Photo gallery A ‘new city’ is being built near Bucharest: It will be a unique project in Eastern Europe

A unique project for Eastern Europe will be built near Bucharest, in Măgurele. It will be the largest educational campus in Eastern Europe and will have the dimensions of a small city, over 27,300 square meters. The campus will be designed with NZeb technology, meaning almost zero energy consumption.

“The President of the Ilfov County Council, Hubert Thuma, and the Mayor of Măgurele, Narcis Constantin, announced today the construction of the largest educational campus in Eastern Europe.

Conceived as a center of excellence, the campus will be built on an area of ​​27,300 square meters, it will have a capacity of 1,000 places for kindergarten, 1,500 places for primary and secondary school and another 1,000 places for high school.

“In addition to modern classrooms, the campus will also have facilities for extracurricular activities. We will make sports halls, sports fields, including a swimming pool, we will make a large library, halls dedicated to events and performances. Another important aspect – the campus will include facilities for children with special needs.

This campus will be built on an area of ​​27,300 square meters and will be designed with NZeb (Net Zero Energy Building) technology. What this means? Almost zero energy consumption. It is a first for education in Romania.

Our goal is to provide a quality education that prepares students for the challenges of the future. This modern school campus will become a treasure in the city of Magurele, in Ilfov county, a true center of excellence and a nursery for the whole country. It will bring enormous benefits to the local and national community!” said Thuma Hubert.

At Măgurele, Romania has the largest laser in the world

“Ready? Signal sent!”: in the control room of a research center in Romania, engineer Antonia Toma, who coordinates the shooting, activates the most powerful laser in the world, with revolutionary promises, from health to space.

The numbers are staggering: the system is capable of reaching a peak of 10 petawatts (10 at 15 watts) for an ultra-short time of the order of a femtosecond (a millionth of a billionth of a second).

In front of a wall of screens displaying light beams, the 29-year-old engineer checks a series of indicators before starting the countdown.

The rate of these shots on targets located in experimental chambers is currently very high – 30 to 40 per day.

Jewel of technology

On the other side of the glass, long rows of red and black boxes house two chains of lasers.

Inside is a technological marvel: titanium sapphire crystals that, excited under the effect of an optical pump, emit the beam, hundreds of mirrors of all sizes, diffraction gratings coated with gold…

It took “several tens of millions of euros, 450 tons of equipment” and a careful installation to “achieve this exceptional level of performance,” explains Franck Leibreich, responsible for laser activities for the French Thales group that operates the system.

Equipped with an anti-vibration plate, the building, which required an investment of 320 million euros, financed mainly by the EU, is the pride of Romania, even though there were problems with the construction of a gamma ray production unit and it will not be completed until in 2026.