Deputy dean of the School for European Studies of Babes¬Bolyai University (UBB), in Cluj-Napoca (center north-west), Nicolae Paun told that, starting with 2010-2011 university year, a Center for European Projects will be open with this higher education institution.“A large university, as UBB, with its outstanding prestige and a very high qualified expertise, should be open to the communities, (…), based on a public-private partnership, set to educate the graduates to accumulate as many as new skills”, said professor Nicolae Paun. Of the 400 young Romanians working in the European Parliament, 70 are graduates of Babes¬Bolyai University and 50 of the School for European Studies. The highest dignities in the community administration are occupied by UBB teaching staff, documentation experts or UBB graduates”, underlined Nicolae Paun.
He noted that the strategic research plan of the University School for European Studies includes “European studies”, “International relations” and “American and Trans-Atlantic studies”.