Who wants to cycle with us on June 1st? This year, Rompro brings Bikeathon to the Netherlands! We need your help, the Romanian community in the Netherlands, to make this event possible. What is Bikeathon in the Netherlands? Bikeathon is an initiative supported by ROMPRO and the Țara Fgărașului Community Foundation, aimed at bringing together the Romanian community...
"I came here because I want to tell girls who are going through this that they can take a stand. I was a victim of domestic violence for 20 years. I thought I was enduring it all for my child, when it was precisely for him that I should have gotten out of the toxic relationship. I'm past 60 and I'm at peace with...
1. First, tell us a little about yourself. Who is Simona Florina Popa? I was born in 1980 in a small town in Muntenia, my second child. My name should have been Florentina, but when filling in the certificate, the clerk didn't have enough room and so Florina remained. At 11 months old, the story goes, we travelled by train for more than...
On Saturday, 23 March 2024, we had a special event: the meeting with Jan Willem Bos, author and translator and one of the most important promoters of Romanian literature and culture in the Netherlands. The event, entitled "The Author as a Translator. The Story of a Dutch Writer Who Fell in Love With Romanian Literature", celebrated the work of Jan Willem Bos, and...
2024 is soon passing its first quarter and we have already had a lot of activity in each project. So many events, we haven't even had a chance to tell you what an eventful year 2023 has been! Hundreds of Romanians came to the already traditional Romanian events in the Netherlands: the Universal Day of the King of Romania and the National Day of Romania...
The year 2023 was a year full of beautiful events at the Dutch Romanian Library! We remind you of some of them below. BiebROțeilor Workshop In January 2023 we resumed the weekly online meetings of the BiebROțeilor Workshop. The workshops had two modules: a spring-summer one from 31 January to 6 June and an autumn-winter one from 14 September to 21 December....
Today, we invite you to travel back in time together to the year 2023 to look back and reflect on the work of the Romanian School Amsterdam. We were again present, Saturday after Saturday, at our beloved workshops, which we have been organising with great dedication and love for children for 7 years now. In the year 2023 we...
Friendship is a subjective term, whether you want to perceive your friends as those who trust you, who support you, who go out with you for a soda or wine, who urge you to do cool things or with whom you just go out to share a slice of cake on the dullest day of the year. I don't think...
On 23 March we meet at OBA Javaplein to celebrate the work of author and translator Jan Willem Bos. One of the most important promoters of Romanian literature in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jan Willem also has a fascinating autobiographical book "From the Rhine to the Danube and Back" published in 2022 by Humanitas, which we will discuss in more detail. In part...
Do you have Romanian roots and would you like to introduce your children to Romanian? Would you like to help your children increase their vocabulary or maintain contact with Romanian? Would you like to discover new stories written by contemporary Romanian authors? If the answer to any of these questions is "yes" you will be happy to know that the Dutch Romanian Library joins...
1. First, tell us a little about yourself. Who is Silvia Mihaila? Hi, my name is Silvia Mihăilă, a passionate researcher and dedicated mother. In 2017, I started a new phase in my career as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University, and in 2021, I became an assistant professor, focusing on in vitro models in pharmacology research. Together with my husband...
The smell of mulled wine, gingerbread in different shapes and colours, smiles, lights and music... With the low temperatures, the thought of Christmas flies over us. It's not hard either, when all the shops have their windows full of bright trees, decorations and arrangements, and the big cities already have lights and the traditional tree has been decorated. So, if you love Christmas too...
