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Now, as we are expressing these thoughts, the Faculty of Public Administration marks one and a half decades of existence, with which great personalities in education and science have identified. It is due to them that we benefit today of the most complete and coherent system of initial and ongoing education and formation of professionals in the public administration and in the public sector.
This will become obvious if you visit our faculty, in the strict or figurative sense of the word, or talk to our students and teaching staff, as well as with our graduates.
Having, from the very beginning, a clear conception and a clear mission, the Faculty of Public Administration has developed continually, and it has acquired attributes of uniqueness and expertise, which are unanimously acknowledged, as our faculty is involved in the fundamental processes that support the social reform which is being experienced by Romania.
If, in the earliest stage of its existence, the faculty aimed to redefine the traditional concepts and practices in the public administration, now its efforts are oriented towards the promotion of a greater openness to the problems which are specific to the public sector and towards a courageous and professional approach to the attributes of the new European administration, towards which we are heading in view of Romania's integration into the European Union.
Therefore, the faculty is outlining a new mission, to which the teaching staff, the students and the secretarial and administrative staff alike are summoned to contribute.
In the recent years, the beneficiaries of our programs have been increasingly numerous and diverse: students at full-time or distance-learning education, public servants and elected officials from the central and local administration, as well as employees from the private sector.
I won't be referring here to our educational offer, neither will I outline the academic content or the expertise that we possess. You will find all these in the materials and documents below.
I can only assure you that , through all we do, we support professionalism in the public administration, we assist the present and future public servants to conceive and achieve their career plans, and we contribute to the substantiation and operationalization of the public administration reform.
Our efforts are now directed towards the national andEuropean academic recognition, towards the adjustment of our teaching content and practices to the European ones, which are famous for their expertise in the field of education and training for public administration.
The public servants and public employees' mobility is a characteristic feature of the European public office and, consequently, our faculty is engaged in a complex national and European dialogue, which materializes in the promotion of and participation in numerous cooperation and partnership projects in the fields of teaching, research or simply academic management.
These arguments make me believe that your option, present or future, for the programmes offered by the Faculty of Public Administration, is entirely justified and it corresponds to your own interests.
Without fear of being wrong or of being accused of lack of modesty, I assert that we are the TRAINERS OF REAL PROFESSIONALS in the Romanian public administration.Prof., Lucica Matei Ph.D.