Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj

UBB University, among world's top 500, first in Romania for economics, econometrics

The Faculty of Economics and Business Management (FSEGA) of the Cluj-Napoca-based Babes-Bolyai University (UBB) is ranking among the top 500 educational institutions in the world and it is first in Romania for subjects of economics and econometrics, according to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) 2021.

Universities to hold academic year opening festivities

Several universities in Bucharest and elsewhere in Romania are holding today festivities to mark the opening of academic year 2019-2020. They include the University of Bucharest, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE) and the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, as well as several faculties within the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration.

Cluj-Napoca geologists chart climate changes using bat guano cave deposits

A team of geologists from the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca is conducting a research project that uses guano deposits in several Romanian caves, some of them more than 10,000 years old, to determine the climate changes occurred in various geological periods.

Photo credit: (c) Babes-Bolyai University project website

Open Book Night campaign to be carried out simultaneously in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca

The third edition of the Open Book Night campaign will be carried out on Thursday, on the occasion of the World Book Day, at the same time in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, the book lovers being invited to form chains around symbol-buildings in the two cities.

Photo credit: (c) Alex TUDOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Central Bank governor Isarescu: Setting target date for adopting euro only apparently simple

National Bank of Romania (BNR) Governor Mugur Isarescu said in this central-western Romanian city on Monday that Romania currently meets the convergence criteria stipulated in the Maastricht Treaty, but stressed that setting a target date for a country to adopt the euro 'might seem a simple matter, but it isn't'.