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Appendix – Strategic plan
• increasing the number of PhD and MSc students within the research programs contracted by the
teachers;
• ensuring the financial support for permanent or indefinite full time research positions;
• ensuring the financial support for the priority research projects, or the co-financing;
• increasing the participation of the university’s members to professional associations in the country,
including as members of ASAS and / or Romanian Academy;
• supporting public scientific conferences presented by our academic staff in the community benefit;
• increasing the impact of the research on the educational process by integrating the its outcomes
and results within the lectures and laboratory applications;
• involving university staff in the European scientific expert evaluations comities and boards;
• increasing the visibility of university’s teachers and researchers by participating in activities and in
the boards of associations, academia and international scientific organizations, as recognition of
their scientific prestige.
For a permanent increase in the quality of scientific production, the objectives achievement will be
ensured by the following actions:
• stimulating the permanent increase in the number of publications in ISI scientific journals with
impact factor and score of influence, and of the number of citations of the scientific papers having
authors from our university;
• ensuring the financial support for teachers to publish articles in ISI publications with impact factor
and score of influence, to fulfill the eligibility criteria for programs Ideas and Partnerships;
• stimulating the participation to scientific events in the country and abroad, with original papers or
as moderator, visiting lecturer and member of scientific board;
• organizing the Annual International Symposium “Prospects for the Third millennium agriculture”
and increase the international visibility of the four specific university’s Bulletins;
• increase the visibility and impact factor above 0.5 of the main journal published by the university,
"Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj";
• increase the Library book fund and establishing of an electronic library;
• encouraging the teachers who have valuable publications, to apply for awards and distinctions
(ANCS, ASAS, Romanian Academy, etc.).
The implementation of these actions is within the responsibility of the Vice-rector for research and the
Vice-rector responsible for quality assurance and human resources.
4.3. INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Among the main actions to achieve these strategic objectives for the infrastructure development we point
out the following actions:
• completion and inauguration of the new “Advanced Horticultural Research Institute of
Transylvania” (ICHAT);
• completion of the new design project for the “Institute of Nutrition and Pathology of large animals”
(INP) and launching of the infrastructure project;
• completion and inauguration of the “Didactical and Research Biobase for Animal Husbandry”;
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