At the invitation of the Romanian Academy of Scientists, the European expert Mário CAMPOLARGO, former Secretary of State for Digitization and Administrative Modernization in the Portuguese Government – during the mandate of Prime Minister Antonio Costa, recently elected President of the European Council -, and former Director General of DG Informatics DIGIT – European Union, a leading figure in the field of digitization in Europe, visited Romania, from 25 to 29 June 2024, where he participated in a series of meetings and events under the theme THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE – TRANSFORMAREA DIGITALĂ A EUROPEI.
The first item on the agenda of the event was the visit of the prestigious expert to the Academy of Romanian Scientists, where he met with the management team of the institution and members of the Academy (June 26). On the same day, also at the AOSR headquarters, the debate was held The cloud vision in the new paradigm of digital transformation, with the participation of Mr. Mário CAMPOLARGO and representatives of ICT companies involved in the digital transformation process.
The program of Mário CAMPOLARGO’s visit to Romania included meetings with personalities and leaders in the field of digitization, visits to institutions and universities in Bucharest and in the country, discussions and round tables on the Digital Transformation of Europe, a process of great complexity and importance for the present and future.
The European expert had meetings with the Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitization, Bogdan Gruia Ivan, and the President of the Romanian Digitization Authority, Dragoș-Cristian Vlad, with research and academic specialists. The meetings were also attended by prof. univ. dr. eng. Doina Banciu, President of the Romanian Academy of Scientists , who spoke about the “Romania of Knowledge” Project, initiated by the Romanian Academy of Scientists, and about the digitalization of libraries.
On 28.06.2024, Mr. Mário CAMPOLARGO visited the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest (Politehnica Bucharest) where he met with the Rector Mihnea Costoiu. In this framework, the European expert participated in the Round Table “Europe’s Digital Transformation”, moderated by Prof. prof. univ. dr. eng. Doina Banciu, President of AOSR and prof. univ. dr. eng. Ciprian Mihai Dobre, pro-rector of the Politehnica University. The event was attended by: prof. univ. dr. eng. Tudor Prisecaru, State Secretary in the Ministry of Research, Innovation, Digitalization, prof. univ. dr. eng. Doina Banciu, President of the AOSR, Prof. Dr. Viorel Jinga, Rector of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, Vice President of the AOSR, conf. Ioan Corneliu Sălișteanu, rector of Valahia University, Targoviste, prof. univ. dr. Ioan Corneliu Sălișteanu, rector of Valahia University, Targoviste, prof. univ. dr. eng. Anton Hadăr, vice-president of AOSR, vice-president of the Senate of Politehnica University, prof. Prof. univ. dr. Ștefan Sebastian Busnatu, pro-rector of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” – Bucharest, prof. univ. dr. eng. Mihnea Alexandru Moisescu, Dean of the Faculty of Automatics and Industrial Informatics, and other specialists in new technologies. The Round Table discussed digitization, a complex and far-reaching process, with the challenges, benefits and innovative openings it creates, citizens’ digital competences, education, the relationship between citizens and digitized administration, the digitized system in Portuguese Medicine, the European vision on digitization.
The European expert’s program also included a meeting with dr. eng. Adrian Victor Vevera, Director General of the National Institute for Research-Development in Informatics, and a visit to the “Transilvania” University of Brasov, where he met with Prof. Dr. Carmen Buzea, Vice-Rector, and Prof. Dr. Titus Bălan, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The visit to “Transilvania” University was organized with the support of the AOSR Brasov Branch.
Mário CAMPOLARGO ‘s presence in Romania was, through the expertise and prestige of the European expert, through the series of meetings and debates that structured the agenda of the visit, an important event in the ongoing digitalization process in Romania, a complex, wide-ranging process, which has a major role in the fields of education, science, research and knowledge and, in general, in the transformations in the areas of society and economy, being a support for progress and evolution. Mário CAMPOLARGO’s visit, carried out at the initiative of the Romanian Academy of Scientists, opens important perspectives of collaboration in the field of digitization process in our country and within the “Romania of Knowledge” Project.
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Bucharest, 29.06.2024