Raluca Chișu on women entrepreneurship – „it takes courage, ambition, the ability to walk in the dark without knowing where you’re going”
Ana Raluca Chișu is an economist and the founder of Romania’s first pediatric recovery center (Asociația Kinetobebe). She is a trailblazer regarding social economy and health management actions. She has paved the way in social economy initiatives and healthcare management, achieving remarkable feats that were once unimaginable. She is a shining example of why women deserve […]
Vadim Ghirda – the Romanian photojournalist awarded with the Pulitzer Prize supports the #WeAreHalf campaign
Vadim Ghirda and the Associated Press team were honored with this prestigious award, for 15 images that reproduced in real-time the devastating human disaster of the Ukrainian war. The Associated Press team, composed of Vadim Ghirda, Bernat Armangue, Emilio Morenatti, Felipe Dana, Nariman El-Mofty, Rodrigo Abd, won the Pulitzer Prize in the “breaking news photography” […]
The majority of women believe that there is still no gender equality in Romania
96% of educated Romanian women* from the urban environment believe that gender equality is not yet achieved in Romania. And 43% of these say they have witnessed inappropriate attitudes and behaviors towards women in the professional environment, including overt harassment. A large proportion of the research participants have heard or known cases of domestic violence, […]
Aurora Simionescu: „There is progress, but it’s slow, and it’s not enough, so we need to keep fighting to increase diversity and inclusivity in science”
Aurora Simionescu is a Romanian researcher, born in Brăila, PhD in astrophysics, one of the 13 Romanians included in the top 100 leaders of innovation in Central and Southern Europe. She graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and did research at Stanford University in the United States as part of the Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship program. […]
Dr. Diana Cimpoeșu: „Am pornit de la zero în medicina de urgență din România”
Prof. univ. dr. (H) Diana Carmen Cimpoeşu a urmat cursurile organizate în cadrul programului REMSSY împreună cu medici de la SAMU din Paris, despre gestionarea dezastrelor într-o zonă necunoscută. A făcut parte din proiectul SMURD 1 și 2, adresat zonei transfrontaliere dintre România şi Republica Moldova, prin care se implementează un poligon de pregătire pentru […]
<strong>Ina POPA: „Privește-mă. Sunt motociclistă. Pentru că pot, pentru că, împreună, putem”</strong>
Ina POPA este Vice Președintă a Asociației Femeilor Motocicliste – WIMA România, divizia din România a Women International Motorcycle Association (WIMA). La nivel mondial, WIMA a fost fondată în 1950 de Louise Scherbyn în US, iar în 1958 au apărut primele divizii din Europa (UK, Olanda, Germania și Elveția); în prezent, numarul acestora ajunge la […]