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Awards and prizes

 

EPSA 2011

The Knowledge Based Economy Project has received a new certification of Good Practice at the 2011 „European Public Sector Awards” (EPSA) within the European Institution of Public Administration.

The Best Practice Certificate has been received upon three evaluation steps made by an experienced jury, comprising a shortlist of 58 nominees from a total of 274 projects from 33 participating countries. The Ministry of Communications and Information Society, through the Project Management Unit, competed  in the EPSA 2011 Awards at the „Smart Public Service in a Cold Economic Climate”category. This Best Practice distinction rewards and certify the outstanding results that KEP Project has had until now.

 

The COMPUTERWORLD Honors Program

The Project Management Unit, within the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, has been named a Laureate in the 2011 ComputerWorld Honors Program.

The „Knowledge based Economy Project” joins 254 others from 23 countries as Laureates in this year’s program, from more than 1000 applicants world wide.

The Awards Ceremony will be held in June, 20th 2011, in Washington D.C., USA.

 

National Agency of Public Servants

1st Prize at the National Competition of Best Practices in Public Administration, , for "Improving public services through quality management and organizational performance" category, organized by the National Agency of Public Servants in 2010.

Knowledge based Economy Project is considered to be an example of good practice in Romania's public administration due to its remarkable results, its proven efficiency and its disseminated practices.

 

THE HIGHEST HONOR IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Finalist, at the International Project Excellence Awards 2010, in "Project Excellence in Medium-Sized Projects" category, organized by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

The solid implementation and success of the IT&C Training Program in school and business and the eCommunity.ro Portal, both part of the KEP Project, have impressed the IPMA jury (Project Management International Association), who recommends them as one of the most important achievements in project management.

 

e-Inclusion 2008

Medal at the e-Inclusion Competitionorganized by the European Commission, at the section “Geographic Inclusion” section, Vienna, 2008. The Knowledge based Economy Project is considered an example of good practice for effective use of IT&C and digital technology to tackle social disadvantage and digital exclusion.

 

Romanian IT&C Awards 2006

Knowledge Based Economy was considered to be the "Project with the best informational content" at the Romanian IT&C Awards – Bucharest, 2006, for contributing to the extensive process of expanding access to information technologies and modern communications to rural communities.

Dacian Cioloş: “Farmers must choose what they grow according to market demands”

  • Theme: Business
  • 08.07.2011

    The European Agriculture Commissioner, Dacian Cioloş, stated that the new law projects regarding the EU’s agricultural and rural development policies for 2014-2020 will change the ways in which subsidies are offered – both in terms of payment methods and regarding the amount available.

    “We will propose simpler ways to support small farms, we will define more clearly the notions of agricultural worker» and «active agricultural worker, in order to avoid giving away funds to people who own lands but are not farmers nor do they work the land”, Dacian Cioloş says, explaining that „subsidies will no longer be linked to production”.

    The commissioner thinks it’s important for the subsidy not to be connected with the type of production, because farmers must choose what they grow according to the market, and not depending on how high subsidies are. “It’s not enough to stimulate, through subsidies, certain types of production, if they can’t fit on the market. So the farmer must choose accordingly. Subsidies will differ from one farm category to the other, probably from one region to the other, but not necessarily based on production”, Cioloş says, stating there will still be per capita subsidies in the animal husbandry sector.

  • Keywords: EUagricultural policysubsidiesfarmsfarmer