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.

Călin GOINA was part of a team which also included Liviu CHELCEA, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Bucharest; NEC Alumnus and Norbert PETROVICI Ph.D. Candidate, Assistant Professor, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.

Host Institution: Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Title of Course: Culture and the City: Creative Industries and Urban Change. A Comparative Presentation of Bucharest, Cluj, Budapest, and New York City
Targeted Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students in Political Science, European Integration, Economics, and Journalism

A full-length study is available here.