1. Romania in the European
Research Area
People, Infrastructure
Research Environment

2. European scientific integration
• CERN membership
• European Space Agency membership
• Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, Germany
• Bilateral partnerships with France (CNRS, CEA, ANR),
Switzerland, Norway, Israel, etc
• Extreme Light Infrastructure Măgurele (293M€, 250+
permanent staff) exploring ultra relativistic physics
• UNESCO Institute for Theoretical Physics at Măgurele
associated with ICTP Trieste

3. Career opportunities
• Large number of senior open positions (retirement
wave)
• Installation bonuses in major grant schemes (€50.000)
• Eligibility criteria strongly favouring young international
applicants
• Massive investments in infrastructure in the last 6 years
• Lab twinning scheme
• Human resources  a national priority

4. Funding instruments
• EU Framework program 7 & Horizon 2020
• Structural funds (with public and private sector) ~ 900 M€ for
the period 2007 - 2013
• National schemes:
– Covering the whole career path (70K€ to 1.7M€)
– Postdoc, young teams, senior teams, large academic collaborations,
industrial collaborations, lab twinning
– Less bureaucratic and more transparent
– > 50% international evaluation (until now 100%)
– Institutional funding designed to support setting up new centers and
laboratories
– Financial support and stimuli for industrial collaborations

5. Welcome to the New Europe !
People, Infrastructure
Research Environment