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President Traian Basescu on Wednesday decorated 17 researchers who won the Grand Prize in the Geneva 2009 International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products.

The decorations were awarded ‘as a token of high esteem for the contribution to incontestable recognition of the current Romanian research through designing and producing the most advanced system for gamma-ray scanning of containers and trucks, ROBOSACN 1M,’ an invention that was awarded the grand prize in the Geneva 2009 exhibition.

President Basescu told the award ceremony that the prize won by the decoration recipients in Geneva is a recognition of the Romanian research, which should be supported, and which should get closer to today’s economic and social realities of Romania.

The President bestowed the Romania’s Star National Order in the rank of Cavalier on research and development manager Adrian Bazgan; automation system manager Andrei Iacobita; information technology manager Emilian Mircea Mielica; Executive Director Constantin Sima, and CEO Mircea Tudor.

For Merit National Orders in the rank of Cavalier were awarded to programmer Cristian Grechi; mechanical engineer Daniel Ionescu; assembly and service manager Rasvan Iulian Ionescu; automation engineer Adrian Osvat; automation engineer Ilie Cristian Prioteasa and programmers Segiu Semenescu and Alina Gabriela Stroe.

Faithful Service National Cross distinctions, 3rd class, were bestowed on mechanical workshop manager Sile Ionel Chirita; head of the electronics and mechanics department Tudor Gheorghe; self-carrying devices specialist Mihai Spatarescu; electronics specialist Cristian Teodorescu, and electronics and mechanics specialist Iosif Tiberiu Marius.