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National conferences

YEAR 2025

  1. Annual scientific communications session of ICDLF Vidra, “Vegetable research: results and challenges”, 9 October 2025, Vidra.
  2. Mirea Emilian, Niță Auraș, Toader Alexandru, Toma Dumitru Mitel, Vasilica Manea. Performance of the Andrada tomato variety in an industrial-type polytunnel at the Vegetable Research and Development Station Buzau (VRDS Buzau).
  3. Bucharest Food Summit, 1-3 October 2025, Bucharest.
  4. “Toamna Buzoiană” Fair, 19-21 September 2025, Buzau.
  5. Dealu Mare “Wine and Food Festival”, 19-21 September, Buzau.
  6. Festival of Tomatoes and Horticultural Biodiversity, 9 August, Bucharest, and 24 August, Sibiu.
  7. Open Day at the Station, Tomato Tasting, 1 August 2025, Buzau.
  8. The 4th Annual Conference “ICAR Anniversary: Biotechnology and the future of national food security”, 29 May 2025, Bucharest.
  9. Vasile, F., Vlăsceanu, G., Petculescu, N., Burnichi, F., Răican, A., Paicu, F. Analytical study on the production of medicinal plant seedlings with a view to optimising their use.
  10. Workshop “Bioinformatics”, IPBGR, 26 May 2025, Thermi, Greece, online.
  11. Workshop “Sequence submission to NCBI”, IPBGR, 14 February 2025, Thermi, Greece, online.
  12. Workshop “Introduction to sequence editing, part 2”, IPBGR, 10 January 2025, Thermi, Greece, online.
  13. “CBE JU Info Day in Romania 2025”, devoted to the future of the bioeconomy and the circular economy in Europe and Romania, 15 May 2025, Bucharest, Romania.
  14. CLIPP Facilitator workshop on developing partnerships for the Horizon Europe programme, 12 May 2025, Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, online.
  15. CLIPP seminars “Developing ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 projects”, 8-10 January 2025, Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, online.
  16. Seminar “Organic farming in Buzau County. Present situation and prospects”, 26 February 2025, Buzau.
  17. Vasile, F. Organic farming and medicinal plants.

YEAR 2024

  1. Seminar “Developing ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 projects”, 10-17 December 2024, Iași, online.
  2. Workshop “Introduction to sequence editing, part 1”, IPBGR, 5 December 2024, Thermi, Greece, online.
  3. Workshop “How to make genus specific markers”, IPBGR, 17 December 2024, Thermi, Greece, online.
  4. International scientific session “Research in agricultural economics and rural development”, Institute of Agricultural Economics, National Institute for Economic Research “Costin C. Kirițescu”, 5 December 2024, Bucharest, Romania.
  5. Vasile, F., Vlăsceanu, G., Petculescu, N., Burnichi, F., Răican, A., Paicu, F. 2024. Technological and economic aspects of sage (Salvia officinalis) cultivation.
  6. European Researchers’ Night, 30 September 2024, Buzau.
  7. Workshop “New techniques for plant breeding”, 26 September 2024, Bucharest.
  8. “Toamna Buzoiană” Fair, 19-21 September 2024, Buzau.
  9. “Your opinion counts, Tomato Tasting”, 9 August 2024, the Station.
  10. Open Day at the Station, 30 July 2024, Buzau.
  11. The 3rd Annual Conference “ICAR Anniversary”, 30 May 2024, Bucharest.
  12. Manea, V., Niță, A. 2024. The influence of the cultivation of different species of Cucurbitaceae on the chemical composition of the substrate, soil.
  13. Niță, A., Radu, N., Burnichi, F., Băbeanu, N. 2024. Studies on Majorana hortensis at VRDS Buzau.
  14. RNDR workshop, sub-measures 16.1 and 16.1a, 19-21 May 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

YEAR 2023

  1. Annual scientific communications session “Research activity, results and promotion”, 14 November 2023, ICDLF Vidra.
  2. International conference “Biotech for the 2030 decade: achievements, priorities and urgent needs”, 6 November 2023, online.
  3. Information session on funding for agricultural high schools under the PNRR, 2 November 2023, online.
  4. Exhibition of achievements in Research, Development and Innovation, 11-14 October 2023, ASAS Bucharest.
  5. “Toamna Buzoiană” Fair, 22-24 September 2023, Buzau.
  6. Open Day at the Station, 20 July 2023, Buzau.
  7. Workshop “The European Union’s sustainable soils mission for the implementation of a broad network of 100 Living Labs”, 10 March 2023, Cluj-Napoca.
  8. Event disseminating the results of the AFIR project “Pilot project for applying research results in organic farming”, 8 March 2023, Bioferma Niculești, Dâmbovița.
  9. Agapie Ovidia Loredana. 2023. Introduction to organic farming.
  10. Barcanu-Tudor Elena. 2023. Pilot project for applying research results in organic farming.

YEAR 2022

  1. European Researchers’ Night, 30 September 2022.
  2. “Toamna Buzoiană” Fair, 18-25 September 2022, Buzau.
  3. Open Day at the Station, 28 July 2022, Buzau.
  4. Anniversary Scientific Communications Session “95 years since the establishment of ICAR”, 31 May 2022, ASAS Bucharest.

YEAR 2021

  1. USAMV Iași Student Scientific Symposium, 18 November 2021, Iași.
  2. Symposium on Agriculture and Food Engineering, USAMV Iași, Faculty of Agriculture, 21-22 October 2021, Iași.
  3. Annual Scientific Communications Session of I.C.D.L.F. Vidra, “Pepper Festival 2021”, 23 September 2021, online.
  4. “Toamna Horticola Bucureșteană” Fair, 30 September, 3 October 2021, Bucharest.
  5. “Toamna Buzoiană” Fair, 18-22 September 2021, Buzau.
  6. Open Day at the Station, 29 July 2021, Buzau.
  7. Round table held by the Station at the closing of Complex Project 11PCCDI, 21 April 2021, online.

YEAR 2020

  1. Annual scientific communications session of the Research and Development Institute for Plant Protection, “Plant protection, interdisciplinary research serving the sustainable development of agriculture and the protection of the environment”, 6 November 2020, Bucharest, Romania.
  2. Toma, D. M., Burnichi, F., Manea, V., Mirea, E., Toader, A., Staicu, B., Vasile, F. I., Pantazi, L., Niță, A. 2020. Research on the use of Pelargonium plants as companion plants in the Galben Superior sweet pepper crop.
  3. Toader, A., Burnichi, F., Mirea, E., Toma, M., Manea, V., Pantazi, L., Vasile, F., Niță, A., Răican, A. 2020. Beneficial effects of integrated technology on the Cantemir sweet pepper crop.
  4. Manea, V., Bălaș, C., Toma, D. M., Burnichi, F., Roman, D., Mirea, E., Toader, A., Staicu, B. 2020. Research on the chemical analysis of Buzau white onion bulbs grown using diatomite and Trichoderma.