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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: Bănia

Bănia, the locality with the highest reputation among the Romanian Almaj villages, is located in the southern part of Almaj depression. Bănia commune includes Bănia and Gîrbovat villages, toting up a surface of 134.416 ha,  and thus taking over first place among the Almaj villages, having a territory wholly included between two rivers: Nera in the north-west and Valea Mare (Berzasca) in the south-east.

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The Bănia commune landscape has undergone numerous changes in the course of time, the morphological and morphostructural shapes that exist nowadays bearing the result of a long-term activity of endogenous and exogenous factors.

History

The first school in Bănia is attested in the year 1783; in that year, Iancu Mihailovici was teacher, and shortly after, in 1789, Ion Dimitrievici.

Until after 1918 the school worked with a single classroom. The villagers wanted a better school for their children, and so, in 1926 a new school started to be built only through the effort o

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Local resources

The main local resources of the community are represented by: Forest exploitation; here, the Romanian state started the forest exploitation little time before World War II when on Bănia territory the first private Forest Circuit in the country existed, having a surface of 8,500ha forest land and 3,200 ha of pastures. Agriculture; Animal breedin

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Traditions

The archaeological evidence show that on Bănia village territory activity has existed since ancient times. The holey Neolitic axe, the ceramics fragments discovered prove the existence of a prehistoric population in this area.

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