Successful performance on potential tourism markets requires that regions which are both sufficiently large and easily recognizable to Bulgarian and foreign tourists be presented. It is a common objective of the European Commission and the governments of the fourteen EU countries along the Danube to enhance the cooperation and communication between local citizens by designing a Danube Strategy that will integrate the markets within the EU and promote interregional and international cooperation. Sustainable tourism development, which has become a major priority for Bulgaria, requires the efficient exploitation of the tourism potential of the country and active intercultural collaboration. It also entails developing integrated cross-border and transnational projects to design a common Danube Tourism Strategy, develop a common tourism market and initiate a range of initiatives to promote Danube tourism products in different spheres of tourism - cultural, wine, agricultural, cruise, balneo, spa and wellness, biking and hiking. Some of the key activities within the framework of the Danube Tourism Strategy include improved infrastructure planning and development; establishing the Danube region as a European tourism brand and a major destination; promoting cultural tourism and cultural exchange; developing eco-tourism and active tourism. The Concept about Tourism Zoning of Bulgaria has identified nine tourism regions in the country. One of them is the Danube region where more than a quarter of all Bulgarian municipalities are situated. This paper studies the dynamics of the major indicators of tourism development in the Danube tourism region in the period from 2010 to 2015. We review current trends and conduct a factor analysis of changes in receipts from overnight stays. We also identify key factors which contribute to or hinder tourism development in the region. The paper compares the indicators of the region with the indicators of the other tourism regions in the country and highlights a major strategic issue, i.e. the noticeable contrast in the development of different regions in Bulgaria.

We live in a controversial world, where communication is an essential component of the life we live on. The purpose of the communication act is the transmission of information in order to achieve knowledge and is an essential component of daily life. It can be considered a process by which messages are transferred between multiple participants. The role of communication is also the stimulating factor of modernization and development of production. From the economic point of view, there are at least three ways involved: the access to strategic information, the reorganization of the production conditions and the integration of the company into a complex system of communication systems.

The main goal of this article is the way of implementing the new technologies of informing and communicating in education. The advantages of using the new technologies in education are multiple: the reduction of time consumption, the possibility of adapting personal education programs, the possibility of fast accommodation with the changes and the new knowledge from various fields, extended interdisciplinary education opportunities. The didactic means have evolved and diversified over time from printed course support to learning programs with direct transmission or video recording on TV, to interactive multimedia information in real time with the help of the internet. In the educational field, the necessity for information and communication is realized through the registered progress that creates new opportunities and advantages in the training process. The informational and communicational technology impact over education is remarkable and it seems that this development will lead to positive effects, but will also lead additional issues. The process of replacing the real life with components, the aspects brought by the media can be called virtualization. In education, this phenomenon is manifesting when computers are used to substitute the learning experiences that were previously made in contact with the teacher or to give the chance to learn what in the past wouldn’t have been available to anyone. The specificity of the management of these structures emerges from the particularities brought by the new realities: moving the focus of the broadcasting institution from the savoir determination to the educator’s autonomy to conquer and build, through new technologies of communicating and informing. After some analysts, the introduction of new informational technologies in education has in subsidiary hidden ideologies, designed to position the social actors to the actual world. “The valorization of NTIC in the educational field dreams less of modernizing the school, than producing of a new conception of an institution where the finalities would not consist in the social emancipation of subjects, but in their incorporation in the technical, economical and capitalist complex.” (Thellen, 2002). Through the codification and standardization systems, through the promotion policies and the advertising strategies, through the fair competition, through the subsequent legal frameworks, the NTIC promoters are creating bridges for access to benefits, which, far from being accessible to anyone, are creating and deepening inequalities. Because of that, one of the preconditions of virtualization of training is to reduce gaps in creating the premises of equal access to such instruments.

In this paper we analyse the charters of Govora Monastery, not only from the perspective of their contents, but also with an accent on the chancellery form of the documents. At the end of the 15th and during the 16th centuries the monasteries were not only a network of religious and economic centres, but also hubs of political power. Govora Monastery makes no exception and, after a flourishing period during the reins of Vlad the Monk and especially Radu the Great, it remained emblematic, for their descendants, as a foundation of the Draculesti dynasty. These charters demonstrate that Govora’s prestige of princely foundation is used as a field of legitimacy discourse by the princes who ruled Wallachia in the 16th century (Neagoe Basarab, Radu from Afumati, Mircea the Shepherd, to mention just a few of them), keeping alive the memory of Radu the Great, and are also interesting because they preserve, like in a time capsule, fragments of the political struggles from the beginning of the 16th century, thus becoming true treasures of the social memory. The novelty of this type of research, even if it takes a lot of patience to do and is often challenging, is that the information discovered or infered from charters confirm, invalidate or explain historical events about which we have scarce knowledge from other sources. We are sure that the future studying of the chancellary documents will continue to unveil fscinating historical facts.

Christianity has forever marked the lives of the peoples who have embraced it. Through it, people have understood that this life is not the sole purpose of their existence, that preparing for the encounter of the living God, the One who sacrifices himself on the cross, then to overcome death by the resurrection, is the destination to which we are heading. That is why our entire existence must be placed in the service of God and others, so that we may be placed at the right of the Fair Judge (Matthew 25). This study aims to present some aspects regarding our Latinity and Orthodoxy - as a true bridge between East and West. Also, the influence of the Byzantines in the life of the Romanian people will be analysed as well as the adoption of the Byzantine-Slavonian rite in our medieval culture. Thus, a complex image of our Romanian culture and spirituality specific to the 9th-14th centuries can be drawn.

The new Romanian Civil Code changes the previous perspective of the institution of successional indignity, which was applicable, as a requirements in order to be able to inherit, only in cases of intestacy (ab intestat succession). In the New Civil Code (articles 958-961), successional indignity becomes a general condition for inheritance, applicable to both in cases of intestacy as well as in cases of succession by will. The institution of indignity has the effect of depriving the successor of the right to receive a determined succession belonging to a person to whom he has become undignified by committing serious actions, as limited by the legal norm. The article analyzes the particularities of the successional indignity and the New Civil Code unitary regulation of the indignity pertaining to legal heirs, and that applicable to successors by will. The article analyzes both the particularities of de jure indignity (ope legis, Article 958 of the New Civil Code) and the particularities of the judicial indignity, declared by the court of law (Article 959 of the New Civil Code), as well as the effects of inheritance. The article analyzes the possibility of removing the effects of indignity and the conditions for pardoning the undignified heir, with new implications regulated in Article 961 of the New Civil Code.

The current study capitalizes on previous research regarding the English teacher’s profile as outlined by Romanian college schoolchildren and engineering students. This extensive study aims to line up engineering students’ expectations of their English teacher with the requirements of the English teacher profession in Romanian technical higher education. What is the current English teacher like in technical higher education? What are their main characteristics likely to ensure the students’ appreciation? What makes it an ideal English teacher in technical higher education? How big is the gap between the real and ideal teacher profiles? Does the profile of the real English teacher meet the requirements of this profession in technical higher education? The characteristics of an ideal English language teacher have proved of keen interest internationally. Nevertheless, few relevant studies have been conducted on this topic in Romanian technical education from a student perspective. Hence, the growing need to outline a profile of the ideal English language teacher as perceived by Romanian engineering students.

The modernization of the higher education in the Republic of Moldova with a view to its integration into the Common European Area of Higher Education, its improvement at international level, the recognition of periods and study papers are important factors that have generated the development of higher education PhD studies in the physical education and sport, kinetotherapy and recreation. In Moldova the efficient organization and conduct of the research-development-innovation activity has become a key factor of progress. The importance and necessity of scientific research is reflected by the complexity of the economic activities of national economic agents which are under the strong influence of the international market and of the imperatives generated by the position of science as the main production force. Also, at national level and at the higher education institution of physical education and sport level, the strategy for the development of scientific research aims at maintaining dynamic and competitive knowledge-based studies capable of providing sustainable and lasting growth. In this context, the higher doctoral studies, the scientific results obtained at their completion and making the most of the scientific progress, have become an organic, dynamic and vital vocation for the unique higher education institution, unique from the Republic of Moldova.

Communication generally allows: interaction between two individuals; exchange of information; sharing ideas; expressing needs. This involves at least the participation of a transmitter and a receiver. It could be the process of encoding, transmitting, receiving and decoding signals regarding the exchange of information and ideas between participants.To communicate, we use more than words: in our interactions with others, our body has its own language. Our gestures and eye contact are ways of communication, visual messages that influence the messages we deliver verbally. Managers who effectively manage the negative emotions at work are attentive to the messages they communicate verbally and non-verbally, as well as to their way of doing this. Communication is essential in people's lives, because in this way individuals can understand, interact, create relationships, develop themselves, their lives get more beautiful and harmonious shades. The main elements in communication are speech and spoken language, with which we can send messages. If the language in which the communication takes place is known to all participants, then it will be conducted in good conditions, without the risk of proper non-acceptance of the message.