Drawing on the experience of its NEC and RELINK Programmes in connecting with the Romanian academic milieu, NEC initiated in 2003, with support from Higher Education Support Programme (HESP) in Budapest, a programme that aimed to contribute more consistently to the advancement of higher education in major Romanian academic centers (Bucharest, Cluj–Napoca, Iaşi, Timişoara). Teams consisting of two academics from different universities in Romania, assisted by a PhD student offered joint courses for the duration of one term in a discipline within the fields of humanities and social sciences. The programme supported innovative courses, conceived so as to meet the needs of the host universities. The grantees participating in the Programme received monthly stipends, a substantial support for ordering literature relevant to their courses, as well as funding for inviting guest lecturers from abroad and for organizing scientific events.

Cătălin AVRAMESCU was part of a team which also included Corin BRAGA, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and Oana SUCIU Ph.D. Candidate, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest.

Host Institution: Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
Title of Course: Symbolic Histories and Geographies (M.A. curricular course) and Geography and Political Imagination (M.A. curricular course)
Targeted Audience: M.A. students in Philology and Political Science

A full-length study is available here.