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Scientific Journey in the Suburbs of Poland

Scientific Journey in the Suburbs of Poland On the 30th of May 2024, Dr hab. Dorota Mantey, Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, held a lecture on Contemporary Developments in the Suburbs of Post-Socialist Cities at the Centre for Regional Geography, during the...

Contemporary Developments in the Suburbs of Post-Socialist Cities

Contemporary Developments in the Suburbs of Post-Socialist Cities The Centre for Regional Geography is hosting a new edition of the CGR Meetings, an event dedicated to all interested in territorial development issues. The guest of...

On Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Personal Leadership – Online Workshop with Cristina Nichita

On Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Personal Leadership – Online Workshop with Cristina Nichita Communities need leaders. An authentic leader is the one who knows the team, who knows how to attract, value the capacity and abilities...

Leadership and Entrepreneurship Workshop for Students and Master’s Students

Leadership and Entrepreneurship Workshop for Students and Master's Students Personal development, the training of leadership skills and the development of the entrepreneurial spirit have become fundamental ingredients for training young people as members of dynamic,...

How Participatory is Participatory Budgeting… with Adrian Dohotaru

How Participatory is Participatory Budgeting… with Adrian Dohotaru The November 2022 edition of the CGR Meetings had as a guest Adrian Dohotaru, researcher-activist on ecological and social issues. The subject of the discussions was participatory...

Reflections Associated with Participatory Budgeting in a New Edition of the CGR Meetings

Reflections Associated with Participatory Budgeting in a New Edition of the CGR Meetings The CGR meetings will be resumed in November 2022 with a topic of interest for any local community – participatory budgeting, a...

Perceptions on “Smart” Planning in Timişoara

Perceptions on “Smart” Planning in Timişoara Starting from the experience gained in urban planning, Lecturer Sorin Pavel, PhD, the guest of the CGR Meetings, aroused the participants’ attention with a presentation associated with the dynamics...

Timişoara: Between “Strong Development” and “Smart Development”

Timişoara: Between “Strong Development” and “Smart Development” The March edition of the CGR Meetings proposes to the public interested in territorial development a discussion associated with the challenges launched by the local authorities in the...

Territorial Development, with or without Planning?

Territorial Development, with or without Planning? The guest of the 22nd edition of the CGR Meetings was Nicolae Popa, Professor at the West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Department of Geography and...

Geographical Introspections on Territorial Planning from the West University of Timişoara

Geographical Introspections on Territorial Planning from the West University of Timişoara The guest of the December edition of the CGR Meetings is Nicolae Popa, Professor at the West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology,...

About Climate Services from the Perspective of a Climatologist

About Climate Services from the Perspective of a Climatologist In Professor Adina-Eliza Croitoru’s opinion, the guest of the October edition of the CGR Meetings, climate fulfils a triple role: of resource (in terms of its...

Climate: from Resource to Threat to Regional Development

Climate: from Resource to Threat to Regional Development A new debate under the auspices of the Centre for Regional Geography will take place on 27 October 2021, at 12:00. The guest of this edition is...

Women, involved in structures representing urban voters in Romania

Women, involved in structures representing urban voters in Romania The role of women in the structures representing the Romanian voters is in line with the same upward trend that defines other states in Western Europe,...

The Role of Women in the Romanian Electoral Process

The Role of Women in the Romanian Electoral Process The June edition of the CGR Meetings brings into discussion a topic from the political sphere, but connected to the territorial reality and to the categories...

With a Socio-Political Issue from Cameroon at the CGR Meetings in Cluj-Napoca

With a Socio-Political Issue from Cameroon at the CGR Meetings in Cluj-Napoca The April edition of the CGR Meetings hosted a presentation delivered by Professor Sergiu Mişcoiu, from the Faculty of European Studies and Director...

About African Authoritarian Clientelism … at a New Edition of the CGR Meetings

About African Authoritarian Clientelism ... at a New Edition of the CGR Meetings The guest speaker at the April edition of the CGR Meetings is Professor Sergiu Mişcoiu, from the Faculty of European Studies and...

Sensory Maps in Urban Environment

Sensory Maps in Urban Environment The guest of the March edition of the CGR Meetings, architect Daniela Maier, gave a presentation on urban morphology and rhythms. More than 40 cities around the world were analysed...

Morphology and Urban Rhythms

Morphology and Urban Rhythms The debates within the CGR Meetings, associated with the dynamics of some phenomena in the territory, continue with a presentation associated with this topic. The guest of the March edition is...

Awareness Reflections of the Built Heritage during the 17th Edition of the CGR Meetings

Awareness Reflections of the Built Heritage during the 17th Edition of the CGR Meetings Guest of the January 2021 edition of the CGR Meetings, architect Szabolcs István Guttmann launched a discussion associated with how urban...

From a Sustainable Management of the Built Heritage to Regional Development

From a Sustainable Management of the Built Heritage to Regional Development Dr. Szabolcs István Guttmann, Architect, Vice-President of the Order of the Romanian Architects, Transylvania Branch, and expert for the Ministry of Culture on the...

New Research Directions in the Private Insurance Sector

New Research Directions in the Private Insurance Sector Starting from the testing of several research hypotheses on how the density of private health insurance in Europe is influenced, Associate Professor Codruța Mare, PhD, the guest...

Spatial Effects on the European Private Health Insurance Market

Spatial Effects on the European Private Health Insurance Market The importance of the insurance sector for the European countries, regardless of their level of development, can be seen from the perspective of life/health insurance, car...

Model of good practice in tourism digitalization

Model of good practice in tourism digitalization The Transylvania Mountain Festival organizers’ interests have materialized in an ongoing project, implemented in partnership with the Faculty of Geography within Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, to digitize the...

Digital Challenges for Active Mountain Tourism

Digital Challenges for Active Mountain Tourism During July 2020, Transylvania Mountain Festival, in partnership with the Faculty of Geography within Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, ran an internship programme designed for students - Mountains of Romania...

Examples of Good Practice in Urban Spaces or How a Living Lab Works

Examples of Good Practice in Urban Spaces or How a Living Lab Works Urban dynamics and the transformations that appear mainly in urban spaces arouse the interest of specialists from various fields of activity. Bogdana...

Innovation and Experiment in Contemporary Cities

Innovation and Experiment in Contemporary Cities The role of innovation in urban dynamics is increasingly brought forward. For this reason, in the June edition of the CGR Meetings, Bogdana Neamţu, Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University,...

“Green” Lessons in the Pandemic

“Green” Lessons in the Pandemic The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought for each of us new moments of reflections, either related to the evolution of certain phenomena or areas and readjustment to the new contexts...

Lessons in the Pandemic. How Can Cluj-Napoca Apply for the European Green Capital Award?

Lessons in the Pandemic. How Can Cluj-Napoca Apply for the European Green Capital Award? A new debate under the aegis of the Centre for Regional Geography will take place on Thursday, 28 May 2020, at...

“CGR Meetings” – 12 Editions of Debates on Regional Development and Territorial Planning

“CGR Meetings” – 12 Editions of Debates on Regional Development and Territorial Planning The Centre for Regional Geography celebrates ONE YEAR of events generically entitled “CGR Meetings”, dedicated to specialists working in the field of...

Romania – a State without an Integrated Network of Cycling and Pedestrian Tourism Routes

Romania – a State without an Integrated Network of Cycling and Pedestrian Tourism Routes The guest of the February edition of the CGR Meetings was Radu Mititean, lawyer, Executive Director of “Napoca” Cycling Club and...

How “Green” Is Mobility in Romania?

How “Green” Is Mobility in Romania? The guest of the February edition of CGR Meetings is Radu Mititean, lawyer, Executive Director of “Napoca” Cycling Club and President of the Romanian Cyclists’ Federation. With a pioneering...

Regional Inequalities in Romania – A Topic of Current Research and A Challenge for the Post-2020 Programming Period

Regional Inequalities in Romania – A Topic of Current Research and A Challenge for the Post-2020 Programming Period The Centre for Regional Geography hosted another presentation in the series of CGR Meetings on 16 January...

Regional Inequalities in Romania – Topic of Debate at the “CGR Meetings”

Regional Inequalities in Romania – Topic of Debate at the “CGR Meetings” The Centre for Regional Geography continues the series of CGR Meetings in 2020. The January guest is Professor József Benedek and the topic...

How Can a Village Become Remarkable?

How Can a Village Become Remarkable? The last edition of this year’s CGR Meetings, hosted by the Centre for Regional Geography, was marked by the activity of Cluj Cultural Centre, an NGO from Cluj-Napoca. The...

About “Remarkable Romania”

About “Remarkable Romania” In December, the Centre for Regional Geography hosts the presentation of the partial results of the Remarkable Romania project, managed by Cluj Cultural Centre. The project aims to create a network of...

The 9th Edition of the CGR Meetings – Under the Sign of Interdisciplinarity

The 9th Edition of the CGR Meetings - Under the Sign of Interdisciplinarity The November edition of the CGR Meetings brought to the fore other perspectives on geography and territorial planning, through the contribution of...

On Psychological Maps and Geographical Psychology with Professor Daniel David

On Psychological Maps and Geographical Psychology with Professor Daniel David The existing connection between psychology, geography and territorial planning and the exploration of new research frontiers are the main topics of debate at the November...

Role of Geographers in Spatial Planning Studies

Role of Geographers in Spatial Planning Studies The eighth edition of the “CGR Meetings” continued the discussions associated with the issue of territorial development through a debate focused on the geographical dimension of the spatial...

A New Series of Debates on Territorial Development at the Centre for Regional Geography

A New Series of Debates on Territorial Development at the Centre for Regional Geography Beginning with October 2019, the “CGR Meetings” series continues with a new topic “How to amplify the geographical dimension of studies...

How to Mitigate or Avoid Certain Strategic Planning Errors?

How to Mitigate or Avoid Certain Strategic Planning Errors? Whether we are talking about methodological, perspective, focus, or elaboration errors encountered in various strategic planning documents, the debate initiated by Radu Cocean, Lecturer at the...