Premises of creating a sustainable development center from the experience of internships performed at ROSTeu Brussels, are appropriate for the development of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, commissioning a research centre on sustainable anthropogenic ecosystems, taking into account the European attention to nature-based solutions, natural capital and ecosystem services, including from the Point of Financing (high number of projects funded by FP7 and Horizon 2020 for these topics, compared to previous programmes) and climate change worsening, in the context of over-glomeration of urban environments and urban built fund.
Creating such a centre would favour the education of a nucleus of specialists (master\’s and PhDs, postdoctoral, teachers and researchers) at UAUIM, which could apply in partnership with other universities, research-development-innovation centres and national, European or international organisations, attracting funding and cultivating complementary skills to those who already have teachers and current graduates.
At the same time, the retention of specialists at UAUIM or in Romania would positively impact the quality of the academic offer. Participation in modern funding instruments such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions or COST Actions, organising Climathon workshops locally, perhaps even similar to Biomimicry Design Challenges or TEDx, would complement current, one-off involvement in Erasmus+ projects.
The proposal also appears feasible in the context of theoretical, academic and even practical experience through a number of former Doctoral School doctoral students, open to participate in the development of a pedagogical nucleus on sustainability and resilience of the architectural and/or urban building fund, as well as and of multidisciplinary groups that are constantly testing, in recent years, practically, passive homes or NZEB type for Solar Decathlon competitions (Prispa, EFDN, OVER4 etc.).
Last but not least, there are already Doctoral coordinators with relevant experience and who have already obtained research funding in close areas in previous years (preventing the risk of natural disasters, lowering the levels of urban heat islands, etc.), respectively from PhDs, there are self-organisation concerns on thematic groups, which are framed in national/ European research priorities and thus more fundable than other classical topics of architecture research.