Chair: Professor Viorel Mitre PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Horticulture, coordinator of Section 1: Horticulture, Landscaping, Spatial Planning

Sebastian Sorin Radu: BIO Inputs for Organic Farming. Benefits of Zeolite in Conventional and Organic Agriculture

The Enviro Naturals company was created, simply, from our passion for nature. We are on the market as a natural response to the chemical inputs which invaded the plant cultures in Romania and Europe. Enviro Naturals is an alternative which the farmers are waiting for, which they need and they are asking for for years. We are the only Romanian company which concentrates on selling Zeolites and Dolomites, as 100% natural solutions for increasing the performance of the Romanian farmers. ...

Marius Sabadas: Wellbeing Through Ecological Horticulture for Sustainable Development of Rural Area

Present and future generations, must have optimal development conditions, but first of all this requires a healthy environment and healthy food. Growing world population and increasing food demand, have determined the speeding up of processes to obtain fruits and vegetables needed for food, and from this hastiness, negative effects began to appear. Ecological horticulture requires, respecting the natural and undisguised stages for obtaining good and healthy horticultural products. ...

Sabin Molnar: Comparison of Polyphenolic Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Wild Romanian Blueberry and Three Cultivated Varieties

The effect of diet on human health is of increasing interest to the scientific community and the general public, as more individuals are taking an active role in maintaining their health to avoid or delay the onset of chronic and degenerative diseases. All berries, including bilberries and blueberries, have been shown to have high antioxidant potential due to their richness in phenolics. ...

Timea Hitter (Buru): Planting Design Concept with Perennials for Wellbeing Using Therapeutic Landscape Architecture

People have always used nature as a powerful healing source [1] and many benefits were claimed, such as nature’s potentially positive effect on wellbeing and health, wellbeing in connection to our inner and outer landscape [2]. Plants play an essential ...

Poster: Designing a Biblical Garden in the `Heart` of Cluj-Napoca

... various plants were selected in the planting plan concept, based on the users need by easy path and access, shade and sun, loisir and decorative garden. Today, in Romania landscape architecture cannot be designed randomly, so each green area must to have a meaningful design, based on people, history and needs.

Corina Catana: Bioart as a Tool for Interdisciplinary Arts, Life Science and Science Studies Research

Creative expression begins with understanding. The science is a package of information, not an object. But the science is the medium, not the message. Maintaining this distinction between the medium and the message is absolutely indispensable in order to clarity of thought about informing society. It rapidly became clear that the most imaginative way of looking at society, and the most inspiring way of teaching it, is to say that it's all about the communication. ...

Oana Craciun: Determination of Zinc Quantity in the Resulted Sludge from the Wastewater Treatment Station from Satu Mare and Its Evolution in Time in Mixture with Different Natural Fertilizing Resources

Wastewater treatment plants from sewage of large cities, from farms and livestock farms, and some industrialized branches, produce sludge in increasing amounts, for which it is intended to re-use it, especially in agriculture, after careful preparation and rigorous agrochemical control. As a result of the research conducted over time, it was found that organic waste materials, mainly from urban activity, are considered more as sources of environmental pollution and less sources of nutrients for plants ...

Andreea Stor: Floral design between art and business

We believe in creativity as well as in education and continuous development, especially when it comes to working with the beauty of nature.

We belive that floristry is a way of living.

We reinvent ourselves and we have the courage to be different.

Alina Mornea (Petrache): Homeopathy could be the solution?

Homeopathy is an alternative medical system proposed by Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century. It is based on the “similarity principle” (Similia Similibus Curantur), which establishes that “like cures like”, and uses very dilute and well mixed substances derived from plants, minerals, or animals. Homeopathy is used for the treatment of diseases in humans, but it is also applied in the agronomy and veterinary field. For its contribution on the autoregulation of the soil plant-atmosphere system, ...

EXPOs & WORKSHOPs

Erzsebet Buta: Hanging gardens multisensory

Hanging gardens or string gardens are used for small living spaces. This type of gardens is created by using Kokedama which is a unique living art.

Kokedama is a ball of soil, covered with moss, on which an ornamental plant grows. Aluminium wire or nylon wire fixes the whole bundle, and is used to suspend the ball in the air.

Wine Princess

The wine of Minis "... gives spark to love, wings to thoughts and fireplace warmth to friendship." (Dr. Gyorgy Csavossy)

White wines and rosés are mostly made in a reductive way so that they conserve their freshness and fruity flavour. The temperature of the fermentation is controlled and kept at 15C° maximum by excluding the oxygen in steel tanks of 10000 hl. The spontaneous fermentation ends in about 2-3 months, and is followed by stabilization and a quick bottling at a low temperature. These lighter, reductive wines mature in bottles for another 2-3 months before being introduced to the market.

Timea Hitter (Buru): Horticulture Therapy at USAMV Cluj-Napoca

Romanian Landscape Architects Association - AsoP, North-West Territorial Branch, IFLA Europe member, in partnership with International Conference of LIFE Sciences and Technology for WELLBEING (LIFE2018), is organizing the horticulture therapy whorkshop conducted by landscape engineer Timea Hitter (Buru) Ph.D. student, associate member of AsoP Romania (Ph.D. student at UASVM CN, graduated the Horticulture Faculty, Landscaping Specialization. Horticultural therapy is ...

Corina Catana: BioArt

We propose a laboratory workshop with exploratory exhibition in the field of BioArt. The laboratory is a place where anyone can investigate ideas in the field of in vitro, art and bioculture. The BioArt workshop is an informal meeting of horticultural and art's sciences, with free and unconventional debates, a store of research, exploration and scientific information, art-philosophy, useful curiosities; another kind of bioculture...

Ioana Brie: BLOOMING VISION

Stabilized lichens and mosses, preserved plants and natural accessories can help you to realize decorative surfaces, paintings, logos or personalized projects!

Andreea Stor: Floral design techniques in 2018 trends