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.

Radu TEODORESCU  was part of a team which also included Mircea LĂZĂRESCU, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Head of Dept., Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara and Virgil ENĂTESCU Ph.D. Candidate, Tutor, Psychiatry Department of the Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timişoara; Resident Doctor, Eduard Pamfil Clinic of Psychiatry, Timişoara.

Host Institution: Faculty of Medicine, Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara
Title of Course: Research in Psychiatry (optional course)
Targeted Audience: Post-graduate students (Ph.D. candidates), young psychiatrists and faculty

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.

Radu TEODORESCU was part of a team together with Dan PRELIPCEANU, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest.

Host Institution: Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest
Title of Course: Community Psychiatry (post-graduate optional course)
Targeted Audience: Post-graduate students (foremost residents in psychiatry) and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Psychiatry

Un model cognitiv al anxietatii (A cognitive model of anxiety)
Fobia sociala (Social phobia)

The studies were published in Actualități în tulburările anxioase (Developments in anxiety disorders), [Bucuresti]: CrisCad, 1999