The University of Bucharest is considered to be the most important educational, research and cultural institution in Romania. During its 150 years of existence, it has achieved steadfast national and international prestige.
The numerous generations of students and professors have succeeded in asserting our University as one of the benchmark institutions for the whole Romanian society, as it is the first existing Romanian institution to ever reach the top 600 universities of the world.
The University of Bucharest is one of the most important scientific research centres nationwide. Within the University, there are over 50 research institutes, departments and centres, most of them collaborating with similar scientific centres abroad.
The University of Bucharest is part of a reliable network of international collaboration – 300 bilateral collaboration agreements have been signed with universities in 52 countries. Annually, there are over 1000 students of the University of Bucharest who perform various development or improvement activities within a great number of academic programmes in universities in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan etc.
The University of Bucharest has been and still is the motor of important reformation measures for the development of higher education, which have also been taken over by other universities around the country, or which have represented the grounds for the elaboration of several laws and national regulations.
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- University of Bucharest
Ruxandra Folostina
Ruxandra Folostina is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest. She is also Associate Professor at the National University of Physical Education and Sports in Bucharest and President of the Romanian Association of Special Education. She worked for many years in the therapy of autism spectrum disorders, and she provides now clinical psychology service to children with ADHD, intellectual disability, adopted children, children with learning disorders and children victims of bullying. She attended training programs in playtherapy and dramatherapy, Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Programs (Standard and Basic). Previously, she was employed as an educational psychologist at the St. Nicholas Special School in Bucharest.
Claudia Iuliana Iacob
Claudia Iacob has a Ph.D. in Psychology and works as a teaching assistant at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, from Romania. Her research interests include stress and resilience in caregivers of people with disabilities. The motivation for this research theme comes from the practical experience she’s been having in the field of disability. For the past 10 years, she has been working as a clinical psychologist and cognitive behavioral psychotherapist with children and adolescents diagnosed with mood and neurodevelopmental disorders. Her warmth, empathy, and playfulness recommend Claudia for working with children. Also, her planning skills and passion for teaching and research make her a great working colleague.
Loredana Tudorache
Loredana Pătrășcoiu has a PhD in special education quality management trying to develop in almost 20 years of experience educational services which would answer more efficiently to the expectations of the children and young people with special needs, to bring into the schools innovative solutions for the problems considered hard to solve in the context of under-financing of this field in Romania. She has initiated and implemented local and international projects where a particular interest has shown for solving the issues of social and school inclusion of children with autism by augmentative and alternative communication, art therapy and vocational education (projects as Networks of volunteers to support children with special education needs, Here I am, Baking the future, Quality for all).
