Press magazine – 9th May 2023

We are pleased to invite you to the "Culture and Ideology" conference, held by the renowned university professor, literary critic and essayist, Mircea Martin, on May 10, at 18:00 p.m., in the A01 Amphitheater of the Western University of Timisoara.

This conference is open to all students, professors and university staff, as well as the general public interested in the subject. It is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the most respected university professors and explore the topic of culture and ideology in depth.

We look forward to you joining us on this exciting intellectual journey!

The event is part of the cultural program "At UVT, Culture is the Capital!", included in the Cultural Program "Timişoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture", Oameni territory, Reflectiţi station, financed by the Municipality of Timișoara through the Project Center, co-financed by the Timiș County Council , through the TimCultura 2023 program.

Student life is one of the most beautiful and interesting stages in the process of forming a young adult.

With the vigor of youth, with challenges, with fun and inherent responsibilities, students intensely live this period during which they weld their set of skills necessary in their professional path, but also at the individual level.

Being a student in a city like Timișoara, which has many opportunities in career development, but also in social life, is obviously an advantage. Compared to what was 20-30 years ago, the perspectives are different, because the societal context is also different.

The profile of today's student is no longer the same as at the beginning of post-December Romania. Now, a good part of those who continue their training in higher education work, part-time or full-time, participate in mobility programs (such as, for example, Erasmus), are involved in exchanges of experience along the educational line, exchange more often career options.

Being a student, today, is no longer synonymous with being young, financially supported by parents. We are witnessing accelerated dynamics on the labor market, therefore, the reconfiguration of the professional path can take place at any moment of life. Not a few are those who, at the age of adulthood, choose to follow a form of higher education for the first, second or even third time, including various master's programs.

However, not all faculties in Timișoara have managed to update their educational policies. Despite the multiple training programs developed in universities, which include transversal skills, remedial courses, framework plans in accordance with employers' requirements, alternative teaching methods, the possibility to participate in classes held in other faculties, internships, accessibility to programs in the educational offer is still a critical point of higher education in Timișoara.

Between May 29 - 31, 2023, the "Western University of Timișoara" together with the partner from Norway "Sonning Music Performance" will host for three days an international cultural entrepreneurship conference carried out within the project "Stimulation of innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes for the performing arts in higher education TM 2023 1st edition", a project benefiting from a grant worth €75.400, through common EEA funds from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

The project aims to develop good practices and innovative methods in the field of entrepreneurship, music and performing arts, through the exchange of experience and bilateral cooperation between representatives of institutions and organizations from Romania and Norway. The full program will include the participation of delegations representing the academic creative business sector from Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Ireland.

The events are also supported by the participation of NOROCC (Norwegian – Romanian Chamber of Commerce), with Sønning Music Performance, DAC Music Performance and the Romanian Chamber Orchestra as Norwegian partners involved.

All those interested in attending the conference are asked to fill out the form available at the following link. The language of conduct is English.

The European Film Festival debuts in Timișoara tomorrow, May 9, on Europe Day itself, with a special Gala. The festival takes place between May 9-12, at Cinema Victoria.

"On May 9, we say Happy Birthday to Europe, in its cultural capital, Timișoara, launching the European Film Festival. Here, on the banks of the Begă, we are truly under the sign of dialogue, in a city that has been building the diversity and effervescence specific to the European Union for hundreds of years, since the time when the project of unifying the continent did not even exist as an aspiration. European multiculturalism is best illustrated through European cinema, colorful, sometimes irreverent, sometimes temperamental, often serious, but always relevant. Just like your city. For the Gala evening, we propose a brave and challenging film, with an impressive cast, at which I hope to see as many as possible", said Liviu Jicman, President of the Romanian Cultural Institute.

The film that will inaugurate the Timisoara edition of FFE on May 9, at the Victoria Cinema, from 19:00 p.m., is With everything with bones / bones and all by the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, rewarded with two important prizes at the Venice Film Festival last year: the Silver Lion for the best director and the acting prize for the young Taylor Russell. The cast also includes superstars Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Chloë Sevigny and Jessica Harper.

County Council (CJ) Maramureş will participate in the project that provides for the training of specialists in the field of medical assistance, in collaboration with "Iuliu Haţieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Cluj-Napoca, informed the communication service of the institution on Monday.

According to the same source, CJ will be part of the cooperation agreement between the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Haţieganu" Cluj-Napoca and Emergency County Hospital "Dr. Constantin Opriş" from Baia Mare, in order to train medical assistants in the municipality.

The University of Cluj is to open a branch in Baia Mare.

"It is a partnership that aims to bring the University of Medicine to the municipality of Baia Mare, so that from the fall of this year we will have students at "Iuliu Haţieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Baia Mare branch. In the first stage we will not have medical students, in the first stage we will have students in nursing and other specializations, which the university will establish together with the County Emergency Hospital, but in the future we want the university to have the part of medicine, here in Baia Mare. (...) The hospitals in Maramureş county, in Baia Mare, will benefit from the fact that they will have specialists at hand, people with whom they can work at the highest standards", said the president of CJ Maramureş, Ionel Bogdan.

The "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Bucharest will have a section in Ploieşti, where an admission session for Medicine will be organized for 50 students, informs, on Monday, the County Council (CJ) Prahova.

According to the cited source, a partnership was concluded between the CJ and the educational institution, so that UMF will train its students, starting from the fall of this year, in Ploiesti as well.

"This important collaboration has two major implications for the community of Prahova: on the one hand, the university will organize, this year, admission for 50 medical students in Ploiesti, and on the other hand, the way has been opened to transform the County Hospital of Ploieşti Emergency Department "Dr. Constantin Andreoiu" in the University Clinical Hospital The establishment of a section of UMF Carol Davila in Ploiesti is an important step in solving the shortage of doctors in Prahova, contributing to the increase in the quality of medical services offered to the population.

Courses for medical students will be held both at the University of Oil and Gas and at the Palace of Culture in Ploiesti. Such an important step could not have been made without the investments of the Prahova County Council in the infrastructure of the Ploiesti Emergency County Hospital Dr. Constantin Andreoiu", explained, according to the press release, the president of the Prahova County Council, Iulian Dumitrescu.

The site was hacked during the night, displaying the following message:

• "The Romanian education system is a very bad one, which teaches you absolutely nothing useful, but only indoctrinates you with useless information. Who can we blame? The teachers?
• No way, they are dumber than the students. The fact that they agree to work for a salary of ***, in an even more ** environment shows their level of intelligence, which is not very high.
• Dear students, stop worrying about school, it's a waste of time. What school teaches you in 10 years you can learn for free, on YouTube. The government made you think that if you don't have a higher education you are stupid and you will have low wages, but you are even stupider for believing and listening to them."

The Special Telecommunications Service, which administers the edu.ro platform, now displays a maintenance message.

The Ministry of Education sent, hours after the cyber attack, that the institution's IT administrators are analyzing the cyber incident that led to the blocking of the www.edu.gov.ro website

• "IT specialists are working to strengthen the site's infrastructure and get it back up and running as soon as possible. Evaluation, isolation and remediation operations of possible vulnerabilities are carried out. Until the security auditing actions are completed, the site will remain in offline mode.
• We specify that the website www.edu.gov.ro contains only public data and citizens' information, confidential data not being compromised.
• The priority of our institution is the quick resolution of the incident to ensure that edu.ro no longer presents cyber security risks and can be used again without risk", says the Ministry of Education.

contractorsi from Romania do not know what to digitize and lose thousands of euros every month, although they understand the need for digitization, an analysis by the technology company DigiSinergy shows, according to which Romanian companies are more than 10 years behind those in Western and Northern European countries, in terms of digitization and managerial education. The analysis also shows that SMEs in Romania do not allocate budgets for digitization.

"The gap between companies in Romania and those in northern and western Europe in terms of digitization and managerial education exceeds 10 years", according to an analysis by DigiSinergy, a technology company and expert in the digital transformation of businesses, writes news.ro.

Currently, in Romania, only large companies invest in this direction, most SMEs do not have budgets dedicated to digitization processes. It is a reality that generates monthly losses of thousands of euros for Romanian companies.

According to DigiSinergy data, 99% of companies with less than 10 employees do not know what should be digitized in companies. The share is 90% for companies with 10-20 employees and 70% for companies with up to 50 employees. And a third of the companies with up to 100 employees are in the situation of not knowing what needs to be digitized in order to have better results.