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The exhibition opens on March 1st, a date that in Romania (Adina’s growing up environment) traditionally marks the beginning of spring through the celebration of Mărțișor—a cultural ritual centered on renewal, balance, and the return of life after winter. More broadly, March carries symbolic meaning across many cultures as a threshold between dormancy and awakening: in Balkan traditions such as Bulgaria’s Baba Marta, in the ancient Roman calendar where March once marked the start of the year and the agricultural cycle, in the Persian cultural sphere leading toward Nowruz at the spring equinox, and within East Asian seasonal philosophies that associate early March with the stirring of life and the shift from yin toward yang.

As part of her research at RIFS, Adina-Iuliana Deacu is exploring a redefinition of business as “an entity that solves social issues and creates social value in a financially sustainable way” as a solution to climate change and the polycrisis.

Clean hydrogen is moving from pilot projects to large-scale deployment, but bottlenecks are no longer only technological – they are regulatory, standardisation, and safety-related. Policymakers, industry, and financiers face fragmented frameworks across countries and regions, slowing investment and cross-border trade. Without harmonised standards, certification schemes, and clear safety protocols, hydrogen risks becoming a patchwork market, undermining cost competitiveness and public trust.