Past Projects
e-QUAL EDU
Full title: Digital media for increasing the quality of education and students insertion on the labor market. Maximizing the benefits of visual technologies in the learning process through virtual teaching environments.
Targeted area: Improving the quality of teaching activity, including respect for deontology and academic ethics
Time frame: 8 months (2021)
Purpose of the project: Creating a system to stimulate learning by adapting it to the individual study needs of students by forming a computer platform to support and facilitate teaching and increase its quality, developing mechanisms, tools and procedures to link the educational offer of SNSPA to current trends in labor market and the international academic community.
Outputs - digitalized courses:
- Information Technology for Public Administration (bachelor, first year of study) - Romanian version
- Public Services Management (bachelor, second year of study) - Romanian version
- Economic Policies and Theories (master, first year of study) - Romanian version
- Public Institutions Audit (master, second year of study) - Romanian version
- Financial and budgetary management: Comparative analysis (master, first year of study) - Romanian version
- Corruption analysis methodologies (master, first year of study) - Romanian version
Related outputs - published articles:
- Vrabie, C. (2023). Education 3.0 – AI and Gamification Tools for Increasing Student Engagement and Knowledge Retention. Digital Transformation. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 495. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43590-4_5
Related outputs - scientific contests:
- Smart2Education Hackathon 2023 (8 more digitalized courses were build)
From smart cities to smart nation. Synergy of smart projects implemented at city level in Romania
Time frame: 24 months (2019-2021)
Purpose of the project: The objective is to draw the map of Romania on the smart cities development axes by analyzing the projects initiated by the municipalities.
In order to achieve this, two derived research hypotheses were formulated: (1) In the public sector, projects need to address both efficiency and equity, which puts a lot of pressure on public decision-makers, forcing them to implement current projects, adapted to technological change, but also taking into account cohesion, i.e., concern for interregional disparities in economic performance. (2) Economic growth and regional development are strongly connected with the use of electronic means to do public business, but also with the implementation of smart projects at the local level always aiming at creating inclusive cities, internal connection with public decision makers, increasing the quality of public services and services, post-supply and, especially, collaboration with partners.
Outputs - published articles:
- Vrabie, C. Electric Vehicles Optimism versus the Energy Market Reality. Sustainability 2022, 14, 5388. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095388
- Vrabie, C. Converting Municipal Waste to Energy through the Biomass Chain, a Key Technology for Environmental Issues in (Smart) Cities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4633. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094633
digitalmunicipality.ro [primariadigitala.ro]
Time frame: 24 months (2013-2015)
Purpose of the project: To initiate changes on the Romanian municipalities Web-sites.
The theme of the primariadigitala.ro project revolves around the notion of e-government, a young concept, but which has started to be more and more present in the development strategies of the world's administrations. This concept now certainly involves Web initiatives, thus joining the list of changes in the economy. By these initiatives we refer especially to the way of communication of public institutions with the citizens, through their own Internet Web-sites, and in parallel, through the use of social-media platforms.
Outputs - published materials: