“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”- Vaclav Havel

Mihai has been part of the Solar Decathlon story since 2010. He has been involved in the project since the qualifications at PRISPA, the first team from Romania qualified in this competition, and has participated at the 2012 edition in Madrid.

Later, Mihai co-founded the EFdeN project and the energiaTa project, the aim of which is to facilitate the process of producing solar energy for household users and injecting it into the network.

In the meanwhile, Mihai has worked as Manager of Development and Politics at the Romania Council for Green Buildings, as co-president of Eisenhower Fellowships Youth Leader, as co-president of Future Energy Leaders Romania, Aspen Fellow and as part of Forbes 30 under 30.

Claudiu left for Bucharest to get his engineering degree and return to Bacau to continue his family business. "I got stuck in Bucharest, I was interested in this competition and it didn't let me go. I have gotten to know, in two editions of Solar Decathlon, many teams from around the world, from all continents, and they motivated us to continue to inspire more people. They made us believe in ourselves, back home we were told that we would not succeed, that we wouldn't change anything, and that we were well intended but that we should do something else because food was expensive. I got my license as a forklift driver, load binder and I learned to communicate better and better. I said <> to everyone and thanked people even for a nut. I learned to keep quiet and move on, to forgive and to never give up ”