Press magazine – 2th May 2023

The Faculty of Music and Theater of the Western University of Timişoara - in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, the National Museum of Art Timişoara and the "Ion Vidu" Art High School - organizes, from May 2-18, 2023, the Chamber Music Festival. The event brings before music lovers and poetry lovers a series of high artistic meetings. During the events, chamber music and poetry will enter into a fertile dialogue, in the interpretation of the students of the Faculty of Music and Theater and their teachers.

"Held this year in its 2023th edition, the festival was initiated, twenty years ago, by university professor Dr. Graţiela Negruţiu. Out of the desire to open the event to the art-loving community, the XNUMX edition - the year in which Timişoara is the European Capital of Culture - will take place in several spaces in our city, entry to all the events included in the program being free, within the limits of available places", stated the director of the festival, Rodica-Ortensia Zeman.

As a member of the tripartite agreement "Growing Communities", signed by Her Majesty's House Association and the Profi commercial chain, the "Mihai I" University of Life Sciences Timișoara was represented on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at the opening festivities of the Soul Festival Romania, organized on the Royal Domain from Săvârșin.

Professor Cosmin Popescu, rector of the Mihai I University of Life Sciences, Prof. Dr. Florin Imbrea, dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Alexandru Făgăraș, director of Agro Campus and coordinator of Akademika Market, teachers, alumni and students took part in the official opening honored by the presence of Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Crown of Romania, and Prince Radu.

The Soul of Romania Festival is an event that encourages householders to connect to the community and helps the inhabitants of this country to discover small local producers, traditions and authentic customs of the Romanian village. More than 40 small local producers with their offers, as well as craftsmen, were present at the event.

"I want to thank the Mihai I University of Life Sciences in Timișoara for the trust given and for putting their soul into this festival made from the heart. The only chance for development and well-being is through involvement, which we do together, including during these days of celebration," said Călin Costinaș, deputy general director of Profi.

"Mihai I University of Life Sciences continues to act to support local producers and Romanian agriculture," declared in the official opening Prof. Univ. Dr. Cosmin Popescu, rector of the university.

The event was initiated by Profi to encourage the community to connect to the authentic values, good tastes and traditions of the Romanian village through experiences lived in a natural setting in which the rural world is recreated as it should be known by older generations. we.

On April 29 and 30, between 12:00 and 19:00, the Soul of Romania festival offers participants the opportunity to travel to a timeless village in the form of an initiatory tour in the world of the village, passing through the Târgoveților Inn, the Village Fair, the Village Market , Drumul Artizanilor and Children's Street, to meet craftsmen with their offer, but also to participate in concerts performed by Mircea Baniciu, Nicu Alifantis, Daniel Julean and the Calendar Troupe, alongside popular and classical music ensembles.

The start of the festival was preceded by the opening, for the first time to the public, of the Tea House - created to complement the hospitality services offered to visitors - and the opening of the program for visiting the Royal Domain from Săvârșin.

Bucharest, xx April 2023 – The three students from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca won the global final of the SAS Curiosity Cup competition, where they competed alongside nine other teams from around the world. The Romanian youth project used the SAS Viya solution to analyze the deforestation situation in the Carpathian Mountains.

The SAS Curiosity Cup competition brought together teams of students from all over the world, who had the opportunity to test their skills in the field of data analysis in real situations. This competition was an opportunity for young people to test their knowledge in the fields data science and analytics, using SAS Viya and SAS OnDemand for Academics solutions to create projects, but also other SAS tools licensed at the university level.

Rector of Babeş-Bolyai University, Prof. univ. dr. psycho. Daniel David, mc of the Romanian Academy, declared on the occasion of the completion of the competition: "UBB has as its academic model the idea of ​​generating advanced knowledge through scientific research, and in this process to educate students and generate innovative applications for society. This result confirms that the model works well and that UBB students are very well educated to be generators of knowledge and innovations in society."

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT – European Institute of Innovation and Technology) is organizing its Regional Office for Romania of the EIT-Digital section at UBB, writes the institution in a press release.

 The EIT is a body of the European Union, which has the role of supporting European innovation and technological development, in the Horizon Europe program having, for the period 2021-2027, a budget of over 3 billion Euros. EIT-Digital, as a section of EIT (KIC – Knowledge & Innovation Community), is the largest European digital innovation ecosystem, with a focus on research-based technologies (DeepTech), with a focus on DigitalTech, DigitalCities, DigitalIndustry, DigitalWellbeing and DigitalFinance , according to the cited statement.

The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-University Education (ARACIP) announces that it is putting 20 positions of legal advisers, experts and heads of service up for competition, according to an address obtained by Edupedu.ro. Registration is based on the file, until May 9 at the latest, at the agency's headquarters. After the selection of files, the next stage is the written test on May 17.

The complete calendar and the bibliography for each position put out to the competition, below in the article.

The hirings take place in the context in which the governing coalition is discussing cuts in state spending. PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu said on Friday, April 28, that "we need a more flexible budget apparatus. It doesn't mean we're going to kick people out. (…) All three of us must sit down at the table and talk about the secretaries of state". The Minister of European Funds, Marcel Boloș, claims that "the number of budget holders must be revised".

Oradea City Hall was visited today, April 25, by a group of students and two coordinating professors from the Faculty of Geography of the University of Bucharest, who are in professional practice in the municipality.

The young people were received by Alina Silaghi, director of the Oradea Local Development Agency, Alexandru Chira, general director of Visit Oradea and Marius Moș, executive director of DMPFI.

During this meeting, the representatives of the local administration presented the major projects of the city, the business incubator projects and the strategy to attract investments at the local and regional level through the network of existing and planned industrial parks, the various community initiatives promoted by civil society, as well as the activities carried out for the development of tourism in Oradea and the region.

The member universities of the Romanian Alliance of Universities of Science and Technology (ARUST) are once again asking the Ministry of Education for an increase in the number of places for admission and "adequate funding for higher technical and architectural education", according to a press release sent to Edupedu on Friday. ro by one of the member universities, the Technical University of Iasi. The call comes after, in December, ARUST launched a similar call to increase budgeted places and to increase funding per student, in the field of engineering, and Edupedu.ro signaled then that these institutions already have among the largest public funding, among Romanian universities .

Member universities – to whom they have now been joined by the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism from Bucharest - argues its request by the fact that it "represents, at the national level, the interests of over 85.000 students from the branches of engineering sciences, architecture and urban planning" and is "the largest trainer and supplier of highly qualified human resources in priority areas of the Romanian economy ".

The conference of the Faculty of Letters of the "Vasile Alecsandri" University in Bacău, entitled "Discursive forms. Evoking the past and responding to contemporary challenges", took place online, on the Microsoft Teams platform, on April 27, 2023.

"The conference brought together the scientific manifestations of the research groups within the INTERSTUD Research Center (ESPACES DE LA FICTION, LOGOS, CULTURAL SPACES, GASIE) and CETAL and was organized in collaboration with the University of Lorraine - Mediation Research Center (France) , University of Messina (Italy), Public University of Rome (Italy), University for Foreigners of Siena (Italy), Atatürk University, Erzurum (Turkey), University Konstantin Preslavsky from Shumen (Bulgaria), the University of Lleida (Spain), the Project of the French National Research Agency AIÔN, the Francophone University Agency and the Association for the Development of Francophonie, Bacău (Romania)", said the dean of the Faculty of Letters, university associate professor Dr. Brîndușa-Mariana I AM ALANCED.

The 4 sections, Reception of myths, Medievalism, Contemporary global problems and crises, (Dis)information. Communication. Media, brought together over 80 specialists from France, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Albania, India, Montenegro, Oman, Morocco, Algeria, Cameroon, Norway and Canada.

By addressing different discursive ways and forms of evoking the past and the many global problems and crises that affect us, as well as media disinformation strategies, the participants tried to provide answers and solutions to the great challenges of contemporaneity, in the fields of media and communication, linguistics, literature and culture.

Only 11% of Romanian students understand a read text, are able to extract information from it and even evaluate it, according to the Report on the Literacy Level of Romanian Students. Experts point out that the problem is a serious one.

An alarming percentage of students (42%) in grades I-VIII are functionally illiterate, that is, they would not be able to properly understand an event poster or traffic signs, while about 47% of them are in the category of "minimum functional". Only 11% of Romanian students obtained the score "functional", that is, they have the ability to locate, understand and synthesize information from a written text, shows the latest literacy report, released by BRIO, the platform that uses a standardized test system designed according to the most rigorous global standards by specialists in psychometrics.

The results of the report show that there is little difference between girls and boys in terms of literacy. Thus, 40% of girls are in the dysfunctional zone, while boys register a slightly higher percentage, almost 44%. The biggest difference is found in the high functionality category, where girls lead by almost 4 points: 13,25% versus 9,27%. Related to this, Gabi Bartic, CEO of the BRIO platform, explained that "girls are generally more analytical, by construction, and for this reason there are differences, and they also exist at the level of PISA tests (...) Girls will always perform better in understanding the text and using the information in the text than boys . Boys will always be better in numeracy and science literacy", he showed.

Students and entrepreneurs with artificial intelligence start-ups can participate in May in the FORTHEM Startup Days event organized in a hybrid system, with a physical presence at the University of Jyväskylä Startup Lab, Finland, and online. The event will take place on May 25, on the Zoom platform, ULBS reports.

"An experienced guest speaker will participate in the event. Also, entrepreneurs at the beginning of the road have the opportunity to present their idea or business and create a network of contacts within the FORTHEM alliance", the statement states.

Students, researchers and administrative staff interested in business and networking with other FORTHEM partners, entrepreneurs with start-up businesses whose object of activity is related to artificial intelligence, as well as consultants working with startups can participate, receiving help in terms of intellectual property rights, incubation, access to venture capital networks or other types of support for start-ups.

An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez will be released in 2024, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the Colombian writer, laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, the Random House publishing house announced on Friday, reports AFP. quoted by Agerpres.

The new book of the author of novels such as "A century of loneliness" and "Love in the time of cholera" will appear "in 2024 in all Spanish-speaking countries, except Mexico", and "will undoubtedly be the most important editorial event of the year next", the publishing house emphasized in a statement.

In the book can be found the "most remarkable aspects" of Gabriel García Márquez's work, such as "his imagination, the poetry of the language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of human beings and his affection for their experiences and misfortunes, especially in love, can theme the main theme of his entire work", they emphasized, according to the quoted source.

Several public institutions, NGOs, artists and specialists from different fields propose a new vision for the cultural corridor defined by the Bega waterway, from the Timișoara Hidroelectrica Plant to the Tisa confluence, at the Titel fortress.

The "Locks on the Bega/Cultural connections" project, proposed by the DALA Foundation, the architecture office D Proiect and D'arc Timișoara, mainly aims to discuss the resumption of navigation on the Bega, along the entire length of the canal and the strengthening of Timișoara's position as pole and cultural port in the region.

The initiative represents a mix of cultural, educational and extra-cultural activities that bring together professionals from fields such as arts, architecture, biodiversity, education or urban planning, with the aim of generating a model for capitalizing, promoting and monitoring the green-blue corridor.

"Locks on Bega/Cultural Connections" will take place throughout 2023 and proposes 10 distinct activities, addressed to a wide and diverse audience. The events, workshops, discussion sessions or art installations that will be proposed within the project are organized in a modular system, with distinct themes for each month, which accumulate information along the way and centralize them in a final catalog, made in excellent graphic conditions . This catalog will be an encyclopedia of the Bega Canal and a handbook of good practice on reporting on the river and how natural and human heritage should be understood and respected.