PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

17.2.1. Relationships with regional NGOs and government for Sustainable Development Goals policy

1. Clusters

2. Digital Innovation Hubs

• DIH4S
• Transilvania Digital Innovation HUB

3. European Investment Bank

• The European Investment Bank has agreed to support transformational investment at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) through a new EUR 21 million, 25-year loan.

4. European Structural Funds Projects

• Strategic Framework for the Adoption and Use of Innovative Technologies in Public Administration 2021 - 2027 - Solutions for Business Efficiency - Project signed in 2020

17.2.2. Cross sectoral dialogue about Sustainable Development Goals

1. Structural Funds Projects

• ANTREDOC: Entrepreneurial skills and research excellence in doctoral and postdoctoral programmes, Project co-funded by the European Social Fund through the Human Capital Operational Programme 2014-2020, Priority axis 6 - Education and skills, Project code: POCU/380/6/13/123927 / Contract No: 56437/24.07.2019
• PAVING: Advanced Practice for Engineering Career Success, POCU/626/6/13/130354
• Project - "Entrepreneurial skills and research excellence in ANTREDOC doctoral and postdoctoral programmes
• POCU Project - "Advanced Practice for Success in PAVING Engineering Careers

2. Workshops/conferences

• Idea's Night
• The limits of expectation
• European Energy Service Award 2019
• FUTURE – Build with Passion
• Super Teach - inspiration for education
• RAF Romanian – American Foundation at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
• Infotech – Discover the future
• Tomorrow's Competences at Cluj-Napoca
• Supporting innovation in Development Regions of Romania
• Alpine NMR Workshop (Frontiers of Magnetic Resonance: Applications to Nano- and Microscopically Structured Systems)
• Order "Merit for Education" in the Rank of "Grand Officer"
• TUCN in the board of the National Council for Digital Transformation
• ELECTRO-SUMMER – summer school for students in disadvantaged environments, III-rd edition
• Increasing Energy Efficiency in Municipal Buildings through Photovoltaic System Solutions

17.2.3. International collaboration data gathering for Sustainable Development Goals

1. International Projects

• Interreg Danube Transnational Programme: Transnational Cooperation to transform knowledge into marketable products and services for the Danubian sustainable society of tomorrow

2. Workshops/conferences

• Investing in People, by Investing in Higher Education and Skills in Africa
• Advancing University Education in Biomedical Engineering and Health Management
• EAIE Conferience and Exhibition
• Be International at Home
• European University of Technology
• Advancing University Education in Biomedical Engineering and Health Management in Zwickau, Germany
• International Training - Advancing University Education in Biomedical Engineering and Health Management in Kyrgyzstan
• Project Interreg - “DanubeChance2.0
• Project - Extension of the operational “Space Emergency System” towards monitoring of dangerous natural and man-made geo-processes in the HU-SK-RO-UA cross-border region

17.2.4. International Collaboration for Sustainable Development Goals best practice

1. Projects

• Interreg Project
• GeoSS Project

2. Workshops

• RE-COGNITION
• SMEmPower - A holistic framework for Empowering SME's capacity to increase their energy efficiency
• Demand Response in Blocks of Buildings - DR BoB
• HEIBus
• GEAR-AT-SME
• BRIGHT
• Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Education in Romania
• Institute for Research in Artificial Intelligence

17.2.5. Collaboration with NGOs for Sustainable Development Goals

• BEST: Local BEST Group Cluj-Napoca consists of volunteers from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, a young group with enthusiastic and bold visions, highly motivated to learn what teamwork or project management are, or to develop a set of skills complementary to their studies. Abilities that will certainly help them in their post-university life.
• OSUT: The Students' Organization of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (OSUT) is a non-profit organization, with civic activity, dating from 01.10.2003, one of the 105 ANOSR member organizations from all over the country. Since 2003, OSUT represents and defends the rights of students of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, contributing to their educational, social and cultural needs.

17.3. Publication of SDG Reports

17.4. Education for SDGs

Education for SDgs commitment to meaningful education

Bachelor and Master courses

• Bachelor's Degree in Renewable Energy Systems Engineering
• Master in Sustainable Printing Systems
• Master in Smart cities

Postgraduate courses

• Energy analysis techniques and impl. of buildings with almost zero energy consumption (nZEB)
• Energy efficiency and sustainability for energy managers