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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.

Community: Arsura

Arsura commune, situated in the North-Eastern part of Vaslui county, is a 3rd degree rural territorial-administrative unit (less than 3000 inhabitants).
Arsura commune comprises the villages: Arsura, Pâhneşti, Fundătura and Mihail Kogălniceanu. The total surface of the commune is 4,063 Ha from which: inhabited surface - 349 Ha and outer-inhabited surface – 3714 Ha. Also, Arsura  is situated 80 km away from Vaslui, 27 km away from Huşi and 7 km away from Albiţa. The climate is temperate-continental with Eastern influences, being characterised by big thermo-amplitudes and by uneven precipitations, the annual medium temperature being somewhere around 9 degrees Celsius and the dominant direction of the wind is from the North and South.

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Vaslui county has a very old tradition in vine growing. In Arsura commune there are famous vineyards for the wine quantity, and especially for the wine quality.

History

At the beginning of the 19th century, on the spot where the precincts of the village are otday, there was a forest. A goup of people with the wish to set up a village, burnt it, building their households after that, giving the new settlement the name ARSURA (the BURN).
The villagers  decide to build a school, no matter how small.

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Local resources

The commune has qualified work force in the following domains: manufacturers, welders, mechanics, house painters, carpenters. The professions specifit to our commune are manual weaving, fibre spinning, crocheting, joinery, smith's work.

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Traditions

Traditional holidays in the commune are: the Village Holiday and Saint Nicholas Dedication Day.

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