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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.

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PAPI Recaş to aid refugee groups coming to Romania

28.01.2011

Once Romania becomes part of the Schengen area, it will also become the Eastern border of the European Union, which means the country will expect a larger influx of foreign migration. Romania is to become the first barrier in their path to Europe. PAPI Recaş already has expertise in dealing with migrants and will organise a campaign for refugees at the start of this year, in order to facilitate communications with their home country, help them find jobs or get legal residence in Romania – or to go back to their native land.

Once Romania will join the Schengen area, the number of legal and illegal migrants entering the country is expected to rise, taking into account the international patterns and model of migration fluxes – from East to West and from South to North. “There will be more novelty elements. One of them is the way the Romanian authorities will approach the situation and the responsibilities they will assume. This time, Romania will no longer be just a transit country or an accidental destination for people who actually want to reach further West; more and more, it will be a destination itself”, Ciprian Niţă, president of the International Organisation for Migration Romania says.

The first experience: a group in Honduras

Things have already started changing. Lately, more and more Romanians have looked for jobs abroad, in the hope of better living conditions, while Romania has become a target for youth from other countries, attracted by Europe and the hope of decent salaries.

Manuel Guillermo Luben Lozano is 26 and came from Honduras, in Central America. He dreamt of a better life and “escaped” to Europe. “I arrived on September 10th 2008, in Bucharest. I had no visa so there was some trouble with the police. I got to Recaş on November 1st. Two weeks after me and my friends reached Recaş we couldn’t speak to our families. With no money, we could not call home; our parents knew nothing about us. Then I decided to search for a place from where I could communicate with my family. I asked about Internet connection and learned about PAPI. I met Daniel (Daniel Todor, IT administrator- Ed.) and Silvia (Silvia Harhătă, RECL manager – Ed.) and they taught us Romanian, which is a very difficult language, although it’s similar to Spanish. It doesn’t matter where in the world we are, but it’s very important to have a way of communicating to families. If PAPI didn’t exist, we could not have contacted our relatives”, he recounts.

Proposed activities

PAPI Recaş plans to organise an awareness campaign for refugees. Manager Silvia Harhata says the objectives include facilitating communications with their home country, PAPI film evening, support in finding jobs, support in their efforts of legally residing in Romania or to leave back to their native country. “We can even teach them the basics of Romanian. PAPI will keep in touch with a refugee NGO that has a branch in Recaş, to find out when these people come here. Once established the relantionship, we can organise activities at PAPI, like we did for the Honduras group”, Harhătă explains.

More than 18.500 foreigners requested asylum in Romania

Since 1991, more than 18,500 foreigners applied for refugee status in Romania due to violence in their home countries through acts of terrorism and other forms of armed conflict. The number of asylum requests grew sensibly from year to year, most request coming from people of Middle Eastern origin, like those from Irak, or from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to the official data of the Romanian Migration Office, some 45% of refugees and asylum applicants leave our country in less than 5 years. Some choose to go back home, others go west, thus turning Romania into a transit state.

According to a UNHCR report called “Trends of asylum requests in Central Europe” (2006-2008), the number of registered requests rose from 460 to 1,000 in only two years. In 2009, some 995 foreigners requested asylum in Romania, while in the first six months of 2010 the number was already up to 585.

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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.

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