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The beginning of November found me in Krakow, I arrived there driven by a mix of motives and curiosities: geopolitical, cultural, historical and personal. The global context also played a role in my choice - a tense world that seems to be looking...

Criticism of the current coalition's reforms is increasingly coming from within. The mayor of Buzău, Constantin Toma, believes that the measures proposed by the Social Democratic Party regarding public administration reform do not represent a...

Comisia Naţională a Bibliotecilor trage un semnal de alarmă sever: reţeaua naţională de biblioteci este în colaps. Instituţia solicită autorităţilor tratamentul bibliotecilor ca „infrastructură critică de interes public” şi...

The National Library Commission is sounding a severe alarm: the national library network is collapsing. The institution is calling on the authorities to treat libraries as "critical infrastructure of public interest" and to urgently adopt...

Cultural events could become a rarity on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from this autumn, warns the Minister of Culture, Demeter Andras. According to him, the new collective labor agreement in the cultural sector provides for a high...

Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being evacuated from Hungary's Pannonhalma Abbey after a severe infestation was discovered, threatening to wipe out centuries of written history. The drastic conservation measures are targeting one...

An intense heatwave is hitting Greece and large parts of Southeastern Europe these days, with temperatures that could reach the dangerous threshold of 42 degrees Celsius, according to a warning sent by the DPA agency. Hot air currents coming from...

Former Foreign Minister and former director of the National Library of Romania, Adrian Cioroianu, launched a public appeal during an anniversary event dedicated to the National Library, drawing attention to the major risk that VAT increase on...

A heat wave classified as "extremely dangerous" has swept a large part of the United States, exposing approximately 160 million inhabitants to sweltering temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius. According to the Agence France-Presse...

The Publishers' Union of Romania (UER) harshly criticizes the Executive's intention to increase the VAT rate applied to books, including school textbooks, in a context in which the reading level is already alarmingly low. Romanians are...

The Ministry of Education and Research reacted on Saturday to the public statements of the three major trade union federations in education, expressing its availability for dialogue and clarification of grievances. The institution has invited...

The President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, sounded an alarm signal regarding the decline in reading among young people, during an anniversary session dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the establishment of the "Carol I"...

A model of artificial intelligence (AI) developed in Latin America, which takes into account the cultural specificity of the region, will be launched in mid-2025, according to the announcement made by the National Center for Artificial...

A rare first-edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the first volume of J.K. Rowling's famous series, has been sold at auction in the UK for £18,000. It is not the highest price ever paid for a book...

Cultural workers are increasingly expressing their dissatisfaction. Last week, the Minister of Culture, Natalia Intotero, had a meeting with representatives of the unions in the field, stating that she asked for concrete proposals to be made in...

The Romanian Cultural Institute has launched a call for applications to offer three "Lucian Blaga" scholarships to Romanian researchers this year. "We invite interested Romanian researchers to submit their application files by...

Culture Day was also marked with a protest by workers in the field, not just with festive events. Trade unionists from Cartel Alfa reported that the protest organized on Culture Day by employees of museums, libraries and other cultural...

The Ministry of Education will carry out the "National Support Program for the Correct Use of the Romanian Language" within which the new "Orthographic, Orthoepic, Morphological and Punctuation Guide", recently launched by the...

Libraries hide immense treasures within them. At the completion of 111 years of continuous activity, the Mureş County Library ranks first nationally among county libraries, with over a million registered documents. The director of the...

Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan claims that the data of the 2023 Cultural Consumption Barometer show an increase and confirms that the strategic directions she had during her mandate as Minister of Culture were correct. The Minister recalled...

Good examples are not always followed, which is precisely why it is necessary to popularize them. The President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, highlighted the importance of creating the Royal Domains, true "model centers for...

Culture and education are very closely linked. The Minister of Education, Ligia Deca, and the Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, signed a collaboration protocol to support activities, projects and initiatives to promote cultural education.

The multiple problems of education require quick solutions to avoid a collapse of the system. School consortia can be the solution for reducing overcrowding in some educational units, considering that spaces, including classrooms, could be...

The Director of the National Institute of Heritage, Oana Zaharia, stated at the European Heritage Hub Forum that INP is making efforts, together with the Ministry of Culture, to support a national campaign to digitize the collections of cultural...

Lumea este într-o continuă schimbare, nici bibliotecile nu fac excepţie. Asociaţia Bibliotecarilor din România (ABR), în colaborare cu Biblioteca Universităţii "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu şi alţi parteneri, organizează în perioada 3 - 6...

The world is constantly changing, and libraries are no exception. The Association of Librarians from Romania (ABR), in collaboration with the "Lucian Blaga" University Library from Sibiu and other partners, organizes from September 3 to 6...

The "Antim Ivireanul" County Library in Râmnicu Vâlcea will benefit from an important investment worth approximately 600,000 lei, financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). This amount will be used to set up a digital...

Digitization has become very important for the development of a country in today's context. The Portuguese digitalization expert Mario Campolargo participated in a series of meetings and events in our country under the title "The Digital...

Choosing a high school or vocational school is a difficult task, in which all data must be taken into account. The mayor of the capital, Nicusor Dan, announced that a new edition of the educational fair "Your Vocation!" has begun. The...

There are times when disgruntled trade unionists have the same point of view as the authority in their field. The Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, stated that she is in solidarity with the museum employees who demand a salary increase and...

The grievances of employees in the cultural sector are boiling over. There is also an exact date for this. This year's edition of the Night of the Museums will be a special one, not because it marks 20 years of existence, reason for...

The National Federation of Trade Unions in Culture and Media CulturMedia announced that its members will not participate in the European Night of Museums due to the "procrastination" of the promised measures and appealed to the National...

Angajaţii din domeniu cultural se consideră discriminaţi de autorităţi şi au decis să intensifice protestele. Muzeografii şi bibliotecarii continuă protestele şi vor închide instituţiile în zilele de sărbători legale, nemulţumiţi fiind din cauză...

Employees in the cultural field consider themselves discriminated against by the authorities and have decided to intensify their protests. The museographers and librarians continue their protests and will close the institutions on public...

Culture is the best ambassador for any state. The Romanian Cultural Institute participates, for the first time, through its branch in Brussels and the National Book Center, with its own stand, at the International Book Fair in the capital of...

The grievances of employees in the cultural sector are far from being resolved. The dialogue with the authorities does not have the expected effect. The representatives of the CulturMedia Union convey, in a manifesto, that on Museum Day, on May...

At the beginning of this week, the Ministry of Culture launched the procedure for selecting titles within the National Program for the Purchase of Books and Magazine Subscriptions in the Written Culture Category, the amount allocated for this...

The Romanian Cultural Institute has launched three calls for applications for the "Lucian Blaga," "Woodrow Wilson," and "Ion Mincu" scholarships, aimed at Romanian researchers, architects, and professionals from various...

Libraries will go underground, literally, otherwise, it is known that in our country people read less and less. Travelers transiting the Piaţa Unirii metro station will have at their disposal a shelf full of books, respectively an initial book...

The Minister of Culture, Raluca Turcan, who participated in Abu Dhabi, at the World Conference on Cultural and Artistic Education, met with the Minister of Culture of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Salem Al Qassimi, during which a series of...