Marius Mitroi

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

The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) is a public body of the Central Administration under the ultimate authority of Ministry of National Education (MEN), in Romania. Its mission is to promote quality and leadership for higher education, research, development and innovation. UEFISCDI plays both the role of higher education funding council, and research and innovation council. In this respect, it acts as executive agency for the advisory councils of the MEN with responsibilities in the fields of higher education, research, development and innovation. UEFISCDI provides advice for policies in areas of competences. Active regional and international, UEFISCDI implements forward-looking projects targeting higher education, science and innovation, professions and skills, research infrastructures, food and rural development. It has been innovating in foresight methods, real time argumentative Delphi, horizon scanning and big data. Bucharest Dialogue linked to the forwiki 2.0 platform, is one of our brands. The agency encourage the global development of Futures Studies and Foresight, particularly in Central & Eastern Europe and Black Sea being awarded by World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) with "WFSF Award for Futures Institutions 2014 for a great inspiration to other institutions coming into the futures studies field particularly those who decide to become institutional members of WFSF."