The budget for 2024 is dedicated to modernization of major public services, Finance minister Marcel Bolos said at the the hearings of the joint Budget - Finance Committees of the Parliament.According to the minister, education and health sectors are, by far, targeted by this modernization, reminding that both Education and Health benefited, this year, from 100.7 billion RON, so that, next year, the two large public services will have a budget worth 137.4 billion RON."Among the important objectives for the large public services, we mention, in addition to the increase in teachers' salaries by 20%, the provision of hot meals for more than 1,000 educational units, with a budget of 1.1 billion RON, and the settlement part of school scholarships, 560 million RON per month, the social school scholarship, from 250 to 300 RON per month, or the merit scholarship in pre-university education, from 300 to 450 RON per month, or in university education, the social scholarship for students 900 RON per month or doctoral scholarship 3,200 RON per month," Marcel Bolos stressed.Moreover, said the minister, over 10,000 laboratories will be equipped with specific necessary equipment or over 75,000 classrooms equipped with furniture, the budget from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan being over one billion euros."On the Health component, in addition to the budget we have for the House of Health, of 62.2 billion RON, and for the Ministry of Health, 17.8 billion RON, we are pursuing the implementation of the investment objectives that are funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, from individual medical practices to modernized hospital units or over 760 million euros in preventive medical services provided by European funds, through the Operational Health Program. So, the first feature for the year 2024 is the orientation towards modernization and the improvement of quality standards, both for Education and Health," Marcel Bolos said.
The demand for logistics and industrial spaces reached 575,000 sqm during the first 9 months of this year, a decrease of 20% compared with the same period of 2023, according to a report by real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. The figures for Q3 2024 reveal that 164,000 square meters were contracted, a […]
Dutch classical music star André Rieu will return to Romania for two concerts at BTarena in Cluj-Napoca on November 13 and 14, 2025. Rieu’s concerts in Romania, where he enjoys a high degree of popularity, have set multiple attendance records. In 2015 and 2016, he performed nine sold-out shows in Bucharest’s Constitution Square for over […]
Till Lindemann, the frontman of famous German rock band Rammstein, will embark on his "Meine Welt" tour across European arenas in the fall of 2025. Among his stops he is scheduled to perform in Romania on December 4, 2025, at Romexpo in Bucharest, as announced on his official website. The "Meine Welt" tour will take […]
HR Summit, one of the most important events dedicated to the human resources industry in Transylvania, will take place under the theme Shifting Priorities: Talent, Technology, and Trust, on Friday, November 22, at Radisson Blu Hotel in Cluj-Napoca. This year's edition of HR Summit focuses on leadership, employee well-being, the introduction of innovative...
Fourteen Central and Eastern European startups (CEE) have been selected for the first edition of the Impact Creators accelerator, Impact Hub Bucharest and PurposeTech announced. The application period attracted 133 proposals from 18 countries. The startups will participate in an intensive program to accelerate their businesses, which will end with a Pitch Day. The most […]
The immersive art museum MINA Cluj will host a special event featuring Dumitru Prunariu, the only Romanian who flew in space. Scheduled for November 24, the event will give the public the opportunity to hear the stories directly from the one who represented Romania in the Soyuz 40 mission in 1981, carried out as part […]
