2022. May 20-21. • Târgu Mureș / MAROSVÁSÁRHELY
Come and dive with us
into the fascinating world of innovative sustainability in science, technology, and culture.
About DeepDive
DeepDive is an innovative cultural-scientific festival aiming to bring together the Transylvanian community of young adults engaged in intellectual development.
One of the main objectives of the talks held by our guests is interactivity since they are designed for you to participate in them with your own views. Asking questions and discussing ideas is the most important part of learning new things and DeepDive gives you an opportunity exactly for this.
The other strength of our festival is that it is open for the whole community. Our guests will come from different places, mainly from Romania and Hungary, but some of them from even further abroad. Talks will be held in three languages: English, Hungarian and Romanian. This, besides its symbolic value of bringing together all the local language groups, also ensures that everyone finds what they are looking for. We try to come up with a great variety of topics so that you can encounter ideas that are close to you as well as some that you’ve never heard of.
Want another argument for coming to DeepDive? There will be a lot of people just like you. Another of our main purposes with this event is to provide a great opportunity for networking and creating new connections among the young and active members of our community.
DeepDive is powered by Érted, a small innovative Transylvanian civil organisation, full of motivated and ambitious young intellectuals. We deal with a lot of community projects, ranging from scientific scholarships to debate contests, awareness raising campaigns and cultural publicity projects. In the demanding venture of bringing this event to you we are helped by some very loyal partners and numerous sponsors supporting us.
To sum it up
We invite you to jump with us into the unknown, explore fascinating topics and connect with other folks like you.
We invite you to jump with us into the unknown, explore fascinating topics and connect with other folks like you.
Meet our speakers
Tímea Bóta
crisis intervention specialist
Tímea Bóta
She works as a counselling psychologist and crisis intervention specialist in Budapest. She is the creator of the blog and art therapy Facebook page called Woman in the Mirror, on which she regularly posts thought-provoking literature to help people deepen their self-knowledge.
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Cătălin Frâncu
programmer and social hero
Cătălin Frâncu
He is the founder and programmer of Dexonline, a freely available online Romanian dictionary that – with the help of volunteers – now lists 980,000 definitions. In 2019 he also started Dignitas, a collaborative fact-checking site, which helps verify Romanian politicians’ statements.
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Zsófi Kemény
slammer, writer, and screenwriter
Zsófi Kemény
She has been performing since the age of 17 and became a well-known rapper and slammer under the name of Sophie Hard. Since then, she has won many slam competitions, she also published a poetry book and 3 novels so far.
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Durica Katarina
writer
Durica Katarina
Durica Katarina is a writer, journalist, author of 4 novels, and member of the Society of Fine Writers. In her work, she predominantly deals with topics affecting women, her books detail topics like human trafficking, forced prostitution, search for identity, and surrogacy.
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Éva Vera Nagy
School Sister of Notre Dame
Éva Vera Nagy
She serves as a member of the community of monks called „Boldogasszony Iskolanővérek” and teaches children from Sovata, Sóvidék, and Nyárádmente.
She was born in Hungary but she moved to Transylvania to live and work as a volunteer teacher among Hungarian families and children living in isolated communities.
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Luke Ranieri
public figure, teacher, soldier
Luke Ranieri
Luke Ranieri is a Pennsylvania native and helicopter pilot in the US Army. He spends his free time applying all his energy to the study of Latin and Ancient Greek, and is especially interested in phonology. His Youtube channel ScorpioMartianus hosts hundreds of videos in Latin and Ancient Greek.
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Clemantine Wamariya
author, connector, social entrepreneur
Clemantine Wamariya
Her The New York Times Bestseller memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads is published in eight languages.
She is the founder of 10HOUSES, a private network dedicated to cultivating entrepreneurship and equity, and a co-founder of THINGY, whose mission is to share creative ways of being to foster belonging.
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László Borbély
politician
László Borbély
László Borbély significantly contributed to the democratic development of Romanian society, both as one of the most well-known leaders of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania and through the different high ranking functions held in the Romanian Parliament and the Romanian Government.
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Lajos Bokros
university professor, former politician
Lajos Bokros
Lajos Bokros is an economist, university professor, and former politician. He is a professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Central European University, and he teaches similar courses at Babeș – Bolyai University. Between 1995 and 1996, he was recognized as the Minister of Finance of the Hungarian government.
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Vlad Stanciu
sustainability seaker
Vlad Stanciu
Vlad Stanciu is the co-founder of Eco Living Project, the company in which the Caminota brand was developed. He is a former executive director of the Romanian Sustainable Energy Cluster, which served as an innovation facilitator for projects and participated in the founding of five creative startups.
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Bendegúz Dörnyei
businessman, student
Bendegúz Dörnyei
He is a talented businessman, whose main motivation is to make an environmental and social impact. By the age of 19, he had several years of experience as a social entrepreneur and nonprofit leader. He studies at Yale University. He is the founding president of Startup Mafia.
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Imets Tamás
tech enthusiast, businessman
Imets Tamás
Tamás Imets founded Minyma Technologies with his friends, a company dedicated to exploring the world of machine learning, intelligent systems, and blockchain to create innovative and helpful products for customers. He studied at the University of Technology and Economics of Budapest as a computer engineer.
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Raed Arafat
physician, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Raed Arafat
He founded the Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication (SMURD) in collaboration with the firefighter service. As Secretary of State at the Ministry of Internal Affairs heading the Department for Emergency Situations he was one of the most important decision makers regarding the restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Mihai Covaliu
retired sabre fencer, olympic- and world champion
Mihai Covaliu
Mihai Covaliu is a Romanian olympic- and world champion sabre fencer and, since 2016, the president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee. In 2013 he was elected President of the Romanian Fencing Federation and inducted into the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Hall of Fame.
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Ádám Horváth
digital education expert
Ádám Horváth
He helps governments, companies and startups to rethink education for the challenges of the digital age, and currently supports the curriculum development team at Maker's Red Box as an educational leader. He is a member of the national jury for the International Robot Olympiad and the First LEGO League Championship.
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Dénes Csala
researcher, thinker
Dénes Csala
He holds an assistant professorship at Lancaster University and a visiting professorship at Babeș-Bolyai University He leads the datactivism blogs Kontext and székelydata, exploring complex topics through data analysis and visualization. In 2018, with Endre Sükösd, software developer and machine learning engineer, they launched PODCAST 2030, Transylvania's first tech podcast.
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Elena - Alexandra Miron
sustainability ambassador
Elena - Alexandra Miron
She is an international law, diplomacy and global change graduate working within the area of sustainability and youth representation. She represents Youth as an Ambasador of the Sustainable Development of the Romanian Government, a pilot programme that builds strong connections between youth and decision-makers, representing their voices.
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Tică Darie
social entrepreneur
Tică Darie
Tică is the founder of Made in Roșia Montană. In 2013, Tică published several videos of the abuses at Roșia Montană, which went viral and sparked a street movement. In September 2013 he moved there to get involved with the community and contribute to the development of the locality.
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Zoltán Pálhegyi
responsible waste management expert
Zoltán Pálhegyi
Zoltán Pálhegyi is the general manager of RER Vest S.A., member of RER Group Holding, one of the largest environmental companies in Romania. They offer a wide range of services including domestic sanitation, street sanitation, selective waste collection, green space planning and maintenance, vacuuming and snow removal.
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Csaba Lukács
journalist, reporter, volunteer
Csaba Lukács
He is currently editor of "Magyar Hang", an independent Hungarian newspaper started and maintained with the support of readers.
After briefly experimenting with publishing a samizdat version of "Magyar Nemzet" together with his former colleagues, they decided to start their own independent newspaper that has a great popularity ever since.
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Botond Feledy
geopolitical geek
Botond Feledy
As the managing director of a geopolitical risk analysis firm named Tipping Point Consulting, he deals with some of the world's most exciting conflicts, he is a fan of complex challenges, which is why he chose the domain of international relations after his law degree.
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Daniel David
educational leader
Daniel David
He is the "Aaron T. Beck" professor of clinical psychology and psychotherapy, the founding director of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and, since 2020, elected rector of Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB).
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Zsolt Nagy
businessman and reshaper
Zsolt Nagy
He works as the Managing Partner for Romania at EuroAtlantic Consulting & Investment. He is a former Minister for IT&C, during his time in position he was involved with launching numerous innovative projects like the 3rd GSM operator of the country and many more.
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Péter Radó
educational policy specialist
Péter Radó
He is a professor and researcher dealing with the analysis of systems, policies, and inequality issues in education. He is an associate researcher at the CEU Institute of Democracy and a professor at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of ELTE in Budapest.
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Antonia Colibășanu
geopolitical analyst
Antonia Colibășanu
In her latest book, “Contemporary Geopolitics and Geoeconomics 2.0”, she discusses the framework for understanding geopolitics and how economic factors intersect politics and social stability.
She is Geopolitical Futures’ Chief Operating Officer. She is also a lecturer on international relations at the Romanian National University of Political Studies.
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