9 May 2025

Academia Europaea Bucharest Knowledge Regional Hub

Signing Agreement Event on the 9th of May 2025, Bucharest, Romanian Academy

On 9 May 2025, Academia Europaea (AE, est. 1988) and the Romanian Academy (RA, est. 1866) signed an agreement to establish the AE Bucharest Regional Hub at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest.

The agreement was signed by Academician Ioan-Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy, and Professor Donald Dingwell, interim President of Academia Europaea.

During the event, Ioan-Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy, awarded the „Academic Merit” Diploma to Professor Donald Dingwell, interim President of Academia Europaea; Dr. David Coates, former Executive Secretary; and Professor Marja Makarow, President of Academia Europaea from 2022 to 2024.

Professor Donald Dingwell, interim President of the Academia Europaea: This is an important moment. This concludes our deliberations on your well-developed proposal to create an Academia Europaea Hub in Bucharest, Romania, to be administered under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. I am very pleased to inform you that, by unanimous vote of the Board of the Academia Europaea, on the 9th of May 2025, we have agreed and invite you to set up a hub of the Academia Europaea in Bucharest, Romania, today. Thank you so much.

Academician Ioan-Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian Academy: Thank you so much for coming here. I hope you will have a very good stay here in Bucharest, Romania. We aim to do a good job for the Academia Europaea. Let us work together to ensure the success of this collaboration!

Coordinated by Academia Europaea and the Romanian Academy, the Regional Center serves as a dynamic forum for Romanian and international researchers. It will foster the exchange of ideas and mobilize intellectual resources to both preserve and reinterpret intellectual and cultural traditions from a contemporary perspective.

The Bucharest Hub joins other AE Hubs in Barcelona, Bergen, Budapest, Tbilisi, and Wrocław, as well as the information center in Graz and offices in London and Munich. While addressing a broad agenda, the AE Bucharest Hub will focus on international activities that leverage its strengths in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, and related fields.