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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   “GLOBALISM, GLOBALITY, GLOBALIZATION – TEN YEARS OF EUROPEAN STUDIES IN CLUJ“, OCTOBER, 21-23, 2004. A MAJOR ACADEMIC EVENT AT THE FACULTY OF EUROPEAN STUDIES.

Authors:  MARIUS JUCAN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The anniversary of ten years since the founding of the Faculty of European Studies at the Babes-Bolyai University was marked by a major academic event, an international conference debating the topics of globalism, globality, globalization and the issues of the Romanian integration within the European Union. The relevance of an anniversary event as the celebration of ten years since the beginning of European studies at the University of Cluj should related to the new course set in the academic teaching and cultural life of the University of Cluj after the 1990’s. The span of time marking the growing of a new academic specialization within the University century traditional ones, spells out the dimension of innovation and the challenge on novelty by having had set a new scholar and research site. The birth of European studies in Cluj meant the creation of an interdisciplinary group of researches and the opening of a new line of study having cultural roots though opening pragmatic horizons. The study of Romania’s integration into the European Union was looked upon not only as an academic experiment but chiefly as an opportunity of acting for the implementation of reformist thinking. It was the merit of a group of professors and researchers lead by professor Andrei Marga (then dean of the faculty, now president of the University, recently awarded the Herder Prize) who broke “ new land” in the field. Professors Maria Bârsan, Nicolae Paun, Ovidiu Pecican, were among the first members of the new chair. In a relatively short period of time initial group of professors grew to deal with the man specializations of the field and taking avail of the European Commission salutary help inaugurated a new direction of study, research and academic practice at the Babes-Bolyai University. It is worth mentioning that within the decade the curricular evolution of the faculty, the increasing number of the new specialists in the faculty, as well as the genuine interest shown to the academic project of the faculty by the lycees graduates brought the Faculty of Studies of Cluj at a level of national repute. After then years one could argue note without fear of exaggeration that the Faculty of European Studies has become one of the most specialized academic sites observing the process of European integration in Romania. Besides BA studies, the faculty has implemented MA studies and doctoral ones, dedicating the purport of its role to the implementation of interdisciplinarity in dealing with European studies.  
         
     
         
         
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