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Between 22 and 24 October, our University organized Days of Clusters 2015 at the Research‐Development Institute (ICDT), in partnership with Cluster House, the Cluster for Innovation and Technology of Braşov, ClusteRO and UEFISCDI. The event was attended by almost 250 researchers, representing the private environment and public institutions from 18 European countries.

The main aim of this event was to increase the competencies and the technological level in the Information and Communication Technology sector, by consolidating and promoting the partnership in the field of research, development and innovation, both at national and international level, by disseminating the research results, by training sessions and transfer of know‐how. The stronger Romanian participation in European Union funding programmes, such as Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and Creative Europe, was the topic of extensive presentations in a session dedicated to the challenges of

cluster management.Other important presentation topics were related to developing clusters to incorporate innovation and technology as

platforms for regional creative industries, and to integrating the Romanian research community in the activities of the international one in the field of innovative clusters.

The conference was also the occasion to launch Design Driven Romania, a debate platform which promotes the development of design policies and of the concept of design thinking in the business models of SME. The presentations and workshops gathered among others guests from Birmingham City University and the Danish Design Centre.

The organization of the fifth edition of the Days of Clusters conference in Brasov represented an opportunity to introduce our town as a pole of research and creative industry at national and international level. At the end of the conference, the participants expressed their commitment to implementing Smart Cluster Policies in order to maximize the exploitation of the concept of cluster in the countries targeted by the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.

Dr Florin Nechita

DAYS OF CLUSTERS 2015

LAUNCH OF THE DEBATE PLATFORM DESIGN DRIVEN ROMANIA

Instrumente Structurale 2007-2013GUVERNUL ROMÂNIEI

Sectoral Operational Programme “INCREASE OF ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS”Co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund

„Investments for your future”Priority Axis 2: Research, Technological Development and Innovation for Competitiveness

Operation 2.2.1 Development of the existing R&D infrastructure and of new infrastructure (laboratories, centres of excellence)

Research, Development and Innovation Institute: High-Tech Products for Sustainable Development - PRO-DDContract no. 11 / 01.03.2009, ID 123, SMIS 2637

On the 16 October the department D05A within the Research and Development Institute of Transilvania University hosted the inauguration of the Laboratory of dimensional metrology, as a result of the partnership between Mitutoyo Romania and Transilvania University.

Following the visit, in March this year, of Harumi Aoki, CEO of Mitutoyo Europe, Mitutoyo Romania donated to our University a contact 3D coordinate‐measurement machine, with modular fixture equipment, 2D optical measurement equipment, a roughness measurement machine, a vertical measurement column (Z‐axis column), a grade 1 gauge block set, together with other “small‐equipment” accessories, and the possibility of remote transmission of the in situ measurements. Any measurement complies with the international traceability standards. For teaching purposes programming of the Mitutoyo coordinate measurement machines will be provided by 20 MCosmos educational licences, whereas the integrated management of the measurements will be supported by Measurelink software.

On behalf of Mitutoyo, the event was attended by Henk Slotboom, General Manager Mitutoyo Europe, Jakub Ruszkowski, Manager Mitutoyo Poland, and Florin Călin, Manager Mitutoyo Romania. The invitees applauded Mitutoyo's policy focused on staying

in close contact with technical academic institutions in countries where the organisation has technical and commercial representation, and at the same time expressed their joy at being welcomed at Transilvania University.

Our University stated the importance of collaboration with the industries and expressed its gratitude for having been selected as partner. The donation was acknowledged by Dr Daniel Munteanu, Vice‐Rector, Dr Ion Vișa, Director of the ICDT and Dr Gheorghe Oancea, Director of the IF Department.

Dr Laurențiu‐Aurel Mihail

INAUGURATING THE MITUTOYO METROLOGY LAB WITHIN THE ICDT – L3 D05AMITUTOYO DONATES HI‐TECH EQUIPMENT

“SIITME – IEEE 21 International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging” was a high‐scale event organized, between 22 and 25 September, by the Politehnica University of Bucharest, in partnership with Transilvania University and Miele Tehnica Brașov Company.

On behalf of our University, the organizers were faculty staff from the Department of Electronics and Computers. Acting as co‐organizer first in 2008, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science had the privilege to co‐organize this event for the second time in 2015.

Besides its high‐profile academic status, SIITME has gradually managed to throw a bridge between our University and the electronic industry. The symposium format allows for face‐to‐face interactions between academics, researchers, doctoral students and representatives of the industries.

The industry contributed with demo stands, oral presentations and discussions on subjects of mutual interest: student training and collaboration in research projects. Particularly noteworthy is the workshop “Strategic Partnership between the University and the Electronic Industry” organized and hosted by Miele Tehnica Company. Present at the workshop were prominent representatives from universities around the country, electronic companies, and the political milieu. On this occasion, the discussions were aimed at laying the foundations of a strategic partnership for education.

The success of SIITME 2015 is shown not only by the large numbers of participants, but, more importantly, by the important steps taken towards bringing the University and the industry closer together.

Dr Carmen Gerigan

stIEEE 21 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN ELECTRONIC PACKAGING

SIITME ‐ IEEE

The “International Conference CIBv 2015 – Civil Engineering and Building Services” took place on 30 and 31 October. The

organizers of the event were the Faculty of Civil Engineering and the local branch of the Romanian Installation Engineer Association

(AIIR), a Technical Academy affiliate.

The event featured over 150 participants from faculties of civil engineering at Brașov, București, Iași, Cluj‐Napoca, Timișoara, as

well as representatives of public institutions, professional associations, technical publishing houses, domestic and international

industries and prominent specialists in the field. Among them representatives of our university management and colleagues from the

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering Subotica – University of Novi Sad, Institute of

Structural Mechanics and Design, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Technical

University of Darmstadt.

The large number of Romanian and foreign academics, of doctoral and undergraduate students,

and of practitioners in the field contributed to creating an auspicious environment for the exchange

of ideas. A highlight of the conference was the award of the Honorary Diploma to Professor

Aleksandar Sedmak from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Belgrade

(Serbia).

The assortment of topics and manners of approach, the quality of the debates and of the

research outcomes warrant the high academic status of CIBv 2015, which fully reached

its goals.

Dr Ioan Tuns

THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORK UNDER DEBATECIBv 2015

Between 19 and 21 November our University hosted a convention consisting of two events: the eighth edition of the International Social Science and Communication Colloquium and the sixth edition of National Conference of the Romanian Sociology Society. This event was organised by the Faculty of Sociology and Communication in partnership with the Romanian Sociology Society. The opening address was delivered by the Rector of Transilvania University of Brașov, Dr Ioan Vasile Abrudan, followed by Dr Horațiu Rusu, president of RSS, and Dr Carmen Buzea, Vice‐Rector of Research and IT. The plenary session consisted of presentations given by Dr Hiromasa Tanaka from Meisei University (Japan) and Dr Silviu Coposescu from Transilvania University of Brașov. The event brought together 130 participants, teaching staff, doctoral students and researchers from Romania and abroad who debated recent research results. In the twelve panels of the conference the presentations focused on studies and research projects in the fields of sociology, anthropology, social services and communication and the participants shared ideas and initiated research networks for future research projects. An important moment of the event was the book launch which included the presentation of nine books published this year. Among the participants were also Sociology and Communication students who, as in the previous years, gave presentations and helped organize the event.

Dr Luiza Meseșan SchmitzDr Marinela Șimon

SOCIOLOGISTS' CONFERENCE IN BRASOV

NOW 2015 SOCIAL SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM AND NATIONAL CONFERENCEOF THE ROMANIAN SOCIOLOGY SOCIETY

A tradition at the Faculty of Wood Engineering, the international conference ICWSE (International Conference of Wood Science and Engineering) has reached its twentieth edition, a standing proof of ten years of research and collaboration with our international partners.

The conference took place under the aegis of several high profile organizations: the Forest Products Society (FPS), the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) and the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, as well as of the Faculty of Applied Sciences from Salzburg.

This year's conference welcomed 130 participants from all over the world ‐ South Africa, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Korea, Croatia, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Great Britain, Nigeria, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the USA, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary and Romania – who, on 5 and 6 November gave 104 presentations and presented nine posters.

The keynote presentations proved genuine knowledge journeys guided by leading researchers ‐ Dr Klaus Richter, Technical University München, member of the International Academy of Wood Science and chief editor of the “European Journal of Wood and Wood Products” and “Wood Science and Technology”, Dr Gervais Sawyer (Great Britain), editor of the scientific journal “International

Wood Products Journal” and member of the International Research Group on Wood Protection, Dr Timothy Young, University of Tennessee (SUA), co‐founder of the Forest Products Society – the European division, and Dr Marius Cătălin Barbu, Transilvania University, coordinator of IUFRO Division 5 and Forest Products Society – the European division.

The conference proceedings, selected by 47 reviewers, are disseminated in the international journal ProLigno (Transilvania University Publishing House) indexed CABI, DOAJ, DRJI and EBSCO Publishing.

Dr Lidia GurăuCoordinator ICWSE 2015

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOOD SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ICWSE WELCOMES PARTICIPANTS FROM 24 COUNTRIES

On 6 and 7 November, the Faculty of Medicine organized the National Conference of Psychosomatic Medicine (with dr. Laurenţiu Nedelcu acting as Chairman), in collaboration with Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj‐Napoca (through Professor D.L. Dumitraşcu, President of the Society of Psychosomatic Medicine) and under the auspices of the Academy of Medical Sciences. The participants were teachers, doctors and psychologists from Bucharest, Cluj‐Napoca, Craiova, Sibiu, Oradea, Constanţa, as well as Professor Aurel Popa‐Wagner from Rostock University Medical School, Germany, and Professor Margarita Beresnevaite from the Faculty of Medicine of Kaunas, Lithuania. The conference also included round tables on a number of interesting topics: Psychosomatic disorders in the medical practice, Digestive psychosomatics, Psychocardiology, Therapeutic valences of music, etc., as well as presentations much appreciated by the audience such as “The Symbolism of the Relationship Soul‐Body in the Divine Comedy” or “Ludwig van Beethoven, genius and disease”. The conference stood out as an academic event through the academic level of presentations and discussions, the multidisciplinary approach, participants from different medical specialties, the presence of a high number of medical interns and students, as well as the coverage it received in the central and local press.

Dr Laurenţiu Nedelcu

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PSYCHOSMATIC MEDICINEFROM DIGESTIVE PSYCHOSOMATICS TO PSYCHOCARDIOLOGY

AND THE THERAPEUTICAL VALENCES OF MUSIC

Between 27‐29 October, in Craiova, the Oltenia Museum of Craiova, ICOM Romania and the National Network of the Romanian Museums organized the event “Restoration of the National Heritage – Cultural Identity 1975‐2015” celebrating the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Regional Laboratories for the Romanian Restoration and Preservation. The event featured a session of posters, the round table “International projects of restoration and preservation”, as well as the exhibitions ”Tenderness of Porcelain” and the 12th edition of ”The National Restoration Workshop”.

The event brought together more than 100 national and international specialists, and the exhibitions showcased over 200 heritage artefacts from 20 Romanian museums. At the ”National Restoration Workshop”, a renowned forum of professional conservatorrestorers, our Faculty of Wood Engineering displayed national heritage artefacts restored by our students: Laviță pictată (Painted Bench) (collection CNM ASTRA Sibiu – restorer Andreea Cojocaru, MA thesis), Ploști tradiționale pictate (Traditionally painted hip flasks) (collection Stroești‐Argeș Museum, restorer Vlad Ruginosu, BA project) and Ladă dulgherească (A carpenter's chest) (collection RECOMESPAR – restorer Raisa Teciu, BA project). The complexity and quality of the preservationrestoration intervention, the passion and effort of the young restorers, as well as the beauty and the historical value of the displayed artefacts, made us proud of the restoration school in Brașov which, in 2015, celebrates 20 years of activity and 10 years of ongoing exhibition activity.

Dr Maria Cristina Timar,

Dr Anca Maria Varodi

THE FACULTY OF WOOD ENGINEERING AT THE NATIONAL RESTORATION WORKSHOP

RESTORATION OF THE NATIONAL HERITAGE – CULTURAL IDENTITY 1975‐2015

On the 13 and 14 November, Music as Therapy International (UK) celebrated its twentieth anniversary together with our Faculty of Music within the framework of the International Conference “Music Therapy in Romania: Theory and Practice. Present and Future”. For two days music was the main topic of debate in an attempt to highlight its place among other alternative therapy methods.

There was a consensus among the participants that the benefits of melotheraphy were proved by the practices of melotherapists and music therapists, by the research attesting to the positive effects of music on the human body with the help of instruments measuring the homeostasis, the physiological and physiopathological mechanisms, and by means of validated psychological tests, which can measure the improvement of the altered psychic process.

The conference presentations approached an interesting array of topics with immediate applicability in practice, leading to increased creativity and efficiency of adults and children in their everyday life, as well as to diminished stress levels, but also in theory as an adjuvant in various forms of psychotherapy and psychiatric pathology.

To increase the benefits of music and its power to prevent disease and maintain the health of body and soul, the involvement of more domain specialists is essential. The joint forces and competencies of music therapists and expert musicologists, doctors and

educators will promote the development, research and implementation of melotheraphy as an alternative therapy method.

Dr Cristina Sava

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “MUSIC THERAPY IN ROMANIA”

MELOTHERAPY IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE FROM BRAŞOV

Between 28 and 30 December our University received the visit of a Japanese research team made up of Dr Shinichi Tokuno, Dr

Shunji Mitsuyoshi, and Dr Ung‐il Chung from the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo. The purpose of the visit, the third of

the sort, was to set the stage for further scientific collaboration.

The meeting was an opportunity to agree upon the structure of the Romanian team, led by Dr Gavril Budău and Dr Silviu Gabriel

Barbu. The multidisciplinary team includes academics from various domains: engineering, medicine, sociology and communication,

law, psychology and educational sciences, letters. The objective is to test locally, and then implement in several cultural backgrounds a

verbal analysis software able to identify

mental and emotional states. This application

is meant to reduce the stress level in speakers,

in real time, and, in the long run, to improve

life quality.

Dr Daniela Popa

JAPANESE RESEARCH TEAM VISITS TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITYIMPLEMENTING A NEW VERBAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

Sectoral Operational Programme “INCREASE OF ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS”, Priority Axis 2 RDI, NATIONAL PROGRAMME CAPACITIES, MODULE 1: LARGE INVESTMENTS PROJECTS

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