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International Mother Language Day is celebrated annually on February 21, to promote cultural and linguistic diversity around the world. The chosen date commemorates the students who lost their lives in 1952, being shot by the police for demanding the official recognition of the language of the native population of eastern Pakistan.

It was proclaimed at the UNESCO General Conference on November 17, 1999 and was celebrated for the first time by the United Nations Organization in 2000. Later the UN General Assembly, through the resolution of May 16, 2007, invited member states "to promote the conservation and the protection of all languages used by the peoples of the world".

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"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati was the host of the "Disinformation and Propaganda - risk factors in international economic relations" Conference, organized by the Euro-Atlantic Center for Resilience, with disinformation being the main topic of debate.

The Rector of the University, Professor Puiu Lucian Georgescu Ph.D., was the moderator of the conference during which the Minister of Economy, Florin Spătaru, Iulian Chifu - Councilor of State, Lucian Rusu - general director at Walter Tosto Romania spoke in the panel I - Susceptibility to misinformation of some topic’s major economic interests.

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Between January 26-27, 2023, the first transnational meeting of Erasmus + project partners, start a civil society organization at European level CSO Admin, took place in Porto, Portugal.

In addition to the representatives of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galaţi, the Spanish partners from the Jaume I de Castellon University of Spain and the Asociacion de innovacion emprendimiento y tecnologias de la y la comunicacion (INNETICA), from Cyprus from SEAL Cyprus were present -Cyprus Organization for Sustainable Education and Active Learning, from Portugal from the Business Intelligence Association and from Poland from Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi.

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The "Romanian Research Gala" will have its first edition this year, on January 31, at the Romanian Athenaeum, starting at 5:00 p.m. During the festivity will be awarded the most valuable Romanian researchers from the country and outside her borders. "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati will be represented by University Professor Eugen Rusu, Ph.D., who was designated one of the eight finalists in the category of experienced researchers.

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The Rector of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Professor, Ph.D.  Puiu-Lucian GEORGESCU participated today, December 28th, in the signing of the contract regarding the realization of the feasibility study for Galati airport. Together with the president of the Galati County Council, Costel FOTEA, the president of the Braila County Council, Francisk Iulian CHIRIAC, and the representatives of the companies that will carry out the study.

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On 20.12.2022, the first online working meeting of the Erasmus+ DEBATE project, funded by the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE), took place. The project coordinator is ESIC University, Spain and the partners are ESE, Ensino Superior Empresarial, LDA., Portugal, Asociacion de innovacion emprendimiento y tecnologias de la informacion y la comunicacion (INNETICA), Spain, Kultur Egitim ve Proje Dernegi, Turkey, University of Peloponnese, Greece and "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati.

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"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati occupies the 11th place in the University Metaranking for the year 2022. "The increase in concern for research at DJUG is reflected in the score obtained in recent years, from 1 in 2019, to 3 in 2021, to 4 in 2022, that is, a 400% progress has been registered in recent years, which makes us happy", explained university Professor Puiu Lucian GEORGESCU, Rector of "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati.

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On Thursday, December 8, 2022, in the meeting room of the Galaţi County Council, the "Writers' Gala" took place, a project organized by the Galați County Council in partnership with the Romanian Writers' Union, the South-East Branch, and “Dunarea de Jos " Cultural Center. The jury, made up of writers from the South-Eastern Branch, awarded 10 prizes and cultural distinctions to writers from the south-east of Romania, prizes for Poetry, Prose, Translations, Literary Chronicles, Cultural Events, the Writer of the Year prize and the Opera Omnia prize.

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The Faculty of Letters within the DJUG organized again, this year, at the initiative of Professor Antoanela Mardar Ph.D. a multilingual and multicultural workshop dedicated to winter celebrations and entitled, suggestively, Winter Celebrations around the World.

Special guests of this event, co-organized by Associate Professor Elena Costandache Ph.D. from the Department of Language and Literature and French and Reading, Lecturer Lidia Necula Ph.D. from the Department of English, there were Fulbright Lecturer Amy Biedermann, Italian Language Lecturer Carla Dodi, Chinese Language Lecturer Danyao Xie, and, last but not least, FLE Lecturer Zouhair Hariq, who was the very active representative and involved of AUF within the Faculty of Letters of DJUG during October 2018 - May 2022.

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The National Day is a solemn moment, when we must all look back with pride, admiration, and gratitude for those who gave us the chance to live today in Romania.

The 1st of December is also the moment when we are obliged to unite our thoughts and forces so as to carry over to the future the legacy we have received.