In a couple of seconds I found myself part of a Team, they were Producers, they were making dreams come true, they were ISWinTers.
First movie, “Influences”  - had a great impact, I started as a noob, I started alone but finished in a Family.
Then, in 2008, the “Revolution” degenerated. More experienced , and with courage We created a Box Office Movie.

… now a Masterpiece is raising.

We are on the Set for 5 days, and we already encountered every

thing: Love, passion, tears, sweat, fun, music , romance ,drama, coffee, sex, smoke, pain, hunger, smiles, l

aughs.
We can’t sleep … we are anxious to get up in the morning, meet and tell our dreams.
We smile a lot … laughs protect the Hearth (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER STUDY)
We can’t rest … we want all to be perfect.

We still have 2 days left. We just need to debug a little, and compile. Then the hardest part arrives: the Program has to Run.

The success of the Movie, the result of the compiled Program, everything depends on Us. We know how to do it, when to do it, we just need to act.

Now, I’m gonna dream, I’m gonna love , and I’m gonna ISW

inT the World.

I am an ISWinTer and this is the Backstage.

The square brings together in perfect harmony, three aspects of the life in Timisoara: religion, culture and leisure ( wild parties :p). Traditionally, it was a cultural and religious place. Now, the laic part was blended superbly into this original mix, making Piata Unirii  the perfect place for both young and old people, of all cultures and nationalities.

Since 1774, the plazza is the Catholic center of Timisoara, hosting the Catholic Dome of St. George. Built by architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach in a baroque style, with rock, brick and nickel ornaments. It is the most remarkable Catholic construction in Banat, serving as the Catholic Bishopric. Its pipe organ, styled in the manner of Ludovic the XVIth , and its 9 shrines make it a unique site in Romania.

The plaza is also home of the Serbian Christian Orthodox Cathedral, which was for centuries, the place of meeting for both Romanian and Serbian Christians, before it was definitely offered to the latest, after the middle of the XIX the century.

The Baroque Palace of Timisoara , hosting the Art Museum, is now home of  artistic and cultural exhibitions. Built before 1733, the palace has hosted several institutions throughout the years, both economic, commercial and administrative. Before 1944, the building hosted the Prefecture of Timis County for a long period of time.

Other important sites in the square are the Bruck Palace, Nikolaus Lenau Highschool, The Statue of the Trinity and the Fountain with mineral water.

And let’s not forget that the plaza has adapted to the times. It now hosts the most thrilling parties and concerts. Should it be a special day, like the 9th May – EU Day, The Green Day, or a day like any other, people gather in Unirii’s to celebrate life, night after night. Bars, music, fireworks, people who come here to forget about problems and take the most out of life.

All great events are celebrated here, and amongst them, one which has always turned the people in Timisoara ecstatic : football. Giant screens all over broadcast the matches, and whether it’s Poli playing, or the national team, people of all ages and genders gather to join voices, hearts and hopes in a spectacle one could hardly see in any other city in Romania. It proves better than anything that we know how to live here, in Timisoara!

There you have it! Piata Unirii has it all: tradition, modernism, extravagance, style. Believe us when we say:

“It’s the place to be! “

International Student Week in Timisoara is not just a week when students from all over the world come to Timisoara and are being entertained by a group of people. ISWinT is a way of living, it is a family. You learn what team work really means, you learn to work and have lots of fun doing it… it’s one week that cannot be easily described in words by anyone… it’s simply ISWinT.

Everything begins by forming the team of each years’ edition, and continues with many discussions to create the theme and activities for that year.
In this discussions, we are consolidating the team, or as I like to say….we are creating The ISWinT Family, or The Little Green Family.

The most important thing of ISWinT is its team. Being an organizer, gives you the chance to make friends that, perhaps, will be close to you for a lifetime.

ISWinT is the one thing that I won’t forget from my 4 years of college.

Now I will tell you why I joined this great family.
At first, I didn’t know what to expect from college, I was scared that I will be just another student. I wasn’t satisfied with just that, I wanted more, I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I joined the students’ organization from my faculty (LigaAC).

At that time, they were preparing the recruitment period for ISWinT 2007, and because I was a party designer in high-school, I suggested we put a big ISWinT arrow made of balloons, in the main hall of the faculty, so that students come to learn more about the festival. The idea was accepted by all the members of the team and I was responsible for its achievement… I was so proud of it! I wanted to join the entertainment department, but there were many people working there already, so I joined the logistics department and resolved some of the problems of that edition. After that, in 2008 I coordinated the logistics department. ISWinT 2008 was a few times better than 2007, but it had its gaps. I wanted to resolve the existing problems, so I thought: “What a better way to that than to candidate as coordinator for the next edition?”. It was a tough decision and an even tougher year, but I don’t regret it, because I learned a lot of useful, wonderful things.

In the end, I would like to invite everybody to come to ISWinT at least once, to see what I was talking about at the beginning of this article. I am sure that you will not regret it. In fact, I am positive that you will look forward to come again, next year!

As far as history takes us

The first attestations of bridges in the Timisoara Fortress, date from the XIV^th century, when Charles Robert of Anjou built a fort with several bridges. During the Turkish occupation, the fortress was surrounded by walls that had five gates with moving bridges, which locals have burned when they were attacked by Prince Eugen of Savoy.

On a map of the city picturing Begheiului bridges across arms and over marshes from 1716, the longest bridge has 500 hinders. During the Austrian occupation, numerous bridges were raised. They were made by wood, brick or stone.

The Fortress, built in Vauban style, was surrounded by ditches, and each of the three gates of entry had a folding bridge, which was elevated during the night. Bridges and gates were destroyed in 1891, and the bridges’ chains were used to surround the monument dedicated to the people who fought during the Revolution of 1848. The monument is located in the Cemetery of Heroes, in Timisoara.

Between 1870 - 1880, old wooden bridges were replaced by steel bridges. The first ones were built between 1870 and 1871: Bridge Bem and Huniade Bridge (that are nowadays called by the locals, The Heroes’ Bridge and The Traian Bridge). In the Fabric quarter, in the XIX^th century, there were many bridges over the Bega canal. They were made of brick, wood or iron and had picturesque names: The Bridge of The House with The Clover Leaf, The Bridge of the “At Husar” Inn, The Bridge with Yokes, The Bridge of The Hanged.

After 1908, old bridges have been replaced with the ones that we now see, constructed of reinforced concrete. Around this period, there were about 71 bridges over the Bega canal.

Timisoara, the city of the 13 bridges

According to engineer Jancsó Árpád, author of the book “History of the bridges in Timisoara”, in Timisoara, there are now, 11 bridges and two gangplanks that cross Bega.

The Dacians’ Bridge – located in the „Badea Cartan” quarter. Built in 1909, was used by trams, and coaches of railroad that connected the factories from Fabric and the railway station. Even before the bridge being built, on this site there was another bridge that crossed the Bega Channel. The current bridge was built in 1989 and has been upgraded recently.

Decebal Bridge – it dates from 1909 and was at that time, the bridge of reinforced concrete beams with the largest opening in Europe.

The project was awarded the Diploma of Honor at the International Exhibition of Paris of 1910, and the technical solution for building it, by engineer Mihailich Gyözö, was mentioned in different filed-related writings.

Michelangelo Bridge – built in 1970, is the bridge with the largest width, and descended to the water level. In the ’40s, there was a wooden bridge here, and in 1964, the city hall decided to build a new one, for students who went to college.

Bridge Saguna Bishop. Located at the end of “Mihai Viteazu” boulevard, was built in 1913, in the place of an old wooden bridge. On its railings, there should have been four statues of Roman Catholic bishops.

Traian Bridge - „Huniade bridge” or „the bridge from Maria”. It was built in 1917 and replaced The Iron Bridge, moved downstream from the streets Ady Endre and Muresanu. Constructions of the current bridge were finished after the war and should have been adorned with decorative elements, towers and galleries. Near this bridge is one of the oldest restaurants in Timisoara, the Flora Restaurant. Under the bridge there is a place called “Jazz Club Pod 16″, where many youngsters like to hang out, and numerous concerts and exhibitions take place.

The Iron Bridge - „from the Factory of chains “, was built on the place where the ferry ran. Because of its heights, the bridge is for pedestrians only. Local legend says that the metal bridge, which preserves the original construction elements unaltered, was built based on an original drawing made by the famous Gustave Eiffel, who designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Stefan The Great Bridge – replaced an old wooden bridge. Its construction began in 1891, and was designed by engineer Robert Toth. It initially had five arches, and two more were added in 1900, when the electric tram was introduced. Because of degradation, traffic was closed to vehicles in 1939. This was the first steel poured road bridge from South-Eastern Europe, opened to public traffic. It was rebuilt in concrete in 1957.

With the spring coming, the ISWinT team was all happy and energetic. So what else better to do than shoot some video clips for our summer workshops?!?

We gathered the enthusiastic organizers and some other friends and we proceeded to what was going to be a great day, a new experience, which I must admit, wasn’t easy at all. But we sure had a great time together.

We had our chance to taste the life of acting, being on stage, shooting doubles, laughing, getting annoyed , making something interesting and so on. In the end, we all felt like a big team and we realized that what we’ve done had a good chance of being just great ;))

It was quite a full day, that started early in the morning, with the “Steps not words” workshop, where we had a great time dancing around on various types of music, from folk to salsa. After a few hours of practice, it all went perfect for the filming, and we were all happy.

So we went on to film the Paparazzi scene, for the “Photography” workshop. This was probably the one we enjoyed the most, we had loads of fun and we all agreed that chasing beautiful girls and taking pictures for a living cannot be too bad >:)

The last one was the “Self defense” video clip. It was the end of a long day and we were tired, but it was not the time for naps. I’m the one who should know best, because I was the incredibly fortunate guy who got to practice all the moves with the instructor… It wasn’t at all pink and puffy. I was twisted and hurled all around the place, and wasn’t the only one, but in the end, all of us learned some interesting moves, we gained more confidence and we had a great time.

This is all for now. Check out some photos, so that you can see for yourself what I was talking about.

Weeeeell, what do you think?

All the best wishes from Timisoara!!!

Variables: a world changing rapidly and continuously, full of problems of all kind.
You take: young, enthusiastic minds; do workshops.
Requirements: creativity, positive energy, ideas and solutions that are new and provocative.
Result: we’ll discover it together!
We do not motivate boredom and monotony!

Let’s set the new trend together: EQUILIBRIUM!
If you are a student and you’re looking for an unforgettable, wonderful experience, visit our website at http://iswint.ro/ and send your application.You will find there any information you may need.
The deadline for the applications varies:
· 1^st of May for countries that don’t need visa
· 1^st of April for the ones that do

Join us this summer and let’s ISWinT the world together!

balloons + nice weather (at least in the first days :P)

yammy… isn’t it?

At my friends car, before the police came. I had to hide the vodka. The girls were very relaxed and talked with the police officers (asking for chicks, or just saying hello). One of them heard about us, he was a nice person.

The famous, i don’t know how it’s called, but it was filled with booze.

The improvisation team.

Italians

The opening. Shyness and some funny moments on stage.

The end. The pain. Agonizing.

The forbidden fruit. Your lips blossom under my love.

A picture from the costume party. I think the spanish lady is hot. And the other persons corn just amplifies it!
Fighting the indians with a torch. Taming the wild. The only problem is that the indian is actually from Spain. He can say the word suspicious in a very smooth way.

Ancient ritual. Letting go of problems and having a lot of fun.

The cupidon stands on my lap and holds my hand. He enters in the zone very easely.

The girl with the glasses is too cool. She brought what was to be the unnoficial mascot of the festival: a parrot.

The polish girl, one of the persons who shone like a sun. I especially like her a lot: what is cold is hot, what is up is down and after some time i can no longer tell the difference between the extremes!

We, the organizers went on stage and palyed with flags.

A picture from the begining of the Nations Party.

And of course, we had champagne.

Pool party. Some minor incidents> interesting location.

Beautiful girls from Poland.

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We want to put forward the person’s vocation through the angle of choosing a professional path, choice that doesn’t need to be influenced only by the multitude of information received via a virtual way or only by the existing educational system.
The virtual education based on the use of the computer and the WWW facilitates a better perception on information. Concomitantly, due to this technology the interhuman contact is lost resulting in a degraded integration of the person in the society. The festival proposes to moderate the access to virtual information through establishing equilibrium between the classical means and the new technologies.
In the present context of globalization the risk of losing the identity is evolving. We propose the facility and encouragement of activities that have as a goal the development of a personal value system based on the capitalization of vocations.
From the concept point of view, the International Students Week in Timisoara Festival frames in the youth dedicated activities category – students or fresh graduates of some learning institutions.
Being young we are drawn to develop activities in a constant changing society. The technological evolution and the cultural diversity are the two coordinates that we need to look-out for when we decide to follow out vocation or to get our calling according to the actual demands.
The two directions that we follow are: on one side, the acknowledgement and to draw the attention of students on some actuality problems, on the other side, the informing of the main personalities capable to give solutions in these matters: spokesmen of the private and academic environment, leaders of the youth organizations.
Taking into consideration the proportion this event will take, the theme of present interest – Revolution – real vocation meets virtual education – as well as the ingenious way to approach it within the workshops, conferences and debates, being aware of the need of evolution/progress, instigation to change and the courage to put into practice ideas at first sight unrealizable are inherent consequences of this project are. Therefore, those who will have benefits from this multicultural week will be a large section of the population of Timisoara.
Concomitantly we have to take into consideration the indirect benefits that will come out after the ending of this event. Involving in the same time the academic and the private medium, the communication between students and teachers and the spokesmen of the public and private domain will be facilitated. They will become aware of needs and will search for solutions for the safety of those which they are preparing for there future occupation, future employees – the students of today.
Also, by involving the students’ organizations and the cultural centers we will facilitate the access of students to information and we will lead towards new directions on cultural and youth level.
We predict that through this project we will succeed in actively involving the main structures of decision in student life and we will convince a large number of students that evolution and change are not only necessary but accomplishable in the simple context of initiative.
The theme of ISWinT 2008 is: “Revolution: real vocation meets virtual education”. Starting from the fact that we live in a world dominated by technology, through activities related to this theme we would like to combine classic with modern and bring together talent, aptitudes, accessibility and speed of communication. With this purpose workshops on different themes and conferences will take place during the festival and activities where participants will try to interact also know better Timisoara and its culture