Author: Kieran Egan. We greatly regret that Dr. Stefan Popenici's time with us is concluding at the end of April this year. Stefan has been an enormous help to the development of IERG, taking charge of setting up the website for IRNIE [http://imaginativeeducation.org/IRNIE], and arranging a mammoth trip for himself and IERG directors to meet with a number of our associates in Romania, Georgia, Italy, Spain and Israel to plan future research and development work.

He has also launched into a book on ADHD, given a seminar on role models and heroes, been the guiding force in the development of an energetic group of Imaginative Educators in Georgia, Eastern Europe, and generally made himself an indispensable part of the IERG team. He will, we hope, continue in this role from Romania, becoming a major developer of IERG ideas and their implementation. We would like to take this opportunity to express our deep and sincere gratitude for all his work here, and for the friendly way he enriched our lives in the IERG for the year he was with us.

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