Education Project Romanca

Invitation to composers 2011- Concerts, composers' talk, book launch and film: 29 June at 7.30pm & 6 July at 7.00pm

2011-06-29T03:53:00.001-07:00

Dear Friends,

I am welcoming you to the new work of Invitation to Composers Project 2011.
Please come along and enjoy the work of contemporary composers that will be presented during this year in UK, France and Romania by Anda Anastasescu and London Schubert Players. The fist 2 event will take place in London:

Wednesday 29 June 2011 at 7.30pm
Bolivar Hall 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL
Entrance free

Wednesday 6 July 2011 at 7.00pm
ICR London- 1 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8PH
Entrance free

More information from www.invitationtocomposers.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/notes/anda-anastasescu/the-song-that-never-ends-wednesday-6-july-2011-at-7pm/123955921021789

I am looking forward to see you,

Yours

Ionela Flood

President
Info Manager Association Romania
Partner of Invitation to Composers Project
www.asociatiainfomanager.com
http://asociatiainfomanager.blogspot.com/

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Concerts, composers' talk, book launch and film: 29 June at 7.30pm & 6 July at 7.00pm

Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight,
and hurt not.
The Tempest, Shakespeare.

The London Schubert Players welcome you to the mysterious sounds of their next journeys:
- the magical musical world of Ravel and Faure
- the film-like music of the Jewish-Ethiopian story which brought many international awards to Radu Mihaileanu's film Va, vis et deviens
- a meditation by a Serbo-Croat composer on Japanese poet Basho
- the colourful and delightful rhythms of Venezuelan and Romanian dances
- the poetical paths of Heine, Baudelaire and Tennyson put to music by composers Silvestri, Cashian and Nickol.

The two events are part of Invitation to Composers international project, which has enriched Europe’s cultural heritage in 2010 and 2011 with 40 valuable works inspired by music, literature, visual arts, history and nature. It is building bridges between great traditions of music of the past and contemporary thought, without the use of electronics and non-musical experiments. It was one of 87 projects selected by the European Commission out of 298 for its recent cultural programmes. It has caught the interest, imagination and admiration of over 100 professional composers and 80 performers worldwide, the composition department of London’s Royal Academy of Music, record distributors, festival directors and music lovers.

The book to be launched contains the Bournemouth Symphony players' impressions about the legendary Romanian conductor Constantin Silvestri; and the unique film, shown publicly in Britain for the first time on July 6th, a tremendous performance of Silvestri conducting the French National Radio Orchestra in Liszt's poem Tasso and Silvestri's own work Prelude and Fugue (Toccata).

We want to share these journeys, entrance is free and a glass of wine will be waiting for you!

See you soon,
Yours in Music,
Anda and the London Schubert Players

FINANTATORI:
European Union Culture Fund, Programme 2007-2013
London Schubert Players Trust
Lionel Tertis Foundation, London
Institutul Cultural Roman, Paris
Institutul Cultural Roman, Londra
Asociatia Info Manager, Bucuresti

SPONSORI SI PARTENERI:
British Council Romania
Universitatea de Muzica Bucuresti
Exclusive Holidays
Hotel Rembrandt
Opus Musica
Ambasada României in Marea Britanie
Ambasada României in Franţa
Universite Paris 8
Academia de Muzica Gheorghe Dima Cluj
Fundaţia Tertis
Music Information Centre Norway
Românca Society
Radio Ciocârlia
Asociaţia Adolescentul
Pro Diaspora

PARTENERI MEDIA:
Radio Romania Cultural
Radio Romania Muzical
Radio Romania Actualitati
Radio Romania International
RADOR
Romanian Global News
Fadere
Liga Culturală pentru Unitatea Românilor de Pretutindeni
Turism si Afaceri
Unifero
Aşii României
Starpress
Reţeaua Literară
Revista Vatra Veche
Fundatia Asturian
Fundaţia Heron
Asociaţia Unirea Viena
Diaspora
Ziarul Romanesc
Diaspora Online
Românul
Nou Horizont
Niram Art
Revista Oglinda

SUPORTERI:
Români Online
Români in UK
Stewart’s Melville College Edinburg
The Griffon Partnership Norfolk

Exhibition of Romanian books and traditional costumes, 20 June 2011, 18.30 hrs, at the Embassy’s venue, in 1 Belgrave Square, London

2011-06-15T00:05:00.001-07:00

» Exhibition of Romanian books and traditional costumes

20 June 2011, 18.30 hrs – In the presence the Ambassador of Romania to London, Dr Ion Jinga, at the Embassy’s venue, in 1 Belgrave Square SW1X 8PH, the Romanian Association of Wales along with the Românca Society are presenting the “Exhibition of Romanian books and traditional costumes”.

The event aims at presenting the Romanian traditional costumes and reunites as special guests:

- Mr Vasile Timis, Secretary of State, Ministry of Culture and National Cultural Heritage;
- Associate Professor Dr. Paula Popoiu, General Manager of the National Village Museum, Bucharest;
- Associate Dr. Elena Tirziman, General Director, National Library of Romania;
- Dr. Sanda Miller, writer and lecturer;
- PhD. Ionela Flood, writer, President of the Românca Society

Associate Professor Dr. Paula Popoiu will speak about the Romanian traditional costume, and four young Romanians, wearing traditional costumes will highlight the colour and charm of our tradition, keeper of the Romanian spirit.

The Romanian Association of Wales will make a donation of books and costumes to the Embassy of Romania in London.

Associate Dr. Elena Tirziman will present the book donnation, in dialogue with the public.

The release of the Romanian poetry book Parfumul Ingerilor (The Perfume of Angels), written by Ionela Flood will complete the evening programme. The book has illustrations made by John Astalus, Adina Romanescu Vlaic Peter, Amy Lee and Adela Ursache, and comes with a multimedia CD.

The event will also include a recital performed by the Romanian pianist Diana Ionescu.

This project has been initiated by Ştefan Giurcă, founding member of the Romanian Association of Wales and benefits of the kind support of the Presidential Administration, the Embassy of Romania in London, the Ministry of Culture and National Cultural Heritage, the National Library of Romania, “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum – Bucharest, “Busuiocul” – Romanian folk dance group of Bacau, as well as of the Romanian National Television.

Please RSVP until 18 June to Ionela Flood on email : ionela@talktalk.net or mobile 07515253584.

Ionela Flood -Românca Society & Stefan Giurca-Romanian Association of Wales

Urari pentru Sfintele Sarbatori Pascale / Happy Easter!

2011-04-23T08:38:00.001-07:00

Sfintele Sarbatori Pascale sa va aduca lumina si implinire sufleteasca !

Echipa Societatii Romnaca
www.romanca.co.uk

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All our best wishes for your Easter Holidays!

The Team of Romanca Society
www.romanca.co.uk
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Te-ai coborat -muzica si versurile Corneliu Pavel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLM5ZduH0k

Icoana realizata de catre Aurelia Chiriac Carabinieru -Atelierul de iconografie al Societatii Romanca

Dar

Durerea striga in nestire
caci Adevarul s-a luat la harta
cu Omenirea dusa in ispita
pe-ntunecatele carari.

Caci ne-au cazut si pleoapele si gandul
Cand plansului-i venise randul
S-adune povara stransa pe comori
S-o curga in sirurile de cocori.

Cati ingeri s-au nascut pe cale
De nu ajunsera nici aripi, nici ninsoare
sa stinga flacara aprinsa cu Neindurare
de-atata Neputinta , Ura, Inselare?

De-atata plans si ganduri ferecate
De-al meu si-al tau si al Durerii
Pe marea de lacrimi adunate
Din cer ploua marunt si bland

Cu Pace si Mister.

Fragment din volumul Parfumul ingerilor de Ionela Flood, Ed Deliana, Bucuresti 2010

Sf Gheorghe-Icoana realizata de catre Aurelia Chiriac Carabinieru -Atelierul de iconografie al Societatii Romanca

Taberele de spiritualitate si traditie romaneasca

2011-03-22T01:10:00.001-07:00

Dragi romani,

Un anunt special pentru cei cu copii de varsta scolara, despre
taberele deosebit de frumoase pe care Mitropolia noastra le
organizeaza in fiecare vara. Anul acesta, tabara de la Manastirea
Tismana a fost mutata in mod special cu 10 zile mai tarizu, pentru ca
sa poata participa si copii din Marea Britanie (unde, dupa cum stiti,
scoala se termina mult mai tarziu).

Pentru detalii, va rog sa ma contactati pe mine sau pe organizatori
(tabara2011@mitropolia.eu sau Bogdan Grecu, Belfast).

Doamne ajuta.

Pr. Mihai

TAF courses - three places left for LBHF 40+ - to register now

2011-03-08T03:18:00.000-08:00

Just to let you know that we have three places left for unemployed residents of LBHF who are 40+ of working age and wish to learn ICT as well as have help with Personal Development/employment prospects. The beginners ICT classes are on Tues & Thurs 10-2 and the PD sessions on Wed 10-1 with additional 1-2-1's Wed pm by appointment ... all at Britannia House in R501.
If you have anyone who fits the criteria and would like to take advantage of the holistic programme, please refer them on asap &/or circulate this e-mail to anyone who might be interested? The classes will finish just before Easter i.e. on/just before 21st April 2011. More information can be found on the website www.thirdage.org.uk or contact Sally/Sylvia at TAF on 020
8748 9898. Many thanks. Take care! All the best sylvia@thirdage.org.uk

Call for papers-Conference "PRogress, INnovation, DEmocracy", organized by us on June 3rd- 4th, 2011.

2011-02-28T12:53:00.001-08:00

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure and honour for "Constantin Brancuşi"
University of Tîrgu-Jiu to invite you to participate in the
Conference "PRogress, INnovation, DEmocracy", organized by us on June
3rd- 4th, 2011.
For more information about registration, fees, accommodation and
payment conditions, please visit the conference website:
http://www.utgjiu.ro/orizont 2025
Please distribute this announcement to all interested colleagues.
We are looking forward to meeting you at our Conference in Tîrgu-Jiu,
Romania (Brancusi's town).
Best regards and thank you very much!

ORGANISING COMMITTEE :
President:
Adrian Gorun, Rector-“Constantin Brâncuşi” University of
Târgu-Jiu.
Vice-presidents:
Stefan Ghimisi,“Constantin Brâncuşi” University of Tg-Jiu.
Cruceru Mihai,“Constantin Brâncuşi” University of Tg-Jiu.
Liviu Neamţu, “Constantin Brâncuşi” University of Tg-Jiu.
Gheorghe Gămăneci, “Constantin Brâncuşi” University of
Tg-Jiu.
Members:
Luminita Popescu, Moise Bojincă, Gabriela Babucea,
Tomescu Dumitrescu Cornelia, Mălăescu Gheorghe,
Chiritescu Dorel, Cîrţînă Liviu Marius, Alin-Gheorghe
Gavrilescu, Laura Magdalena Trocan, Livian Rădoescu,
Gabriela Dobrotă, Lucia Popa-Paliu, Amelia Georgiana
Boncea, Cecilia Rabontu, Dan Dobrotă, Luminiţa Popescu,
Cristinel Racoceanu, Liliana Luca, Bogdan Diaconu,
Durbacea Marian, Monica Bîcă, Grofu Florin, Marian
Vintilescu, Ion Bîzoc

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING THE PAPERS
The paper will be edited entirely in English, the
character spacing will be 1, using Justify option.
The maximum number of pages is 6, A4 format, using
the following page margins: left 30 mm, right 25 mm,
bottom 25 mm, top 25 mm.
THE TITLE OF THE PAPER(Times New Roman, 14
pt Capital letters, Bold, Alignment center). One blank
line.
AUTHOR(S) (Times New Roman, 14 pt, Bold,
Alignment center), followed by the scientific title and
institution (Italics). Two blank lines.
ABSTRACT (Times New Roman, 12 pt., Justify) No
more than 200 words. Write "ABSTRACT" followed by
a presentation of the paper. One blank line.
THE CONTENT OF THE PAPER Chapters (Times
New Roman,, 14 pt., Bold, Alignment left). One blank
line between them.Subheads (Times New Roman, 12
pt., Bold, Alignment left).One blank line between
them.The text of the paper (will be written in Times
New Roman, 12 pt, Alignment justify).
Equations, formulas, symbols. The equations and
formulas will be written beginning with the left side of
the page. They will be numbered consecutively. Using
the International System of Units and Arabic numbers.
Leave one blank line before and after each equation.
Photos, pictures and tables will be numbered
consecutively and centred on page. They should be
separated from the text by one blank line.
Conclusions will reflect the opinion of the author(s)
concerning the feasibility of the results presented. Two
blank lines.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Times New Roman, 12 pt.,
Alignment left). Last name, first name initial, title,
publishing house, year. References should be numbered
and quoted in the alphabetical order in the text.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers for which the Conference fee was paid
will be published in the Conference proceedings and
distributed to the participants of the Conference.
According to the Scientific Committee recommendations, the
authors of the selected papers will be invited to extend their
papers for publication in the following journals (some of
them are included in databases: EBSCO, IndexCopernicus,
IDEAS-RePEc), B+ type in CNCSIS classification:
“Annals of the „Constantin Brâncuşi” University of
Târgu Jiu-Engineering series”
“Annals of the „Constantin Brâncuşi” University of
Târgu Jiu-Letters and Social Sciences series”
“Annals of the „Constantin Brâncuşi” University of
Târgu Jiu-Juridical Sciences series”
“Annals of the „Constantin Brâncuşi” University of
Târgu Jiu-Economy series”
“Fiability & Durability”
http://www.utgjiu.ro/reviste_UCB/
CONFERENCE FEES
The participation fee is 50 EUR. A participant may sign
maximum two papers. The Conference fee includes the
Proceedings, snack and refreshments during the session as
well as a Gala dinner.
The fee may be paid into the account of the Conference by
bank transfer, no later than 30.05.2011
1. in RON, by money order on the address:
"Constantin Brâncuşi" University of Târgu-Jiu, account
RO10TREZ336504601X002052 opened at
TREZORERIA Târgu-Jiu, tax code 45.97.441, Siret
Street nr. 6, with remarks "For Scientific Conference"
and participant name or in cash on the day of the arrival
in Tg-Jiu.
2. in EURO, by money order on the address:
"Constantin Brâncuşi" University of Târgu-Jiu, account
RO47RNCB0149042108440003 opened at BCR -
Banca Comerciala Romana, tax code 45.97.441,
Republicii Street nr. 1, with remarks "For Scientific
Conference" and participant name.

18th International Economic Conference – IECS 2011 “CRISES AFTER THE CRISIS. INQUIRIES FROM A NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE” SIBIU

2011-02-15T14:07:00.001-08:00

18th International Economic Conference – IECS 2011

“CRISES AFTER THE CRISIS. INQUIRIES FROM A NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE”

SIBIU, ROMANIA
MAY 19-20, 2011

Anniversary Edition
- 20 Years of Higher Economic Education in Sibiu -

Papers may cover topics in Economics, Management, Marketing, Business, Banking, Finance, Accounting, Insurance and Economic Informatics, bearing on the Conference theme.

The Conference debates will be organized in specialized sessions, as follows:
1. Economics of Crises versus Crisis of Economics
2. Management: New Coordinates and Challenges
3. Marketing, Commerce and Tourism and a New Paradigm of Change
4. Banking, Accounting and Financial Systems from the 21st Century Perspective
5. Applied Informatics in Economy

PAPER FORMAT

Papers will be written in English and will be of maximum 10 pages long.
Papers must comply with the guidelines described in the IECS 2011 Template. The organizing committee reserves the right to reject submissions that do not comply with this format.
Participants can send either an individual paper or two papers in collaboration. The organizing committee will not accept papers with more than 3 co-authors.
All submissions are subject to a double blind review process. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution.
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the CD Conference Proceedings with ISBN that will be submitting for evaluation and coverage in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index by Thomson Reuters - ISI Proceedings.
Selected papers will be considered for publication in Revista Economică (http://economice.ulbsibiu.ro/rom/profesori/publicatii/revista_economica.php), a CNCSIS B+ Journal, indexed in RePeC, Ulrich`s Periodicals Directory, DOAJ.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

➢ 21.03.2011: On-line registration and full-paper submission. Registration form will be available only on-line at http://iecs.ulbsibiu.ro
➢ 04.04.2011: Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
➢ 22.04.2011: Payment of registration fee
➢ 09.05.2011: Acknowledgment of arrival, by e-mail at iecs@ulbsibiu.ro

ACCOMMODATION

Hotel's detailed booking information will be provided in early 2011. Participants are required to book their own accommodation.

REGISTRATION FEE

100 euro/paper
covering registration, conference package (program and Conference Proceedings), access to all conference sessions and daily meals (lunch & dinner). Transport and accommodation expenses will be borne by participants.
In case the paper is multi-authored and more than one author would like to participate in the conference, each participant pays the registration fee separately.
The conference package will be available only for the authors who attend.

Payments are to be made by bank transfer, as follows:
- in lei, into the account of “Universitatea Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu, Victoriei No. 10, CUI: 4480173, IBAN: R063TREZ576504601X000406, Trezoreria Sibiu

- in euro, into the account of “Universitatea Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu, Victoriei No. 10, IBAN: RO44RNCB0227036041020003, BCR Sibiu, SWIFT CODE: RNCBROBU

All bank transfers will bear the specification: “Registration fee for the International Economic Conference – IECS 2011”.

CONTACT

E-mail: iecs@ulbsibiu.ro

Tel.: 004 0753 494444 or 004 0269 215243

Teaching assistant Diana Mihaiu, Ph.D. student

Associate Professor Ramona Orăştean, Ph.D.

Teaching assistant Eduard Stoica, Ph.D. student - for technical questions regarding the on-line registration and paper submission, please contact by e-mail at eduard.stoica@ulbsibiu.ro

VENUE

"Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu
Faculty of Economic Sciences
17 Dumbrăvii Avenue, Sibiu, Romania

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: English

For further information please visit the Conference website: http://iecs.ulbsibiu.ro

International Conference “The Financial Markets in the Context of the New Economy Paradigm”

2011-02-15T11:50:00.001-08:00

International Conference
“The Financial Markets in the Context of the New Economy Paradigm”

13-14.05.2011

Organized by

THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (FEAA)
Within the West University of Timisoara

THE FACULTY OF FINANCE, INSURANCE, BANKING AND STOCK EXCHANGE (FABBV)
Within Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies,

THE BANAT-CRIŞANA FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS COMPANY

THE PHD SCHOOL
Within the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

THE RESEARCH CENTER IN FINANCE AND MONEY „ANGHEL RUGINĂ”
Within the Finance Department of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

The international and multidisciplinary conference encourages both professors from different universities as well as young researchers to take part if they share a common interest in one of the following scientific areas of interest:
- financial markets;
- financial crisis and global imbalances;
- modern financial intermediation;
- capital flows and their impact;
- Foreign Direct Investment in the context of globalization - case studies
- the stability of financial systems;
- the current crisis of economic theory and the New Macroeconomics;
- quality of public policies for sustainable development;
- the new determinants of growth in the context of knowledge society;
- any other relevant topic.

Important dates:
Deadline for Final Paper Submission - 28th of February
Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection of the Final Papers - 5th of April 2011
Deadline for the Payment of the Conference Fee and Final Deadline for Submitting the Participation Form at the e-mail address of one of the sections - 25th of April 2011

Guidelines for paper submission:

Papers are going to be written both in English according to the attached templates (authors’ guidelines.).
The papers selected by the scientific committee are going to be published in a separate supplement of the Timisoara Journal of Economics, recognized as a “B+” Journal by CNCSIS, indexed in international databases (Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory) or in The Capital Market Journal, ISSN 1842-3981.

Papers accepted for the conference must be presented in the conference in order to be taken into account for publication.

Registration:
The registration is done by filling in the Registration Form and sending it along with the final paper at the e-mail addresses listed below for each section:

Section Contact person e-mail address
Financial Markets Junior Assistant PhD candidate Mura Ovidiu fmcnep_financial_markets@yahoo.com
Private and Public Finance Assistant PhD Crâşneac Alexandru fmcnep_pp_finance@yahoo.com
Economic Growth Assistant PhD Năchescu Miruna fmcnep_economic_growth@yahoo.com
Young Researchers Junior Assistant PhD candidate Boţoc Claudiu fmcnep_young_researchers@yahoo.com

Each participant to the conference can register maximum 2 papers as single author or co-author.
Detailed information can be found on the conference site http://www.feaa.uvt.ro/fmcnep/

FMCNEP2011 Organizing Committee

International Conference on "Management of Technological Changes"– organized by "Gheorghe Asachi" -1-3 September 2011 in Greece

2011-01-15T09:52:00.000-08:00

Dear Colleagues,

Regarding the 7th International Conference on "Management of Technological Changes"– organized by "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania, through Center for Continuing Education and Training (CETEX) in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on September 1st-3rd, 2011, we remind you that the abstract submission deadline is February 1st, 2011, at midnight Romanian time (GMT + 2h).
The 2011 conference will debate the Impact of Globalization on Technological Changes upon organizations and society that will lead to sustainable development.
We would like to announce you that seven Conferences organized by CETEX – “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi are now indexed in the “ISI Web of Knowledge” ISI Proceedings Database. http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com

Important Deadlines:

Abstract submission
February 1st, 2011
Notification of acceptance of abstracts
February 15th, 2011
Submission of full papers
March 15th, 2011
Notification of full papers acceptance
May 31th, 2010

For further details, please visit our website: http://www.cetex.tuiasi.ro/mtc2011/

Important issues:

Conference Topics
Conference Fees
Scientific Committee
Manuscript preparation
Abstracts and Papers
MTC Short History

Warm regards,

Prof. Costache RUSU PhD
MTC 2011 Editor

The 7th International Conference on Management of Technological Changes – MTC Organizing Committee
"Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi
Center for Continuing Education and Training - CETEX
53 Dimitrie Mangeron Blvd.
IASI - 700050, ROMANIA, Tel./ Fax: +00 40 232 213 708, http://www.cetex.tuiasi.ro/mtc2011/

International Conference in Quality and Innovation in Engineering and Management, Cluj-Napoca, 17th-19th of March 2011.

2011-01-09T05:22:00.001-08:00

The Technical University of Cluj -Napoca invites you to the 1st International Conference in Quality and Innovation in Engineering and Management, Cluj-Napoca, 17th-19th of March 2011.

Conference Topics

Quality Engineering and Management
Track coordinators: Sorin POPESCU
- Quality and performance management
- Technology and quality improvement
- The future of quality
- Quality for “life”
- Education for quality and Quality for education
Innovation Engineering and Management
Track coordinator: Stelian BRAD
- Innovative processes and models
- Methods and tools for innovation
- Business and process innovation
- Innovative quality tools
- Barriers and success factors for quality and
innovation
- E-Innovation and E-Quality
Design Engineering and Management
Track coordinator: Daniela POPESCU
- Product development
- Sustainable product innovation
- Organizational intelligence and competitive
development
- Project management
Numan DURAKBASA and
- Quality systems and organizational excellence
- Industrial Metrology
- Quality measurement and control
- Management for sustainability

Important Dates:
Abstract submission: January 5, 2011
Abstract acceptance notification: January 12, 2011
Full-paper submission: February 14, 2011
Full-paper acceptance: March 7, 2011

Fees:
Conference attendance & electronic proceedings 100 €
Printed proceedings 25 €
Gala dinner 25 €
PhD students will receive 50% discount of the above fees

Papers will be reviewed and published in the official Conference
Proceedings. Selected papers, in expanded version, will be
considered for publication as full-length research papers subjected
to full peer reviewing with appropriate revisions in scientific journals
indexed in international databases.

The primary objective of QIEM 2011 is to provide an international
forum for researchers to discuss the state of the art in the fields of
quality and innovation and to disseminate their recent advances and
their views in these areas.
The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, as the main organizer of the
conference, proposes the Conference Topics in order to capitalize
upon the research activity, experience from the
major fields of interest within the Department of Machine-Tools and
Industrial Robots.

For additional information please refer to:
Conference website: www.qiem.utcluj.ro
Email: contact@qiem.utcluj.ro
Tel / Fax: +40 264 415710

The support of the EU funded project
POSDRU/18/1.2/G/9136 is acknowledged with gratitude

Professor Marieta Olaru, Ph. D.

Head of the Research Center for Business Administration
Department of Science of Commodities and Quality Management
University: The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
5-7 Mihail Moxa, Sector 1, Bucharest - 010704; Office: 3302
Email: olaru.marieta@gmail.com
Tel: 004 – 0722 922 797

Sarbatori Fericite!

2010-12-25T08:50:00.000-08:00

Sarbatorile de iarna sa va petreaca spre Anul Nou cu inocenta copiilor colindand spre inimile noastre si spre viitor! Sarbatori linistite cu pace si armonie!

Echipa Societatii Romanca
www.romanca.co.uk

Craciun Fericit

Craciun Fericit
sperantelor ascunse prin zapezi
colindelor revarsate princiar pe strazi

Craciun Fericit
Romanilor risipiti printre nameti
si candelei aprinse pentru Sfinti

Craciun Fericit
oricarui clinchet rasunand cosmopolit
din gandul mamei impletind colaci

Craciun Fericit
copiilor impartasiti in graiul stramosesc
cu acelesi radacini de Feti Frumosi

Craciun Fericit
si doinei rasunand in vechi trompeti
peste un viers ce-l risipim peste hotar

Craciun Fericit
cununei ce se coace in bobul adormit
si focului ce arde-n zarea de argint

Craciun Fericit cu steaua stralucind la infinit
iubirii nerostite pe Pamant

Craciun Fericit!

Ionela Flood Poezie din volumul Parfumul Ingerilor, Bucuresti 2010

Ilustratie de carte Parfumul Ingerilor- Colindul Crinului de Amy Lee

http://animoto.com/play/wgE1OgtJg0gZtwRJttpCHQ

Colindul Crinului de Ionela Flood, interpretat de Corneliu Pavel -fragment din Cd-ul promotional al volumului de poezii Parfumul Ingerilor, lansat la Congresul Spiritualitatii Romanesti , Alba Iulia 2010.

hramul Parohiei Ortodoxe Române ˘Sf Apostol Andrei˙ din Birmingham, sâmbata 27 noiembrie.

2010-11-24T14:46:00.001-08:00

Dragi prieteni,

Va asteptam cu drag la hramul Parohiei Ortodoxe Romane â•˘Sf Apostol Andreiâ•˙ din Birmingham, sambata 27 noiembrie. Sarbatoarea are loc in locul nostru obisnuit de rugaciune si intalnire:

St. Francis Hall, University of Birmingham Chaplaincy
Opposite no 100, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2UD

Programul zilei:

Ora 11.00: Sf. Liturghie. Au confirmat deja prezenta 6 preoti de la Parohiile ortodoxe (romane sau nu) din regiunea noastra, speram ca numarul oaspetilor nostri va fi chiar mai mare. Raspunsurile la Sf Liturghie vor fi date de excelentul cor â•˘Psalmodia Transylvanicaâ•˙ de la Facultatea de Teologie din Cluj, condus de parintele profesor Vasile Stanciu.

Ora 13.00: Agapa (masa festiva) de sarbatoare.

Ora 14.00: Concert al corului â•˘Psalmodia Transylvanicaâ•˙

Ora 15.00: expozitie de carte si icoane

Doamne ajuta.

Pr. Mihai

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Fr. Mihai-Razvan Novacovschi

rnovacovschi@hotmail.com

Tel: 07890 996889

Parohia Ortodoxa Romana 'Sf. Apostol Andrei', Birmingham-West Midlands

Romanian Orthodox Parish 'St. Andrew the Apostle', Birmingham-West Midlands

Maillist: parohiabirmingham@yahoogroups.co.uk

Website: www.parohiabirmingham.org.uk

St. Francis Hall, University of Birmingham Chaplaincy

Opposite no 100, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2UD

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Elevi britanici au reprezentat România la exerciţiul de simulare al Consiliului UE

2010-11-20T13:29:00.000-08:00

Elevi britanici au reprezentat România la exerciţiul de simulare al Consiliului UE

Ambasada României – Londra/ La 16 noiembrie 2010, în cadrul manifestărilor dedicate Săptămânii educaţiei internaţionale, un grup de elevi britanci au reprezentat România la un exerciţiu de simulare a Consiliului UE, găzduit de Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Începând cu 2008, acest exerciţiu se derulează anual fiind organizat de British Council în parteneriat cu FCO. Elevii britanici au avut oportunitatea de a primi sprijinul oferit de Ambasada României la Londra pentru a reprezenta şi răspunde cu succes provocărilor exerciţiului.

Anul acesta, temele de pe agenda exerciţiului de simulare au fost integrarea socială şi economică a populaţiei roma şi securitatea rezervelor de energie ale UE.

David Lidington, ministrul britanic pentru Europa a declarat: „exerciţiul reprezintă un mod excelent de a arăta tinerilor cum sunt adoptate deciziile importante la nivel european”.

Elevii provin de la liceul cu profil ingineresc Cordeaux (regiunea Lincolnshire) care este partener cu şcoala cu clasele I-VIII Biertan (România), în cadrul unui proiect Comenius.

British students represented Romania in a mock EU Council

Embassy of Romania – London/ On 16 November 2010, during International Education Week, a group of British Students represented Romania in a mock EU Council hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Beginning with 2008, the Mock Council is organized annually by the British Council with the support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Students were able to research the country beforehand with the help of the Embassy of Romania in London, in order to develop their position on how best to respond to the exercise.
On the agenda of the simulation exercise were the inclusion of Roma communities within European countries and securing Europe's energy supply. The Embassy of Romania in London has helped the team prepare their positions, in order to best reflect Romania's views on the matters debated.

David Lidington, the British Europe Minister, said that it is "an excellent way to show young people how the big decisions are made at European level".

The students who represented Romania are from Cordeaux School (Lincolnshire), a specialist college of engineering having a partnership with Biertan High school in Romania for the EU’s Comenius programme.

Cristina-Narcisa Nita
Press Attaché
Embassy of Romania in the UK
Arundel House
4 Palace Green
London W8 4QD
Tel.: 0044 20 7937 9669
Fax: 0044 20 7937 8069
Mobile: 0044 75 00 55 88 44
www.london.mae.ro

„Winter Celebrations at the time of Our Parents and Grand-parents”-study by PhD Georgeta Adam for the european project "Elderly Memories"

2010-11-13T11:35:00.000-08:00

CHRISTMAS REPORT ROMANIA
„Winter Celebrations at the time of Our Parents and Grand-parents”

Between November, 20 and December, 20, 2010, a number of 151 people were subject to this questionnaire in Romania: 91 aged 15-30 and 60 over the age of 70. A larger number of young people volunteered to take part in it.
Out of the total number, 110 respondents are female and 41 are male, therefore a larger number of the former group volunteered. The respondents cover a wide range of school education, from elementary, to middle and higher education. None of the interviewed people have fewer than 7 elementary school classes.
In percentages, out of the 151 subjects (100%), 110 are female (72.8%), and 41 are male (27.15%), 91 are young (60.26%), and 60 are elderly adults (39.3%), 80 are village residents (52.98%), and 71 people are city residents (47.01%).
The survey was made in Bucharest (38 respondents, 25.16%, 28 female, 10 male, 4 young, 34 elderly over the age of 70), Sibiu (42, of which 28 female, 14 male, 42 young – 27.81%), Constanta (40, of which 31 female, 9 male, 29 young, 11 elderly over the age of 70 – 26.49%) and in Ploiesti (31, of which 23 female, 8 male, 16 young, 15 elderly over 70 – 20.52%).
The people involved in the administration of the questionnaires and local reports were: 4 undergraduate students from “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu , Faculty of Letters and Arts (Ass. Prof. Gabriela Nistor, PhD), and 2 from the Faculty of Journalism, “Ovidius” University of Constanta (Assoc. Prof. Aurelia Lapusan, PhD); Agripina Grigore, teacher of Ploiesti; Mihaela Constantin, senior journalist at Radio Romania, 68 years old; Sofia Sincan, senior journalist, 70 years old, Radio Romania; Rodica Anghel, PhD, National Council for the Audio-Visual, Bucharest, 50 years old; Ioan Adam, PhD, 64 years old, member of the Romanian Writers Union.
English versions: Gabriela Nistor, PhD, Ass. Prof., “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Robert Adam, PhD, staff Ariadna, Rodica Anghel, PhD, Dana Macovei, theacher Ploieşti.
Investigation and final report co-ordination: Georgeta Adam, PhD.
Due to the various origins of the respondents, we appreciate that the area considered for research is nationwide, because references regarding the winter celebration concern the cities Bucharest, Ploiesti, Sibiu, Constanta, Brad, but the rural areas are quite varied: aspects from counties of Muntenia (Arges, Buzau, Ilfov, Ialomita, and Prahova) are presented and from southern Moldova (counties Galati and Vaslui/Barlad), Dobrogea, Transylvania (Marginimea Sibiului, West Carpathian area and East Carpathian).

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1. Decorations
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As to house decorations, there is an obvious difference between the past and the present, between the rural and the village areas. As a rule, one can notice that customs and norms of the modern era have been implemented progressively. For example, the Christmas tree, which did not exist in Romania before the early 1900s, is now present all over the country. Some elderly over 70 years of age, though, mention the fact that until the mid-20th c., Christmas trees didn’t use to decorate village houses, and the villagers preferred fir tree branches to decorate the doorjambs and gates. In towns, starting with the mid-1950s, Christmas trees were placed in central squares for New Year, under the urge of the communist authorities, which would celebrate at that time the coming of Jack Frost/Mos Gerila (Dez Moroz), after Soviet inspiration. He would come in a sleigh pulled by two stags, not reindeer, and would get into people’s houses through the chimney. However, implicitly defying official orders, people would get Christmas trees (on the 25th of December), always a very important religious holiday with the Romanians. Some elderly people remember house decorations with adorned fir trees, in geographical areas where they used to grow, with tinfoil stars, colored paper chains, decorations made by the children, small candles, handmade decorations, fireworks. In Moldova, but not only, people used to decorate the Christmas tree with the pig swollen bladder. In villages with no electricity, there were no street decorations either. The windows used o be lit by candles and decorated with small fir trees or green branches. People in some villages used to light gas lamps at the gates, while in others (in Arges, southern Romania), the gate pillars were decorated with fir trees bound with colored paper and silver tinsel. The elderly recall Christmas trees in town, decorated with colored paper, a big star on its top, placed in the central plaza. An elderly lady remembers that in towns, young lads used to hang a small fir tree twig bound with the national colors on their chest or on their cap.
In the rural area, below the Southern Carpathians, in Poiana Campina, Prahova, the answer of a journalist in his 70s, M.B., is to be noted for the genuineness of his feelings and accuracy of memories. According to him, the local people “would put fir tree twigs both outside and inside their houses, stuck to the curtain rails. In addition, there was a Christmas tree inside the house. The streets didn’t use to be decorated, but if the snow was high, they used to part it leaving a wide path, using the plow of the village mayoralty.”
An 80-year-old writer from Bucharest, N.G., author of novels in the memoirs fashion which were extremely popular in Romania, answered our questionnaire, and pointed out an essential element: “Before any decoration, the winter holidays were preceded by rigorous cleaning up, started within the house, and ended at the gate of the courtyard. The decoration was quite simple: 1. The Christmas tree and the children’s presents, and 2. Mistletoe twigs (usually placed before New Year’s Eve, as it was considered to bring good luck).”
Standardization of the decorations becomes visible in the case of the answers given by the youth. As regards indoor decorations, they merely mention bows and glass globes, all of them mentioning the decorated Christmas tree in the main room as a first home decoration, as well as fir tree twigs in the other rooms. A case of customs syncretism, the Christmas trees now have electric decorations, with many colored bulbs, coronets, colored globes, bows, decorative candles, St Nicholas’ stockings where the presents are placed, the good luck bringing mistletoe, tinsels, garlands, snowflakes, cut out and stuck on windows. In villages, fewer decorations are mentioned: electric garlands suspended on poles, or, here and there, multicolored electric wreaths on buildings. Fir trees decorated with garlands are mentioned in fir tree planted areas. The towns are more animated and more richly adorned. In the streets, there are electric wreaths and flamboyant ornaments. There are a lot of decorated Christmas trees, with electric wreaths, garlands, parks and sparkling shop windows. Since St Nicholas Day until the Twelfth Night, the Children’s Amusement Park is open, offering entertainment, and the Children’s Tram takes them on free tours. In squares, artists play artistic moments, sing carols, light fireworks, and special services take place in churches.

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2. The Most Important Moments of the Winter Holidays
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The advent calendar in Romania is marked by religious events and rituals, as well as by lay rituals, like: St Nicholas (December 6), Christmas Fast, the confession, the sacrament, St Ignatius (December 20), caroling, Christmas, the Star, the New Year’s Night, New Year caroling (Plugusorul), wish making with Sorcova, the Epiphany (January 6). Judging by the answers received, the ranking is: Christmas, New Year, and the Epiphany.
The youth mention: St Nicholas Day, St Ignatius Day (pig sacrifice on December, 6), an ancient Thracian ritual, Christmas, New Year’s Night, New Year’s Day, the “Buna dimineata la Mos Ajun” visit, Christmas tree decoration, Plugusorul, going and getting caroling, family dinner, family reunion, the winter holidays, friends entertainment, the Epiphany. Special consideration is paid by the youth to St (Patron) Stefan’s Day, St (Patron) Filofteia’s Day, St (Patron) Basil’s Day, St (Patron) John’s Day (January, 7). Some holidays are important because members of their family bear the names of these saints. For most youth, Christmas ranks first among winter celebrations. Following the communist atheist crisis, the religious feeling is visibly reviving among the younger generation and not only. Both categories have special consideration for the religious aspect of the holiday. The winter celebrations are regarded as opportunities for the family to meet their kin, godchildren, godparents, friends and neighbors. These meetings take place in church, during the religious services, as well as in families, in parents’ or grandparents’ houses. Some of those interviewed mention the meetings in the village lanes or in front of the Village Hall.
The journalist M.B., well into his 70s, made the following ranking of these winter celebrations, which he spent in Poiana Câmpina, a village in the Prahova county:
I. Christmas:
1. Sacrificing the pig grown in own household and preparing the pork products;
2. The day when the sponge cakes were baked;
3. Decorating the Christmas tree;
4. “the Priest with Christmas” (the priest of the village would visit the villagers with an icon representing the birth of Christ. The tradition required that householders should meet it with humiliation, but sitting on the bed.);
5. The carols;
6. The Christmas presents.
II. St Nicholas’ Day (December, 6)
Polishing one’s shoes on the eve and finding the presents inside them the next morning.
III. New Year’s Night
Members of the wishers’ groups would acquire a lot of bells, strung on a leather strap, as well as a bigger bell, “acioaia”, which only the spokesman of the wishers’ group would use. They would then manufacture drums out of old big sifts, covered with dry lamb skin, tightly stretched since their sacrifice at Easter, braiding the whips and the whip lashes. After that, of course, wishing with the “Plugusor” followed, exclusively at the houses of the acquaintances.
On the opposite side, the octogenarian novelist N.G. from Bucharest focuses on the lay character of the Christmas celebration: “Christmas had, indeed, a religious significance, but the lay character would prevail in the development of the celebrations. In most households around, a pig was sacrificed. The scarification was followed by very minute preparations: the fillets, the bacon, and the sausages would go to the smoke house, while the rest of the meat, previously fried, would go to ‘garnitze’ (a kind of bucket, used to carry milk or food) (where they used to stay in melted fat until spring).”

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3. Where Did People Use to Meet?
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The Romanians are an outgoing and welcoming people. Foreign travelers to the Romanian Principalities 500 years ago, as well as recent ones, can witness that most truthfully. During the winter celebrations, the Romanians preferred (and still do) small group meetings, within the family. Christmas used to be and continues to be a home celebration. The young subjects still keep an accurate record of the traditions, though they continue to lose ground, especially in towns. In older days, traditions would be very strictly obeyed. In this respect, we can mention a thorough answer of the septuagenarian journalist M.B.: “People used to meet in their own homes, paying visits to one another, especially at noon time. They rarely if ever visited in the evening. As a rule, parties would break around 7-8 p.m. On Christmas day, visits were not paid, and only the family, parents and children, would take part in the traditional “festive dinner”. The parents-in-law, if still living, would join them for the party. There were six pubs in the village. They were all closed during the winter celebrations, no one would drop in, and they had no customers until after the Epiphany (January, 6). Only one pub used to open the next day after New Year’s Day, where billiards gamers would meet and play for small sums. As a rule, mostly elderly women and children used to go to the two churches, and would leave their sleighs out on the entrance stairs.”
Our 82-year-old respondent, the writer N.G., born in a well-to-do bourgeois family, lays the same stress on celebrating at home, with family and kin: “Parties used to be given within the family. I do not recall ever going out to a restaurant. People used to stay at their own home, happy to welcome guests. In our house, close relatives would come (uncles, aunts, cousins), as well as all the godchildren, quite a number. The celebrations would strengthen family relationships, and quite often, the one in a fix was taken out (pulled out of trouble) and supported (in time, the children, reaching important positions, would inherit these reports). We, the offspring, used to be sent to a separate room, where, after dinner, we used to play at will, happy to have got rid of parental care (and vice-versa). Welcoming hosts, it was then our turn to go visiting godparents, brothers and sisters of our parents. During the three days of Christmas, later on New Year’s Night, there was a continuous coming and going. Children used to get presents, as a rule. (It was only on New Year that the godchildren would present the godparents with a turkey, ribbon bound around its neck.)”
Visible behavior shifts are to be noted among the youth. Even if some respondents mention participation in the Christmas religious service in churches, most of them state they have spent Christmas, and New Year at their godparents’, grandparents’, at home, and especially in clubs/bars, at the house of friends from the same generation.

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4. Trips
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Trips used to be made within the same locality or to nearby localities to celebrate Christmas or people bearing the names of the St Patrons celebrated during this time. Those participating in the parties given on St John’s Day (January, 7) are quite a number, considering that about 2,000,000 Romanians are called Ion, or derivatives: Ioana, Ionel, Nelu, Ioaneta, Ioanete. Television channels broadcast special entertainment shows for them. A lady remembers with very much excitement the trips to parents, grandparents, relatives, on January 2 and 3, in a sleigh pulled by a stallion wearing jingling bells around his neck.
The younger people recall several-day trips, from town to village, to their grandparents. Some of them got into the use of going to mountain resorts, to rural inns, monasteries, as well as trips abroad (Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, and Spain).

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5. Food
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As far as food is concerned sarmale ( pork meat ball wrapped in cabbage leaves), rank first. In the Arges county the cooks place smoked pork ribs on top, while the Southern Moldavians use vine leaves instead of cabbage leaves. Beef can be used to prepare sarmale as well. Sarmale are usually served with polenta. Cooking tradition has been well preserved in time. This tradition also includes: pork sour soup with brine or borsh, chicken and turkey soups, meat balls soup, tripe soup, pork jelly, fried or fire roasted sausages, thick sausage, white pudding, liver sausage, pork stake with pickles, pork stew with polenta, smoked sausages, smoked bacon, smoked pork bone with prunes, sloi, that is, sirloin with lard on top smoked and fried in a ceramic pot, smoked sausages fried with omlette in a pan, eaten with polenta, pork cooked in the oven, grill, scrambled eggs, rind, pork pudding, beef salad (new course in the Romanian cuisine introduced in 1945 in “ The Illustrated Reality “magazine, which published the recipe), babic ( a kind of mutton salami), ghiuden (hot mutton and beef sausage, similar to the Spanish chorizo, cheese, roast chicken and turkey , served with pickled cucumbers, tomatoes or small water melons and sauerkrat.

Such dishes go well with boiled brandy spiced with pepper and laurel leaves and red wine. There is a generous offer in this field in Romania.

As far as sweets are concerned, the tradition mentions cozonac(pound cake) with nuts filling and raisins, or Turkish delight , jam cookies, jolfa cakes ( with hemp seeds), ginger, cheese pie, pumpkin pie, dough nuts with humorous notes and money introduced inside, cookies, big pretzels, Polish pretzels prepared from cozonac dough, cakes, students’bread, a sponge cake with lots of nuts, baklava, which is specific for Dobrudja area, quinces jelly. Born in Transylvania, I.B., the septuagenarian writer, mentions pupuri, among other rural delicacies, which is a sort of white bread with cooked cabbage, cheese and onion. In Moldavia, the kind peasants offered rolls as alms, called Jesus’ diepers, which were covered with honey and sprinkled with grounded nuts.

Mention should also be made of the journalist’s childhood memories named MB. He wrote about the traditional food, sweets and drinks that accompanied the winter holidays in the Prahova county, Poiana Campina area. Traditional food for winter holidays meals: roasted rind on staw fire, thin belly bacon pieces boiled in brine, or in water with apple vinegar , pepper, salt and laurel leaves. Golden pork scraps, , liver sausage, white pudding , thick sausages, sarmale, semi-smoked sausages, pork and chicken jelly, roast pork, pork’s alms, potroace soup ( sour chicken soup).
The superstitions prohibited the duck, goose and venison meat, even the rabbits, except for the turkey. Various salads. Sweets: pound cake with poppy seeds, with a layer of nut as thick as a finger, cookies with Turkish delight or homemade jam, salt sticks, tender biscuits prepared with lard, little apple, cheese or meat pies, fruit stew made of plums dried on wattled twigs called lojnita, pears, apples and quinces preserved in the cellar or on window sills, grapes preserved on straw in the attic, melons kept in plaster casts, pretzels made of pound cake dough, ordinary pretzels. Oranges were seldom served. Drinks: caraway liqueur, lemon juice for children, plum or apple brandy and wine for adults. They used soda bottles made of thick glass wit a pump system tap, which were filled at the pub.
The octogenarian writer, N.G., emphasizes the charm of the former winter holidays in Bucharest: “Everywhere -the same food. A small glass of plum brandy with pepper was accompanied by rind, thick sausage, liver sausage and white pudding, cheered up with a glass of wine. Then pork jelly, sarmale and polenta, steak and pickles, everyone eating according to taste and belly capacity. It seems too much, but lunch lasted until late at night. The sweets were dominated by the delicious pound cake with nut and raisins. Here were also apple and cheese pies, cakes and fancy cakes. The Bairam ended with fruits, different sorts of cheese, which were preferred by the men to maintain the wine race. The same writer mentions a forgotten tradition: the nougat ceremony. One can hardly find nougat in shops today. Nougat is a Romanian variant of the Turkish halvah, which adds nuts and hazel nuts. This mixture is laid between two dough layers. The writer Ioan Adam remembers the persistence of this custom in the outskirts of Bucharest in the 1960’s. The pieces of nougat usually contained 1 leu or 5 lei coins of the communist era or silver coins belonging to the inter-wars period and were hanged and swung on the ceiling. The people around had to catch them with their mouths, a difficult operation that required good chance and skill.
The old people remember the open-topped flat pie, made of cheese, cut with durita, a small kitchen tool, not to be found in the shops any more. They also remember the pumpkin pie, favourite of the Moldavians, the dry sponge fingers made of unrisen dough, shaped in the meat mincing machine. In Dobrudja, where there are Turks, A-Romanians and Macedo-Romanians, anusabur and pelitza were prepared. The former was a liquid sort of boiled wheat with honey and nuts distributed at funerlas in the memory of the deceased with fruits and hazelnuts and the latter was sweet jelly with vanilla and cinnamon.
The younger generation preserves the pound cake, cheese pie with lucky humorous notes inside, nut and apple pies, pretzels and cookies. This category has a wider range of items: fruits ( nuts, apples), baked apples, cakes with sweet cream, biscuits , fancy cakes, chocolate candies, cookies, sponge cakes, apple fancy cake, with sweet cream, fruit pies with sour cherries, pineapple and kiwi.

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6. Gifts
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Talking about presents, there are few questionnaires that do not mention them. As a rule there were the children who got presents from their parents and grandparents .Sometimes their parents and grandparents offered presents to one another, too.
The old ones remember the presents they used to get when they were children themselves. The boys used to get balls and small carts made at home, knitted woolen socks, scarves and gloves, small sheepskin sleeveless fur jackets, highboots, boots and caps. The girls used to get dolls, knitted woolen caps, gloves and scarves, small highboots and boots and other clothes items, such as red shoes, lace dresses made at home, which they used to wear on Christmas Day, when they went to church. Everyone got sweets as well. Sometimes, father or another man handled them the presents, playing the Santa Claus in disguise.
In his answer, M. B., the journalist, find details and memories about events seen and lived in a Romanian traditional village 60 years before. So, about presents, he mentioned: “The parents offered each other presents and together offered presents to their children, too. Each family member knew what the other person needed and the present was meant to meet that need. There could be a Philips radio set with valves for mother, a fur collar for father’s short winter coat, skates, sledges, skies for the children, as well as gloves, woolen or sheepskin caps, pullovers, scarves, knee length socks, socks and others. Winter clothes for children up to 12-13 years of age was sort of “unisex” style, only the Easter season distinguished between girls’ and boys’ clothes. We all knew the source of the presents, but we all boasted about having been remembered by St. Nicholas, Santa or New Year that time, too.
The correspondents in the range of 15-30 year olds mention the following presents: toy cars, toy horses, boots, sheepskin jackets, plush toys, clothes, books to practice colouring, reading books for boys, dolls, clothes, books, teddy bears, jewels and cosmetics for girls. Everyone got sweets and perfume bottles.
In Bucharest the hosts used to offer presents to the guests and the guests to the hosts. Here, where the economic development is at the top, the presents are more sophisticated, consisting in cosmetics, luxury drinks, monuments and weapons in miniature, story books, art books, decorative objects, dolls with clothes sets, puzzle games, clothes, blocks, electric toy cars, wooden horses, chocolate boxes, candy boxes, shoes, laces cut from the grandmothers’ petticoats, brought by vintage in fashion again, adornments and jewels. In the recent period, when the social equality has disappeared and the consuming society has got more demanding, at the highest social level the Christmas and New Year meetings are prepared in advance, the men and women displaying their luxurious clothes and expensive presents.

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7. Feelings
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Winter holidays awaken mixed feelings in the old people’s hearts. They still remember the sad years of communism. In the country occupied by the Russians the pound cake was eaten in secret, it had no filling, the carols were forbidden, religion was persecuted and the liberty of expression totally absent. Nevertheless they still feel joy, hope, optimism, gratefulness and a longing to be a child again together with the dear ones who are no longer in this world, wishing quietness and inner peace. Such feelings stimulate their capacity of charity, generosity and action to help the poor, the homeless, the orphans and the old people in social homes. The young ones spend the winter holidays with feelings of joy, hope, faith, peacefulness, cheerfulness, fulfillment, being happy to be together with their families for the events.
In the questionnaire achieved by M.B., a 70 years old journalist, intense feelings lived in childhood are evoked :”a huge joy” ( a sort of Carpe diem ) is mentioned, as well as gratitude. In summer time, we, the children, used to play in the forest. We looked for the wood cutters and asked them to cut round pieces of beech or oak trunks. If they were in a good mood, we got them free. If not, they asked us to render them different services, such as bringing food in the next days, or collect beech nuts for their animals at home. These pieces of wood were a sort of discs 1-2 cm wide having a diameter of about half a meter. We used to call them money. We wrote on the obverse and on the reverse of the “coins’ in ink and with capital letters our thanks to our parents, who had to transmit them to our ancestors (Santa Claus, Nicholas). This custom was preserve in time, but only for celebrations and anniversaries. In September 2010 I got myself such a “birthday card”.
Another opinion with reference to tradition, but intellectually processed, belongs to E. I., a 70 year old she journalist from Radio Romania Broadcasting. She says: ”There is a feeling of permanence, of preserving ancestral customs, in the traditional village, which were not lost. It represents an element of stability in this unstable, aggressive, possessive and greedy world. I think that the traditions of a village community can be also preserved by organizing festivals with neighbouring zones, an opportunity to highlight the folk song and dance in its most authentic form”.

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8. Charitable Deeds
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Among the charitable deeds, the elderly remember about the gifts made to the godsons or those less fortunate, food for needy families or the baskets with gifts, consisting in clothing, shoes, toys and sweets brought to the orphanages.
We were quoting again the reply of the journalist M.B., as significant for “the memory of the elderly” and the beauty of those sediments memories due to the passage of time: “I don’t remember charitable deeds. It is not excluded to have existed needy, but I have never seen beggars at Poiana Campina, even to the church door, only lately. Or they didn’t reveal their poverty, or they ashamed very hard, or, simply, they have food to survive.
The settlement was what we called once a village with a factory (Astra Romanian had been repairing oil equipment, it had been established with German capital and with a handful of German craftsmen in 1899, it was taken over by Anglo-Dutch capital in 1911, it was bankrupt by the Romanian employers in 2010). Residents worked for the factory, but also for their household.
They had money for the “salary” and “food from the yard and up the hill” (in the gardens on the hill everybody grew what they wanted, including maize and plum, plum many...). They had an authentic labor thought, born, not made, which had copied an authentic peasant thought, born, not made!
Not accidentally, in 1940, the great sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, in the presence of King Carol II, he inaugurated the National Peasant School at Poiana Campina.
Winter holiday habits have been transmitted and they were more preserved on the peasant “side”. With Christmas carols were walking only the children who were 13 years old, and with the Plugusor the teenagers, even the older. Bands of carolers were formed by groups of no more than six children, four boys and two girls.
Mandatory, they had to wander the priest, the mayor, the school principal, the first teacher of the six, only known families
Parents of the group were caroled last. They didn’t have ever to wander over 22.00 hours. Unlike those who went to the Plugusorul, carolers never received money, but only apples, pretzels, nuts and quince, which you get from the hosts. They were never received into the house, only to doors or windows. Yard dog, if it was not tied and walks freely, it was a sign that the carolers will not be received.”
IB, septuagenarian writer, mentions that in his childhood spent in a village in Transylvania they used to receive as gifts and caroling corobete (dried apples). Among younger people, a questionnaire mentioned in what consist the donations: collecting objects, money, toys and clothing for the largest centers of orphans.

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9. Customs
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In so far as customs are concerned one of the individuals in the youth group mentioned the Christmas carol, and another person in Arges belonging to the elderly group stated that: ‘ the group of persons singing Christmas carols used to be accompanied by a clarinet singer.
When it comes to society games and traditions, the elderly mention the masks’ games: that of the Tipcat, or of the Stag, the Goat game and another one called “Malanca” (which used to be played on December 31st, on St. Melanie’s Day), the Bear Game, the ritual games such as: the dance played by the Horses of by the Little Horses, the songs about the Star, such as the one called the Herodes ( reminding King Herod who had slaughtered the newborns ), the so called Vicleimul (a Romanian word derived from Bethlehem) the Manger, the folk theatre focused on outlawry themes (the so called Jienii, Mocănaşii).
On the first day of the New Year children used to go out and poetically wishing people a Happy New Year along life, hapiness, health and a bright mind by touching them with a branch or a stick adorned with artificial flowers, or bells called „Sorcova” ; the adult people used to carry a little lamb, called Vasilca, (after the same of Saint Basil celebrated on the 1st of January) together with some corn straws which had been planted on Saint Andrew’s Day ( who is also the the Saint that christianized the Romanian people and is being celebrated on Novermber 30th) and a pig leg.
Elder boys used to go with the so called Litthe Plough, on New Year’s Eve, while the grown ups used to go with the Plough, the girls used to knit whips from hemp threads on top of which the placed floss silk made by cocoons.
Among traditions, the young one mentioned the Little Plough, Jienii, the Star, Mocanasii, the Goat, and Seeding (children used to spread seeds in their hosts’ houses while wishing them health for the New Year!)in areas in the Southers Moldova, precisely in villages such as Rogojeni in district Galati, the Little Plough and the Goat being customary also in areas such as la Bertea-Prahova, as well as in Tarculesti, on Cricovului Valley, where one may also encouter New Year’s Eve and the Little Wheat, on the 1st of January.
Although, quite careless and amnesic in regard to other issues, the local authorities have been lately quite careful about treasuring folk traditions. The comments provided by the journalist (cominf from Radio Romania) belonging to the elderly group bring to attention the way these traditions are being capiatlized in the so called : Romania’s country brand. These areas extremely profound in so far as traditions and customs are concerned have become part of the UNESCO protected areas. The journalist also mentiones some of them: „ 1-The Celebrations in Maramues, an area which has become a touristic brand. They are unique European tradition. UNESCO protected monuments in Maramures have become for the inhabitants of the villages in this area true cultural and religious centers, places where traditions, celebrations and folk festivals unfold. 2. The Celebrations in the area called Marginimea Sibiului (Sibiu Neighbouring Areas). Old traditions are being treasured in detail; starting with December 6th, when rehearsals grouped on age categories start, each playing its part or with traditional dances and songs which have been passed over from generation to generation.
Teachers are actively involved in unfolding these events (for instance, the events taking place in Gura Râului). In Saliste, for instance, it has been proposed that during music classes come dressed in the traditional costumes in order to make this a way of preserving folk costumes. During celebrations the grown ups, as well, also get dressed in the traditional folk costumes. The peak of traditional events and traditional celebrations is riched here at the end of December. The festival of the Young People to Be Married (Festivalul Junilor) has been created. This is the time when Young People in 5-6 neighbouring districts gather and bring their specific songs and dances.”

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10. The most popular Songs
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The Christmas Carols have a tradition counted in centuries in Romania. The testimonies made by foreigners confirm the existence of these carols even since the middle of the XVII-th century, but they must be older that that, for sure. To this end, we mention the testimonies made in 1647 by Andreas Mathesius, a German minister/pastor who wrote that the inhabitants of the then called Vahalia living in Transilvania villages do not want to learn the Carols and keep singing their „devilish” songs learnt from their great-gransfathers. In so far as carol singing custom in towns a Syrian deaocon mentions them in 1650, while he was travelling during the 1650-1660 along the Romanian Principalities. The carols make a naive mentioning of the Biblical scenes, which are nevertheless quite relevant from an artistic point of view. The carol singers were accompanied ( some of them are still being accompanies, even nowadays) by one or by several musical instruments (flute, violin, drum, clarinet). The carol was sung by all singers at the same time.
In some areas in Muntenia, the carol used to be sung in an antiphonic way, the music being interpreted by two or several groups.
Apart from the religious carols there are also secular carols on topics regarding the Universe. Among the most well known carols, the most widely mentioned is the one entitled “ White Flowers” (some alternative versions of this song starting with the verses, on the Shiny Path in Maia-Ialomita). The elderly remember songs such “Oh What a Wonderful News!”, “Or Wake up Big Boyards!” Or Wake up Hosts, do not fall asleep!”, “The Star”, “Up in front of the Heaven Gate” ,,Lerui, ler”, ,,Sorcova”, „Wedding in Gana Galilei”, „Goods Morning on New Years’ Eve !”.
The poet H.B. born in Aref, Arges County mentions three carols: : „Domnului, domnului, domn!”, „Ziurel de ziuă” si „Steaua sus rasare”,, while theseptuagenarian writer and diplomat I.B. born in a beautiful area in Transilvania near Tarnava Mica remembers also other carols: „Three Shepherds” and „From One House to Another” .
The subjects in the youth group frequently mention the carols : „The Star”, „What a Beautiful Firtree”, „Santa Clause with White Locks”, then „Three Shepherds” „Open up Your Door Fellow Christian” „ White Flowers”, „What a Wonderful News”, „This is the Day Jesus was Born” (aslo mentioned as In Betleem Jesus was Born”), ,,Domn, Domn sa-naltam !”, ,,Good Morning on New Year’s Eve!” We have also encountered the name of the song „Sledge with Bells”, which is not a carol. It is Romanian folk song which has gained international fame, several gym exercises in the Olympic games unfolding on this tune.

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11. Unforgettable memories
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Among these unforgettable memories, the elderly mention the trust they used to place in the magic power of these celebrations, the Romanian custom of slaughtering the pig, the herds of carol singers whom grandparents used to offer apples, knot-shaped bread, the trip by the sledge pulled by horses, from their native village in Maia and their grandparents village in Dridu and the children’s joy receiving money, nuts, applles and grapes. They used to burn candles ]n the fir three and also on the coffin. Father cried only once in his life. Time has diminished the pain of this memory. The same lady also remembers unforgetable trips by sledge, pulled by horse having some bells around the neck on the way to neighbouring villages, to their relatives. There were four of them in the family, quite close in age, two boys and two girls.
The septuagenary H.B has made comments on magic moments of Christmas till Twelfth Night in the comunity of the Romanian traditional village in the hills: „ The widest and most profound signification out of all winter celebrations, Christmas, includes a series of moments involving the entire community. The entire series of these events opened with the herds of children on Christams Eve, the so called carols with the unforgetable „Good Morning on Christmas Eve !” under the whips song. The herds that used to build „village districts” and to abide by their territories. Should these territories be trespassed , huge rivalries were born. All these herds used to pay visits to the village notabilities, the priest, the teacher, the notary and the mayor. In exchange for their songs children used to get various types of bread, apples and nuts.
On Christmas Eve it was the turn of the unmarried boys, lead by a group leader, an older one that the rest of the group who had coordinated the carol rehearsal for weeks on end. The used to sing by the dogma with unpaired skills. They used to come by the windows where the candles were lit and to start singing in order to bring the news of Christ’s birth. The songs were listened to in great silence and emotion. When the carol ended the lamp was raised and the head of the family came out to receive the singers who were offired money and a local specific alcoholic drink „Tuica”.
On Cristmas Day children were coming to people’s houses dressed in colored clothes and to play a popular theatrical part or to brear the Star or to sing the Star Shines High, a specific song about Jessus’ birth.
On New Years Eve several groups of children, but mostly young men were celebrating a popular custom called Plugusorul, a ritualic custom regarding wealth in the coming year. It was the time for a recital and a show with lots of movement and sounds marked by the noise of the whips and of the bells vividly played by them.
On the Eve of Thelfth Night, herds of young boys used to come to those houses where there were unmarried girls . They used to take the girls by the waste and to raise then and to sing them.
A magic moment was that of Saint Basil. Towards midnight, the village musician used to play a tune dedicated to this event. He used to come by the lit windows and to ask : „Are you asleep ?” It was a moment we were all looking forward to. Then the lamp was raised and the musician used to start his recital, accompanying his wife with a beautiful voice, on the violin.
At the end of his comments, the septuagenarian poet H.B sadly added: „I’m afraid these moments of communion and of transcendent emotion, both from a social and a familiy point of view are losing their value each and every day in favour of a time dedicated to pragmatism, which has managed to deprive us of our spirituality.”
The septuagenarian journalist’s, M.B. memories about Cristams are closely connected to a close realtive’s arrest by the Security forces: „In 1949, on Christmas Eve „aunt Mary”, my father’s sister knocked on our door. She was holding in her arms our cusin Nick, who was two years old. In four month’s time she was going to have another baby. She spoke to my parents: „Georgeta, Petrică I’ ll stay with you. An hour ago they arrested Simon, because he did not give up the worshops”. Simion Voicu, her husband used to have two workshops in Campina with 3 emplyees. Both workshops were called To Voicu’s, one of the was a shop for vulcanization, the other one was a Foto workshop. In the summer of 1948 the main means of production were nationalized. For a while, due to the fapt that his means of production were not quite main ones, uncle Simion, with the support of a rebel employee from the Mayor House, managed to escape his workshops from being confiscated. The then authorities informed him that he must comply with the law. Then they threatened him. A while his influence friend in the Mayor House helped him get away with it. In 1950, on Chistmas Eve, Simion Voicu was arrested. They did not trial him. The site for the channel Danube-Black Sea had barely strated. This is where he was sent for re(education) and requalfication. This is where he worked till 1955, when the works to the Blue High Way stopped. Six moths lated, Simion Voicu died „free”. He was only 52. God had helped him see his second son.
I have not forgotten the Cristmas in 1949 since it was the first time I celebrated Chistmas also with other people apart from my parents.
Sad memories from the Communist Times are also those of the Bucharest inhabitant AA. He tresures back in his mind his father’s fears, who as both Party Member and Army Colnel, that someone may find out that Cristmas was celebrated in his house ( or even in the houses of his relatatives in the countryside). Women’s memories are even more vivid. DC aged 70 remembers the winter times of 1952-1954, when its rich family in Transilvania was deported to Moldavia and when she was senteced to forced labour in a factory. Another lady in Contanta, remebers that in 1949, the herd of singers to which she used to be part, was attacked by a group of comunist atheists who beat them and took all their money.
Unforgettable memories also for the septuagenarian writer I.B. : the carols taught by their eleders late at night, the apples taken out of the hay, kept hidden by their parents and their grandparents, and the writer’ s comments on the rich Cristmas meals even in poor families and also on gypsies’ participation to carols together with Romanian singers.
The young subjects rememeber the Cristmas tree, the ornaments in the fir tree, the carols in winter evenings, the Chistams meal in the family, singing Plugusorul, the fun they used to have in Childre’s village, the charm of the night before the New Year. Some would link the memories of the winter celebrations to the carols concerts, trips to the mounting and winter sports, the first time on skies, either in Cheia in the Mid Carpathians.
As final coments from both groups of subjects: winter celebrations seem to be the most beautiful ones around the year. The young ones say that „snow increses the charm”. A charm taht is in part diminished by the commercial histeria, bad taste and Kitch that have proliferated lately.

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12. Conclusions
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A few conclusions are compulsory at the end of this research:

1. 1. In Romania there some valuable, genuine folk areas where ancient religious and secular traditions have been treasured. Taking into account the answers provided by the subjects, the most significant areas are: Maramureşul, Sibiul, Munţii Apuseni, Argeşul, Prahova, Moldova, Bucovina.
2. Rural areas treasure intact these traditions. Unlike these, the urban areas, covered by the commercial fever, by standardization and by taking over without a critical attitude all sorts of clisees, have turned these traditions into cosmopolite ones, governed by kitch. Out of spiritual celebrations theu have turned into bely celebrations, dominated by thoghtsless buying, the secular display, even ostentiously of acumulated wealth.
3. the subjects over 70s treasure in their memories the elements of beauty of these traditions, which also coincide with the Paradise Lost of Childhood. Quite often, the childhood memories are filled with fears or traumas from the communist period, includig episodes of deportation, forced labour, arrests aso. On the other hand, they are a proof of Romanian people’s silent resistence to boshevic attitudes and efforts to wipe out memories and identities.
4. Young people, althou took part in a considearble proprtion even in unfolding the research did not provide elements that could prove how profound such celebrations are. Althogh it is obvious that they part from the tradtion, customs, folklore, the battle may not be lost, yet. In the country side, it is still vivid and it is a spiritual shield for eternity. Therefore, we think that Lucian Blaga, a poet and a philosopher ever more famous aboroad, was entitled to say that: „Eternity was born in the countryside.” Young generation’s attachment to these events is genuine, accent being placed on the united family, not on a divided family.
5. the elderly, although more difficult to be interviewed, have brought to life the link between memories and the present, as a link between generations. Due to the professional involvement of the persons unfolding the investigation (philologists with high education and a gift for research) among the respondents have been involved some writers (novelists, poets), historians, professors, journalists who provided relevant and touching information about the phnonmenon under investigation.
6. Special linguistic elements regarding food customs and carols have been brought to light by the investigation. Thus, old forms of verbs, names of foods and of magic rituals are a proof of the ancient tradition of the Romanian people, as a special civilization, specific but also harmonious with other people on the continent. To disregard Romanian culture and civilization would be the equivalent of a painful loss for the European spiritual heritage.

Dr. Georgeta Adam
Association of Women Journalists from Romania-Ariadna

Bursa Gabriela Tudor in management cultural

2010-10-23T04:59:00.000-07:00

Buna ziua,

Va reamintim ca data limita de trimitere a dosarelor de candidatura pentru bursa Gabriela Tudor in management cultural in Marea Britanie este 30 octombrie 2010.
Dosarul trebuie completat in limba engleza si trimis la adresa bursa@gabrielatudor.ro. In atasament gasiti formularul de candidatura.

Mentionam ca bursa, in valoare de 2500 £, se va derula în Marea Britanie în perioada iunie-iulie 2011 şi va consta într-un stagiu de formare profesionala cu o durata de patru săptămâni. Bursierul va beneficia de sprijinul unui mentor britanic in persoana dnei. Ghisaline Boddington (director al organizatiei britanice body>data>space).

Alte cinci candidaturi dintre cele trimise pentru acordarea Bursei Gabriela Tudor vor fi selectate pentru programul Manageri culturali romani la Londra, un program lansat în 2010 de Fundaţia Raţiu din Marea Britanie pentru revigorarea managementului cultural din România, prin stabilirea unor relaţii profesionale care să permită pregătirea unor noi proiecte de colaborare cu mediul cultural britanic.

Rezultatele selectiei vor fi facute publice pina la mijlocul lunii decembrie. Nu ezitati sa ma contactati daca aveti nelamuriri.

Cu consideratie,
Cosmin Manolescu
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Fundatia Gabriela Tudor
director executiv: Cosmin Manolescu
Jules Michelet 3-5, ap. 1, sector 1, CP 22 - 183, Bucuresti, Romania
email: cosmin@gabrielatudor.ro; cosmin@unitedexperts.ro
www.gabrielatudor.ro
www.unitedexperts.ro
www.artistnest.ro

Scoala romaneasca de duminica din Birmingham isi deschide portile!

2010-10-23T04:22:00.000-07:00

Dragi romani,

Avem bucuria sa anuntam ca din aceasta duminica, 17 octombrie 2010, incepem la Birmingham scoala romaneasca de duminica. Aceasta isi propune sa ajute la educatia copiilor (dar si a celor mari) din Parohia, comunitatea si regiunea noastra in doua domenii fundamentale: Limba, cultura si civilizatia romaneasca si credinta crestina.

In prima etapa a activitatii noastre, scoala de duminica va functiona intre orele 11.00-13.00. Programul ei va fi adaptat in functie de varsta copiilor prezenti, iar coordonatorii scolii vor fi Cornel si Geanina Grecu, impreuna cu alti voluntari dintre membrii Parohiei noastre. Va fi nevoie neaparat de ajutorul mai multor persoane, mai ales din randul parintilor – Cornel si Geanina vor trimite detalii suplimentare si vor organiza o rota saptamanala atat pentru educatori cat si pentru parintii care ne pot ajuta.

Intentionam in viitor sa extindem activitatea noastra, in functie de cerere si necesitati, cu crearea a mai multe grupe de varsta, cat si cu organizarea de cursuri si activitati si pentru cei mari – exista deja disponibilitatea pentru organizarea de cursuri de limba engleza pentru adulti.
In scurt timp, vom crea o lista de email speciala pentru scoala de duminica, unde toti cei interesati sa poate comunica, schimba impresii si colabora in perioada inevitabil dificila de inceput.

Va rugam pe toti sa cititi cu atentie precizarile de mai jos si sa vedeti daca puteti ajuta cu ceva. Pentru toti cei de pe aceasta lista insa – va rugam pomeniti scoala romaneasca si pe ostenitorii ei in rugaciunile dumneavoastra.

Activitatea la Scoala de Duminica se va desfasura cu incepere de la ora 11 pana la sfarsitul Slujbei Sfintei Liturghii. Deocamdata, in saptamanile cand se slujeste in Worship Room scoala va fi organizata in Oasis Room (parter), iar in saptamanile cand se slujeste in Cadbury Room in Meeting Room (sala de la etajul 2, deasupra Cadbury Room).

Programul de desfasurare este urmatorul:
11 - 11.30 program de activitati la libera alegere, (ex. puzzle biserici, imagini de colorat) - in ideea de a aduna toti copiii pana la ora 11.30
11.30 - 12.00 activitate de invatare (povestire crestina si activitate practica - decorarea unei biserici/icoane - art craft)
12.10 - 12.20 - impartasirea copiilor (difera in functie de felul in care decurge slujba in fiecare duminica). Dupa ce copiii vor invata Tatal nostru, intrarea lor se va face mai devreme, cu scopul de a rosti impreuna rugaciunea.
12.30 - servirea unei gustari de catre copii (fructe si legume proaspete)

In urma propunerlor, lista celor care vor desfasura activitati in cadrul Scolii de Duminica (prin rotatie, 1-2 persoane in fiecare duminica) sunt:
1. dna Mariana Beiu
2. dna Margareta
3. dna Camelia
4. Alexandra
5. Cornel
6. Geanina

Este nevoie sa fie mentionat faptul ca fiecare educator/profesor este necesar a fi insotit de cel putin un parinte in fiecare Duminica, pentru a supraveghea buna desfasurare a activitatilor.

Fie ca Dumnezeu sa binecuvanteze initiativa noastra si sa de dea tuturor intelepciune si har in sustinerea acesteia.

Doamne ajuta!

Pr. Mihai

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Fr. Mihai-Razvan Novacovschi

rnovacovschi@hotmail.com

Tel: 07890 996889

Parohia Ortodoxa Romana 'Sf. Apostol Andrei', Birmingham-West Midlands

Romanian Orthodox Parish 'St. Andrew the Apostle', Birmingham-West Midlands

Maillist: parohiabirmingham@yahoogroups.co.uk

Website: www.parohiabirmingham.org.uk

St. Francis Hall, University of Birmingham Chaplaincy

Opposite no 100, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2UD

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Conclusions du Forum Multiculturel pour un développement durable

2010-10-01T02:22:00.000-07:00

Salutations distinguées de la part de M. Florin Paun, Fondateur du Forum
Multiculturel pour un développement durable et du Think Tank Club de Bucarest
(CELIDEA)

La 7e édition du Forum Multiculturel pour un développement durable organisée le
25 septembre au Palais de la Découverte à Paris a montré l'importance des
cadres et étudiants multiculturels non seulement pour contribuer à la
performance des entreprises et des institutions mais aussi dans la promotion des
valeurs compatibles avec un développement durable dans le monde entier.

Organisé par le Think Tank International Club de Bucarest (CELIDEA) avec le
soutien de la Fondation Renault, cet évènement annuel représente à travers son
réseau de relations avec le monde d'affaires et politique en Europe, un fort levier pour l'image des étudiants et cadres étrangers en Europe ce qui doit etre utilisé pour la valorisation de vos candidatures et profiles multiculturels.

Si en 2004, l'année de naissance du Club de Bucarest et de cet évènement (en
présence de Dominique Strauss Kahn et Cathérine Lalumière) peu d'entreprises et
des institutions étaient convaincues de la valeur des cadres multiculturels,
voila que le Forum en 2010 a montré le soutien que les grandes écoles, les
institutions et les entreprises apportent, à travers leur programmes de
développement international et stratégies en faveur de la diversité, aux enjeux
de reconnaissance des valeurs des étudiants et cadres multiculturels.

Les candidatures des multiculturels peuvent s'appuyer sur les avancés des
travaux du Forum
Multiculturel pour un développement durable sachant que les profiles
multiculturels sont devenus un levier de la croissance et de la performance des
entreprises.

Dans ce cadre valorisant, le Forum offre en exclusivité pour les participants
chaque année, à travers l'accueil du Salon de Recrutement Multiculturel,
l'opportunité d'accéder à des rendez-vous individuels de recrutement suite à la
recommandation du Forum Multiculturel pour un Développement durable. On a
eu l'opportunité d'inscription pour les rendez-vous individuels dans le cadre
du Forum pour bénéficier de ces recommandations et donc des rendez-vous
individuels. 42 inscrits ont été retenus et nous allons les contacter
individuellement pour les informer de la suite de nos recommandations auprès des entreprises choisies mais aussi auprès des autres entreprises qui nous demande notre
recommandation.

En effet, les entreprises qui recoivent des centaines de candidatures, préfèrent
bénéficier de notre recommandation pour envisager de prendre en compte les
candidatures concernant les profiles multiculturels. L'éfficacité des Salons de
recrutement classique est mise en cause aujourd'hui vu l'approche de "vente en
masse des candidatures" ce qui ne valorise pas l'individu avec ses spécificités
qui font sa valeur. Le Forum est organisé en complémentarité avec ces salons de
recrutement classiques, en offrant une stratégies innovante de ciblage et
valorisation de chacune des candidature après avoir organisé les détails pour
une meilleur visibilité auprès des recruteurs. Le thème de l'édition 2011 va
permettre l'intervention des DRH en France et à l'international.

Vous avez la présentation du Forum 2010 en attachement et nous préparons
l'édition spéciale du GUIDE MULTICULTUREL (qui va regrouper chaque année des
partenaires et des acteurs qui soutiennent la valorisation des candidatures
mutliculturels en Europe).

Bien cordialement,

Ingrid Vaileanu Paun
Directrice du Forum Multiculturel pour un développement durable
00 33 685432789
00 33 685432789

REBE in EconLit

2010-08-19T11:12:00.000-07:00

Stimați colegi,

Romanian Economic and Business Review a fost indexata in EconLit – bibliografia electronica a American Economic Association.

http://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/journal_list.php

Multumim celor care au ales revista noastra pentru fructificarea muncii lor de cercetare. Asteptam in continuare cu interes lucrarile dumneavostra.

Anunt important!

In perioada 18-19 noiembrie, Facultatea de Relatii Economice Internationale din cadrul ASE va organiza conferinta internationala cu tema "The Economic and Financial Crisis Impact on the European Business Environment".
Romanian Economic and Business Review este partener in diseminarea rezultatelor acestei manifestari stiintifice.
Despre acest eveniment puteti afla informatii suplimentare vizitand site-ul conferintei http://www.futureofeurope.ase.ro

Bogdan Glavan
Prof. univ. dr., Universitatea Romano-Americana
Redactor-sef, REBE

SATURDAY CLUB

2010-08-01T12:19:00.001-07:00

Romanca” Society is inviting you to take part in a new initiative called "Saturday Club Project”.
We would like to promote a way of social integration of the young members of our community by preserving our cultural identity in the British multicultural society.
We would like the new generation to be able to learn and speak Romanian language as well as English, and especially to introduce and promote the Romanian traditions within the English society.
This project addresses to parents with children aged 4 years old and above.
We will learn, with a Romanian qualified teacher, to write correctly in Romanian, what poems Mihai Eminescu wrote, what pickles Ion Creanga did, from where does the Danube spring and how were the Romanian Principalities united. We will all learn about specifics traditions from different areas of our country and we will keep in touch with those at home to always know what our Romanians are doing and to tell them what we are doing.
We will all going to sing in one voice with the Romanians from home 'Desteapta-te Romane' and pray at the beginning of the day for God to look after us at every step. Together we will grow spiritually and culturally in the English society and we will learn to adapt to a modern lifestyles, enjoying as well our cultural and linguistic identity as Romanians.
We will learn about the English traditions and Romanian traditions and above all we will learn to live together keeping the motherland in our hearts.

If you like to know how to take part in this project as a parent or as volunteer please contact the Project Coordinator Raluca Milodin on mobile 07593033445 or e-mail rallu_13@yahoo.com.

We are looking forward to hear from you.
Ionela Flood, Chair, “Romanca” Society . http:/aupairclub.blogspot.com/, www.romanca.co.uk

CLUBUL DE SAMBATA

2010-08-01T12:05:00.000-07:00

Societatea "Românca" vă invită să luaţi parte la o nouă iniţiativă numită "Clubul de Sâmbãtã". Ne dorim să promovãm un mod de integrare socială pentru tinerii membri ai comunitãţii noastre, prin păstrarea identităţii noastre culturale în societatea multiculturalã britanicã. Ne dorim ca noua generaţie sã fie capabilã să înveţe şi să vorbească atât limba română cât şi limba engleză, şi mai ales să introducem şi să promovâm tradiţiile româneşti în cadrul societăţii engleze. Acest proiect se adresează părinţilor cu copii în vârstã de 4 ani şi mai mari.Vom invata, cu un profesor român calificat, sã scriem corect în limba română, ce poezii a scris Mihai Eminescu, ce nãzbâtii a fãcut Ion Creangã, de unde izvorãşte Dunãrea şi cum au fost unite Principatele Române. Vom afla cu toţii despre tradiţiile specifice din diferite zone ale ţării noastre şi vom ţine legătura cu cei de acasă pentru a şti întotdeauna ce fac românii noştri şi pentru a le spune ce facem noi. Cu toţii o sã cântãm într-un glas cu românii de acasã "Deşteaptă-te Române" şi o sã ne rugãm la început de zi, pentru ca Dumnezeu sã ne fie alãturi la orice pas.
Împreună vom creşte spiritual şi cultural în societatea englezeascã şi vom învăţa să ne adaptãm la un stil de viaţă modern, bucurându-ne, de asemenea de identitatea noastră culturală şi lingvistică, ca români. Vom învăţa despre tradiţiile englezeşti şi tradiţiile româneşti şi mai presus de toate, vom învăţa să trăim împreună păstrând patria mamã în inimile noastre. Dacă doriţi să aflaţi cum să luaţi parte la acest proiect,fie ca parinte fie ca voluntar vă rugăm să contactaţi Coordonatorul de Proiect Raluca Milodin pe mobil 07593033445 sau e-mail rallu_13@yahoo.com. Aşteptăm cu nerăbdare veşti de la dumneavoastrã.
Ionela Flood, Preşedinte, Societatea "Românca". http://aupairclub.blogspot.com/ www.romanca.co.uk

Metodologia de şcolarizare a cetăţenilor de origine etnică ro

2010-07-15T01:39:00.000-07:00

Vă informăm că Ministerul Educaţiei, Cercetării, Tineretului şi Sportului a finalizat metodologia de şcolarizare a cetăţenilor de origine etnică română din Republica Moldova, Republica Albania, Republica Bulgaria, Fosta Republică Iugoslavă a Macedoniei, Republica Serbia, Ucraina şi Republica Ungară precum şi a etnicilor români cu domiciliul stabil în străinătate în învăţământul de stat din România, pentru anul şcolar/ universitar 2010 – 2011
(publicată pe site-ul: www.edu.ro /relaţii internaţionale/românii de pretutindeni).

Mai multe informaţii precum şi documente privind:
- Metodologia de şcolarizare pentru anul universitar 2010-2011;
- Calendarul de înscriere;
- Cererea de înscriere la concurs;
- Oferta locurilor de studii – realizată în baza propunerilor instituţiilor de învăţământ superior de stat din România, conform reglementărilor legale în vigoare – în vederea completării adecvate a cererii de înscriere la concurs.
pot fi accessate de pe site-ul Ambasadei:

http://londra.mae.ro/index.php?lang=ro&id=110707

Cristina-Narcisa Nita
Press Attaché
Embassy of Romania in the UK

CEF Childminding Poster

2010-06-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

If you would like to have a rewarding career, be your own boss and run your business from home, then childminding could be an ideal career for you.
An information session for those wishing to become a registered childminder begins with;
Introduction to Childminding:
When: 24 June 2010
Time: 10.00am -2.00pm
Where: BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE
378 Lillie Road, Fulham SW6 7PH
To find out more about our Childminding Training Programmes or To book your place, contact Amina Osman on
0207 381 4009 or email info@cefuk.co.uk

There are many reasons to consider becoming a registered childminder.
As a registered childminder you will: Offer children you care for a happy and inspirational environment. See the children that you care for grow and develop. Work in your home, choosing the hours you work and the services you provide. Have a career where no two days are the same. Care for your own children at the same time if you have a family. Meet other childminders in your area and get to know your local community. Receive a Certificate from OFSTED Become a Member of the National Childminders Association
Childminding Training Programme Calendar:
Introduction to Childminding (2 half days) 24 & 29 June 2010 Bishop Creighton House
374 Lillie Road SW6 7PH
First Aid Training: (2 days) 01 & 02 July 2010 Bishop Creighton House374 Lillie Road SW6 7PH
Introduction to Childcare (2 days) 5, 12 & 19 July 2010 Bishop Creighton House
374 Lillie Road SW6 7PH

A doua ediţie a Conferinţei Studenţilor, Profesorilor şi Cercetătorilor Români din Marea Britanie Londra

2009-10-21T08:58:00.000-07:00

A doua ediţie a Conferinţei Studenţilor, Profesorilor şi Cercetătorilor Români din Marea Britanie Londra, 24 octombrie 2009

   La 24 octombrie 2009, Ambasada României la Londra va găzdui, la sediul din 1 Belgrave Square SW1X 8PH, între orele 10.30 – 16.30, a doua ediţie a Conferinţei studenţilor, profesorilor şi cercetătorilor români din Marea Britanie.
   Pentru pregătirea Conferinţei a fost constituit un comitet de organizare din care fac parte studenţi, cercetători şi profesori români de la universităţile Canterbury Christ Church, Kent, London School of Economics, London Metropolitan, Reading şi Westminster precum şi reprezentanţi ai celor trei instituţii care patronează evenimentul: Ambasada României în Marea Britanie, Fundaţia Raţiu şi Camera de Comerţ Britanică Română.
   Conferinţa va debuta cu o sesiune de prezentări susţinute de patru invitaţi de onoare, reprezentanţi ai sectoarelor de afaceri, academic, non-guvernamental şi mass media din România şi Marea Britanie. Dezbaterile vor continua în cadrul unor grupuri de lucru care vor aborda următoarele teme: România şi criza financiară; promovarea limbii române şi a cercetării româneşti în Marea Britanie; programe pentru promovarea tineretului în România şi în Marea Britanie; Prezentarea Ligii Studenţilor Români din Străinătate.

Mai multe informaţii: www.rostudent.co.uk

The 6th International Conference on the MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES

2009-09-21T11:57:00.000-07:00

The 6th International Conference on the MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES that took
place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 3rd-5th of September 2009 was jointly organized by Gheorghe Asachi
Technical University of Iasi, Romania through CETEX Department, with the Democritus University of
Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece, supported by CEEMAN – Central and East European Management
Development Association, Slovenia.
Already a tradition of high level international scientific events, like the other previous editions, the
conference brought together representatives of various state and local governmental institutions,
universities, small business, industry associations from all over the world to debate and exchange
experiences and important issues related to the management of technological change and to provide a
good opportunity for networking for all these groups that promote and foster the process of technological
change.
The conference took place in the Conference Center of TRAKI PALACE HOTEL ***** from
Alexandroupolis. Chairmen, distinguished professors from prestigious universities from all over the world
were leading the discussions from the 32 sessions, simultaneous held in 4 rooms.

In Openning Session important figures from academic and business field had some very interesting
speaches, like:
- President of CEEMAN, Danica Purg, represented by Prof. Ovidiu Nicolescu, PhD.
- greek local authorities representatives and members of Greek Parliament;
- rectors of the two organising universities, represented by Prof. Athanasios Karabinis, PhD, Vice-
Rector of Democritus University of Thrace, GR and Prof. Ion Giurma, PhD, Rector of “Gh. Asachi” Technical
University of Iasi, RO, represented by Assoc. Prof. Dorin COTIUSCA-ZAUCA, PhD, Dean of Hydro, Geodesy
and Environmental Engineering Faculty.
Between conference sessions we had the honor to listen the speeches of distinguished keynote
speakers, as:
Milenko Gudic – “Networking to Support Development and Change in Management Education in
CEE”
Ovidiu Nicolescu – “Strategically Actions for SMEs sector in Central and Eastern Europe within crisis
context”

George Minopoulos – “The role of higher education in the progress and development of Thrace”
Michael Miles – “The Hr Professional As Business Partner: Roadblocks And Dilemmas
Vassilios Tourassis – “Managing Change: Innovation, Technology and the Role of Education.”
Eckhard Schollmeyer - “Nanotechnology For Textile Materials”
Constantinos Agorastos – “Stochastic Approach to Risk Management Operations”
On 3rdof September 2009, after the official Oppening Session of the Conference, it was organized a
coktail around the pool on TRAKI Palace Hotel’s terrace. On this occasion the participants could change
opinions in an informal framework

On 4thof September 2009, after conference sessions ended, we could enjoy Gala Dinner in a
magnificent atmosphere at Ag Gyorgy Greek Taverna, few km away from Alexandroupolis, where
participants could feel the Greek spirit, by tasting traditional food, wine and music.

Based on lessons learned from previous conferences we selected very carefully every conference
theme in order to help organizations and people to identify and respond to technological changes trends
and to rethink the way they do business. Thus, the main areas of interest proposed for the submission of
the papers, covered the following sections:
1. Quality Management as a Driver for Technological Changes
2. Technology Transfer, Marketing and Commercialization
3. Navigating Complexity: the Dynamics of Organizational Change
4. Organizational Culture, Innovation and Technological Change
5. Implementing Technological Changes
6. Tools for Technological Changes
7. Sustainable Development trough Technological Change
8. Organizational Culture and the Management of Technological Changes
9. Change Technological Management in Education
10. Organizational Change Management
11. Management of Technological Innovation
12. Quality in Management of Technological Transformation

The Proceedings of the conference included the full text of papers. The 6th Conference active
participants came from different parts of Europe (Albany, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Moldova Republic, Serbia) and also from UK, USA,
Algeria, Canada, Israel, Russia, Tanzania, Turkey.
The 392 published final papers, signed by 300 main authors, are the result of a laborious process of
selection and evaluation by an International Evaluation Committe, which selected from 500 submitted
works (6% of the papers were rejected, 24% accepted with recommendations and 60% accepted as it is).
The International Evaluation Committe was composed of 75 evalators from 15 contries, distingueshed
proffesors from prestigious universities, of wich approximately 50% from outside Romania.
We are convinced that the papers published in conference proceedings contribute significantly to
knowledge transfer in Management of Technological Changes and the participants will implement some of
the principles and activities in their own institutions.
Finally, we would like to thank to all participants who shared their expertise with colleagues at the
conference. We also hope that papers included in these two volumes will give new ideas to the readers in
their quest to solve various problems.
The conference would not be possible without the joint effort of the organizing committee
(Democritus University of Thrace and Technical University of Iasi) and evaluating committee, to whom we
are deeply grateful.

The organizers express their gratitude to all conference sponsors for their support, which made this
conference possible. We are optimistic and we wish this would represent a productive and enjoyable visit
to Alexandroupolis, Greece. We do hope that will keep the tradition and the conference will continue to be organized every other year in the future.

Prof. COSTACHE RUSU, PhD
MTC 2009 Editor

The Organizing Committee of The 6th International Conference Management of Technological Changes
Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi
Center for Continuing Education and Training - CETEX
53 Dimitrie Mangeron Blvd.
IASI - 700050, ROMANIA
Tel./ Fax: +00 40 232 213 708

INVITATIE LA CONGRESUL CADRELOR DIDACTICE

2009-08-10T11:13:00.000-07:00

COMUNICAT DE PRESA

INVITATIE LA CONGRESUL CADRELOR DIDACTICE

In 27-30 august 2009, in Bucuresti, se va desfasura sub patronajul MECI un Congres al Cadrelor Didactice din Romania care are ca principal scop dezbaterea proiectelor legislative din domeniul educatiei. La eveniment sunt asteptati si inalti oficiali romani, personalitati ale stiintelor educatiei, reprezentanti ai sindicatelor, asociatiilor parintilor, studentilor si elevilor. Vor participa si 62 de cadre didactice de peste hotare.

Participantilor din tara li se asigura cazare gratuita si masa la pret de cantina. Obtinandu-se o sala (Sala de festivitati din Complexul Leu- str Iuliu Maniu nr 1-3) cu o capacitate mai mare decat cea initiala, pe langa 600 de participanti din toate judetele tarii deja inscrisi, se mai pot inscrie si alti doritori la tel 0723259290 sau 0746787740 sau vioreldolha@yahoo.com . Pentru AGIRo, care a organizat si anul trecul la Palatul Parlamentului o asemenea actiune, acest congres este al XXX-lea, primul avand loc in 1898.

Viorel Dolha

presedintele Asociatiei Generale a Invatatorilor din Romania

REBE Call for Papers

2009-07-13T12:42:00.000-07:00

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ROMANIAN ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS REVIEW
www.rebe.rau.ro
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on: “Understanding the economic crisis”
REBE is now classified CNCSIS B+ and indexed in IDEAS/RePEc database.
The Editor would like to invite submissions for the 4th volume No. 3, Fall 2009 of the (REBE).
This issue of Romanian Economic and Business Review is devoted to exploring the causes and impact of the current financial crisis. We are interested in research that offers explanations and theoretical insights for the understanding of the factors that contributed to the on-going economic turmoil. We also are open to various types of methodologies, including but not limited to econometric modeling, experimental analysis, analytical modeling, case studies, and surveys. Research articles that examine the impact of public policies are appropriate too. Papers that focus on Romanian economy, business environment and public policy are particularly encouraged.

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words and must conform to the REBE’s style requirements (see the “Instructions for authors” in the attachment). Each author can submit only one paper, as author or coauthor.
All papers will first be considered by the Editor for general relevance, originality and significance. If accepted for review, papers will then be subject to double blind peer review.

Important Dates

Deadline for Submission: July 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 1st , 2009
Payment of publication fee: September 30, 2009
Submission of receipt confirming the fee payment: September 30, 2009
Expected Publication Date: November, 2009.

Fee

The REBE charges a 200 RON submission fee for all published articles. Only one submission fee is necessary for each single paper submitted (even if there are multiple authors). After publication, authors will receive a copy of the journal.
The fee will be paid in the account IBAN: RO02BRDE410SV36509604100 open at the BRD Academiei, Agentia Universitatea Romano-Americana, on the UNIVERSITATEA ROMANO-AMERICANA (CF: 9081408), mentioning “Nume _Prenume (first author) – taxa publicare “REBE”.

Submission

You may send your paper in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail to the editor:

Conf. univ. dr. Bogdan Glavan
Romanian American University
Bulevardul Expozitiei nr. 1B, sector 1, Bucuresti

Editor, Romanian Economic and Business Review
E-mail: bogdan.n.glavan@gmail.com

Instructions for authors.doc

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Sachs, Jeffrey. 2005. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times. New
York: Penguin Press.
Easterly, William. 2006. “Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid”. Asian Development
Review 23(1): 1-35.
Hoff, Karla and Stiglitz, Joseph. 2001. “Modern Economic Theory and Development”. In
Meier, G. and Stiglitz, J. E. eds. Frontiers of Development Economics: The
Future in Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 389-485.

Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie : Inedit REVISTA EXCELENTA- Maestria baletului: magie si dans

2009-07-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

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Un mesaj în atenţia tuturor membrilor Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie

Cu ocazia lansarii proiectului primului Centru pentru Dezvoltarea si Descoperirea Talentelor si Inteligentei, 16 aprilie, seara, publicul prezent a gustat din fascinatia dansului, urmarind pe scena Aulei Bibliotecii Academiei, transformata intr-un palat al baletului, un spectacol de vis. Protagonisti au fost balerini faimosi, reprezentanti ai celei mai bune scoli de balet, copiii din Bucuresti, reprezentati de profesionista balerina Svetlana Zotina. Cu aceasta ocazie, Revista Excelenta ii felicita, acordandu-le titlul onorific: membrii de excelenta ai "Revistei Excelenta".

Detalii: http://www.revistaexcelenta.ro/?p=322

Kristof Lajos

Vizitează Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie la : http://kristoflajos.ning.com

Pentru a verifica emailurile primite pe Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie, mergi la :
http://kristoflajos.ning.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings

Ionela Flood
PhD Student ASE Bucharest
Phone Number: 00 44 (0)20 77 36 86 68
Skype: ionelaflood
Mobile 00 44 (0)78 16 27 52 40
Email:ionela@talktalk.net
www.romanca.co.uk

Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie

2009-07-13T11:51:00.000-07:00

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Un mesaj în atenţia tuturor membrilor Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie

IRSCA Gifted Education a lansat inscrierile la a 3-a editie a Şcolii de Vară a Educaţiei de Excelenţă 12-20 iulie 2009 Lugoj cu tema: EDUCAŢIA EXCELENŢEI PENTRU O SOCIETATE CENTRATĂ PE COPIL. Misiunea scolii este profesionalizarea în domeniul educaţiei de excelenţă, a educatiei diferentiate axata pe descoperirea si dezvoltarea potentialului copiilor. „Prin gifted education se respecta natura divina a omului si nu omul-marfa, omul de consum. Noi promovam omul creator, capabil sa-si dezvolte potentialele." Inscrie-te pe www.supradotati.ro/scoala

Vizitează Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie la : http://kristoflajos.ning.com

Pentru a verifica emailurile primite pe Scoala de Vara a Educatiei de Excelenta-Lugoj, 12-20 iulie, mergi la :
http://kristoflajos.ning.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings

Ionela Flood
PhD Student ASE Bucharest
Phone Number: 00 44 (0)20 77 36 86 68
Skype: ionelaflood
Mobile 00 44 (0)78 16 27 52 40
Email:ionela@talktalk.net
www.romanca.co.uk

Shaping the future: skills forecasts as a tool for policy-making

2009-06-23T10:40:00.000-07:00

Cedefop’s forecasts on the demand (2008) and supply (2009) of skills are intended to provide information on trends. This year’s study focused on which skills people will be offering in the next ten years.
Matching skills and jobs: anticipating needs in challenging times was the first Agora conference that made use of Internet live streaming. The recorded videos of the main speeches and discussions are available online now.

Skills are where employment and education meet. Apart from the skill needs project which includes the forecasts, Cedefop is working on several related issues, such as the recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning; lifelong guidance; and on tools such as the European Qualifications Framework and the European Credit System for VET, among others.

Cedefop’s Agora conferences aim, among other things, to bring the worlds of education and employment closer together – a requirement for integrated and successful policy-making.
Link to the recorded conference videosTo discuss the results of the new Cedefop publication "Future skill supply in Europe: Medium-term forecast up to 2020: synthesis report"1 and how they relate to the Commission’s initiative, New Skills for New Jobs2, Cedefop recently held a conference, in cooperation with the European Commission, entitled: Matching skills and jobs: anticipating needs in challenging times3 . The aim of the conference was not just to disseminate the results of the skills supply study, but also to debate how to best identify skill mismatches, how to achieve the most appropriate partnerships between education and employers, and generally to draw attention to the implications of the forecasting exercises for policy-making in several related social fields.

The main conclusion was clear: EU-wide forecasts, despite their inevitable shortcomings (which are mainly due to unequal data collection) are a boon to policy-makers. But they need to be complemented by more qualitative and sector-based research. In fact, Cedefop is already working on several such projects, such as on anticipating skill needs in specific sectors, employer surveys, etc.

The important thing, however, is not the trends themselves, but how to manage them – or, to put it differently, how to manage risk. Once researchers have forecast the future, policy-makers must decide what to do about it.

As it turned out, the conference was a good illustration of how ostensibly ‘dry’ and technical macroeconomic forecasts can lead to heated debate – and how they can be quoted to support competing arguments for policy-making.

After Lisbon: the policy challenges ahead

Lisbon is almost over. With only one year to go, there is general agreement that the process has served a useful purpose in pointing Europe in the right direction. Despite the considerable progress achieved, however, the main Lisbon goal has not been reached. The heady ambitions of 2000, when the world economy was still in the glow of the dot-com boom, did not lead Europe to become the “most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world’ – to create and attract the world’s most innovative companies.

Europe is now plunged into an economic crisis which requires ever closer cooperation between all our countries, precisely under circumstances that conspire to make everyone put narrow national or regional interests first. Meanwhile, the time bomb of demographic decline is putting age groups in competition for the same jobs. European policy-makers will need to make some difficult choices, especially as the crisis has placed public financing under severe strain. So what should policy-makers be paying attention to?

1. What’s maternity leave got to do with the skills supply?

One of the major findings of the Cedefop’s skills supply forecast concerns the rising qualifications of women4 . In 2020, more women will have higher degrees than men, as younger women increasingly get higher qualifications. This means that the still considerable gender imbalances of the EU labour market must be corrected if the skills and talents of women are not to be wasted.

More generally, labour market policies in Europe must dovetail with social policies that allow more women into the workforce. This means, primarily, better childcare provisions in private and public sectors, better opportunities for career breaks, and more fathers’ rights. The demographic and economic data shows that the rising participation of women in the labour market is as important for the future European economy as a higher participation of older age groups.

2. What the green economy means for skills

The greening of the economy means not just jobs for the environmental sector itself. As in the IT revolution, the real impact will be on jobs that will have to adopt a new modus operandi to take a lower-carbon economy into account. This will affect all qualification levels, and must now be taken into account in curricula across many sectors. Innovation is not entirely related to the environment sector, but certainly this sector will generate much innovation and creativity in the next few years. Generic skills – communication, problem-solving, entrepreneurship – may be the key to a better match between skills and jobs and to better integrating the environmental revolution – much as they were boosted by the IT revolution.

Here too, the current downturn is playing a role: companies see efficiency (including in energy use) and innovation as strategies to weather the crisis. Policy-makers have a very significant role to play in developing environmental skills. Regulation and legislation - whether for cleaning operations, preventative measures, green infrastructure, carbon footprinting or research and development - are major drivers of the low-carbon economy.

3. Polarisation: natural development or social choice?

One phenomenon that has been observed over decades runs counter to the continued provision of more medium-level skills and qualifications, which was established by the skill supply forecast: the polarisation of the job market. According to one argument, technological and organisational change has been largely responsible for falling jobs in the middle wage/skill level. Jobs at both ends of the spectrum (measured by wage, not skill level) have one thing in common: they involve non-routine tasks.

But this is only part of the story. Designating providers of non-routine social services such as cleaning, childcare and care of older people “low-skilled” and paying them little is not an inevitable development but a choice our society is making. Many low-paid service workers, especially migrants, do have qualifications, but these remain unrecognised in the present system. Furthermore, their tasks are important enough to warrant more training and higher status. This too is an issue that policy-makers should tackle, in the interests of upskilling, social cohesion and equity.

4. Partnerships, a user’s guide

The New Skills for New Jobs initiative, among other recent policy papers, urges closer and more cohesive partnerships between the education and employment worlds. In the past two months, both the European Commission and the Council have encouraged universities to work more closely with business5. Similarly, there was consensus among conference participants that partnerships between business and all levels of education, particular vocational education, are of vital importance if we are to better match people with jobs. But as usual, the devil is in the details: how exactly should this work? How involved should the social partners be in, for instance, establishing curricula?

There are encouraging signs of cooperation between universities and enterprises, which mostly take the form of student placements and career mediation. There have also been projects focusing on developing entrepreneurship, which is not yet defined as a generic skill or included in curricula.

Nevertheless, we have some way to go before the prevailing mentality changes. In some countries, at least, universities need to stop thinking that working closely with business is a form of intellectual compromise. In such cases, it is well to recall that the reduction of public investment caused by the crisis is here to stay. Schools, businesses and individuals will need to work together to finance the workforce Europe needs.

5. The overeducation debate

The frequent references to overeducation sparked controversy. Many among the audience objected that that it is not possible to be overeducated, even though the term is used quite freely by many economists. It is, however, possible – even likely, in today’s economy – to be overqualified or overskilled: that is to say, to do a job that does not require the formal qualifications one possesses, or what is worse, according to some research, to have skills that are not used at work, for extended periods in one’s career.

But could it be that a too-highly qualified workforce is actually a good thing? Is having just the ‘right” skills for available jobs too limited? Does ‘overeducation’, far from being a problem, actually contribute to a more innovative economy?

Several participants objected to this idea: formal qualifications, they argued, are not what make people innovative or creative. To claim otherwise may be simply a matter of social bias in favour of professions that require university degrees. But equally importantly, higher qualifications do not come free. They represent an investment of time and funds – public and private – which, for maximum social impact should achieve the highest possible returns. This is what matching skills and jobs is all about.

Perhaps what we need to look at is not only formal qualifications, but most importantly, the content of the qualifications and skills people have. To borrow a phrase from the New Skills for New Jobs communication, the “composition of skills” that the European education and training systems produce should be conducive to an innovation-based economy.

In any case, the future of the labour market depends on the ability of the education system to respond to new needs. And that, in turn, will depend on the availability and skills of the teachers and trainers themselves – of whom, in some countries, there is even today a considerable shortage.

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/etv/news/default.asp?idnews=4579

Information received from Cedefop
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, established in 1975 (2), is a European agency that helps promote and develop vocational education and training in the European Union (EU). It is the EU's reference centre for vocational education and training.

CONFERINTA INTERNATIONALA CALITATE INOVARE INTEGRARE EUROPEANA, SIBIU 18-20 SEPTEMBRIE 2008-Prelungire termen de depunere a lucrarilor 15 august!

2008-08-09T04:47:00.000-07:00

CONFERINTA INTERNATIONALA CALITATE INOVARE INTEGRARE EUROPEANA, SIBIU 18-20 SEPTEMBRIE 2008-Prelungire termen de depunere a lucrarilor 15 august!

In perioada 18 – 20 septembrie 2008, Sibiul va fi gazda primei editii a Conferintei Internationale Calitate - Inovare - Integrare Europeana, eveniment organizat de catre Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti, in colaborare cu Universitatea Erlangen – Nuremberg din Germania, Universitatea Tehnica din Viena si Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca.

Conferinta Internationala Calitate –Inovare - Integrare Europeana, la prima sa editie, isi propune sa reuneasca intr-un amplu schimb de experienta, personalitati din mediul academic, cercetatori, doctoranzi, consultanti si oameni de afaceri din intreaga lume.

Obiectivul principal al Conferintei il reprezinta stabilirea unor conexiuni intre reprezentantii mediului academic si specialistii din practica economica, implicati in managementul calitatii si inovatiei, cu interese interdisciplinare in domeniul afacerilor si integrarii europene si cei preocupati de cele mai recente orientari privind: standardele europene de excelenta in afaceri, antreprenoriat, inteligenta organizationala si dezvoltarea competitiva, proprietatea intelectuala, managementul intreprinderilor in context multicultural, sistemele integrate de management calitate – mediu – securitate, dezvoltarea durabila.

Vor fi, deasemnea, dezbatute problemele actuale de interes privind dezvoltarea Comunitatii Europene, ocazie cu care se va reflecta la evolutia procesului de integrare europeana, precum si asupra dinamicii generate de aceasta evolutie.

Lucrarile conferintei se desfasoara in plen si pe sectiuni paralele, cu prezentari academice si practice, precum si ateliere de lucru dedicate mediului de afaceri, referitoare la urmatoarele teme: 1) Imbunătăţirea sistemului de evaluare a performanţelor întreprinderilor mici şi mijlocii din România, în relaţie cu modelul european de management al calităţii; 2) Managementul strategic şi operaţional al organizaţiilor în contextul globalizării economiei; 3) Inovaţia deschisă: Ce şi de ce? Soluţii posibile pentru mediul economic din România.

De altfel, conferinta se doreste a fi un prilej excelent de socializare, alaturi de o incursiune in cultura locala pentru participantii directi la lucrarile conferintei. Cei care opteaza pentru participarea cu lucrari pe temele generoase ale conferintei vor avea oportunitatea unui network academic si profesional publicistic de inalta tinuta.

Lucrarile pot fi depuse online pina la data de 15 august 2008, confirmarea acceptarii acestora facandu-se pana la data de 25 august a.c. Inscrierea participarii Dvs. la Conferinta Internationala Calitate – Inovare - Integrare Europeana se poate face pina la data de 1 Septembrie 2008, prin accesarea adresei de website a acesteia: www.qiei2008.ase.ro

Evenimentul este sponsorizat de catre Remtours Travel Agency din Romania, beneficiind de urmatoarele parteneriate media: Postul de Radio Romania Actualitati, Revista “Calitatea –acces la succes” din Romania si Societatea Romanca din Marea Britanie.

Secretariatul Stiintific al Conferintei Calitate-Inovare-Integrare Europeana, Sibiu, 18-20 septembrie 2008

Contact : conferenceqiei2008@yahoo.com
www.qiei2008.ase.ro

Consemneaza pt Societatea Romanca
Ovidiu Lapusneanu.

Educatia -cea mai buna investitie!

2008-08-07T16:36:00.001-07:00

Lansam acest proiect ca raspuns la preocuparile membrilor comunitatii romanesti privind continuare eforturilor de a educa copii nostri in limba materna, de a continua promovarea traditiilor romanesti oriunde ne-am afla in lume!

Asteptam materiale, sugestii si propuneri pe adresa Izabela Aldea, e-mail:
< izabela46@hotmail.com>