Looking forward to the future, the Centre for Sustainable Development has formulated a strategy for its own sustainable development. This strategy is based on inner collaboration and external networking with other institutions, members of the national and European academic community but also with representatives of the economic and social environment.

The support for developing spin off companies is another point of our future and represents an experience so far not fully exploited in Romania.

The presence of the members of the Centre in the scientific life, participators in research

and education projects — was the path for developing successful collaborations and we

intend to enlarge our partner consortium based on the existent (and developing) resources

and on the mutual interest.

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