OPPORTUNITY/ CONTEXT In post-communist Romania, the legacy of state institutionalization and child abandonment remains a profound collective wound—rarely addressed, yet deeply ingrained in the national psyche. Within this sensitive historical and emotional landscape, A.R.T. Fusion Association, through its cultural change platform Papercuts, conceived a bold and unprecedented project: Horror Vacui. As the agency entrusted with …
OPPORTUNITY Since escaping communism 30 years ago, Romania has constantly battled a political machine fraught with corruption. One of the fraudulent methods used is to take public land and rezone it for commercial purposes to benefit accomplices. This is what happened in a neighbourhood in Bucharest, where residents woke up to find that a planned …
CONTEXT Almost all countries with which Romania compares itself aspirationally (UK, France, Germany, USA, etc.) have standardized assessment systems, which are sometimes used for high impact (e.g. Baccalaureate) or low impact (e.g. current classroom assessment) decisions. International comparative tests in education, e.g. PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS, etc., use standardized tests. The major university admission …
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OPPORTUNITY To be a teenager parent is hard. If your child battles with depression is even harder. The parents that worked at the production of the film OTTO The Barbarian (film who brought to the big screens the story of an young adult who faced the death of his girlfriend leaving him depressed) decided they …
OPPORTUNITY The new strategic context created by the change in legislation and its alignment with European rules, gives SIFs a wider range of action in investment activities, but also the opportunity for a rebranding that SIF Moldova had proposed for some time. Created in a society in transition, redefined from the FPP as one of …
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In Romania, 1 in 5 victims in the prosecutors’ files is a child. Through the #LocDeBine campaign, we managed to get the word out to those who decide and to increase the degree of awareness on this inimaginable cruel reality and the number of hearing rooms for minors. …
