Dr. Tudorita ALBU, Director of the Primary School No. 11 “St. O. Iosif” from Brasov, recognized as a “European School”, is continuing her struggle to prove that the School remains the place where each generation will pass on its values. Within this well-known framework, Dr. Tudorita ALBU advocates for virtues-led management, virtues as applied in the school, hence the positive culture that allowed the submission of a substantial effort in terms of training and development programs, both by promoting the universal values (love, integrity, justice, support and respect relationships from top management to bottom and from bottom to top), and national ones (the passion for the recovery of these values and promoting the authentic being obvious).

Ever since five years ago the mass media recorded that at the level of the Primary School No. 11 “St. O. Iosif” in Brasov there are responsible concerns – that sign up, in fact, for the directions promoted by SANABUNA International Congress (http://www.sanabuna.ro/ ) – started in the 2007-2008 school year through a plea “for health and life”, following  2007 where there was a participation in the “chain of tolerance and peace” (planting trees together with Schools all around the world – Gazeta de Transilvania, September 19, 2007) and  healthy eating was promoted among students (“European Food of Healthy Food and Cooking”, 2007), organizing, for example, a meeting with the topic “Healthy food between traditional and modern” (Gazeta de Transilvania, November 9, 2007). Besides, a few months later, in the following year, 2008, a significant signal was given concerning  responsible action related to  the promotion of healthy food in the units of pre-universitary education (http://ecaterinaandronescu.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/proiectul-de-lege-pentru-o-alimentatie-sanatoasa-in-unitatile-de-invatamant-preuniversitar/). Subsequently, the importance for consistent action for healthy eating was highlighted in 2011 (https://www.crd-aida.ro/activitiespartnership/sanabuna-2011/) and this year by the Honorary President of  SANABUNA International Congress, Professor Eliot SOREL (http://www.sanabuna.ro/speakers/eliotsorel/ ; http://www.sanabuna.ro/reflections-on-enhancing-health-systems-performance-access-quality-and-affordability/ ).

Even in the year 2011, in which the First SANABUNA International Congress was organized (https://www.crd-aida.ro/activitiespartnership/sanabuna-2011/), the Primary School No. 11 “St. O. Iosif” in Brasov was visited by the well-known Professor John L. STANTON from Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia.

In the opinion of Dr. Tudorita ALBU, Director of the Primary School No. 11 “St. O. Iosif” in Brasov, education means life and civilization transmission, it is how to be prepared for tomorrow, is learning from heart to heart to know how to grow your own flower, the School being the one that provides you with the necessary cultivation, and ensure the nation’s upbringing.

Professor Constantin ROŞCA, President of the Romanian Scientific Society of Management (SSMAR) and Executive Director of the Association of Faculties of Economics in Romania (AFER), received the Diploma of Special Merit awarded by the Romanian Distribution Committee for his significant contribution to the success of the partnership for „ Health, Nutrition, Fitness and Wellbeing”, „SANABUNA” International, a partnership which can restore trust in life and in the market, taking into account that the health of the people and of the economy lies in  the center of sustainable development and adapting the business accordingly. The Diploma of Special Merit was handed by Professor Ovidiu FOLCUŢ, Rector of the Romanian-American University, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second International Congress SANABUNA and Honorary Member of the Romanian Distribution Committee (http://holisticmarketingmanagement.ro/the-second-international-congress-sanabuna-health-nutrition-fitness-and-wellbeing-for-central-southeast-europe-took-place-on-19th-21st-october-at-the-art-museum-ion/ ), on behalf of the Organizing Committee and of the Scientific Committee of the Second International Congress SANABUNA (http://www.sanabuna.ro/ ).

The ceremony took place on the occasion of a meeting of AFER whose works were carried out on Friday, November 2, 2012, at the Romanian-American University. It is well known that SSMAR and AFER, both responsible and dynamic actors of the academic scene, confirm the importance of the quality of team relations, as well as the quality of the network in initiating partnerships, along with establishing a fluid and flexible process for planning sequential stages, of a supportive organizational culture, developing a high research potential via learning experiences based on projects and workshops conducted by excellent managers who aim high but at the same time pay a lot of attention to details.

Professor Ovidiu FOLCUŢ (Rector of the Romanian-American University, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second International Congress SANABUNA and Honorary Member of the Romanian Distribution Committee) and Professor Constantin ROŞCA (President of SSMAR and Executive Director of AFER)

Professor Ovidiu FOLCUŢ (Rector of the Romanian-American University, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second International Congress SANABUNA and Honorary Member of the Romanian Distribution Committee) and Professor Constantin ROŞCA (President of SSMAR and Executive Director of AFER)

The distinguished Professor Eliot SOREL, MD, DLFAPA, George Washington University, Washington D.C., School of Medicine & School of Public Health, Founder Conflict Management Section WPA, Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee WPA 2013 Bucharest and Honorary President of the First International Congress ,,Health-Nutrition-Wellbeing” (www.crd-aida.ro/activitiespartnership/sanabuna-2011/), an internationally acknowledged medical leader, educator, health systems expert and practicing physician, will launch on October 29, in San Francisco, a new book: “21st Century Global Mental Health”,  Jones & Bartlett Learning (1 edition August 14, 2012).

Firmly convinced, among others, of the central place occupied by Higher Education within the society (Eliot Sorel, Editor – 21^st Century Higher Education: Quality, Leadership, Innovation, The Bucharest Consensus Autumn 2010), Professor Eliot Sorel convinces through his new book – “21st Century Global Mental Health” –  that mental health issue is fundamental to the overall health issue. Allow us to remember that, in our opinion, Professor Eliot Sorel proves again his passion, skills and value: to stimulate knowledge generation, innovation, research, human capital development; to  close the development gap between the region and the rest of the world, and to open up new major opportunities for collaboration among students, scholars, policymakers and professionals across disciplines and continents; to deliver innovation, education, research projects and policies of mutual benefit, leading to a free, peaceful and prosperous flow of people, ideas and goods; to connect action to thought and implementation to formulation.

It is also worth mentioning, in the perspective of the Second International Congress „Health-Nutrition-Wellbeing”, “SANABUNA International”, October 2012, Fălticeni, Romania, that Professor Eliot Sorel is a strong supporter of the Public-Civic-Private Partnership which can restore trust in life and in the market, including in the “Pilot Station” Fălticeni and an assumed challenge: “Building an East European Regional Model of Thinking and Action”, taking Note of the Real Interest Proved in Fălticeni and in Suceava County in Promoting Public-Civic-Private Partnership,  Considering the Entire Range of Potential Benefits: Health Benefits, Social Benefits, Direct and Indirect Economic Benefits, Environmental Benefits.

On July 11, 2012, the Board of the Royal Belgian Distribution Committee (CRBD) elected Lucien VAN BOXSTAEL unanimously as its president, the president of the Council Bureau and the president of the Royal Belgian Distribution Committee. Lucien VAN BOXSTAEL had chaired the CRBD from 1998 to 2007, in his capacity as Director General at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The new Chair of the CRBD has a degree in economics. He spent almost his entire career in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, where he held the following positions, including the following: Secretary of Administration, Deputy-Counselor, Counselor, Counselor Head of Department, Deputy Head of Office, Inspector General, Chief Executive Officer. Lucien
VAN BOXSTAEL was also a member of the support group of the General Commission for the Euro Group President of Eco-Euro Economy, Head of the Belgian Delegation to the European Patent Office, the Office for Harmonization in the European internal market , the Office of the Benelux Trademarks and Designs in The Hague, where he became also the Director. As such, he played an important role in the economic cooperation between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, in particular for the adaptation of the Benelux Law on Trademarks in the European context. Member of the Board of CRBD for many years, the new president has always taken an active role in the collaboration with other national and international bodies which the CRBD manages daily. Lucien VAN BOXSTAEL is President of the International Trade and Urban Development (Urbanicom), Vice-President of the International Association of Distribution (AIDA), Director of Prevention and Safety, and he provides all these agencies with broad knowledge of the economy in general and in relation to distribution in particular.

Take a look at a wonderful new picture of Marie-Christin Hallier: “Antikomposition Kosmos” (10 x 2 meters) at Alanus University (and in October in Dueren). Allow us to remember that Matthew Fox, known as a keen photographer, highlighted the connection between us and the cosmos in a very interesting way: “We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us”.

We believe that Marie-Christin Hallier’s way of artistic expression also means at least two things: Marie-Christin continues her family tradition of innovation and offering solutions in a world thirsty for ideas; what we have seen a year ago, in the Journal – albums from Hallier family library continue to flourish. And that is the real satisfaction.

Allow us to also remember that three trainees of the European Retail Academy together with their teacher took the chance of the open days of Alanus University of Art and Social Science in Bonn/Germany to visit its campus and art-studios. Guided by Prof. Bernd Hallier’s daughter Marie-Christin Hallier, who is on her way to become an art-therapist, the group made a YouTube about their impressions at the campus.