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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: Şopotu Nou

Şopotu-Nou commune, situated in the South-Western part of the Caraş-Severin county has a surface of 84 squared km, including 10 villages from which 3 of them have a centre made from a compact precinct, the others being spread in the territory on different areals - valleys or peaks. The 10 villages are : Şopotu-Nou, Poienile Boinei, Drişte, Urcu, Valea Roşie, Cârşia Roşie, Valea Răchitei, Răchita, Ravensca and Stancilova.
. It is a hilly area, with eroded peaks, dug by deep valleys. The highest peaks are in the South, in the South-East of the commune being the Vacaretu Peak 653 m altitude, Frasinului Peak 670 m, Ravensca Peak 726, Steneac Hill 732 m. The highest central peak is Urzicari Peak 707 m. The commune's Western part is placed on the West-East axe which includes the hill-peaks such as Stancilova 613 m, Cununa Chei Hill, Ciucar Hill. The peaks are separated by water courses with deep valleys that flow into Nera River.
Şopotu-Nou commune's territory is bordered in the North

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The natural environment of the entire commune has an uncommon picturesque view, the relief is hilly, which leads to the existence of many tourist attractions: passes, caves, karstic lakes, waterfalls.

History

Şopotu-Nou settlement was founded in the year 1828, when 56 families from Şopotu-Vechi, moved here with the approval of the War Council of Imperial Austria from Vienna.
In the 1910 a great flood took place, destroying almost the entire Şopotu-Nou village; only the church and a few houses remained untouched. Because of this, the inhabitants

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Local resources

The main activity of the inhabitants is agriculture and animal breeding. The main local resource is represented by the calcite stone which can be found in large quantities on the commune's territory.

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Traditions

In Şopotu-Nou commune the inhabitants preserve some traditions passed through generations: one of the traditional customs is the dirge when someone dies and in the funeral day, before the religious ritual, the dead one is seen by 4 or 5 women. In some of the villages that are part of Şopotu-Nou commune, the inhabitants also preserve the tradition

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Pastraveni0

Pastraveni, rural settlement of the rank of Joint, is located in the north-eastern territory of Neamţ county, 45 km NE of city Piatra Neamt, 46 km NW of the Roman city and 18 km SE of town Tirgu Neamt is bounded by the following neighborhood: the North - Urecheni village, in the South - Ţibucani common to East - Mirosloveşi commune, Iasi County and the West - Petricani common as stretching from north to south and measures 4 km from east to west 11 km. Position mathematics is given by the intersection of parallel 47'7''north latitude with meridian 26'35''east longitude.read entire text

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