Category Archives: Nature, culture and society

Professor Dan Grigorescu, opening speech at the 47th meeting of the members at the first meeting hosted by Romania of the European Network of Geoparks

Univ. Prof. emeritus Dan Grigorescu, the initiator and co-founder of the project that led to the establishment of the Țara Hațegului Geopark, scientific director of the Institutul de Studii Avansate pentru Cultura și Civilizația Levantului was invited to give the opening speech of one of the most important European meetings in terms of Geoparks, which…
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Europe during the Ice Age. The University of Tübingen presents the results of a project leading to the publication of an article co-authored by Professor Dan Grigorescu, Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, published in the journal Nature

The prestigious journal “Nature” has recently published an article discussing the genetic lineage of modern humans over the last 45,000 years in Europe – “Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers” – whose authors include Professor Dan Grigorescu, Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization. The results of…
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The ‘Hațeg Country’ UNESCO Geopark wins the Sustainable Development Award

Through its ‘Hațeg Country’ International UNESCO Geopark project, the University of Bucharest has won the Sustainable Development Award for Equitability at the 2020 Sustainable Development Gala organised by the Government of Romania through its Department for Sustainable Development. The Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Emeritus Professor Dan…
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From Scientific Research to Geoconservation and Geopark

Dan Alexandru Grigorescu Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest, 2A Mareşal Constantin Prezan Bd., Romania ©Author(s) 2020, this article is published with open access at http://gcr.khuisf.ac.ir   Introduction In his excellent book on geodiversity, Gray (2013) shows that the term ‘geodiversity’ was first proposed in 1993 by Wiedenbein (1993), in counterpoint…
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