The Romanian Institute for Adult Education of the University of the West from Timisoara was funded in March 2000 out of the innitiative of the University of the West from Timisoara (represented by (the Faculty of Sociology and Psychology), of The Social Romanian Institute Banat-Crisana (ISRBC) and of the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) from Bonn, also funding members of our institute.
IREA was funded as a non-profit institution, as a research institute in the field of adult education, which has as an activity object the offering of scientific and methodological support for all the adult education institutions in Romania. Our main purpose in the activity we develop within the institute, is to conduct research and to publish books and materials regarding the field of adult education, to offer counselling services, documentation, communication and information services, professional counselling services regarding the psycho-pedagogical and managerial competences improvement of the practitioners in the field of adult education, essentially, the scientific and professional support needed for the improvement of the national continuing education system in our country, so that to compatibilize it with the international systems and practices for adult education.
The IREA board:
- Reader. PhD. Sava
Simona, IREA manager, 
- Prof. PhD. Anca Munteanu, president IREA, dean at
the Faculty of Sociology and Psychology,
- Prof. PhD. Dorel Ungureanu, deputy dean of the
Faculty of Sociology and Psychology,
- Reader PhD. Sorin
Pribac, ISRBC representative,
- Prof. PhD. dr. h. c. Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein, DIE
scientific director,
- Dr. Mark Bechtel, DIE international affairs
officer,
- Susanne Lattke, DIE international affairs officer.
Within the content of this page you will find
information on the tasks and objectives of the institute, on current activities
which the institute is developng, on future plans, publications, projects and
main events it accomplishes, on research work and partnerships it promotes.
You can find further information at:
Romanian Institute
for Adult Education
University of the
West from Timisoara
Calea
Bogdanestilor nr. 32A, cam. 205, 206
300389
Tel./fax:
0040-256-592658, 0040-356-816532
E-mail: irea@irea.uvt.ro
Romanian
Commercial Bank - Bastion Branch, Sf. Gheorghe 1 Square, Timisoara
Financial
reference code 13378580
IBAN code:
RO79RNCB0255008315520001/ RON
RO52RNCB0255008315520002/ EUR