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...
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...
We are happy to invite you to a special event in honour of Romania's National Day! We are looking forward to welcoming you on Saturday, 2 December 2023, starting at 12:00 at St. Nicolaas High School in Amsterdam, located at Beethovenplein 2, 1077 WM. Organised by the Rompro Foundation, this event will offer a rich palette of cultural events and workshops for all ages. What you can...
Coming to the Netherlands and don't know where to start? Are you a first-year university student or doing an exchange programme in the Netherlands? Read the article to the end and I guarantee it will answer frequently asked questions about transport in the Netherlands, how to use the Ov-chipkaart and NS app, how to get medical insurance...
You have arrived in the Netherlands, found accommodation and taken care of all the formalities necessary for this important step. Everything seems great, you feel like a new person, you are excited to discover the new city that has adopted you. This excitement lasts for quite a short time, then you start to feel homesick, homesick for your loved ones and homesick for everything...
The title probably sounds like a kind of farewell letter, or a regret that the time machine hasn't been invented yet. But it doesn't. As a student in my first year away from home, I learned a lot. Easy, or not. And I'm glad that today we all have the opportunity to share our knowledge and...
If you are reading this article as a senior in high school, in the suspense of the Baccalaureate exam, with dozens of formula sheets and essays, or perhaps as a parent who feels helpless and uninformed in making a decisive decision about your child's education, this story is certainly helpful. I feel compelled to expose the experience of...
The present and the future interest me more than the past. Yes, I am Romanian, born in Suceava and raised on the Black Sea, but life has taken me on many waves and I have been living in Amsterdam for over 20 years. Being gay is just one of the things that define me. First and foremost, I am Jorge's partner, my life and business partner. I rely on him and his love to be able to be creative and take risks. Owning some of the biggest gay bars in the Netherlands is not easy. At the moment I am the owner of Blend and Blend XL bars in Reguliersdwarsstraat and YOLO club in Amsterdam. Besides that I am ...
"The damaging part of learning to live your life in two parts , whether in reality or fantasy, cannot be underestimated. Nothing could be trusted for what it appeared to be. In learning to hide part of yourself, you lost the ability to trust anything or anyone fully" - Alan Downs, The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up...
Hi! I'm Ane Machedonschi. I was born and raised in Bucharest, Balta Alba, Poarta 4 Faur, my mother a shoe factory worker and my father a ratb driver, divorced and each remarried. My story is long with many adventures, with successes and failures, crowned with success and disappointments...but that's not what I want to tell you about now. In 2014, somewhere in the middle...
I have a Romanian mother, the kind that holds you to her chest until you cry. The kind that, in my childhood, used to shout to you in the evening from the kitchen window to come quickly into the house before she came for you. Together with my father she managed the incredible feat, from my perspective today, of surviving communism on just two workers' salaries...
"Thoughts on the anniversary of the Foundation", message from Cătălina Negru, one of the founders of ROMPRO Today is a double celebration: it is 7 years since we started the first "Romanians for Romanians" activities and 6 years since the legal establishment of ROMPRO Foundation. For me personally these 7 years are very important, being the period in which I chose to get actively involved for the creation of a...