Rompro - Romanians For Romanians Netherlands, is pleased to invite you on 24 June 2023 at St. Ignatiugymnasium in Amsterdam from 12.00 noon to the Universal Day of Faith. ???????? The Universal Day of the Iei is celebrated every year on 24 June and marks the promotion and recognition of the cultural value of the Romanian Iei, as well as the...
The Cherry Blossom Festival is one of the great joys of spring in the Netherlands. After the snowdrops and bramble herald the arrival of sunnier weather, the cherry trees are the first to show off, before the fields of tulips and other spring flowers. People eagerly await the time of flowering and pack their picnic bags for a day out. This...
On 15 March, provincial elections are held in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On the same day, elections for the Water Council (Waterschappen) also take place. What are provincial elections? Provincial elections are held every 4 years. In these elections, voters elect the members of the Provincial Council. To be able to vote, you must have Dutch citizenship and be at least 18 years old....
I don't remember exactly when I started hearing jokes around me about other sexual orientations. It seems like several lifetimes have passed since then. I only know that we "suspected" and "made fun" of colleagues or friends and didn't dare discuss anything about it with them. And they probably didn't dare to tell us anything, that is.
The Romanian Library of the Netherlands together with the Romanian Embassy in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are pleased to invite you to a unique event: a meeting with the Romanian author Dana Grigorcea. Dana Grigorcea debuted in 2002 in Romanian literature with short prose: a travel diary from the Holy Land. She studied German and Dutch at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in...
Become what you want to be/ Worden wat je wil! With such an exhortation we couldn't help but join in this year's Kinderboekenweek - Children's Book Week. This is the fourth year we have embarked on this adventure together! And because the restrictions have loosened, but not everywhere and not for everyone, we chose to...
Christmas Vibes 2020, a special pandemic edition festival 12-13 December, ONLINE Romanian Vibes started in 2017 as the first Romanian festival in the Netherlands, an event exclusively dedicated to Romanian entrepreneurs, artists and idealists working in the Netherlands. In the current context, the ROMPRO Foundation has focused on adapting, like all of us, to the new normal, so...
Every autumn in the Netherlands, Children's Book Week (Kinderboekenweek) takes place, a nationwide, well-publicised event in which almost all schools, libraries and bookshops participate. In 2018 and 2019, at the initiative of Maria Dicieanu (BiebRO coordinator) and with the support of the Romanian School Amsterdam and the ROMPRO Foundation, we brought close to the Romanian community in the Netherlands two outstanding publications, "The Story of...
When you move to another country, your priorities are often about your job and the roof over your head. Only once these are taken care of, can you afford to consider other aspects of good management that can improve your quality of life. We meet the need for information alongside...
Petronela Rotar returns to Amsterdam! But this time only virtually, through an online meeting with readers. The author of several novels included in the collection of the Dutch Romanian Library such as "Looking In", "Orbi", "The End of the Night" or "O să mă știi de undeva" will tell us, among other things, about the work on her latest book "Help me not to disappear"....
Lovers of the Romanian port from all over the world celebrate every year the Universal Day of Lei on June 24th! IA is more than just a garment. It is solid proof of our universal need to communicate through fashion. On this occasion Rompro invites you to celebrate together this wonderful holiday in the Romanian spirit as we deserve. We...
The little apple is the harbinger of spring. It is the joy of smiling at the sun and the pleasure of creating smiles. It is an intrinsic part of Romanian culture throughout Romania, and nowadays also abroad. Its story is told through artistic creations and delicate red and white threads. Its origins, however, are an amagam of stories...
