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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: Gârda de Sus

Gârda de Sus commune is located upper Arieşului Mare, in the heart of the Apuseni Mountains on the foot of Biharia, the highest and most massive top from the Western, dominated by Curcubăta Mare top (1849 m). The villages from Gârda de Sus placement fits the characteristic area of Apuseni Mountains being separated in groups of three to ten houses that form a hamlet or in groups of ten to eleven houses to which the hamlets are added forming a village. To this date, the commune has 17 villages in its administrative component and a surface of 8.211 hectares. Gârda de Sus teritorry, a tourist place of local interest and part of the Natural Park Apuseni, represents am important area with karstique mountaineous landscape, with a well preserved bio-diversity, with a specific tourism and of high quality, with a means of durable usage of the resources and an infrastructure that supports durable development.

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Gârda de Sus commune, being located in the heart of Apuseni Mountains, has many tourist and cultural objectives, on the commune's territory being 10 landscapes that were declared natural reserves as well as many karstique formations (caves, quay). In Gârda de Sus ca be found Gheţarul/Glacier Scărişoara Cave, a cave that shelters the greatest ice fosile deposit in the country (75.000 mc). It is a glacier of the static type, located at the bottom of an aven, representing the first cave ever to be declared in Romania a natural monument. From the commune'e centre stast most of the tourist area routes, so it could be said that Gârda de Sus is Apuseni Mountains "tourist centre".

History

Gârda de Sus commune appeared in 1923, as a consequence of spliting the actual communal territory from the one of Scărişoara's commune, due to some separation tendencies manifested by the village's Gârda de Sus rulers, village that used to belong to Scărişoara commune.

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Local resources

The main resource of our commune is the surrounding environment, which has many landscapes and tourist attractions that make one not leave the area.

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Traditions

Traditions commonly found in Gârda de Sus are carols and going with "The Star".

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