Press magazine – April 26 2023

The students and professors of the Department of Geography of the University of West Timișoara succeeded in creating the General Tactile Geographical Atlas of Romania. It will help enormously in the teaching process of students with vision problems and will be presented for the first time in Timișoara, on the occasion of the opening of the ICT National Competition for amblyopic and blind students.

The General Tactile Geographical Atlas of Romania is a collection of tactile boards made on ZyTex A3 type microcapsule paper, modeled in relief using the ZyFuse thermoform. It contains several maps placed in a logical construction, which aims to provide an overall understanding of our country's position in the world and to spatially present the relevant information about the physical-geographical and human geography elements specific to Romania.

The cartographic representation was made keeping in mind the specific principles of creating tactile maps for the blind. Great care has been taken in the selection of map elements, generalization and tactile economy so that the map can tell a story without difficulty and without confusion. A lot of work was done in collaboration with the students and teacher Constantin Cristache from the Iris Special Technological High School in Timișoara, where all the materials were tested along the way.

The Western University of Timișoara (UVT), Faculty of Arts and Design, through the study program Fashion - Apparel Design, invited Clarence van der Putte to hold a master class in "Fashion Marketing" and organize a "Fashion Event" in Timișoara .

The main goal is to understand the specific issues of fashion marketing and to discover ways to boost the fashion industry and art in Romania in general and Timișoara in particular, as our guest proposed.

Thus, on Tuesday, April 25, in the Attic Gallery of the Faculty of Arts and Design, Clarence van der Putte will hold the first masterclass in Fashion Marketing dedicated to students of the Faculty of Arts and Design, especially those studying fashion design and fashion, and, starting at 19.00, an Open Fashion Masterclass dedicated to designers, artists, but also those in the business field or those who love fashion.

The vision of the Timisoara Polytechnic University was and is to become a top university, in accordance with the tradition and history of more than a century.

To achieve this goal, UPT proposed, among other things, the integration of information technologies in education and the introduction of a blended learning education system, continuing the tradition of developing modern solutions for academic use and for transfer to the socio-economic environment.

In this sense, the Politehnica University of Timișoara joined the Cluj IT Cluster. Established in October 2012, Cluj IT is a network based on the innovation of Romanian IT companies and related organizations, with the aim of increasing the competitiveness and growth of IT services and products on international markets, but also to build a sustainable public-private partnership, strong, to improve the quality of life of the community of which it is a part.

By joining, the Politehnica University of Timișoara aims to bring added value and know-how to the area of ​​innovation, in and from the collaboration with partners and members of the Cluj IT Cluster.

French writer and journalist Olivier Guez, author of the recent volume the century of dictators, meets his readers from Timișoara during a literary evening in which he will enter into a dialogue with the writer Adriana Babeți.

The event will take place on Thursday, April 27, from 18.30:XNUMX p.m., at the Two Owls bookstore. Olivier Guez will enter into a dialogue with the writer and comparative literature teacher Adriana Babeți, and the discussion will be moderated by the writer and university professor Marcel Tolcea. The event will be held in French and will focus around the volume The Grand Tour. Autoportrait de l'Europe par ses écrivains, coordinated by Olivier Guez, published by Grasset Publishing House, in 2022, et al Dictionary of Central European Romanian from the XNUMXth century, coordinated by Adriana Babeți and published last year by Polirom Publishing. The discussion will also touch on Olivier Guez's latest volume published this year by Humanitas Publishing House, the century of dictators, translated from French by Diana Zotea.

The event is organized by the French Institute in Romania in Timișoara, as part of Coin du livre francophone à Timișoara avec Kyralina @ La Două Bufnițe, where you will also find the other books in French by Olivier Guez.

The Governor of the National Bank, Mugur Isărescu, announced what will be the new master's programs within the Academy of Economic Studies. The new programs will target electronic currency, but also the effect of climate warming on the economy.

He stated, during the "Navigating among overlapping crises" conference, that the new master's programs will be implemented gradually. Isărescu aims for ASE to offer a more solid training of the next economists who want a seat in the Board of Directors of the BNR.

"A year ago I was here to present you the ambitious plans together with ASE. The new master's program, which started last year, focused on the activity of central banks. The NBR supported the research activity in the financial field by publishing volumes covering the topics of interest of monetary policy and macroeconomics. The new programs will target the digital currency and the effects of climate warming on the economy," said Mugur Isărescu.

Education in the economic-financial field has constantly occupied a leading place on the agenda of priorities and objectives of strategic importance of the National Bank of Romania (BNR), the governor of the Central Bank.

The president of the Education Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, Natalia Intotero, said that by September it is possible "to have this new salary law". She told journalists that the Minister of Labor "is working on this law and we believe that somewhere by September we will have this new salary law, with much better, more attractive salaries for the education staff."

Intotero added that the salaries of beginning teachers are an insult to teaching staff: "When you finish your studies, as a beginning teacher with just over 2.000 lei, we consider it an insult to teaching staff."

Natalia Intotero: "First of all, I want to say very clearly: we all want higher salaries for teachers. At the moment, this job, which the vast majority chooses out of love for children, is not attractive. So, at the moment you complete your studies, as a beginning teacher, with just over 2.000 lei, we consider it an insult to teachers and, from this point of view, we all support higher salaries for beginning teachers and not only: and for non-teaching staff, auxiliary teaching staff and other experienced colleagues.

Physical violence in any form in schools will be sanctioned, and the expulsion of students can only be done in very serious situations, with the right to re-enroll in the following school year, in the same educational unit, with the exception of students in post-secondary education, an amendment of the National Labor Code provides , PSD and the Ministry of Education, appropriated by the other parliamentary groups, adopted by the Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

According to the amendment, the disciplinary analysis can be initiated by the school staff following a violation of the regulations of the pre-university education unit or the inappropriate behavior of the student. The student and parents/legal guardians are informed of the nature of the violation and are summoned to a formal meeting.

Students have the right to defense and cannot be subjected to collective sanctions. In order to be sanctioned, the acts must take place within the perimeter of the educational institution, during extracurricular activities or during online activities.

Two female students from Cluj-Napoca will hold introductory courses in the use of mobile phones for the online payment of taxes and utility bills for the elderly from the Pensioners' Home (CARP) in Zalău, writes Agerpres.

Ioan Ivaşcau, the president of CARP Zalău, stated on Monday, for AGERPRES, that the idea of ​​this course came to him when the two female students came to the pensioners' organization to carry out a study on how the elderly use their mobile devices to make online payments - lines.

"Our future is for everyone to pay their taxes to the state, not by going to the cashier and standing in line, but online. Then, I also asked more people: 'Hey, do you know where Gostila is? Do you know where Paduret is? (isolated localities from Sălaj no) How do you imagine that Badea Gheorghe from there, who stayed next to his heifer, will be able to pay the taxes online at the town hall? You can not'. Coincidentally, three weeks ago, two students from Cluj-Napoca came to me to help them do a paper related to the online payment of taxes to the state by pensioners. That's when the idea came to me and I proposed that they hold an initiation course in the use of mobile phones by pensioners for the online payment of taxes and utility bills", declared Ioan Ivaşcau.

He agreed with the two female students to form groups of 15-20 pensioners, with whom to support the mentioned courses, for two months, two days a week.

In 2005, Amazon opened its dedicated research and development center in Romania, in Iasi, the first of its kind in Eastern Europe. Amazon has been present in the Palas complex since 2010, and now it brings together its employees from the city under one roof. 

Palas Campus is fully rented and includes multinational companies from fields such as IT, automotive and insurance, which total over 5.000 employees:

• Amazon Development Center Romania – the research and development center of the Amazon company
• AMD – Advanced Micro Devices – an American semiconductor manufacturing company that designs adaptive and high-performance computing solutions
• Allianz-Ţiriac – part of the German Allianz group, the most valuable insurance brand in the world
• Cognizant Softvision – one of the largest software engineering employers in Romania and part of Cognizant, the global IT and professional services company
• Expleo – global engineering, technology and consulting company based in France
• HELLA Romania – international supplier in the automotive field, under the umbrella of the FORVIA brand
• HEITS.digital – tech start-up from Cluj, specialized in AI and Machine Learning solutions
• HTEC Group – global consulting, software engineering and digital product development company
• Microsoft - American company, the largest software producer in the world
• Profidata Dev – Swiss company that delivers software solutions and services for the financial industry
• Safeguard Global – American company specialized in HR and payroll services
• Visma Software Romania – (company originally from Norway) supplier of software products for the automation and management of business management processes
• Bandwidth – global communications company

The Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism (MAT) will create a new funding line to facilitate the establishment of new business incubators (or the development of existing ones) within accredited universities in Romania. Young lawyers, architects, computer scientists, engineers, etc., as well as other professional categories, will be able to access this financing line. "Young people are a valuable source of innovation, and investments in their businesses are, in fact, investments in a better future for Romania," MAT representatives said.

This program aims to create a business environment favorable to the development and growth of SMEs established by students in their final year and/or masters/doctorates, graduates in the last 3 years, promoting the entrepreneurial culture and improving the managerial performance of these categories, as well as strengthening a dynamic private sector, able to face competitive forces and international competition. At the same time, the aim is to increase the number of competitive economic activities, strengthen the investment climate, as well as reduce the unemployment rate among higher education graduates. In addition, the development of the local, regional, national and international economic environment is desired, through more efficient use of the existing economic and human potential in the area, but also the establishment and development of innovative SMEs, capable of effectively using existing resources and which , at the end of the incubation period, will be in a financially stable situation.

For now, no details are known regarding the amounts and how they can be accessed, but a draft procedure for the implementation of the future funding program is to be published both on the ministry's website www.turism.gov.ro, as well as those of the universities interested in collaboration within the program.