CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
THE CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IS THE STRUCTURE THAT ENSURES THE SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL COORDINATION OF THE RESEARCH CENTERS AT SPIRU HARET UNIVERSITY.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ICCS)
ICCS, was born in 2009 as a scientific research body within Spiru Haret University (USH) in the context of the increasing emphasis placed at USH on scientific research activity and the objective need of the haretist community to structure and coagulate this activity in a unitary form. ICCS includes the scientific research collectives established at the level of all faculties within USH, with the mission of ensuring a unitary framework and a collaborative platform capable of optimizing scientific research both for the University's teaching staff and for the working groups or partnerships developed by other entities in economic haretist academic space.
VISION AND MISSION IN RESEARCH
Since its establishment, Spiru Haret University assumed the mission of education and economic Spiru Haret University's general mission, as an accredited higher education institution, as described in the Charter, is to generate and transfer knowledge to society through:
a) initial training and continues at university and postgraduate level, for the purpose of personal development, professional insertion of the beneficiaries of the educational process and satisfying the need for competence of the socio - economicenvironment;
- b) scientific research, development, innovation and technological transfer through individual and collective creation, in the fields of sciences, arts, letters, through the achievement of performances and physical and sports development, as well as by capitalizing on and disseminating their results. Spiru Haret University aims to achieve a good position among universities in Romania, to enjoy academic recognition at national and international level, as a result of conducting research and innovation activity at European standards.
- The ICCS mission considers the coordination of the scientific research strategy at the USH level, integrating within it the research component that the various projects
in which the University is involved may have.
MILESTONES IN THE EVOLUTION AND ACTIVITY OF ICCS
Important for the evolution and development of ICCS's activity are a series of initiatives such as:
- Adherence in 2011 to the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers;
- Receiving, in 2013, the Human Resources Excellence in Resource Award from the European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation .
- Involving Spiru Haret University staff in over 100 national and international economic projects;
- Printing of over 10 scientific publications of Spiru Haret University with indexing in international economic (BDI);
- Collaboration with over 20 national and international universities and research institutions;
- Implementing partnerships for writing projects and organizing scientific events;
- Joining COARA in 2024 - Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment;
The ICCS activity represents an integral part of the vision and mission regarding scientific research within USH.
– Strengthening the University's position in the European Education and Research Area-ERA;
– Strengthening the University's position in the academic and research environment in Romania;
– Developing the education – research – business – community relationship;
– Increasing the quality of human resources in research, in order to achieve scientific excellence;
– Attracting funds for research, from public and private sources;
– Increasing the national and international visibility of research results.
The Central Research Institute aims to
– deepening multidisciplinary university research;
– ensuring the necessary conditions for the University's participation in networks and national programs and international research;
– providing specialized services to various beneficiaries;
– relevant ranking of the University's journals by including them in international databases;
– permanent sources of financing;
– growth performances and the scientific results of the teaching and research staff of the University, nationally and international;
– educating undergraduate, master's and doctoral students in the spirit of performance and competitiveness scientific;
– transforming the University into an entrepreneurial higher education institution.
DIRECTIONS OF ACTION FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF USH
Research activities carried out by Spiru Haret University during the period 2021-2027 to achieve the specific objectives are oriented, generically, in the following two fundamental economic action:
– Compliance with education standards and quality standards applicable to the field, in force, recognized at European level by granting the Human Resources Excellence in Research logo by the European Commission - Directorate-General for Research and Innovation;
– Compliance with national standards/criteria and European evaluation by authorized institutions (ARACIS, EUA) of the quality of educational processes and scientific research, in accordance with the legal provisions applicable to the field, in force.
