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Pontes Association invites you to
take part between 10 – 13 December 2020 to the
fifth edition of the “Mihai
Irimia” Chess tournament for visual impaired!
This known competition welcomes
chess players from around the whole world!
Spectacular chess games,
unforgettable experiences and the challenge of on-line playing on Free Chess
and Winboard application, accompanied by
many prizes, free registration and fair-play ruling led by the Tournament
Director Florin Jidanu, are the ingredients of an edition which you should not
miss.
You will play Swiss system, 7 games,
game time 15 minutes with 12
seconds increment. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 03.11.2020 Up
In September 21 - 29, 2013, an international youth exchange took place in Vratsa, Bulgaria. A group of young visually impaired persons took part in labour market trends workshops, ice-breaking games and excursions to historic and cultural monuments of the region. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 01.11.2013 Up
ICC in Romania” is a youth exchange project to plan, set up, organise and implement an “International Camp on Computers and communication” at the “High School for the Visually Impaired” in Cluj-Napoca to give an accessible, safe, secure and most challenging “stage” for 60 young blind and partially sighted people from 11 European countries. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 01.08.2012 Up
The “Let's speak up! for improving our democratic vision” project will last for 18 months from January 2010 till June 2011. It is conducted by organisations based in Forli’ (Italy) and Cluj (Romania) and will involve young participants between 18 and 30 years old. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 21.01.2010 Up
It’s winter again and this means that we’re back on the skating ring. As children in the Highschool for the Visually Impaired already got used to, we’re giving them again the chance to practice skating or start learning it. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 20.01.2010 Up
For those children who have behaved well, Saint Nicholas came a little earlier this year and, to their surprise, took them out, to have pizza at the restaurant. The lucky ones were twenty four students of the High School for the Visually Impaired in Cluj, who, accompanied by the Pontes volunteers, went to have pizza out, some of them for the first time in their life. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 05.12.2009 Up
On 09/11/2009 at 17:00 it will be held in the reading room of Octavian Goga Library, street Mihail Kogălniceanu, no. 7, a seminar to disseminate the results of project "European Friends". More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 06.11.2009 Up
On September 30, 2009 was launched the accessible section of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca. This accessibility is a real, truly made for blind people, for access to culture. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 03.11.2009 Up
Between 18 and September 26, the activities of Playing Together project took place in Călimăneşti, Vâlcea, Romania. There were participants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Spain. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 15.10.2009 Up
On September 12 there was the third General Assembly of the Association Pontes. It took place in Cluj-Napoca, in one of the halls of the building of High School for the Visually Impaired. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 14.09.2009 Up
Pontes Association has established its first branch outside of Cluj. Even if the organization are enrolled members across the country, until June this year, only the core of Cluj was very active. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 31.08.2009 Up
In the period April-June 2008, Holding Brinel from Cluj-Napoca held ECDL courses for people with visual disabilities. The project ran from April 5 to July 5, 2008 was able to provide the visually impaired persons all means to obtain an internationally recognized IT certification. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 09.07.2009 Up
On Saturday, the fifth of April, there was organized the first meeting for the ECDL course, for the visually impaired, by Holding Brinel in cooperation with Pontes.The courses will take place every Thursday and Saturday, in the computers lab of High School for Visually Impaired in Cluj. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 20.04.2008 Up
Between 26.01 and 04.02. 2008, Pontes, in cooperation with A.C.T.O.R., made possible the participation of 6 visually impaired pupils and students in a “Youth in action” project, consisting in a sport and intercultural exchange focused camp in Bulgaria. More... Published by: Emanuel Boboiu (secretar Pontes) on: 15.03.2008 Up
Our members can now enjoy the advantages of their Pontes membership! We are pleased to launch the virtual library, where you will find a great variety of books, made accessible for the visually impaired. More... Published by: Elis Pintilie on: 11.03.2007 Up
The Fundraising Campaign, which will take place between March 6thand and December 2007, aims to raise the amount of money necessary for buying a Braille printer. The acquisition of a printer is very important to Pontes, because of the great amount of brailled materials needed for the programmes we are developing. More... Published by: Elis Pintilie on: 07.03.2007 Up
The Foundation for European Studies in Cluj-Napoca has donated to Pontes nineteen books, which value approximately 90 euros. The books, which focus mainly on European politics and culture, will be scanned and made available to all the users of the virtual library. More... Published by: Elis Pintilie on: 27.02.2007 Up |
