Hosted by Bucharest Science Festival, the debate brought together climate experts to discuss the main false narratives concerning the causes and effects of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions.
Author: Vlad Palcu
-
Getting Europe moving!
On the sidelines
of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Delegation
for European and international affairs and cooperation (DREIC) within the French
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport organized an international conference
titled Osons la mobilité!/Getting Europe moving! The event
brought together national decision-makers, representatives of European
institutions, stakeholders and students themselves in a global effort to
address some of the top challenges facing academic mobility in the already
difficult context of the pandemic.
The event also
marked 35 years since the creation of the Erasmus programme and also provided in-depth
information about the opportunities of the European
Year of Youth 2022. -
What is the future of human evolution?
Hosted by Humanitas Publishers, the debate featured professors Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins.
-
Romania Rocks 2021
The second edition of the Romanian-British Literature Festival organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in the UK brings interviews, special events and performances with the brightest and best literary minds of both Romania and the UK.
One of the highlights of the festival was a dialogue between British writer Jonathan Coe and Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu.
-
Urban Talks – Moving towards greener mobility
Organized by
Innovating Society, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Romania and UrbanizeHub
Romania, the event was aimed at connecting innovators, leaders, changemakers
and companies who share the same values and dream of a better world. One of the
highlights of the conference was to create more public awareness regarding the
need to rethink urban planning so as to encourage bike usage. -
Interview with H.E. Siri Barry, Ambassador of the Kingom of Norway in Romania
Ambassador Siri Barry outlined the main directions of bilateral
cooperation between Romania and Norway at present, underpinning a robust
institutional and business relationship. -
Azuga, an important objective on the Wine Road
While in the area, make sure you take the time to visit the Rhein Wine Cellar, the official provider of the Royal House of Romania
-
EURO 2020 kicks off in Bucharest
Bucharest on June 13 joined the family of European capital cities that will be hosting matches in the EURO 2020 football championship.
We spoke to some of the North Macedonian and Austrian fans who flooded the streets of Bucharest, eager for a much-anticipated victory. -
Faith in times of pandemic
A sitdown with Sr. Mary Murphy FCJ about the challenges faced by Christians in the last year and the launch of the first online media platform for Christians in Romania.
-
Reforming the Romanian elementary education system
In the last 30
years Romania’s education system has been faced with a great number of
challenges. Cabinet after Cabinet promised to implement wide-reaching reforms
to ensure basic nationwide education. A 2018 report of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) under the Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA) revealed significant drops in reading,
mathematics and sciences across Romania. An even more worrying piece of
information is that 44% of Romanian pupils have trouble understanding what they’re
reading, making for one of the highest rates of functional illiteracy in the
European Union. In 2015, Romania had one of the EU’s highest school dropouts,
19.5%. Although it did drop to 15.3% in 2019, it is still one of the highest
rates compared to the EU average. The hard reality behind these numbers has as
much to do with the particular difficulties faced by underprivileged
communities, as with an overall misconception about the education process and
the general learning experience.
If anything, the
COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some of the deepest-running flaws in Romania’s
education level: severe underfunding, poor access to education in rural and
remote areas, the lack of a transparent and centralized system for evaluating
teaching staff, in addition to the exodus of Romania’s best-qualified alumni
abroad, have over the years put a dent in Romanian education, with the promise
of reforms remaining no more than an election slogan. Understaffed, undertrained
and underpaid, teachers in underprivileged communities lack the means to
provide even the most basic form of education. NGOs sometimes reach out to the
authorities for support, who bring up budget limitations. Whenever the message
does come across and finds some echo, state assistance is either not enough or
inadequately provided. Marija-Liisa Tehnunen, the rector of Dimitrie Cantemir
Christian University of Bucharest and an internationally acclaimed Finnish education
expert, believes that any successful reform in education should start with the
elementary system.
Marja-Liisa
Tenhunen is Rector of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University of Bucharest. You
can listen to the full interview here. -
Interview with PhD Marja-Liisa Tenhunen
Professor Marja-Liisa Tenhunen is the new rector of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in Bucharest.
She is the founder of CENTIA University of Applied Sciences in Finland and has enjoyed a career of business teacher and educator spanning almost 40 years.
In an interview for Radio Romania, Professor Tenhunen spoke about what makes the Finnish education system model so successful, the lessons that Romania can learn from Finland’s well-structured approach to education, the priorities of her term in office and the main pillars that any education reform should rest on.
-
Noble Jump 21
Today we look at NOBLE JUMP 2021 multinational exercise, held over May
19 – June 2 in Romania. Planned by the Supreme Allied Command in Europe and supervised
by the Allied Joint Force Command Naples, Noble Jump is the third phase of the
Steadfast Defender 2021, which brings together over 20 NATO Allies and partners from North America and Europe, and provides training exercises and swift deployment
drills on Romanian territory.
Joining us on our show is Commander Grant Kelly, chief of Media Operations at the Joint Forces Command Naples.
-
VIPs in the Limelight: Marius Ioan Piso
Joining us today for
the last time on our talk-show VIPs in the Limelight is Marius-Ioan Piso,
president and CEO of the Romanian Space Agency, president of the UN Committee
on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space over 2020-2021. A leading figure in space
science in Romania, Marius Ioan Piso contributed to the establishment and
management of the Romanian Space Agency, the Institute for Space Science and
the national research and development programmes in space aeronautics and
security -
VIPs in the Limelight: Marius Ioan Piso
Joining us today for
the last time on our talk-show VIPs in the Limelight is Marius-Ioan Piso,
president and CEO of the Romanian Space Agency, president of the UN Committee
on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space over 2020-2021. A leading figure in space
science in Romania, Marius Ioan Piso contributed to the establishment and
management of the Romanian Space Agency, the Institute for Space Science and
the national research and development programmes in space aeronautics and
security
