In the midst of a budget crisis, the Romanian Academy announced on Tuesday that it is establishing, together with the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, a new institution with new management functions, called the Romanian Academic Council. The institution appears exactly when Ioan Aurel Pop’s second and last term as president of the Romanian Academy expires.
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The Romanian Academic Council (abbreviated CAR) will bring together the two initiating academies and four branch academies in Romania, according to a press release.
- Romanian Academy,
- Academy of Sciences of Moldova,
- Academy of Legal Sciences from Romania,
- Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences,
- “Gheorghe Ionescu-Sișești” Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences,
- Academy of Technical Sciences from Romania
The launch ceremony will take place on Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 10 a.m., in the Aula of the Romanian Academy. Also then the heads of the new organization will be elected.
What will the new institution funded by public money do? The Romanian Academy claims that the new Romanian Academic Council will concretely contribute to the elaboration of analyses, studies and recommendations on major topics of public interest and will be involved in supporting a common space of Romanian science and culture, integrated in the European and international circuit of knowledge.
We remind you that Ioan Aurel Pop, the president of the Romanian Academy, ends his mandate on April 5, when the new head of the institution would be elected. Sources from the institution told G4Media that Mircea Dumitru, the former rector of the University of Bucharest, has a good chance of being appointed president. He was declared by CNSAS to be a collaborator of the Communist Security, but won the trial with CNSAS definitively in 2025, according to a statement to G4Media.
Pop’s attempt to introduce a law that would have given him the right to an unlimited number of mandates failed in parliament.
