Academia Europaea regional center to be created in Bucharest under Romanian Academy's coordination

 The Romanian Academy announces the creation this year, in Bucharest, of an Academia Europaea regional center, a community of the esteemed pan-European institution that brings together science and art personalities from across Europe.The announcement was made by Romanian Academy President Ioan-Aurel Pop at the event "The Romanian national project in the horizon of the 21st century", which took place on Wednesday at the Grand Hall of the Romanian Academy, the institution's Communication Office said.Coordinated by Academia Europaea and the Romanian Academy, the center will be called the Academia Europaea Bucharest Regional Knowledge Hub and aims to be a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas between Romanian and foreign researchers and academics, mobilizing in an institutional infrastructure the intellectual resources that will identify the way how intellectual and cultural traditions can be not only preserved, but reinterpreted through a contemporary perspective."Providing a framework and an impetus for advanced research in social sciences and humanities, stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration capable of enriching the academic dialogue and influencing the climate of opinion, the center will encourage the analysis of the impact of social and economic transformations on cultural and identity structures in the new era," the cited source said.The center's mission is to integrate various academic disciplines that address the problems of the 21st century and to stimulate the contribution of social and humanistic fields to a better understanding of the future of culture, identity and intellectual integrity in Europe.By establishing a thematic agenda, the center seeks to play a significant role in the debates on common contemporary issues and the European cultural future, in the context where Europe, just like the rest of the world, is facing rapid changes generated by globalization and unprecedented technological transformations, the Romanian Academy said.