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Romania
Partners situated in Romania
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Romania in a nutshell
Romania (archaic: Rumania, Roumania; Romanian: România) is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory. It shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
The territory's recorded history includes periods of rule by Dacians, the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. As a nation-state, the country was formed by the merging of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 and it gained recognition of its independence in 1878. Later, in 1918, they were joined by Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia. At the end of World War II, parts of its territories (roughly the present day Moldova) were occupied by the USSR and Romania became a member of the Warsaw Pact. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Romania started a series of political and economic reforms. After a decade of post-revolution economic problems, Romania made economic reforms such as low flat tax rates in 2005 and joined the European Union on January 1, 2007. While Romania's income level remains one of the lowest in the European Union, reforms have increased the growth speed. Romania is now an upper-middle income country economy.
Romania has the 9th largest territory and the 7th largest population (with 21.5 million people) among the European Union member states.
Its capital and largest city is Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti), the 6th largest city in the EU with 1.9 million people.
In 2007, Sibiu, a city in Transylvania, was chosen as a European Capital of Culture.
Romania also joined NATO on March 29, 2004, and is also a member of the Latin Union, of the Francophonie of the OSCE and an associate member of the CPLP.
Romania is a semi-presidential unitary state.
Romania education policy
Romania education system
Higher education
Universities in Romania
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Polytechnics in Romania
Higher education reform
The Bologna Process
Administration and finance
Quality assurance
Romania's HEIs in the information society
Towards the information society
Information society strategy
Virtual Campuses in HE
Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives
Interesting Programmes
CODECS Romania
The Open University Business School has been offering courses in Romania for almost fifteen years in partnership with The Centre for Open Distance Education for the Civil Society (CODEDS), a major provider of management education in Romania. CODECS aim to provide a high quality and internationally recognised programme of management education for active managers in the emerging free market economy.
The internationally recognised Master of Business Administration (MBA), presented in English, provides opportunities for networking locally at regular seminars and internationally, both at residential schools and online, with managers studying the programme around the world. Seminars are presented by CODECS and OU Business School lecturers who have management and business experience. There are 151 MBA alumni in Romania.
The Open University Business School's Professional Certificate and Professional Diploma in Management programmes are presented in Romanian through a network of twelve Regional Centres across Romania. Each year over a thousand students study these programmes; many students then progress onto the MBA Programme.
Polytechnic University of Timisoara
The Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Timişoara) is located in Timişoara, Romania. Founded in 1920, it is one of the largest technical universities in Central/ Eastern Europe. The university has 10 faculties and several independent departments.
The Polytechnic University of Timisoara is the co-ordinator of the ViCaDiS (the Virtual Campus for Digital Students) project of the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme.
The Polytechnic University of Timisoara web site is at http://www.upt.ro/english/index.php
The Regional Distance Education Centre (CSID) has been, since 1998, a department of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara which aims to organise, support and supervise all distance education in the university.
The web site is at http://www.csid.upt.ro
Re.ViCa Case-study
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Lessons learnt
References
Good reference to elearning situtaion in Romania: http://www.eenovate.info/documents/Paths%20of%20Developing%20E-learning%20Programmes%20in%20Romania.pdf