Follow HERE the intervention of Mr. Prof. Dan Mischianu, full member of AOSR – Medical Sciences Section, at Radio Romania Actualități
AOSR wishes Romania and all Romanians HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
On the occasion of the National Day, AOSR wishes Romania and all Romanians “Happy Birthday!”
The 1st of December is the culmination of a historical process, stretched over centuries, which had as its ideal the union of Romanian territories and Romanians in a single country, under the sign of values and identity aspirations.
1 December 1918, the date of the Great Union and the creation of Greater Romania, is the astral moment of history in which the national ideal of the Romanians was fulfilled through the common efforts of the forefathers, through the visionaryism of the elite, through the sacrifice and sacrifice of the martyrs of the nation.
The celebration of 1 December therefore has a complex meaning, being a framework of common joy, of honouring those who have achieved an ideal of ages, but also of reflecting on the great moral and historical responsibility we have for the present and the future, in the continuity of the work of our forefathers.
We all owe it to ourselves to join forces and creative energy, in a broad national synergy, to build European Romania, a modern, strong, dignified and respected country in Europe and in the world.
For AOSR, an emblematic institution of the Romanian academic movement, with a history of almost nine decades, education, science, research and knowledge are the main vectors of progress and evolution at all levels of Romanian society and of Romania.
AOSR believes that education, science and knowledge must be the active core and driving force of a Country Project whose fundamental and strategic objective is to develop Romania and Romanian civilization to the highest standards of today’s and tomorrow’s world. In this process, young people have a fundamental role because they are the future!
Thinking of the message of the national anthem, of the masterly example of our forefathers, with hopes for a future worthy of the achievements of the past, AOSR wishes Romania “Happy Birthday!” and great achievements!
Communication and Public Relations Office AOSR
May God rest in peace Prof.univ.dr. George Darie!
Members of the Academy of Romanian Scientists announce with deep regret the death of Prof. Univ. Dr. Darie George, corresponding member of our Academy.
He was a wonderful teacher, loved and cherished by his students, and a colleague and friend hard to match for his special way of defusing all the tough moments with his smile in the corner of his mouth. A leading energy scientist and an outstanding specialist in the field of thermal power plants, his death is a heavy loss for the academic community. An extremely loving and loved husband and father.
Director of the first Research Centre of the AOSR, which created the first premises for the establishment of the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research “Constantin Angelescu”, he made an important contribution to the development of research in our Academy.
We will keep his memory alive among our members.
Our sincere condolences to the bereaved family!
God rest his soul!
George DARIE
17 April 1961, Bucharest – 29 November 2023, Bucharest
Brief biographical notes
Graduated from the Faculty of Energetics, specializing in thermoelectric power plants, at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, in 1986. He obtained a PhD in engineering, specializing in thermoelectric power plants, at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1997.
Professional activity – operating engineer, September 1986 – September 1987, at the Isalnita Thermal Power Plant, engineer in the Thermomechanical Section at the Institute for Energy Studies and Design, September 1987 – January 1990. Since 1990, employee of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Department of Power Plants and Industrial Energy, Faculty of Energetics. Research engineer: January 1990-September 1990; assistant: September 1990-October 1995, supervisor: October 1995-March 1999; lecturer: March 1999-September 2004; professor: since October 2004. He was rector of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Research activity – participated in the elaboration of more than 20 R&D contracts in the following fields: – reduction of the environmental impact of the energy production sector – steam turbine installations and combined gas-steam cycles – modernization and rehabilitation of Romanian power plants using combined gas-steam cycles – use of electronic computers in the management of thermal power plants in order to increase their performance. He was Deputy Director of the National Research and Development Programme Environment, Energy, Resources – MENER, with administrative coordination tasks of the research activity within this programme. PHARE project TEMPUS PEC 3543-93 ‘ENVIROM’ Energy Efficiency and Environmental Protection, module leader, 1995-1998, PHARE project No.RO- 9504-01-02-L003 “Implementing Energy Saving Measures in Schools”. Expert, 1998-1999, PHARE project No.RO 9504/03-L001 “Audit and Training in Environmental Management in Thermal Power Plants”; expert, 1998-1999, PHARE project AC_JEP-13076/98 ‘EPURE’ Reseaux nationales pour Information continue Energie – Environment; participant, 1999-2001, LEONARDO da VINCI project No. RO/99/2/09142/PI/II.1.1.c/FPC – Development and Implementation of a System of Flexible Training Modules for Energy Auditors for Buildings, Based on Competency Analysis and Vocational Qualification Profiles; expert, 2000-2001, ERASMUS- SOCRATES Program; courses held at CNAM Paris in the field of rehabilitation of thermoelectric power plants, responsible partner Romania, 2003-2006, LEONARDO da VINCI project No.HU/04/B/F/PP-170031 “Financial Institutions Personnel Training in the Concepts of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies for the Evaluation of Relevant Projects – FIP-TREET”, responsible partner Romania, 2004-2006.
His publishing activity includes more than 120 papers published in specialized journals and in volumes of national and international scientific events. Scientific reviewer at Energetica magazine.
Member of professional associations: member of the Faculty Council of Energetics, member of the Senate of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists.
Launch of the book “Economy and Society in the Age of Digitalisation”
On December 11, 2023, at 12:00 noon, at the headquarters of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, the book
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
IN THE AGE OF DIGITALISATION, coordinators: Constantin Brătianu, Doina Banciu, Nicolae Dănilă.
Presented by Professor Emeritus Constantin Brătianu.
The work is published by the Academy of Romanian Scientists. More information
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This volume is a first attempt to integrate the academic efforts of the members of the Section of Economic, Legal and Sociological Sciences of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. Although research fields are strongly individualised by the tradition of the system of scientific disciplines, they converge when we consider the spectrum of economic and social life. This convergence is the working hypothesis of the present volume, which focuses on the phenomenon of digitisation, which is increasingly pervasive in all aspects of our daily lives. The exponential development of computer technologies and artificial intelligence applications is generating significant changes in all fields of activity, but especially in economics, law and sociology. Understanding the new tools and using them responsibly is becoming increasingly difficult unless serious efforts are made by government structures to find solutions to the challenges of these phenomena.
The phenomenon of digitisation and the digital transformation as a natural consequence of it are explained in several chapters, both from an economic and legal point of view. Digitisation requires new thinking in governance, management and legislation, which needs to be understood to avoid the pitfalls that any new phenomenon brings with it. This is why knowledge management plays an increasingly important role in the life of companies and administrative structures. The management of intangible resources is different from the management of tangible resources and it is therefore important to understand their complexity and how digitisation accelerates the dynamics of the shift from tangible to intangible, i.e. from linear to non-linear. A new challenge is also to reconsider the ways of securing intellectual property and to reduce trends of intellectual theft with multiple negative consequences.
A separate chapter addresses the challenge of digitising financial banking systems and central bank governance. Another chapter focuses on the digitisation of libraries and their transformation into lifelong learning systems. The global crisis of the covid has forced a shift to home working and online learning, with its associated difficulties, but also opening up new perspectives. Artificial intelligence is becoming a driving force with multiple applications and consequences that are still hard to predict. The fear generated by artificial intelligence applications is explained by the difficulty of understanding new opportunities, but also by the possibility of using them against the common good, amplifying thievery, plagiarism and anti-social behaviour.
From a legal perspective, contemporary challenges in public administration and administrative law are analysed. New thinking is needed to reconsider the role of administrative structures and their dialogue with citizens. Another challenge is the protection of personal data and the understanding of human rights in the new, more complex and more difficult to understand digital space. This includes the new legal requirements of home working and intellectual nomads. Digitisation creates new vulnerabilities in the system of delegation of tasks and responsibilities in both private companies and public administration structures.
National Conference Cantemir, Kantemiroglu, Kantemir: one prince and three cultures
– LIVE WEBINAR – 29 NOVEMBER, 10:00 –
GUESTS OF HONOUR:
Acad. Prof. Univ. Dr. hab. Andrei EȘANU – Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy
Prof. Univ. Dr. hab. Valentina EȘANU
Moderators:
Dr. Victor BÂRSAN, President of Horia Hulubei Foundation
Dr. Doru-Sabin DELION, Vice-President of the Academy of Romanian Scientists
Prof. dr. eng. Petru ANDEA, Scientific Secretary Academy of Romanian Scientists
Guests:
Prof. lon Solcanu – President of the Historical and Archaeological Sciences Section of A.O.S.R.
Prof. Univ. Dr. hab. Lilia Zabolotnaia – National Museum of History of Moldova
Prof. Univ. Dr. hab. Ambassador Victor Țvircun
Prof. Univ. Dr. hab. Victor Ghilas
Dr. Daniela Dumbravă – Institute of History of Religions
Ștefan Davidescu – President of the Foundation for Multidisciplinary Research
Dr.lng. Octaviana Marincaș -I.E.C.M.
Dr. Dipl. Marius Adrian Nicoară -I.E.C.M.
Researcher and Designer Day in Romania
“Romanian Researcher and Designer Day”, an event dedicated to the recognition of efforts and achievements in the field of scientific research, is celebrated nationwide. The remarkable inventiveness of Romanian researchers and designers, proven by the results obtained in numerous national and international competitions, and recognised by the prizes awarded, is proof of the potential of Romanian research.
The Academy of Romanian Scientists and the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitisation, together with the European Institute for Multidisciplinary Research and the Institute for Studies, Research, Development and Innovation of “Titu Maiorescu” University of Bucharest mark this day with a national conference dedicated to the progress of science, technique and technology.
Scientific session of young researchers in the AOSR-TEAMS 2022-2023/2023-2024 competition
Winners of the 2022-2023 research projects , competitively funded by the Academy of Romanian Scientists, which have a deadline for the fourth (final) stage in December 2023, are invited to participate in the Scientific Sessionto present the results of the research carried out in the winning projects.
The scientific session will take place on 27 November, starting at 9:00, at the headquarters of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, 3 Ilfov Street, sector 5, Bucharest, in Room Constantin Angelescu, 1st floor . Each project leader or a representative from the project team will present the results in Power Point, maximum 10 minutes.
VERY IMPORTANT
The reports for the fourth stage should be sent electronically in pdf format by 4 December 2023 to email: mariabotezatu2002@yahoo.com, for inclusion on the AOSR website.
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Winners of the 2023-2024 research projects , competitively funded by the Academy of Romanian Scientists, which have a deadline for the second phase in December 2023, are invited to participate in Scientific Sessionto present the results of the research carried out in the winning projects.
The scientific session will take place on 27 November, starting at 9:00, at the headquarters of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, 3 Ilfov Street, sector 5, Bucharest, in Council Chamber , ground floor . Each project leader or a representative from the project team will present the results in Power Point, maximum 10 minutes.
VERY IMPORTANT
Reports for the second phase should be submitted electronically in pdf format by 5 December 2023 for assessment by the Evaluation Committee and posted on the AOSR website, at email: mariabotezatu2002@yahoo.com
Attendance is mandatory!
“Applications of Chemistry in Nanosciences and Biomaterials Engineering” – NanoBioMat – Winter Edition 2023
The Academy of Romanian Scientists and University Politehnica of Bucharest are organizing the International Scientific Conference “Applications of Chemistry in Nanosciences and Biomaterials Engineering (NanoBioMat)” for young researchers on 22-24 November 2023.
The conference will be held online, on the Microsoft Teams platform.
The topics for the conference include:
– novel materials;
– surface chemistry;
– air and soil bioremediation;
– composite materials and biomaterials;
– applications of natural compounds and chemical products;
– nanomaterials and bionanomaterials for the controlled release of biologically active molecules;
– bio nano products for bone and tissue regeneration;
– advanced techniques for material processing.
Registration
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ROSSM 2023: Occupational Safety and Health / Safe and Healthy Work
In the series of events marking Days of the Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” of Iasi – 2023The Centre for Occupational Safety and Health of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of Iasi, together with the Faculty of Engineering of “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, under the aegis of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, Commission for Occupational Safety and Health, organizes the scientific event
ROSSM 2023 Workshop – Occupational Safety and Health / Safe and Healthy Work
The event is in line with the current concerns of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.
Through this scientific event we want to contribute to highlighting the impact area “Safe and Healthy Work” within the field of “Occupational Safety and Health”, by creating a framework for dialogue at national level between researchers from universities and national research and development institutes for possible future collaborations with projects at national and international level.
The event will take place online on 15.11.2023 from 17:00 via the Google Meet platform.
02-Agenda-Workshop_ROSSM_2023_231114_145417Human happiness
The modern world appears, in contrast, as a world that thrives on competition, but is increasingly plagued by social conflict and war.
In such a world, how does one question human happiness?
Alongside religion, philosophical schools of thought throughout the ages have striven to define what happiness is, and by implication the meaning and value of life. Extensive philosophical discourses sought the source of happiness: an object (money), a place (paradise), a moment (a bright tomorrow), a person (us, the others), etc.
Epicurus, whose caricatured doctrine bears his name, pointed to pleasure as the source of happiness.
The Stoics, opponents of Epicurus’ theory, pointed to morality and virtue as sources of happiness.
Seneca theorized that only happiness derived from good conduct lasts, while a happiness based on pleasures is not a life, but a kind of death, for the man who lives to fulfill his pleasures is like “a bottomless sack”.
Kant said that giving up happiness would be like giving up being human. Nietzsche wrote that there is a “personal necessity of misfortune” and that those who want to keep us from it do not necessarily bring us happiness.
In general, the great challenge of philosophy could be to convince us of the impossibility of happiness, thus recapturing the insight of Job, the great unhappy man of the Bible “When he hoped for happiness, misfortune arose. I was expecting light (…), the shadow has arrived” [Iov 30:26].
It is obvious that throughout history the question of happiness and its realisation has not been left to religion and philosophy alone.
People have always aspired to happiness, not only in heaven but also on earth. They wanted to find happiness in “Caesar’s kingdom”, not only in God’s kingdom.
That is why happiness has also become a political goal, a collective quest. The political organisation of happiness implies that it is not only a right, but even a duty. The modern age is an age of the need for happiness. More and more people believe that it is not enough to live. You have to live happily.
The Christian religion in general and the Orthodox religion in particular places human happiness at the centre of its concerns. Christianity has made happiness concrete in the form of a delightful Garden of Eden, a paradise lost but coveted by all who wait to contemplate God in a happy and loving intimacy. Happiness is the object of hope – the hope of living God’s life, of living from his love.
The idea of paradise as a place of happiness has been refined. Orthodox believers see Paradise less and less as a place and more and more as a state.
It is that state that Jesus describes in “Happiness”: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. […]. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:3-8).
The modern view of happiness, however, is no longer fully convergent with Orthodox values. In our consumer society, happiness usually lies in anything that can take us out of anonymity, out of the everyday, out of democratic equality. Celebrity becomes, in this case, the paradigm of happiness. The price of this “democratisation” of happiness is a growing aspiration towards singularity, towards the refusal of anonymity. Wealth, honours, the multiplication of pleasures become imperatives of happiness. This is where the modern perversion of the notion and essence of happiness begins. People are increasingly looking for the most violent pleasures (drunkenness, speed, sex). To escape from anonymity, we go from one night out to another, collect overtime, turn up the radio or TV. What we think of as happiness is most often means, activities, entertainment invented to spend our time in noise and anger.
The modern crisis of global values has made people, in their pursuit of happiness and fear of being deprived of pleasure, forget what is essential: themselves.
The old motto “carpe diem” (live in the moment) urges us today to make the most of each day, here and now, without any moral or religious prescription standing between us and our happiness.
But St Augustine teaches us that to expect happiness “from without”, from external things (professional success, social recognition, love) is to live in fear of seeing this happiness destroyed by “a thousand accidents”. All our pleasures – money, power, gambling and so on – are only meant to distract us from the idea that we may never be happy.
That’s why nowadays many people aspire to hopeless immediate happiness, which most often ends in disillusionment, discouragement and sentimental being on the road to unhappiness. This desire for hopeless happiness is a sign of the confusion in which contemporary society finds itself. It is obvious that similar to reason and the sleep of happiness breeds monsters. I would give as an example the abominable “emo” movement, which kills hope and cultivates the “joy of unhappiness”, driving many teenagers to suicide. This is how contemporary life offers us more and more forms of happiness for consumption, including unhappiness in the packaging of happiness.
Salvation is the Christian religion, which creates “inner” happiness that does not consist in possessions (success, money, beauty) but in dispositions: serenity, peace, harmony.
Prof.univ.dr.ing. Andea Petru
Scientific Secretary
of the Academy of Romanian Scientists