat Hogas…

  • Ovidiu Avadanei wins silver medal at International Mathematics Olympiad

    Ovidiu Avadanei from Emile Racovita National College, Iasi city has won the silver medal at the International Mathematics Olympiad in Hong Kong. This is the 57th edition of the olympiad and over 100 countries have participated. Paula Gavrilescu, the director of the college noted ” Ovidiu is an exceptional student who, despite the fact that…

  • Ana Ghenciulescu wins Brain Bee World Championship

    Ana Ghenciulescu wins Brain Bee World Championship

    17 year old student Ana Ghenciulescu has won the 2016 Brain Bee World Championship. The competition showcases the best high school students in the field of neurosciences. The competition was hosted in Copenhagen and 25 National student champions have competed for four days. Ana Ghenciulescu has won the competition, along with a scholarship, a summer…

  • Romanian students won global competition for inventing high tech glasses for blind people

    Romanian students won global competition for inventing high tech glasses for blind people

    The Oculus Romanian team has won the Global Finals of the Social Innovation Relay, with their high tech invention- a pair of eye seeing glasses that have safety and navigation devices. The competition had over 10,000 participants from 10 countries: Bulgaria, Czech republic,  Greece, Japan, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Singapore, Spain and Hungary. The second place was…

  • TVR International launches campaign to promote Romania

    TVR International launches campaign to promote Romania

    TVR International channel has launched a campaign for promoting Romania and the traditional blouse, called “ia” ( pronounced- eeeyah). The campaign encourages the audience to share a photo of themselves wearing the traditional blouse and to say what Romania means to them. The campaign takes place between June 1-19 and the competitors can win three…

  • Romanian pianist honoured by a British royal college

    Romanian pianist honoured by a British royal college

    Alexandra Dariescu is the first Romanian pianist to be named the Honorary Associate Artist of Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The Romanian pianist, along with other prestigious musical talents, such as Tom Harrold, Mikhail Nemtsov, Kathryn Rudge and Le Yu will be ambassadors of the Music College starting from September. Alexandra Dariescu, from Iasi…

  • Largest CPR training in the world to be organized in Bucharest

    11,900 Romanians will participate in the largest CPR training session in the world in an effort to break the world record. The course will be organized by the Rescue Society Association in Bucharest and the Bucharest-Ilfov Ambulance Service. The course will take place on the National Arena in May and over 600 instructors will attend.…

  • 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…