Romania drafts cybersecurity rules for PV, cogeneration up to 1 MW

Romania plans to amend its energy law to require the National Cybersecurity Directorate (DNSC) to define technical standards for PV and cogeneration systems up to 1 MW, aimed at preventing data breaches and safeguarding grid operations. October...

Three-Quarters of Romanians Believe Luck Plays Key Role in Life

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Romanians believe in luck or destiny to an overwhelming extent. 75.3% of Romanians believe that luck is important in life, and 41.6% say that they have had an incident in which a superstition came true, according to the...

Romanian Bogdan Putinică appointed to lead global agentic AI company Wonderful across 29 countries

Romanian technology executive Bogdan Putinică has been appointed Executive General Manager at Wonderful, a fast-growing global company specializing in agentic AI solutions for customer service. In his new role, he will oversee operations across 29...

Romania’s coal town Turceni starts EUR 380 million green energy transformation

The coal plant in Turceni used to be one of the biggest in Europe, at 2.3 GW. Located next to the eponymous town in Romania’s Gorj coal region, only two units of 660 MW in total are still operational. At the same time, dozens of such facilities...

Turkish medical group Medicana enters Romanian market, appoints head country office

Medicana, one of Turkey’s most prominent health groups, announced its entry in the Romanian market, along with the appointment of Ana Herkmen as head of the country office. The group operates 19 hospitals across Turkey and Europe, and treats more...

EVA Bucharest: The Virtual Reality arenas that can build real connections between colleagues

In a world where remote, hybrid, or flexible work has become the norm, connections between colleagues outside the office are more important than ever. Recent studies show that these bonds boost performance, engagement, and employee loyalty, and...

Soft2Bet launches TopBet.ro sportsbook in Romania with a motorsport-inspired identity

Soft2Bet has launched TopBet.ro, a Romanian sportsbook with football and motorsport at the forefront, boasting competitive odds, fast mobile navigation, and an auto-themed identity. TopBet.ro is designed around how Romanians follow sport, offering...

Romanian startup .lumen gets EUR 11 million grant to develop autonomous delivery robots together with partners

Cluj-Napoca-based deep-tech startup .lumen, best known for its AI-powered glasses for the visually impaired, has secured a EUR 11 million grant to develop a new generation of humanoid and quadruped robots for urban delivery. The project, called...

Bucharest Exchange-listed group Simtel opens subsidiary in Sweden

Simtel (BVB: SMTL), an engineering and technology group listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and a leading player in the renewable energy sector in Romania, announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Stockholm, Sweden. The...

Research work by Bulgarian scholar traces new directions in ethnology

2 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Natalia Rashkova Photo: Desislava Shapkarova When a contribution in the sphere of science is transformed into the basis for subsequent in-depth research the boundaries between countries and continents seem to melt away –...

AI innovation drops under EU data regulations, researcher says

“There are trade-offs to having stringent data protection policies,” says Luis Alfonso Dau, Robert & Denise DiCenso faculty fellow and associate professor of international business and strategy at Northeastern. The European Union’s data privacy...

Sales engagement platform lemlist acquires fellow French AI platform Claap to transform sales with AI technology

lemlist, a leading sales engagement platform, has acquired fellow-Parisian AI platform Claap, aimed at transforming sales with AI technology – Claaps’s investors, Headline and LocalGlobe, are exiting through the acquisition after funding and...

R.Power launches divestment process for a ready-to-build BESS in Romania

R.Power has launched the divestment process of one of its Romanian ready-to-build battery energy storage system (BESS) projects – a 200 MW/400 MWh facility. The sale is part of R.Power’s strategy of asset rotation and portfolio diversification...

From guiding the blind to delivering goods: Romania’s .lumen expands into urban robotics with €11 million grant

Cluj-Napoca-based DeepTech startup .lumen, known for its AI-powered glasses for the blind, has secured an €11 million grant for the project “PABLO – Autonomous Robots for Urban Delivery”, funded under the Intelligent Growth, Digitalization, and...

Ukraine has resumed the transfer of grain cargo through railway border crossings with Romania

Ukraine has resumed the transfer of grain cargo through railway border crossings with Romania, although the volumes remain low for now. This was stated by Valerii Tkachev, Deputy Director of the Department of Transportation Technology and...

When does happiness start positively impacting your health?

From: Frontiers This is how happy we need to be to have lower chronic disease mortality risk Researchers used data from 123 countries to identify a ‘happiness threshold’ beyond which nations’ non-communicable disease mortality rate decreases,...

Review: Madeline Potter’s ‘The Roma’ blends memoir and research to look at a marginalized group

THE ROMA: A Travelling History. By Madeline Potter. The Bodley Head. 272 pages. $31.50. “The Roma: A Travelling History” is a fascinating look at a marginalized and misunderstood group of people who have encountered hostility for centuries....

You only need to work out twice a week, according to new research. Here's how to maximize those two sessions

With the pressures of social media, it's easy to feel like you need to be exercising at least four or five times a week to get fit. But the reality is, any amount of exercise, no matter how small or infrequent, is good for you. And setting...

It’s not easy being green: Breaking Europe’s climate spending deadlock

Summary European industry needs to decarbonise, or it risks falling behind in green technology while countries like China race ahead. The EU has invested in clean technology and decarbonising heavy industry, but current spending is insufficient...

Romania's industrial and logistics stock nears 8 mln sqm in H1

Thursday, October 2, 2025 Romania's stock of industrial and logistics space reached nearly 8 million square meters in the first half of this year, with more than 60% located in projects within an hour's drive of Bucharest, while Moldavia and...