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On the 18th of February 2022, the BBU Senate officially approved the restructuring and the renaming of the European Research Institute (ERI). The new name of the European Research Institute is Institute of International Relations and Area Studies (IIRAS). The name change is part of a larger rebranding process, which coincides with a strategic refocus and reinvigoration of IIRAS’s resources. The Faculty of European Studies started its activity under the name of \u201cSchool of Higher European Comparative Studies\u201d in 1993. In May 1995 the official name of the institution became Faculty of European Studies. ERI was created as a result of UBB\u2019s Senate Decision dating from 13.05.2003. In 2016, ERI received the stats of a research-development and innovation unit of excellence operating within the Faculty of European Studies. ERI\u2019s activity is financially supported from the Faculty\u2019s extra-budgetary resources and its research grants. ERI is part of the strategic research infrastructure of Babes-Bolyai University (UBB r-platform) and is included in the distributed network of units of excellence within the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (STAR-UBB). The scientific activity of the Institute has been carried out through numerous national and international scientific grants, various high impact studies in the European research field and not only, many of them being published at Foundation for European Studies Publishing House (EFES), in prestigious national publishing houses such as Cluj University Press, POLIROM and international ones such as NOMOS (Germany), HARMATTAN (France), Cambridge Scholars Publishing (England), etc. A special part of ERI\u2019s activity was dedicated to the Institute’s conferences which were organized with a relatively constant periodicity and succeeded to gather numerous personalities from the academic and public sectors including guests from prestigious universities with whom the Institute developed strong partnerships. The Institute together with the Faculty of European Studies organize annually the \u201cDisintegration and Integration in East-Central Europe\u201d International Conference (DIECE)\u201d as well as its special editions. The activity carried out within the research groups of the Institute involves both doctoral students of the Doctoral School \u201cEuropean Paradigm\u201d and master students of the Faculty of European Studies. Among the most recent ERI institutional partnerships are those concluded with: – Jean Monnet Cross-border Franco-German Center (University of Strasbourg); – The Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence (Marseille) – Universit\u00e9 Paris-Est Cr\u00e9teil (Paris) – Gordon College of Education (Haifa) Starting with 2012, the Institute has a research unit specific to it and a library with an impressive number of volumes including specific endowments for advanced research. The 50 members of the Institute include professors, researchers, PhD and Postdoctoral students from Romania and abroad each of them being assigned to a specific research group. The Committee of the Regions archive was donated by the European Commission to the Institute \/ Faculty and it contains digitized documents of great importance for conducting research in the field of European Studies. The archive is unique in Romania and Central Eastern Europe. Beginning with 2020, the DIGI-Regio archive was included in the r-UBB platform as an element of strategic research infrastructure. The Institute publishes together with the Faculty the journals: On-line Journal Modeling the New Europe, Synergies Roumanie, Studia Europaea. The synthesis of the research activity of the last years confirms the dynamism and the value of the research activities within the Institute.<\/p>

The activity of the Institute of International Relations and Area Studies
for the period 2016-2020:<\/h2>

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Articles published in WoS \/ ISI journals<\/td>31<\/td><\/tr>
Articles published in ERIH + journals<\/td>56<\/td><\/tr>
Articles published in Scopus magazines<\/td>41<\/td><\/tr>
Articles published in BDI journals<\/td>156<\/td><\/tr>
Articles published in non – indexed BDI journals<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
Books published in recognized foreign publishing houses<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
Books published in recognized national publishing houses<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
Chapters \/ Studies published in recognized foreign publishing houses<\/td>61<\/td><\/tr>
Chapters \/ Studies published in recognized national publishing houses<\/td>84<\/td><\/tr>
Organization of international conferences<\/td>38<\/td><\/tr>
Organization of national conferences<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Editing – coordinating international volumes<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
Editing – coordinating national volumes<\/td>14<\/td><\/tr>
Institutional projects<\/td>37<\/td><\/tr>
International scientific conferences listed on the Web of Science \/ ISI and international professional societies<\/td>12<\/td><\/tr>
International scientific conferences with publishers, ISBN, indexed BDI<\/td>27<\/td><\/tr>
International scientific conferences with publishers, not indexed BDI<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
Invited international scientific conferences<\/td>135<\/td><\/tr>
National guest scientific conferences<\/td>46<\/td><\/tr>
Members of international publishing groups<\/td>14<\/td><\/tr>
Members of national editorial teams<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>
International teachers<\/td>32<\/td><\/tr>
International school distinctions and awards published in ERIH + magazines<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
National distinctions and awards<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
Members of international doctoral commissions<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Members of national doctoral commissions<\/td>7<\/td><\/tr>
References in international publishing groups<\/td>11<\/td><\/tr>
References in national publishing groups<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
Coordination of student circles<\/td>3<\/td><\/tr>
Representations of international academies<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Representations in international organizations<\/td>15<\/td><\/tr>
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