Ovidiu Pecican, Professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj (Department of European Studies) repeatedly attacked the use of English in the Romanian research system characterizing it as a sign of "servility of historical proportions". In response to criticism he argues that the widespread use of external evaluation for grants at the European level is not appropriate for Romania. http://www.romanialibera.ro/opinii/comentarii/cercetare-si-slugarnicie-285304.html

Members of the first overseas grant-review panel to operate in Romania wrote a letter of concern in this week's issue of Nature while praising the review system introduced a year ago: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7428/full/492186c.html#/supplementary-information "...we are therefore concerned to learn that the research minister intends to discontinue the use of international referees (Nature http://doi.org/jwn; 2012) in a scheme originally

Nature's editorial "Suspend disbelief" (Dec 5, 2012) identifies the long term lack of "an appropriately funded, meritocratic system" as the root cause for the declining low quality level of the Romanian research system. Against this long decline background, the recent events since the access to power of USL government led by Victor Ponta are compared in the editorial with a absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco. Proven plagiarist, Mr. Ponta has appointed

http://rpss.inoe.ro/vol/2012/4

https://ad-astra.ro/library/books/frangopol_mediocritate_4.pdf

Autoritatea Națională pentru Cercetare Științifica (ANCS), organizează în perioada 7 - 9 noiembrie 2012, la Biblioteca Naţională a României din București, Conferința Națională a Cercetării și Inovării. La lucrările conferinței sunt așteptați să participe peste 450 manageri de cercetare din mediul public şi privat, academicieni, rectori, cercetători ştiinţifici, înalți oficiali ai Comisiei Europene, reprezentanţi ai mediului