The School for Sustainable Development aims to strengthen local actors' strategic thinking, understanding of the SDGs, and analytical capacity in terms of local community sustainability. There is no sustainability without the capacity for critical and strategic thinking and analytic skills, aspects that are often lacking in local communities in Romania. By forming a learning community of local actors–the Community Foresight Network (CFN)–the project generates a sustainable mechanism for sustainable development at a national level. CFN members will access inspirational learning experiences related to the SDGs, local and global challenges, foresight methodologies, research, and advocacy.
The aim of the project is to strengthen the strategic thinking and analytical capacity of local actors in order to enhance local community sustainability. It is impossible to have sustainable communities without local actors who think strategically, have minimal research skills (to be able to analyze sustainability challenges and the effectiveness of local public policy proposals), and build impactful cross-sectoral partnerships. Thus, through the School for Sustainable Development, we aim to:
- develop a learning community made up of local actors who are willing to learn and strengthen their strategic thinking.
- build a community of local leaders and organizations that come from different parts of the country and who can learn by sharing visionary and inspirational practices.
- develop an experiential learning process that will strengthen the community of local actors and generate a continuous learning mechanism in the field of local sustainability.
- develop appropriate learning spaces and a curriculum based on experiential education that reinforces strategic thinking, understanding of sustainable development, and research skills.
- generate proposals for concrete interventions to address local sustainability challenges.
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Alexandru Balaș, Ph.D.
Anamaria Vrabie Ph.D.
Anca Molnoș Ph.D.
Andreea Maierean Ph.D.
Andreea Mihaela Buduru
Chris Moreh, Ph.D.
Cristian Daniel, Ph.D.
Diego F. Osorio
Elizabeth Maloba
Ioana Hașu-Georgiev M.A.
Alexandru Balaș, Ph.D.
Dr. Alexandru Balaș is a Professor and Coordinator of the International Studies Program, and the Director of the Clark Center for Global Engagement at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland, USA. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2011), a MA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Sabanci University (2006), and a BA in Political Science from the University of Bucharest. His books include Sharing the Burden of Peace (Peter Lang, 2022), The Puzzle of Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Peace Operations (Polity Press, 2014). In 2015, he received a European Union (EU) Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module Grant. In 2017 and 2019 he won EU tenders to develop EU role-play negotiation/mediation simulations and one of these was awarded the best negotiation scenario at E-PARCC (The Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration) 2018, Syracuse University. His current research interests are related to EU-India Relations, EU's Negotiations with Micro-States (Andorra, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican), EU Relations with the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and Outermost Regions (ORs), 16th and 17th Centuries Book Networks in Wallachia and Moldova, and 18th and 19th centuries Travellers from the Romanian Principalities.
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PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
“European Union’s Use of the Outermost Regions (ORs) and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) to Promote its Geopolitical Interests in the Atlantic, Caribbean, Indian, and the Pacific Regions” (book chapter published in edited volume EU Geopolitical Actorness in a Shifting World Order, Palgrave, 2025)
“Wallachia: A Christian-European Hub for Books, News, and Diplomatic Correspondence Within the Ottoman Lands (1688-1714)” (book chapter accepted for publication in edited volume Patrimonio Escrito en Circulación: Redes Culturales y Comerciales en la Edad Moderna, Mexico City: Universitad Autonoma de Mexico, forthcoming 2025)
“European Union and Conflict Resolution in Central Asia in the 21st Century” (book chapter accepted for publication in edited volume titled ‘"EU Governance in Central Asia: A Sectoral Approach’, Routledge, forthcoming, 2024)
“The Adventures of a Transylvanian Doctor in Constantinople, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Iraq (1815-1838)” (book chapter accepted for publication in edited volume, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, forthcoming, 2024)
“The Negotiating Power of European Micro-States (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican) in Their Relations With the European Union (EU)” (book chapter accepted for publication in edited volume Non-EU Europe: Patterns of interaction between the EU and its European Neighbours, - forthcoming with Springer)
“What is Model EU” (book chapter accepted for publication in “Practising Transnational Politics. Preparing and participating in UN and EU Simulations” – forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishers)
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Book Review” of Changing Indian Images of the European Union Perception and Misperception, Palgrave MacMillan Singapore, 2019, 162 pp., & India and the European Union in a Turbulent World, Palgrave McMillan Singapore, 2020, 220 pp., Rajendra K. Jain (Editor), Romanian Journal of Indian Studies, September 2023
“Book Note” for The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How to Study It (authored by Christian Davenport, Erik Melander, and Patrick Regan, Oxford University Press, 2018), Journal of Peace Research, November 2018
“Demanding Peace: The Impact of Prevailing Conflict on the Shift from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding”, Peace and Change 37(2), April 2012: 195-226 (with Andrew Owsiak and Paul Diehl)
“It Takes Two (or More): Multiple Simultaneous Peace Operations”, Journal of International Peacekeeping 15(3-4), September 2011: 384-421
PEER-REVIEWED ROLE-PLAY SIMULATIONS
European Council Simulation “Global Europe? Deciding Canada’s Membership Application to the European Union, Role-Play Negotiation (co-authored with Noam Ebner and Andreas Kotelis), submitted for the 16th Annual Teaching Case and Simulation Competition, E-PARCC 2021, Syracuse University, Maxwell School’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC)
Council of the European Union Simulation “Negotiation Mandate for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Tradeland” Role-Play Negotiation (co-authored with Noam Ebner, and Andreas Kotelis), (Washington, D.C.: European Union Delegation in the United States, 2017). Available on the European Union website at: https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/sim2-council_of_the_eu_trade-111317.pdf
Council of the European Union – European Parliament – European Commission Simulation “Anti-Terrorism EU Legislation” Role-Play Negotiation & Mediation (co-authored with Noam Ebner, and Andreas Kotelis), (Washington, D.C.: European Union Delegation in the United States, 2017). Available on the European Union website at: https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/sim3-large_model_eu_simulation_terrorism-110917-eu_file.pdf
Note: These three projects above were made possible through funding from the European Union through Service Tender (reference No. PPD-EEAS-023-2016).
Anamaria Vrabie Ph.D.
Anca Molnoș Ph.D.
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Andreea Maierean Ph.D.
Dr. Andreea Maierean is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Study Abroad Director at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2013 from Boston University and she previously studied in Bucharest, Romania, at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration; in Trieste, Italy, at the University of Trieste; in Budapest, Hungary, at Central European University and in Vienna, Austria, at the Institute for Human Sciences. Her research and teaching interests broadly include post-communist transitions to democracy, transitional justice, and environmental policy.
Andreea Mihaela Buduru
Andreea is Assistant Manager at the Făgăraș Research Institute. She has a degree in sociology from the "Lucian Blaga" University in Sibiu, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, where she wrote a bachelor's thesis on the topic of international migration of parents and the impact on children left at home. Within the university, she also completed the Psycho-Pedagogical Module. She finished high school at "Radu Negru" in Făgăraș.
Chris Moreh, Ph.D.
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Cristian Daniel, Ph.D.
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Diego F. Osorio
Thematic Expert, Faculty, Academic Researcher. Most recently Senior Advisor in Climate Security and launching of NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate Security (Global Affairs Canada) and previously Senior Advisor Climate Security CGIAR Climate Security. PhD Candidate (Utrecht U.) Canadian Diplomat, Adjunct Professor. 25 years of public administration and international experience covering the UN, NATO, World Bank, Canadian diplomacy, and private sector ventures. Diego has worked globally on diplomatic/political and economic matters, climate change-conflict/adaptation policy, as well as institutional/social reconstruction, civil-military coordination, and humanitarian issues. He has deployed to Afghanistan, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Indonesia (Banda Aceh), Iraq, Central African Republic, Jordan, Kosovo, Liberia, Pakistan, and Timor Leste to name some of his multiple field missions. He previously served as Senior Peacekeeping Officer (2006) and as Senior Advisor on Mediation, Negotiation and Peace processes (2019) at Global Affairs Canada. He is also an Associate Fellow of both the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université de Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and the Făgăraș Research Institute, Romania. Diego has lectured in humanitarian action, governance design, the humanitarian-development nexus, reconciliation/mediation, conflict and climate change, post-conflict recovery, political economy, complexity/economic geography, and urban conflict at universities in Canada and abroad. He also works on co-creation and human design methodologies. Adjunct Professor, Master of Public Policy, Adler University, Canada, and Ecole 3A, Lyon, France.
Education:
2018-Present PhD Candidate, University of Utrecht (Complexity and Institutional Design applied to climate security)
2009 MC/MPA (Master Public Administration) Harvard KSG;
2001 Master’s in International Trade Law and Economics (MILE), U.Bern /Fribourg/Neuchâtel (World Trade Institute);
1996, McGill University, BA, Political Science/History.
E-mail: d.osorio@uu.nl / diego@osorio.ca / dosorio@adler.edu
LinkedIn: Diego Osorio
PhD Student, University of Utrecht
BMW Foundation Presents Twenty Thirty Podcast: On Purpose with Diego Osorio
Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies: Fellows
McGill News (UN Mediator, not taking peace for granted) 2011
Harvard Alumni Magazine (2011). Working for the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (p.3)
Associate Fellow: Chair Raoul Dandurand, Universite de Quebec a Montreal
Elizabeth Maloba
Elizabeth has twenty years’ experience in addressing complex challenges - she works in cross-sectoral, trans-professional, multistakeholder settings to foster collaborative initiatives; and support shifts in strategies, policies, frameworks and business models. Her expertise is drawn from work in International Cooperation, Development Cooperation, and Private Sector. She works in cross-cultural groups, from grassroots levels to global platforms, to support development of leadership, teams, policies, strategies, plans, and models that contribute to transformation. She works with various staff levels – from entry level to director level – in either individual or group sessions, in both face-to-face and virtual settings. She is passionate about small businesses and draws from lessons in her journey as an entrepreneur to support founders and leaders in growth stage businesses along their journey. She brings skills in capacity building, knowledge management, facilitation, conflict resolution and management to diverse assignments.
She has experience across sectors – Agriculture, Health, Financial Services, Retail and Hospitality – and has worked with organisations such as GIZ, UN Women, IFAD, Syngenta, African Heritage, Fila East Africa, Procasur, Nature Kenya, IREN, IHPMR, Ipsos-Synovate, Save the Children, Strathmore Business School to name a few.
She holds a number of certificates in corporate governance, leadership, consulting, conflict management, e-learning and business coaching, and a postgraduate diploma in financial management.
She lives in Nairobi, works across the World, and speaks English, Swahili, German and French.
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Ioana Hașu-Georgiev M.A.
Ioana Hașu-Georgiev is interested in Romania’s recent past, researching aspects related to the armed anti-communist resistance. She holds an M.A. from the Central European University (2015) and is an accredited independent researcher at the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (2011). She explores in her research the less known aspects of the anti-communist struggle, such as the role of women in the resistance, postmemory and trans-generational trauma, traumatic amnesia, the relation between forgetting, remembering, and healing.
In 2012 she created an interactive workshop for children, Grandparents’ Times, focusing on the early communist period and repression. The workshop is offered in schools, high schools, and camps. In 2018 she launched an exposition at the Țara Făgărașului Museum entitled The Women in the Resistance, invisible actors of the anti-communist struggle.
In the last 10 years, Ioana gave public lectures and participated in conferences organized by the Institute for the Investigation of Crimes committed by the Communist Regime.
Ioana has over 15 years of experience in mass-media, among others, working for BBC Romania and Radio France Internationale.
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Ioana Onea, B.Sc.
Lev Fejes, Ph.D.
Lutz Drieling, M.A.
Mădălina Prună, MPP
Maria Suciu, Ph.D.
Marius Ghincea, Ph.D
Silvia Fierăscu, Ph.D.
Sorin Cebotari, Ph.D.
Sorin Pirău
Ștefan Cibian, Ph.D.
Ioana Onea, B.Sc.
Ioana graduated from Loughborough University in 2023 with First Class Honours in Social Sciences and Humanities. Since then, she worked in a top communications agency, became a volunteer for the Ambulance for Monuments, worked on various research projects within FRI, and discovered her passion for cultural heritage. She is an aspiring wood conservator-restorer looking forward to enrolling in a Wood Restoration & Eco-design Master’s this summer.
Her interests as well as areas of expertise include: sociology, anthropology, gender studies, identities and inequalities, race & racism, climate justice & sustainability, photography (both digital and analogue), culture, and heritage.
Lev Fejes, Ph.D.
Lev holds a doctorate in criminal justice from the School of Criminal Justice within Michigan State University (MSU) and an MA in Nonprofit Organization Management from Babeș-Bolyai University. As the Head of Research at the Association for Community Relations (ARC) he is responsible for coordinating the organization’s research efforts related to philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. He is a founding member of the Initiative for European Democratic Culture (ICDE) think-tank, and a Research Fellow at the Făgaraș Research Institute and Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD).
An enthusiast of research methods, at ARC he utilizes his research experience developed at the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) within MSU in designing and implementing studies aimed at furthering the understanding of philanthropic behavior in Romania and at informing decisions with regards to the development needs of Romanian NGOs. In his other capacities, Lev pursues various topics related mainly to urban safety and policing.
His area of expertise includes anti-counterfeiting strategies, consumer behavior, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and public policy. His main academic research interests relate to criminology, product counterfeiting, policing and urban safety. He is also interested in more applied research on the topics of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility and is passionate about turning the world into a better place for each and all.
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Lutz Drieling, M.A.
Lutz Drieling has finished his master's degree in International Public Affairs at the University of Bucharest. He previously obtained a Bachelor's degree in Sustainable Social Policy from Sankt Augustin, Germany, where his academic focus revolved around the examination of inequality, unequal opportunities, social injustices, and the implementation of the Agenda 2030. Throughout his master's program, Lutz expanded his academic horizons to encompass the international realm, particularly concentrating on postcolonialism, climate change, and power relations.
Motivated by an unwavering curiosity, Lutz's intellectual pursuits transcend the boundaries of politics and social issues. He demonstrates a keen interest in the arts, culture, history, and the natural sciences. As an ardent universalist, Lutz endeavors to seek solutions that extend beyond his specific areas of expertise, drawing upon his diverse experiences across various disciplines.
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Mădălina Prună, MPP
Maria Suciu, Ph.D.
Dr. Maria Suciu is a computational biologist with DPhil in Genomic Medicine and Statistics from the University of Oxford and 2+ years of experience in the field. Thorough understanding of NGS data from library generation to analysis. Developed and published pipelines and analysis tools for epigenetic and whole-genome sequencing analysis in both academic and industry settings. Acquired cloud compute skills for performing data analysis on large data sets (100+ individuals) on HPC or Amazon EC2. Analytical mind with extensive experience in experimental design and problem solving, enthusiastic about unlocking the potential of genomics to improve human health.
Marius Ghincea, Ph.D
Dr. Marius Ghincea is Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI) and Executive Director at the Bucharest-based Quartet Institute.
He is the distinguished recipient of several prestigious awards. Among others, he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Global Leaders Fellow at the George Washington University, an EUI-Oxford Dahrendorf Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, a Research Fellow at the Hertie School, and a re:constitution fellow, a joint program of Forum Transregionale Studien and Democracy Reporting International. He also served in teaching roles at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, the Syracuse University (Daniel and Gayle D'Aniello Program in Florence), and the EUI's School of Transnational Governance in Florence.
Silvia Fierăscu, Ph.D.
Dr. Silvia Fierăscu has a PhD in Comparative Politics and Network Science from Central European University. Her research focuses primarily on quality of governance, political-business relations, and statistical analyses of network data. Silvia is involved in various interdisciplinary projects, translating complex problems into real-time applications for organizational management, political communication, and better governance.
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Sorin Cebotari, Ph.D.
Dr. Sorin Cebotari is a researcher in sustainable development. At the moment, Sorin is a senior research manager at weTHINK. Europe where he coordinates a research team focusing on the energy and construction sectors in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Also, Sorin is an external consultant for European Climate Foundation, where he coordinates the project InfoClima.ro
Aiming to improve public discurse on climate change. As a Marie Curie Fellow he researcherd the impact of renewable energies on perypheralyzation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Key areas of interest: sustainable development, circular economy, perypheralyzation and polarization in CEE, regional development, renewable energy.
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- Sorin, Cebotari, “Romanian electricity market in the light of fast development of renewable energies: General presentation and critical assessment”, Institute for Regional Studies, Center for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Science. Molnar Nyomada Ltd., 2015
- Sorin, Cebotari; Marius, Cristea; Ciprian, Moldovan; Florin, Zubascu; “Renewable energy's impact on rural development in northwestern Romania”, Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol 37, Feb 2017, pp. 110-123
- Sorin, Cebotari; Jozsef, Benedek; “Renewable Energy Project as a Source of Innovation in Rural Communities: Lessons from the Periphery”, Sustainability, Vol 9 (4). 509, March 2017.
- Sorin, Cebotari; Melinda, Mihaly; “Towards a Progressive Local Development Approach-Insights from Local Community Initiatives in Hungary and Romania” in Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarization, by Thilo Lang and Franziska Gormar, Palgrave Macmillan, doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1190- 1_11, Jan 2019.
- Sorin, Cebotari; Thilo, Lang; Tomas, Hanell; “Translating Scientific Results: Encouraging Reflective Policies as a Chance for Change” in Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarization, by Thilo Lang and Franziska Gormar, Palgrave Macmillan, doi:10.1007/978-981-13- 1190-1_15., Jan 2019.
- Sorin, Cebotari, “Against All Odds: Community Owned Renewable Energy Projects in North-West Romania”, ACME 18(2), 513-528, May 2019.
Sorin Pirău
Sorin Pirău is Senior Portfolio Manager at Danske Bank Wealth Management, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2013 Sorin has been part of a 4-person team managing a €4bn fund invested in Emerging Markets Debt. His role is to perform sovereign credit analysis for 80+ countries spread across Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
Sorin holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and has graduated with a Master’s degree in Economics from The University of Copenhagen.
His research interest is focused on the interactions between a developing country’s economic, social and political environments, their effects on sovereign creditworthiness, and ultimately on funding costs. Other topics of interest include sustainable investing and the role of ESG factors (Economic, Social and Governance) in fixed income investing.
Ștefan Cibian, Ph.D.
Dr. Ștefan Cibian is a member of the Board and the executive director of the Făgăraș Research Institute.
Stefan teaches courses related to international relations, international development, international organizations, peacebuilding, and postcolonial Africa at the M.A. in International Development at the Political Science Department, Babeș-Bolyai University and the M.A. in International Public Affairs at the Political Science Department, University of Bucharest.
Previously, Stefan worked as an Academy Fellow at Chatham House – The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Africa Programme and Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs, the World Bank Group, the European Commission, the Association for Community Relations, and Central European University.
His research interests include international development, community development, Africa-CEE-EU relations, development policy, international relations theory, peacebuilding, fragile states, the link between research, policy, and practice, higher education policy, and global affairs. Regarding his geographic focus, Stefan is primarily concerned with Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, the European Union, and transatlantic relations.
Stefan is an Executive Committee member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and is a member of the International Studies Association, European International Studies Association, Central and Eastern Europe International Studies Association, and UACES. Stefan also focuses on civil society development in CEE. He is the President of ARCADIA – The Romanian Association for International Cooperation and Development and GRASP, and a Board Member with Țara Făgărașului Community Foundation (FCTF), UiPath Foundation, the Association for the Practice of Transformation, and the Romanian Federation of Community Foundations. Stefan is a member of the following networks: Bosch Alumni Network, BMW Responsible Leaders’ Network, and Mercator Foundation TEFF Alumni Network.
Stefan received his Ph.D. in political science and international relations (2012) and his M.A. in public policy (2006) from Central European University. He holds a B.A. in political science (2004) from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and a B.A. in law (2005) from the 1st of December 1918 University, Alba Iulia, Romania. Stefan also studied or conducted research at Salzburg University, the University of Ljubljana, and UCLA.
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Central & Eastern Europe and EU-Africa Relations after 2020 (Chatham House Research Paper, 2020)
Central and Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects for Sustained Re-engagement (Chatham House Research Paper, 2017)
Analyzing the European Development Fund: An English School Account of How Presumed Statehood Undermines (Development in) Sub-Saharan Africa (Ph.D. Thesis, Central European University, 2012)
Ștefan Morar, Ph.D.
Victor Cepoi, Ph.D.
Ștefan Morar, Ph.D.
Dr. Ștefan Morar holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Montreal, Canada. With a major in Comparative Politics and a minor in International Relations, his research is dedicated to nation-building within Eurasia's de facto states.
Stefan's academic background includes a Master in Political Science from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and a BA in European Studies and International Relations from Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, Romania. He is also an alumnus of the College of Europe, where he gained valuable insights into the workings of the European Union, European Neighbourhood Policy, and its Eastern Partnership.
Victor Cepoi, Ph.D.
Dr. Victor Cepoi is Assistant Professor at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica, Slovenia (SASS) and Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia (FIS). He received his Ph.D. in 2018 at SASS on the topic of Regional Innovation Performance. His research interests include: European regional development, innovation performance in the EU, social capital and research methodologies. He was engaged in several international projects.
These include two Interreg Danube Programme projects: High-performance Computing for Effective Innovation in the Danube Region (InnoHPC) and Fostering Innovation in the Danube Region through Knowledge Engineering and IPR Management (KnowING IPR). Additionally, Victor was engaged in several projects co-financed by Erasmus+ programme: Enabling SMEs to gain competitive advantage from the use of HPC, Boosting Innovation in Curricula Development of IT Programs in Palestine and Designstem: integrated design + STEM education.
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Cepoi, Victor. A meta-analysis and explanation of innovation processes through the outline of social fields theory. Research in social change, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 15-31, 2020
Cepoi, Victor. National Case Study in the Danube Region: Ukraine. In: Rončević B., Coscodaru R. and Fric Urška (eds.). Go with the flow: high performance computing and innovations in the Danube region. Vega Press, 2019
Kantor Irina and Cepoi Victor. From Neglect to Crime - The Role of Media In 2015. European Migration Crisis. A Comparative Study in Three ECE Countries: Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. In: Balica E and Marinescu V (eds.), Migration and Crime: Realities and Media Representation. Palgrave, 2018
Roncevic Borut, Makarovic Matej, Tomsic Matevz and Cepoi Victor. Methodological Solutions for Comparative Research on Transformations. In: Vihalemm P, Masso A, Opermann S(eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Social Transformation. Routledge, 2018.
Cepoi Victor and Golob Tea. Innovation Performance in the EU Comparative Perspective: The Interplay of Social Forces in the Context of National Innovation Systems. Comparative Sociology, 2017, Vol. 16, issue 4, pp. 555-579
Mikulan Kildi Janja and Cepoi, Victor. The importance of the political order for peace. Journal of aggression, conflict and peace research, 2017, Vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 24-37
Cepoi Victor. Trust and participation in the information society: new and traditional information sources. In Rončević Borut and Tomšič Matevž (eds.), Information society and its manifestations: economy, politics, culture. Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2017.
Cepoi Victor. Does trust make people more civically moral?: an empirical study for the Romanian and Moldovan societies. Raziskave in razprave, 2016, Vol. 9, no. 1/3, pp. 264-307
Cepoi, Victor. Do social forces matter?: a model for innovation and development performance. Research in social change, 2016, vol. 8, issue 3, pp. 4-27
Cepoi Victor and Golob Tea. Regional innovation performance: measuring development in cultural, social and economic perspectives. Innovation Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, 2016, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 242 – 260
Cepoi Victor. Trust: A Diversity approach. in Trust, Social Capital and Democratic participation: A literature Review. Accent, Romania, 2013.
Conference Proceedings
Cepoi Victor and Rončević Borut. Social fields theory explaining innovations and developmental performance. 4th International Conference on Economics, Political and Law Sciences (Business and economic series), 2015, pp. 38 – 47
Cepoi Victor. Democracy at a new crossroad for Eastern Europe. 4th International Conference on Economics, Political and Law Sciences (Business and economic series), 2015, pp. 111 – 117
Cepoi Victor. An explanatory model for innovation: a focus on cognitive frames. 4th International Conference on Economics, Political and Law Sciences (Business and economic series), 2015, pp. 182 – 188
Cepoi Victor. Regional development performance – a focus on the innovation processes. Mathematical and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering Series, 2015, pp. 132 – 139
Cepoi Victor. The role of Social Networks in the framework of the Regional Development. in Mathematical and Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering Series, 2015, pp. 112 – 119
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