Romania - UEFISCDI

Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

UEDISCDI


The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) is a public entity of the Central Administration under the ultimate authority of Ministry of Education and Research. UEFISCDI reached the current status in July 2010, through GO nr.62/1999, approved with amendments by Law 74/2010 and GEO nr.150/2000 by merging three organizations with responsibilities for the management and administration of various programs in the fields of higher education, research, development and innovation: Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding (UEFISCSU), National Centre for Programme Management (CNMP), Management Agency for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer (AMCSIT). The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) is a public entity of the Central Administration under the ultimate authority of Ministry of Education and Scientific Research (MESR).

UEFISCDI has implemented, under the supervision of its advisory councils, four out of the six programsof the National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2007 - 2013 (PN II), i.e.: HumanResources (exploratory research), Ideas (exploratory research), Partnerships in Priority S&T Areas (applied research), Innovation (Innovation and Technology transfer).UEFISCDI implements, under the supervision of its advisory councils, four out of the five programs of the National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2015 - 2020 (PN III), i.e.: 

  1. Program 1: Development of the national R&D (1.1. Human Resources (full); 1.3. Infrastructures R&D (partially); 1.4.Support (partially); 
  2. Program 2: Increasing the competitiveness of the Romanian economy throughresearch, development and innovation (2.1. Competitively through research, development andinnovation (partially)); 
  3. Program 3: European and international cooperation (3.1. Bilateral / multilateral(excluding the bilateral program with AUF); 3.2. Horizon 2020 (full); 3.5. Other European andinternational initiatives and programs (full); 3.6. Support (partially)); 
  4. Program 4: Basic research and frontier (full).Externally, UEFISCDI acts for the promotion of Romanian R&D and its integration in the international scientific community, by:
    • Cooperating with similar organizations in Europe and worldwide
    • Supporting to Romanian R&D actors to develop international partnerships.

UEFISCDI is involved in over 40 international projects, most of them under ERA-NET Scheme FP7/ H2020 and UEFISCDI has strategic partnerships & cooperation agreements with the following organizations:

  • European Science Foundation – ESF
  • Swiss National Science Foundation – SNSF
  • L'Agence nationale de la recherché – ANR
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG
  • National Science Foundation – NSF, USA
  • Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research UEFISCDI is member of different European associations

Lead person

Mr. Mircea Segarceanu is the Capacities Programme Coordinator and expert within InternationalProgrammes Department of UEFISCDI, with experience in ERA-NET type projects where on behalf ofUEFISCDI has taken the role WP leader and task leader. He was the assistant of the project manager forthe development of the Romanian National Research Development and Innovation Strategy for 2014-2020 and an expert in the project Developing the National Research Facility Portal.