Press magazine – April 20 2023

The president of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS), Mădălin Bunoiu, notes the number of chemistry, physics or biology laboratories in schools, "incredibly small", especially in villages. He was asked during a show broadcast on Radio Romania Cultural, if students have the courage to do research. "Young people don't try because they never had the opportunity to try. If we look at the number of chemistry, physics, biology laboratories that are now found in primary, middle and high schools it is incredibly small. It is a matter of minimum decency that any school, no matter how small, in any village, should have a laboratory", says Mădălin Bunoiu.

Professor at the Faculty of Physics, Mădălin Bunoiu is vice-rector at the University of West Timișoara and president of ARACIS – the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. He explained that due to the "incredibly small" number of chemistry, physics or biology laboratories in schools, especially in villages, young people are not curious to try and experiment with science, which obviously affects research.

The Timișoara University Alliance organizes the ATU Educational Fair for Your Education, between April 21-22, 2023, at the Convention Center, Mărășești street no. 1-3, from the Victoria Square area.

The event is organized by the four member universities of ATU: "King Mihai I" University of Life Sciences from Timișoara, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the Polytechnic University and the University of West Timișoara.

All students from the county's high schools and from anywhere in their final grades are expected at the event, in order to look for a college to attend after completing their high school studies.

Schedule: Friday 9am - 16pm, Saturday 10am - 13pm.

The Faculty of Management in Production and Transport, led by the dean prof.univ.dr. Marian Mocan, from the Timișoara Polytechnic University, organizes the MPT Days - edition 20-21 April 2023 - "INVEST IN OUR FUTURE".

The program includes a round table, Alumni MPT – Let's Share Experiences, where former MPT graduates share their career successes and challenges. Kilgast Ionela from Lasting, Andrei Calotescu, HR Business Partner at SafeFleet Telematics and Andrei Churican - Quality and Environmental Protection Consultant - Entrepreneur will speak.

Students will be awarded: Enikő Badon, Ruben Bocoiu, Iulia Ica, Andrada Pavel (1rd year) = 9st place at the first Logistics Hackathon in Romania within the Automotive Logistics Summit, held in Sibiu (March 10-2023, 5) with 6 participating universities (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Babes Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, University of Ploiesti, UPT); Vladislav Casuneanu, Narcisa Hapca, Daniel Ilisoi, Maria Jipa (75rd year), for participating in Supply Chain Week, in mixed teams of students from 6 countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Romania), with XNUMX participating students and XNUMX teachers

Two students from the Politehnica University of Timișoara were awarded in the national phase of the "Tudor Tănăsescu" professional competition, held at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Paul Medinceanu took 3rd place and Oana Anton placed 4th in different sections of the most important competition for students of electronic, automation and computer faculties in Romania. Its subject is based on two disciplines from the fundamental training of the electronic engineer: Analog Integrated Circuits and Signals, Circuits and Systems.

This year, Magerusan Raluca, Golu Elena, Preda Bogdan, Șinca Alen, Dobosan Robert, Pașca Silviu and Anton Oana participated in the Signals, Circuits and Systems (SCS) section from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies of UPT, and Paul Medinceanu participated in the Analog Integrated Circuits section.

The competition, which consists of a theoretical and a practical test, is addressed to third and fourth year students, with the mention that master's degree students could also register.

Admission to higher education institutions in Iaşi is still far away, but twelfth grade students, as well as high school graduates from previous years, can already prepare their documents for enrolling in the faculties whose courses they wish to attend from Alexandru University Ioan Cuza from Iasi. The oldest modern university in Romania started the online pre-registration of candidates since the beginning of April, while at the "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the second simulation of the competition will take place on April 30 admission, and the "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Life Sciences in Iasi opens the pre-registration session starting on May 2.

What are the advantages if you register at UAIC:

At the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iasi (UAIC), the pre-registration of candidates for bachelor's or master's degree programs began on April 3 and will end on July 9. Pre-registration does not mean reserving a place at the college, but it gives candidates the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the admission process in advance, while they create an account on the university platform and eliminates the need to travel to the UAIC headquarters to submit documents. At the same time, at the start of the actual registration period for the admissions competition, pre-registered candidates have fewer steps to follow, having already uploaded most of the documents on the university's platform.

NASA has selected six people to contribute to CHAPEA, the first ground mission, which will debut in June from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission consists of three stages, through which the crew members will simulate life on the surface of Mars for one year. Throughout the missions, members will live and work in a habitat that spans 1.700 square meters. All types of challenges of a Mars mission will be simulated, including resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays, and other factors that can cause environmental wipeout.

"The simulation will allow us to collect cognitive and physical performance data to give us more insight into the potential impact of long-duration Mars missions on crew health and performance. Ultimately, this information will help NASA make informed decisions to design and plan a successful human mission to Mars," said Grace Douglas, CHAPEA's principal investigator, as quoted by Presshub.

NASA launched a call for applications in 2021, through which participants were selected. The crew consists of four main members and two backup members.

In 2022, Tokyo-Yokohama is the most important science and technology center in the world, according to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in the Global Innovation Index (GII) report for the year 2022. The Global Innovation Index 2022 announces the largest clusters of science and technology (S&T) innovation in the world, with the highest density of inventors and scientific authors.

S&T (Science&Technology) innovation clusters are often referred to as "science and technology hubs" ie geographical areas around the world with the highest density of inventors and scientific authors. WIPO is the World Intellectual Property Organization (World Intellectual Property Organization) is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations.

In 2022, Tokyo-Yokohama is the world's leading science and technology hub, followed by Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou (China and Hong Kong, China), Beijing (China), Seoul (Republic of Korea) and San Jose-San Francisco (United States).

The top 10 clusters remain the same as last year, with one difference: Shanghai and Suzhou have meanwhile merged into one cluster.

The Ministry of Sports has launched the sixth program dedicated to promoting the practice of sports in schools and universities, which regulates the general framework for carrying out activities within school and university sports associations. The order regarding the approval of the Program "Development of school and university sports" was published in the Official Gazette.