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Online Programming Contest

“Suport Regiunea Centru” Association, Jurnalul de mâine and LearnEx Center, in partnership with “Danubius” University of Galați, organize “Digital Nerds Contest”.  

The competition aims at helping children, pupils and students apply their knowledge regarding the IT field, being developed for all age groups as it follows:

Juniors in Programming

Meant for primary school children; it implies the creation of an application/game in any platform by using blocks programming and meeting the given deadline. Examples of platforms: AppInventor, Scratch, Microbit, CodeMonkey

Children in STEM

Meant for secondary school children, it implies the creation of an application/game in any platform that allows you to write a code. (Any platform can be chosen as long as you don’t use blocks programming). Examples of platforms: Roblox Lua, Swift Playgrounds

Youngsters in IT

This section is divided into two subsections – for college kids and for students, whether you like applications (C, C++, C#, Java), games (Unity) or embedded systems (Arduino, Raspberry Pi), the choice is yours. You can team up in groups of three maximum. Your only enemy is time – three days. A great challenge awaits!

The schedule of the Contest is the following:

February 8 – April 5 2021 – Enrollment

April 5 2021 – Launch of theme for categories I and II

April 5 – April 15 2021 – Conferences on IT topics

April 16 2021 – Launch of theme for the IIIrd category (Hackathon)

April 18, 23:59 2021 – Deadline for projects submissions

 

During the contest, a series of conferences on various IT topics will be organized, having as guests faculty and IT specialists. Among the tackled topics there will be: Artificial intelligence, Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanization and automation solutions, Data management, Cybernetic security, Technology in agriculture – Precision agriculture, The jobs of the future and IT, Hardware and its bearer, Literacy through the Internet, Cyber-bullying, E-health.

 

The conferences will take place online, being available on Zoom.

Each participant will have 15-20 minutes to present their project and 10-15 minutes more to talk to the moderator.

Those who want to participate in the conferences are warmly asked to submit the following information: Last name and First name, Position, Topic or Project, Short description of the topic or of the project.

For more details and for enrollment, please visit: http://digitalnerdscontest.ro.


“Danubius” Students’ League and “Danubius” Sports Club Invite You to the “Art of Love” Festival

Between February 14 and February 24, “Danubius” Students’ League and “Danubius” Sports Club, in partnership with the Counseling and Career Orientation Center, with the support of Shopping City Galați, organize the “Art of Love” festival.

The event is dedicated to all kinds of people-to-people connections, whether it’s couple relationships, self-relationships or the relationship with God.

Through workshops, TV shows, live streaming and through different types of online and offline activities, the participants will get in touch with valuable insights for their personal growth. Topics as friendship as love display, what is unconditional love or how to love yourself will be tackled.

The opening of “Art of Love” festival will take place in Shopping City Galați, on February 14, starting at 4 PM, when the students from “Danubius” Students’ League and the sportsmen from “Danubius” Sports Club will offer hand-made cards and roses to all the ladies in the Mall.

During the festival, Simona Giușcă, psychotherapist, will develop a series of workshops on the following topics: “I love you!... Did you get me?” and “The Art of Re-bonding in a Couple”

Daily, there will be thematic questioning on the Instagram page of the event. Among the asked questions there will be the following: “What is love?”, “Can love heal emotional traumas?”, “What does it mean to be an altruistic?”.

Three TV shows will be also broadcasted – “The Male in Her, the Female in Him” - guest: Simona Giușcă, psychotherapist, “The Oriental Poetical Eros” – guest: Associate Professor Alina Beatrice Cheșcă and “Dragobete, origins and sense” – guest: Associate Professor Gheorghe Lateș.

All the activities will be streamed live on the Facebook and Instagram pages of the event: https://www.facebook.com/art.of.love.festival.

 


The National Conference, with International Participation, “Theoretical Landmarks and Best Practice in Psychology – The 1st Edition” - the First Psychology Conference organized in Galați

Between April 7 and April 11 2021 will take place the national conference, with international participation, “Theoretical Landmarks and Best Practice in Psychology – TLBPP 2021”, organized by the Institute for Research in the Autism Spectrum Disorder and “Prosalvita”, program of prevention and psychological and social addiction assistance, in partnership with “Danubius” University of Galați.     

 

This is the first Psychology conference organized in Galați, an event projected both for the academic community and for practitioners, aimed at gathering together speakers who will approach underpinnings and foundations in the realm of psychology, as well as at accessing state of the art studies and new tendencies and insights in the field.      

The conference aims at reuniting specialists in the branches of psychology and psychotherapy, from our country and from abroad, to set the basis of a professional network to promote best practices and scientific rigor in an interdisciplinary manner in Psychology. 

 

One of the organizers of the event, Florian Miu, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communications and International Relations, Psychology branch, at “Danubius” University, said that “Us, as psychotherapists, need to create an identity and we want for this conference, currently at its first edition, to become a tradition. We invite as many people as possible, both students and psychologists, to benefit from what our peers will have to say”. Asked what TLBPP 2021 would bring as a novelty and why the organizers chose “Danubius” University as venue, Florian Miu said that the conference would offer new approaches facilitating awareness and congruency between psychologists: “We chose Danubius given the Psychology branch here from where future professionals depart”.   

 

The organizers of the conference also said that they are delighted with the academic support and involvement of “Danubius” University, “an important educational player, promoter of many projects with great social impact and community value intake. Danubius professionals’ openness, involvement and care for the growth of the local community impressed us”. 

 

For more details, please contact Mr. Florian Miu -0768336000 or Ms. Alina Galatanu – 0745523227.

 

Alina Petra Marinescu,

Editor MEDIA Department

Danubius University

 


DANUBIUS UNIVERSITY SELECTS AMERICAN SCHOLAR/ADMINISTRATOR TO BE THE NEXT RECTOR: WILLIAM B. HARVEY

The Board of Trustees of Danubius University is pleased to announce that the selection of William B. Harvey to serve as the next Rector has been approved by the Romanian Ministry of Education. An internationally recognized scholar and administrator, Harvey will assume leadership of the university as it emerges from the global pandemic to expand its connections to the international community through the quality, professionalism, and involvement of its students, faculty, alumni, and friends.

With the extensive background in the American academic and non-profit sectors that he brings to Danubius, and a broad range of experiences in those settings, Harvey plans to build on and extend the reputation that the institution has already developed as a modern, dynamic, and entrepreneurial European university that is perfectly adapted to contemporary society. His previous administrative positions include appointments as the Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Rosemont College; Vice President for Diversity and Equity at the University of Virginia (UVA); Deputy Chancellor and Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and Dean of the School of Education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T). He also served as Vice President and Director of the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity at the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington DC.

Immediately prior to coming to Danubius University, Harvey served as the Distinguished Scholar at the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity (AAAED) in Washington, DC. He is a highly accomplished researcher/administrator whose scholarly activities have been focused on the cultural and social factors that affect underserved populations, with particular emphasis on college and university settings. He has compiled an impressive list of publications which include books, book chapters, refereed journal articles, reports, commissioned papers, and professional and technical reviews, and at various times during his career, he held tenured full professor appointments at North Carolina State University as well as at UVA, UWM, and NCA&T. The breadth of his teaching background ranges from liberal arts colleges to research universities, and also includes experiences in Ghana and China.

A commendable record of public service includes having served as chair of the Education Advisory Committee for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as a Visiting Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, an American Council on Education Fellow, an Institute for Education Leadership Fellow, and a Summer Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.  In addition, Harvey is the founding chair of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) and a past member of the boards of the American Association for Blacks in Higher Education, the National Council for Research on Women, the Yale-Howard Center on Health Disparities, the Study of New Scholars project at Harvard University, the W.E.B. DuBois Scholars project at Princeton University, the Site Support for Schools project at Johns Hopkins University, and the Martin Luther King Living History and Public Policy Center.

Harvey received a bachelor’s degree in English from West Chester University, a master’s degree in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education and a doctoral degree in Anthropology of Education from Rutgers University.  He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Professor Steve O. Michael, PhD, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees Danubius University, congratulates Danubius University on the involvement of Professor William Harvey in the management of this higher education institution: “I have known Dr. Harvey for several decades and consider him one of the best researchers and managers in higher education in the United States. His experience in college administration is long and extensive, and his network in higher education, especially in the United States, is extensive. He is a man of great honor and integrity whose talents will undoubtedly be relevant to take Danubius University to its next level of excellence.”

The President of the “Danubius” University, Associate Professor Andy PUȘCĂ, PhD, has been prepared for many years for this unique change in the academic environment in Romania. The successful educational strategy will be stronger having in the managerial board such a personality recognized for the numerous results registered during his career in the United States of America. It is another stage whose effects will not be long in coming, not only on the internationalization of the “Danubius” University but also on the other pillars of this higher education institution: entrepreneurship, open and online.

The President of the “Danubius” University, Associate Professor Andy PUȘCĂ, PhD stated that “This change strengthens the Project “Danubius, our University!” Such a managerial reconfiguration was needed in order to adapt to the future of globalized higher education. The arrival of William in our team can only ensure the imprint of the expertise of the American model of higher education on higher education in Romania. Through this vote, the Danubius academic community hopes that the American academic experience will provide new models for our students, whom we consider the strength of our University, will energize the motivation of our University professor, whom I described, in my first mandate as Rector, as the heart of this higher education institution, and, why not, will emphasize the credibility of the university, through the quality of our graduates.

This Romanian-American partnership in the management of “Danubius” University foreshadows the consolidation of our University's capacity to develop new study programs dedicated to international students. Therefore, it is a historical stage of Romanian higher education, a partnership that has fulfilled the entrepreneurial vision of the "Danubius" University and which has a real potential to exceed any performance index in terms of education, research and innovation”.

 

Spokesperson - Danubius University,

Ana Alina IONESCU DUMITRACHE


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