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Constantin Brâncoveanu University has achieved positive results in terms of scientific research based on contracts, through participation in national and foreign-funded programmes or through execution of scientific research and consultancy work for various institutions and businesses in Pitești, Brăila and Râmnicu Vâlcea.
■ Modernization of economic affairs techniques management, PHARE 2005 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management-Marketing in Economic Affairs, Brăila Branch.
Project period: January to December 2008
Project value: 53,500 euro
Project manager: PhD Professor Alexandru Puiu
The project objective focused on increasing the level of qualifications and skills, both among employers and among employees concerning the current economic changes and developments. Special attention was given to open access to training and improvement in order to render the employees aware about the importance of lifelong learning.
Achieved activities: conference on the occasion of launching the project - 70 participants; conducting training courses; drafting and printing the Business techniques management dictionary; organizing the Requirements of performance management in business Symposium, occasion for launching the previously mentioned dictionary; organizing the project completion conference; advertising the project activities: press releases, newspaper articles, posters, leaflets, etc.
■ Harmonization model of practices in the field of financial management of projects financed by the European Social Fund.
Funder: Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection (MMFPS), General Directorate Management Authority for the Human Resources Development Operational Programme (DG. AMPOSDRU).
Project undertaken by the Faculty of Finance and Accounting - Pitesti.
http://www.practicifse.ro/
■ Knowledge of the employability degree of IPT graduates - a new approach of the education offer. Contract code POSDRU/90/2.1/S/50820.
Beneficiary: Vâlcea County School Inspectorate.
Coordinator on behalf of the University: PhD Associate Professor Iuliana Ciochină
http://vl.rightontimesolutions.com/50820/
■ Active adapting of university education to labour market demands, Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Phare 2006 Project
Partners: Mott MacDonald Ltd Business Association, SC "Education 2000 + Consulting Ltd and the Foundation Education Centre 2000 +.
Project conducted by the Faculty of Juridical, Administrative and Communication Studies Pitești
http://www.aracis.ro/proiecte/adaptarea-activa-a-educatiei-universitare-la-cerintele-pietei-muncii/
■ Identification of factors for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs and of regional opportunities. Methods and techniques for European entrepreneurship.
Programme funded by the Ministry of Education and Research - National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSIS), conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs Rm. Vâlcea Branch.
CNCSIS 1113 Contract, Grant A type
Project period: January 2007 - December 2008
Project value: 115,756 lei
Project manager: PhD Professor Iuliana Ciochină
Objectives: The project aimed at conducting research on company competitiveness, identification of competitiveness factors in SMEs, as well as on the establishment of methods to analyze and evaluate results, on the elaboration of strategies to increase competitiveness, on defining methods and techniques for developing a competitive entrepreneurship in Europe.
Achieved activities: research concerning the strategies for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs from Vâlcea on the international market, SWOT analyses concerning the business environment, having in view the company as supplier for export markets. Identifying the methods and techniques for a "European entrepreneur" and offering landmarks to the companies analyzed so that the three groups of factors that shape the business environment: the marketing macro-environment, the entrepreneur's micro-environment and the company-specific factors can allow an efficient capitalization of opportunities and increase of competitiveness, an improvement of the management, administration and leading method. To provide the SMEs from Vâlcea with a methodological framework for performance evaluation and successful participation in the European competition process the "Guide of the entrepreneur - for a competitive business" was developed. At the same time, the project has also recorded 39 participations in national and international symposia and conferences.
■ The young unemployed today - tomorrow's future specialist-manager. PHARE 2005 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Accounting - Finance, Pitești.
Phare Contract 2005/017-553.04.02.01.01.303.
Project period: January 2008 - January 2009
Project value: 42,606 euro
Project manager: PhD Associate Professor Silvia Dugan
Objectives: The project aimed at facilitating the access of young unemployed people from Argeș County in finding employment through training and information, the main partner being the Association of Businesspeople from Argeș.
Achieved activities: 37 young unemployed people aged between 15 and 24 years, looking for a job, from Argeș county and neighbouring localities (rural area) - have received training for "Input, validation, data processing Operator" and "Boarding House Administrator," as well as entrepreneurial training; the young people have also participated in a job club workshop. Three of the final beneficiaries of the project have been placed on the Argeș County labour market.
■ Effective staff for high quality management of tourism services, PHARE 2005 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs, Rm. Vâlcea Branch
PHARE Contract 2005/017-553.04.02.02.01.405
Project period: January - November 2008
Project value: 38,727 euro
Project manager: PhD Associate Professor Carmen Răduț
Objectives: The project aimed at improving the quality and adaptability of human resources; at supporting sustainable employment in the context of supporting a knowledge-based development in South-West Oltenia.
Achieved activities: the development of an innovative model of training the workforce, based on the involvement of economic agents in the training process; 30 people, employees in the tourism sector, received proper job training courses held by the following training modules: management, tourism economy, tourism marketing, information systems in tourism, communication in foreign languages, training courses for management skills development, for two months; 112 workers from the tourism sector in Vâlcea, audited from a psychological and skill-related point of view for the professional assessment were included in training courses for four months, depending on the job-related skills, in two modules of theoretical and practical training in communication and teamwork.
■ Training programme in human resource management, PHARE 2004 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs, Brăila Branch.
Project period: 22 January - 21 November 2007
Project value: 34,875 euro, of which: Contracting Authority - 27,900 euro; Applicant - 6,975 euro
The Purpose of the project was to increase the level of theoretical knowledge and practical skills of human resources departments' managers and of the operational staff within them, by organizing a training programme designed to improve human resource management of SMEs in Brăila. Thus, the project aimed to improve the competences of the same qualification by facilitating adults' access to education and training. In this respect, the lifelong learning principle was promoted as a basic principle of education and training systems needed to have highly skilled and adaptable workforce, able to use effectively knowledge and new technologies.
The target group consisted of 40 employees, women and men, regardless of their age, representing managers of human resources departments and operational staff within them, who carry out their activity in the SMEs from Brăila. All project activities had as ongoing concern gender equality and equal opportunities between women and men.
The main activities of the project were: · completion of the target group; acquisition of IT equipment for carrying out training activities; training and carrying out of courses package; drafting and printing the booklet "Guide of the Professional in Human Resources"; · organizing the symposium "The role of human resource management in the European Union", promotion and dissemination of project results; · project evaluation.
■ Study of waste management behaviour of citizens in Argeș County, as component part of the ISPA Project Integrated Management of Solid Waste in Argeș County, Grant/ISPA
Project period: 2010-2011
Project value: 20.000 lei
Project team: Project manager: PhD Lector Gangone Andreea, Scientific Advisor: PhD Professor Puiu Alexandru, Research expert: PhD Associate Professor Asandei Mihaela, Data collection and processing supervisor: Marinescu Georgeta
Achieved activities: The project aimed at conducting a survey in the city of Pitești and in another 15 urban and rural areas from Argeș County in order to assess the citizens' degree of awareness and information about the importance of selective waste management. Ten representatives of the teaching staff and research staff have been engaged in the project, as well as 30 students who have applied, processed and interpreted a questionnaire on a sample of over 1000 subjects in Argeș County. The information provided by the research report as a result of the survey helps to optimize the decisions relating to the ISPA project whose beneficiary is Argeș County Council.
■ Development of interdisciplinary academic research in order to increase Romanian universities' competitiveness internationally.
Funder: National Centre of Programmes Management, Partnerships programme,
Partners: Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Constantin Brâncoveanu University Pitești.
Project period: 2008 - 2010
Project value: 180,000 lei
Project manager: PhD Associate Professor Sebastian Ene, from Constantin Brâncoveanu University
Achieved activities: The main activities conducted to achieve the set objectives were: organizing two focus groups with the academic representatives belonging to the economic faculties of Pitești and Rm. Vâlcea and a focus group with the representatives of the business environment; direct research based on a self-managed questionnaire within firms in Romania concerning the partnership development opportunities; participation in technical and scientific events in areas specific to the project; dissemination of the information obtained through the publication of numerous scientific studies and articles, etc.
■ Post-Accession Strategy for Pitești Municipality during 2007-2008, Grant/Pitești City Hall
■ Development strategy for Brăila County during 2004 - 2008, Brăila County Council - Project funded form GRASP - USAID funds
■ Involvement and citizen action on the EU acquis in the field of environment protection, City Hall of Rm. Vâlcea Municipality
■ Economic management of water services from the Argeș - Vedea hydrographical catchment, Ministry of Environment, Argeș County Council - subcontractor on the ISPA project
■ Study on upgrading the database accessible to citizens on administrative institutions level, Ministry of Administration and Interior, Brăila County Council
■ Training Programme to develop managerial skills in business, PHARE 2002 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs, Brăila Branch
■ Virtual network of resources for farmers in the South - East Region, Ministry of Agriculture - Grant funded by PHARE
■ Extension of vegetable production of the most valuable new varieties of vegetables and of crop-specific technologies, Ministry of Agriculture - Grant funded by the World Bank
Numerous scientific research and consultancy paper works have been conducted on contract basis for economic agents, public institutions, NGOs and research institutes such as:
Pitești Municipality City Hall, Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality City Hall, Bascov Town Hall, UNISEM S.A. Bucharest, I.C.D.L.F. Vidra, Ilfov County, S.C. Apă Canal S.A. Pitești, SC Arpechim SA Pitești, "Maria Teiuleanu" National Economic College Pitești, S.C. V.M. Comp. S.R.L., S.C. Oltchim S.A. Rm. Vâlcea, S.C. Predalex S.A. Rm. Vâlcea, S.C. Dolsch Import - Export S.R.L., S.C. CET - Govora S.A., SC. Băile Govora S.A., S.C. Bere Alutus S.A., Cryogenics and Isotopic Research Institute Rm. Vâlcea, Vâlcea 1Radio - Television, S.C. AgriDelta Serv S.R.L. Brăila, S.C. Ro - Western S.R.L. Brăila, S.C. Braigal S.A. Brăila, S.C. Promex S.A. Brăila, S.C. Elind S.A. Brăila, Environmental Protection Agency, Ecomondia NGO, etc.
■ Modernization of economic affairs techniques management, PHARE 2005 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management-Marketing in Economic Affairs, Brăila Branch.
Project period: January to December 2008
Project value: 53,500 euro
Project manager: PhD Professor Alexandru Puiu
The project objective focused on increasing the level of qualifications and skills, both among employers and among employees concerning the current economic changes and developments. Special attention was given to open access to training and improvement in order to render the employees aware about the importance of lifelong learning.
Achieved activities: conference on the occasion of launching the project - 70 participants; conducting training courses; drafting and printing the Business techniques management dictionary; organizing the Requirements of performance management in business Symposium, occasion for launching the previously mentioned dictionary; organizing the project completion conference; advertising the project activities: press releases, newspaper articles, posters, leaflets, etc.
■ Harmonization model of practices in the field of financial management of projects financed by the European Social Fund.
Funder: Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection (MMFPS), General Directorate Management Authority for the Human Resources Development Operational Programme (DG. AMPOSDRU).
Project undertaken by the Faculty of Finance and Accounting - Pitesti.
http://www.practicifse.ro/
■ Knowledge of the employability degree of IPT graduates - a new approach of the education offer. Contract code POSDRU/90/2.1/S/50820.
Beneficiary: Vâlcea County School Inspectorate.
Coordinator on behalf of the University: PhD Associate Professor Iuliana Ciochină
http://vl.rightontimesolutions.com/50820/
■ Active adapting of university education to labour market demands, Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Phare 2006 Project
Partners: Mott MacDonald Ltd Business Association, SC "Education 2000 + Consulting Ltd and the Foundation Education Centre 2000 +.
Project conducted by the Faculty of Juridical, Administrative and Communication Studies Pitești
http://www.aracis.ro/proiecte/adaptarea-activa-a-educatiei-universitare-la-cerintele-pietei-muncii/
■ Identification of factors for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs and of regional opportunities. Methods and techniques for European entrepreneurship.
Programme funded by the Ministry of Education and Research - National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education (CNCSIS), conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs Rm. Vâlcea Branch.
CNCSIS 1113 Contract, Grant A type
Project period: January 2007 - December 2008
Project value: 115,756 lei
Project manager: PhD Professor Iuliana Ciochină
Objectives: The project aimed at conducting research on company competitiveness, identification of competitiveness factors in SMEs, as well as on the establishment of methods to analyze and evaluate results, on the elaboration of strategies to increase competitiveness, on defining methods and techniques for developing a competitive entrepreneurship in Europe.
Achieved activities: research concerning the strategies for increasing the competitiveness of SMEs from Vâlcea on the international market, SWOT analyses concerning the business environment, having in view the company as supplier for export markets. Identifying the methods and techniques for a "European entrepreneur" and offering landmarks to the companies analyzed so that the three groups of factors that shape the business environment: the marketing macro-environment, the entrepreneur's micro-environment and the company-specific factors can allow an efficient capitalization of opportunities and increase of competitiveness, an improvement of the management, administration and leading method. To provide the SMEs from Vâlcea with a methodological framework for performance evaluation and successful participation in the European competition process the "Guide of the entrepreneur - for a competitive business" was developed. At the same time, the project has also recorded 39 participations in national and international symposia and conferences.
■ The young unemployed today - tomorrow's future specialist-manager. PHARE 2005 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Accounting - Finance, Pitești.
Phare Contract 2005/017-553.04.02.01.01.303.
Project period: January 2008 - January 2009
Project value: 42,606 euro
Project manager: PhD Associate Professor Silvia Dugan
Objectives: The project aimed at facilitating the access of young unemployed people from Argeș County in finding employment through training and information, the main partner being the Association of Businesspeople from Argeș.
Achieved activities: 37 young unemployed people aged between 15 and 24 years, looking for a job, from Argeș county and neighbouring localities (rural area) - have received training for "Input, validation, data processing Operator" and "Boarding House Administrator," as well as entrepreneurial training; the young people have also participated in a job club workshop. Three of the final beneficiaries of the project have been placed on the Argeș County labour market.
■ Effective staff for high quality management of tourism services, PHARE 2005 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs, Rm. Vâlcea Branch
PHARE Contract 2005/017-553.04.02.02.01.405
Project period: January - November 2008
Project value: 38,727 euro
Project manager: PhD Associate Professor Carmen Răduț
Objectives: The project aimed at improving the quality and adaptability of human resources; at supporting sustainable employment in the context of supporting a knowledge-based development in South-West Oltenia.
Achieved activities: the development of an innovative model of training the workforce, based on the involvement of economic agents in the training process; 30 people, employees in the tourism sector, received proper job training courses held by the following training modules: management, tourism economy, tourism marketing, information systems in tourism, communication in foreign languages, training courses for management skills development, for two months; 112 workers from the tourism sector in Vâlcea, audited from a psychological and skill-related point of view for the professional assessment were included in training courses for four months, depending on the job-related skills, in two modules of theoretical and practical training in communication and teamwork.
■ Training programme in human resource management, PHARE 2004 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs, Brăila Branch.
Project period: 22 January - 21 November 2007
Project value: 34,875 euro, of which: Contracting Authority - 27,900 euro; Applicant - 6,975 euro
The Purpose of the project was to increase the level of theoretical knowledge and practical skills of human resources departments' managers and of the operational staff within them, by organizing a training programme designed to improve human resource management of SMEs in Brăila. Thus, the project aimed to improve the competences of the same qualification by facilitating adults' access to education and training. In this respect, the lifelong learning principle was promoted as a basic principle of education and training systems needed to have highly skilled and adaptable workforce, able to use effectively knowledge and new technologies.
The target group consisted of 40 employees, women and men, regardless of their age, representing managers of human resources departments and operational staff within them, who carry out their activity in the SMEs from Brăila. All project activities had as ongoing concern gender equality and equal opportunities between women and men.
The main activities of the project were: · completion of the target group; acquisition of IT equipment for carrying out training activities; training and carrying out of courses package; drafting and printing the booklet "Guide of the Professional in Human Resources"; · organizing the symposium "The role of human resource management in the European Union", promotion and dissemination of project results; · project evaluation.
■ Study of waste management behaviour of citizens in Argeș County, as component part of the ISPA Project Integrated Management of Solid Waste in Argeș County, Grant/ISPA
Project period: 2010-2011
Project value: 20.000 lei
Project team: Project manager: PhD Lector Gangone Andreea, Scientific Advisor: PhD Professor Puiu Alexandru, Research expert: PhD Associate Professor Asandei Mihaela, Data collection and processing supervisor: Marinescu Georgeta
Achieved activities: The project aimed at conducting a survey in the city of Pitești and in another 15 urban and rural areas from Argeș County in order to assess the citizens' degree of awareness and information about the importance of selective waste management. Ten representatives of the teaching staff and research staff have been engaged in the project, as well as 30 students who have applied, processed and interpreted a questionnaire on a sample of over 1000 subjects in Argeș County. The information provided by the research report as a result of the survey helps to optimize the decisions relating to the ISPA project whose beneficiary is Argeș County Council.
■ Development of interdisciplinary academic research in order to increase Romanian universities' competitiveness internationally.
Funder: National Centre of Programmes Management, Partnerships programme,
Partners: Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Constantin Brâncoveanu University Pitești.
Project period: 2008 - 2010
Project value: 180,000 lei
Project manager: PhD Associate Professor Sebastian Ene, from Constantin Brâncoveanu University
Achieved activities: The main activities conducted to achieve the set objectives were: organizing two focus groups with the academic representatives belonging to the economic faculties of Pitești and Rm. Vâlcea and a focus group with the representatives of the business environment; direct research based on a self-managed questionnaire within firms in Romania concerning the partnership development opportunities; participation in technical and scientific events in areas specific to the project; dissemination of the information obtained through the publication of numerous scientific studies and articles, etc.
■ Post-Accession Strategy for Pitești Municipality during 2007-2008, Grant/Pitești City Hall
■ Development strategy for Brăila County during 2004 - 2008, Brăila County Council - Project funded form GRASP - USAID funds
■ Involvement and citizen action on the EU acquis in the field of environment protection, City Hall of Rm. Vâlcea Municipality
■ Economic management of water services from the Argeș - Vedea hydrographical catchment, Ministry of Environment, Argeș County Council - subcontractor on the ISPA project
■ Study on upgrading the database accessible to citizens on administrative institutions level, Ministry of Administration and Interior, Brăila County Council
■ Training Programme to develop managerial skills in business, PHARE 2002 Programme - Economic and Social Cohesion, Human Resources Development, conducted by the Faculty of Management Marketing in Economic Affairs, Brăila Branch
■ Virtual network of resources for farmers in the South - East Region, Ministry of Agriculture - Grant funded by PHARE
■ Extension of vegetable production of the most valuable new varieties of vegetables and of crop-specific technologies, Ministry of Agriculture - Grant funded by the World Bank
Numerous scientific research and consultancy paper works have been conducted on contract basis for economic agents, public institutions, NGOs and research institutes such as:
Pitești Municipality City Hall, Râmnicu Vâlcea Municipality City Hall, Bascov Town Hall, UNISEM S.A. Bucharest, I.C.D.L.F. Vidra, Ilfov County, S.C. Apă Canal S.A. Pitești, SC Arpechim SA Pitești, "Maria Teiuleanu" National Economic College Pitești, S.C. V.M. Comp. S.R.L., S.C. Oltchim S.A. Rm. Vâlcea, S.C. Predalex S.A. Rm. Vâlcea, S.C. Dolsch Import - Export S.R.L., S.C. CET - Govora S.A., SC. Băile Govora S.A., S.C. Bere Alutus S.A., Cryogenics and Isotopic Research Institute Rm. Vâlcea, Vâlcea 1Radio - Television, S.C. AgriDelta Serv S.R.L. Brăila, S.C. Ro - Western S.R.L. Brăila, S.C. Braigal S.A. Brăila, S.C. Promex S.A. Brăila, S.C. Elind S.A. Brăila, Environmental Protection Agency, Ecomondia NGO, etc.