On February 15, the day when the Danubius community celebrated the anniversary of Danubius International University, Professor Steve O. Michael, Rector and CEO, presented the State of the University. The State of the University report is an important event in the United States of America, it is a day when the Executive Officer, known as either the president, vice chancellor, or chancellor presents a summary of the past year's progress and challenges, describes where the University is in its evolution and sets the tone for the coming year.

Last year, it was decided that this important speech would be delivered on the Founder's Day. Professor Benone Pușca's greatest contribution is the establishment of Danubius University; therefore, it was decided to honor him by reflecting on what we have achieved in the previous year and what we are doing with the vision and initiative he left in our hands

Prof. Steve O. Michael began by conveying his congratulations and gratitude to the university community and especially to those who went above and beyond the call of duty in the past year and congratulated all members of the Danubius community for their extraordinary work and all their professional achievements in the previous year!  Specific last year accomplishments include: leading the university from deficit to supplus, ensuring that the university is debt free, completion of the Strategic Plan, changed the name of the University to Danubius International University, with changes of mission, logos, and paraphenelia.  

Regarding the answer to the question: What does the future hold for us? - we developed a visionary Strategic Plan through which we commit ourselves to have growth and expansion as our main objectives, the goal being to become a university in which there are as many programs as possible in the English and Romanian languages.

Danubius International University will continue to play an important role in the development of the Brăila-Galati region. We are well positioned to bring awareness to this region through university activities and to contribute to the economic and social well-being of the region. Danubius International University is certainly an asset to its community.

In closing, Rector Steve O. Michael addressed a message to the Danubius community: "I invite you to join me not only to see what the University is today, but to be inspired by what it can become tomorrow and, with our collective inspiration , WE WILL WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!

You can watch full video here:

https://youtu.be/CV3mGftJm9I?si=13vwtN2KJQKMq7Po

The project to change the name of Danubius University to DANUBIUS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY was adopted on Tuesday by the Senate of Romania.

The institutional renaming aims at greater visibility in the international university environment.

The initiator of the project is the Ministry of Education "as a result of the manifestation of will of the Danubius University in Galati to start a name change project, "a project whose objective is to gain the visibility of this institution in the university environment, an objective also captured in the new strategic plan of the university ", it is stated in the statement of reasons.

In the draft normative act, it is mentioned that the aspects related to the change of the name of this institution are transposed into the new strategic plan of the university, in which the institutional renaming will have an important role to gain greater visibility in the international environment, but also for the consolidation the link between higher education and society, international competitiveness, based on fundamental academic values, increasing attractiveness at national and international level, capitalizing on opportunities to undertake international collaborative activities, capitalizing on opportunities to undertake international collaborative activities.

The Romanian Senate is the first legislative chamber referred to in this case.

12.00-12.30 - Launch of the legal literature collection of Dr. BENONE PUȘCĂ
Location - Benone Pușcă University Library

12.30 - 13.00 - Speech of the President of the Administrative Board Dr. Andy Pușcă
Location - AULA MAGNA

13.00-14.00 - State of Danubius University, Dr. Steve O. Michael, Rector & CEO
Location - AULA MAGNA

14.00 - 15.00 - Networking and Snacks
Location - Seniors Club

Danubius University and the Cybersecurity Association for Cloud (CSA) have signed a memorandum of understanding in order to build a strong community of information security specialists dedicated to increasing institutional security and developing academic and business environments, national and international level too.

The object of the Memorandum of Understanding is the collaboration of the partners, materialised through the implementation of the activities necessary to achieve the agreed objectives.

This partnership aims to promote cooperation between partners in areas related to cloud and cybersecurity, with particular priority given to public-private cooperation, awareness and knowledge development, scientific and technological research; evaluation, testing, use and promotion of control frameworks and best practices on cloud and cybersecurity technologies, components, solutions, products and services, all carried out in accordance with the provisions of Romanian and International laws.

The Cybersecurity Association for the Cloud is a non-governmental, non-profit, autonomous and apolitical organisation of natural and legal persons, established under O.G. 26/2000 and has legal personality.

A few things about the purpose of the Cloud Security Association:

• to create a community for sharing information and knowledge on information security, cyber security in general and security for the cloud computing area in particular;
• to organise and participate in events, training and conferences on information security, cyber security in general and security for cloud computing in particular;
• participating with other entities in research projects, awareness projects or other types of events or projects on information security, cyber security in general and cloud computing security in particular;
• drafting, editing, elaboration, completion or participating in the drafting, editing, elaboration, completion of materials, guides, documents relating to the area of information security, cyber security in general and security for the cloud computing area in particular.