Non-academic projects

Projects within ICCV (RIQL), other than grants – coordinated contracts

• Impact study on the two day-care centres of CONCORDIA Humanitarian Organisation Romania, (2020-2021). Tasks: coordination, data collection, data analysis, reporting.

• Research on refugee integration in Romania. The needs and perspective of refugees’ vis a vis the integration process [in Romania], research project for National Council of Refugees to Romania (2018). Tasks: coordinator, research design (qualitative), interviewing, data analysis, reporting, policy assessment.

• Ex post evaluation of the 2000-2006 ESF support to the Open Method of Coordination in Social Protection and Social Inclusion, analysis of the European Social Found projects across the EU. Coordinator of the RIQL team, within a consortium led by Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (Bologna/Milano), at the request of the European Commission - Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG. (January-August 2010) Tasks: coordinating the team, data analysis, reporting.

• EUA Trends 2010, survey of the European higher education institutions for the European Universities Association (October 2008 – July 2009). Tasks: Coordinator, database design, data analysis, reporting.

• Coordinator of Need Assessment in 14 Romanian Villages, case studies in 14 rural localities, with recommendation for community development projects, at the request of OMV-Petrom (April-August 2008). Tasks: coordinator, project design, reporting, policy recommendations

• Coordinator (along with Mălina Voicu and Raluca Popescu) of Need Assessment in Eight Romanian Villages, case studies in eight rural localities, with recommendations for community development projects, at the request of OMV-Petrom (February-June 2007). Tasks: coordinator, project design, reporting, policy recommendations

• Coordinator of Understanding of the Romanian society values, with emphasis on the middle-class, secondary data analysis (August – December 2006), at the request of Renault-France. Tasks: coordinator, research design, sampling, data analysis, reporting.

• EUA Trends V, survey of the European higher education institutions for the European Universities Association (October 2005 – July 2006). Tasks: Coordinator, research design, database design, data analysis, reporting.

• Co-coordinator (with Mălina Voicu) of the research team for the study “The European Village”, contracted by ICCV for DC Communication and EU Delegation in Bucharest. (March-October 2005) Tasks: coordinator, research design (6 community studies), data analysis, reporting.

• Romania 2004: A Diagnosis of Corruption, contracted by RIQL for the CONCEPT Foundation. (coordinator of the analysis team) (August-November 2004) Tasks: Coordinator, research design, sampling, field-coordinator, database design, data analysis, reporting.

• Coordinator of the international research Trends in Learning Structures in Higher Education (III), conducted by European University Association. Tasks: designing of the databases, statistical analysis of the data. (November 2002 – March 2003)

• Coordinator (with Mălina Voicu and Adrian Dan) of the research Public Opinion Barometer – pre-testing and controlling the data collecting, carried out by ICCV for Open Society Foundation Romania (October-November 2002)

• Coordinator of the project Assessing the causes of county disparities in RSDF projects proposals (November-December 2001) realized for the Romanian Social Development Found. Tasks: Coordinator, research design, sampling, field-coordinator, database design, data analysis, reporting.

Projects within ICCV (RIQL), other than grants – team member

• END GBV in VET – “Full service to increase capacity and awareness for disrupting gender-based violence in the VET sphere”, Project 101049592 — CERV-2021-DAPHNE. Coordinator (RO team): Claudia Petrescu. (2021-2022) Tasks: research design (qualitative data collection in 6 EU countries), data analysis, reporting, publishing.

• Expert: Assessing the Program of Assisting Sem-Independent Life (PASI), beneficiar: SOS-Children Villages Romania, coordinator: Daniel Arpinte. (February-March 2020). Tasks: research design, interviewing, data analysis, reporting.

• Expert: Prometeus – Promoting social economy in Romania through research, education, professional training (POSDRU/84/6.1/S/57676). Tasks: research design (survey of social economy organizatins in Romania). (October 2010 – February 2011)

• Quality of Life in Romania and Bulgaria, member of the international team coordinated by ICCV (prof. dr. Ioan Mărginean), grant from the European Foundation for the Improving of Living and Working Conditions (September 2005 – July 2006). Tasks: secondary data analysis, reporting.

• Elaborating the national strategy for Research-Development-Innovation for 2007-2013, research done by RIQL for the National Council for Academic Reasearch (CNCSIS), coordinator Ioan Mărginean. (March-June 2006) Tasks: research design, sampling.

• Member of the research team for the project “Modernizing Agricultural Knowledge and Information System. Data Collecting for Social Assessment of Agricultural Extension Services” (May – July 2004, coordinator: Mălina Voicu), contracted by RIQL for the World Bank. Tasks: research design, sampling, field-coordinator, database design, data analysis, reporting.

• Sampling and data processing consultant for the project “Diagnosis of the Quality of Life” (June-July 2003), coordinated by prof. dr. Ioan Mărginean

• Sampling consultant for the project “Youth involvement in decision” (May-July 2003), coordinated by Simona Ilie

• Sampling consultant for the project “Assessing the effectiveness of HOLT Romania Foundation” (January-July 2002), coordinated by prof. dr. Ioan Mărginean. Tasks: sampling, reporting on technical issues.

• Sampling consultant for the project “Roma Survey 2001” (November-December 2001), coordinated by Anita Preoteasa and Sorin Cace

• Public Opinion Polls (March 1998, September 1998, April 1999), coordinated by Cătălin Zamfir and Mălina Voicu (at the request of the Democrat Party). Tasks: research design, sampling, field-coordinator, database design, data analysis, reporting.

• The Need for Housing (March 1999), coordinated by Adrian Dan and Ruxandra Noica, financed by the Minister of Public Work and Territorial Arrangement. Tasks: research design, sampling, data analysis, reporting.

Projects Coordinated within the Romanian Quantitative Studies Association

• Mental Health of Romanian Journalists, cooperation with the FFFF association. A survey of Romanian journalists. February-May 2025. Tasks: research design, data collection (websurvey), data analysis, reporting.

• Attitudes towards fake medicines: RQSA & CCSAS for Organizația de Serializare a Medicamentelor in România (OSMR). October 2024-February 2025. Tasks: survey design, data analysis, reporting.

• Survey of Bucharest architects, RQSA for Order of Romanian Architects, Bucharest Branch. November 2023-July 2024. Tasks: coordination, research design, data collection (websurvey), data analysis, reporting.

• From community to communities in Danube Delta, RQSA for Association Ivan Patzaichin Mila 23 & Romanian Governments’ Department for Durable Development, June-October 2023. Tasks: coordination, research design, data collection (websurvey, Delphi), data analysis, reporting.

• Various statistical assessments in medical studies, done by RQSA at the request of MedInteractiv (2023-present). Tasks: data handling, data cleaning, data analysis, reporting.

• Team leader: Exploratory mapping analysis on the data availability and infrastructure supporting data collection on the Romanian civil society sector, RQSA for the Fundation for Civic Society Development (FDSC), June-September 2021. Tasks: coordination, research design, data collection (interviews), data analysis, reporting.

• Impact assessment of data.gov.ro and opening of data in Romania, RQSA for Romanian Government (June 2020 – March 2021). Tasks: research design, websurveys (partly panel), Delphi panel, case studies, macro-data analysis, analyses of all data, policy analysis, reporting.

• Audit of market/sociological research (2018), for Focus Communication. Tasks: assessment of the quality of data collection, both qualitative and quantitative.

(Individual) Consultancy contracts: coordinated/Team Leader/Unique Expert

• Coordinator: Romania 2024. Non-profit sector, Foundation for Developing Civic Society, June 2023- April 2024. Tasks: coordination, research design, data collection (websurveys), data analysis, reporting.

• Consultant for The World Bank: Setting up the methodology for monitoring and impact assessment in case of Romanian strategies in education (December 2016-june 2017). Tasks: team leader, designing indicators, setting up data-collecting methodology, monitorizare și evaluare a impactului.

• Consultant for UNICEF: Roma Children Situation Analysis (team leader) (May-December 2016). Tasks: coordinator, report design, research design (qualitative), quantitative data analysis, reporting.

• Coordinator sociologist expert, for CCSAS and EWB, within the project Developing the institutional capacity to provide public information services for the immigrated Romanian citizens [Dezvoltarea capacității instituționale de furnizare a serviciilor publice de informare a cetățenilor români migranți], contracted for the Romanian Ministry of Work and Social Protection. Tasks: design of a survey of Romanian migrants to 8 EU countries, data analysis, reporting, training public clerk. (October-December 2014)

• Expert for the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Tasks: assessment of the Romanian pages of Eurypedia, and feedback for Eurypedia project as a whole. (December 2012-April 2013)

• Senior expert for the project „Quality assurance in Romanian higher-education in European context. Developing the quality assurance management at systemic and institutional level” implemented by ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education). Tasks: coordination and research design for the quantitative research (three national representative surveys targeting undergraduate university students, university teachers, and employers), sampling for the first two surveys, data analysis, reporting. (January – October 2011)

• Senior expert for the project „Sociologist on the Labor Market” (POSDRU/18/1.2/G/17293), University of Bucharest. Tasks: coordination and research design for the quantitative research (survey of the University of Bucharest graduates in Sociology between 1990 and 1998), coordination of data collecting, data analysis, reporting. (May 2010 – March 2011)

• Senior expert for the project „Quality assurance in Romanian higher-education in European context. Developing the quality assurance management at systemic and institutional level” implemented by ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education). Tasks: coordination and research design for the quantitative research (surveys of the Romanian rectors, vice-rectors and deans), coordination of the data collecting, data analysis, reporting; research design of other three national representative surveys targeting undergraduate university students, university teachers, and employers, sampling for the first two surveys, data analysis, reporting. (April – October 2010)

• Senior expert for the project “Dropout and Continuation rates from lower to upper secondary, in small towns”, CEDU 2000+/UNICEF, August-November 2009. Tasks: coordination, research design, data analysis (20 case studies), reporting, policy recommendations.

• Senior expert for the project „Quality assurance in Romanian higher-education in European context. Developing the quality assurance management at systemic and institutional level” implemented by ARACIS (Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education). Tasks: coordination and research design for the quantitative research (surveys of the Romanian rectors, vice-rectors and deans), coordination of the data collecting, data analysis, reporting; research design of other three national representative surveys targeting undergraduate university students, university teachers, and employers, sampling for the first two surveys, data analysis, reporting. (April – September 2009)

• Senior expert for the project Doctoral Studies in Romania. Organizing the doctoral Schools implemented by CNCSIS/UEFISCSU (National Commission for University Research). Tasks: coordination and research design for the quantitative research (surveys of the Romanian rectors, vice-rectors and deans), coordination of the data collecting, data analysis, reporting. (January – May 2009)

• August-November 2006: Culture and housing in the Rahova-Uranus neighborhood, leading consultant, British Council (Bucharest). Tasks: research design (qualitative research), coordination, reporting.

• December 2004-March 2005: Open Society Foundation consultant for “Unifying the databases of the Public Opinion Barometer 1998-2004”.

• April-June 2004: World Bank consultant for the “Knowledge Divide” project.

• November-December 2002, February 2003: World Bank consultant as social assessment expert for the Romania Afforestation of Degraded Agricultural Land Project. Tasks: team leader, research design, fieldwork coordination, conducting interviews, reporting.

• December 2000 – February 2001: coordinator (with Magda Balica and Irina Horga) of the project “Feasibility Study on the continuation and extension of the structural reform of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) within the Educational System of România. The present situation and sector policy recommendations”, component of a larger project of National Observatory Romania (NOR) and European Training Foundation (ETF). Tasks: research design (focus groups), data collection, reporting.

• December 1997: consultant for the Foundation for Developing the Civil Society as expert on social statistics and sampling

• Public Opinion Poll (Bucharest-March 1996, coordinator, Social Observatory), at Democratic Party request. Tasks: Coordinator, research design, sampling (Bucharest-representative sample), field-coordinator, database design, data analysis, reporting.

(Individual) Consultancy contracts: Team Member

• V-Dem Country Expert, 2019-present. Tasks: classifications of political parties.

• Sociologist: Attitudes towards equality in Moldova, [iMAS] Chișinău, May-December 2023. Tasks: survey design, data analysis, reporting.

• Sociologist: Quality of Life Survey in Moldova, [iMAS] Chișinău, February-September 2024. Tasks: data analysis, reporting.

• Social Development Facilitator: EduAct- Equal Access to education, POCU/987/6/2.6/154476, implemented by Asociatia Atitudini și Alternative in Găești & Petrești (December 2022-December 2023). Tasks: assessing the school needs, surveys, training teaching staff in innovative teaching methods, connecting school to community.

• Expert: Tr@ck-IN: Public employment services tracking effectiveness to support rural NEETs, ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (coord. Francisco Simões), finanțat prin EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment. Unlocking Youth Potential, 2020-1-0011 (2021-2022). Tasks: scope reviewing, legislation reviewing, analysis, reporting, publishing. (8 EU counties)

• Sociologist: Permanent assessment of motivation and impact of the volunteering program of Timișoara-European Capital of Culture, Asociația Timișoara 2021 - Capitală Europeană a Culturii. Tasks: research design (websurvey with volunteers), data analysis, reporting. (January-December 2021)

• Expert: Action for Health and Equity: Addressing Medical Deserts (AHEAD), Center for Health Policy and Services (CPSS), 2021- 2023, founded through European Union’s Health Programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement No. 101018371. Tasks: literature review on medical desserts, setting up a measurement tool, research design for further investigation, specifications for implementation, data analysis, reporting.

• Expert for the project Quality in higher education: internationalization and databases for developing Romanian higher education - POCU 126766, implemented by CNSPIS (Commission for Prognosis and Statistics in Higher Education), February-March 2020. (Sept.2019-Mar.2020; Feb-Dec 2021). Tasks: policy analysis, research design (interviews), data collection, data analysis, policy recommendations, reporting.

• Sociologist: Research on perceptions of Romanians regarding advocacy and human rights NGOs, Center for Public Innovation. Tasks: CATI survey (design, weighting), analysis, reporting. (December 2020-May 2021)

• Expert: Rahova-Uranus. The Ark – Memories incapsulated, initiated by The ARK, February-November 2020. Tasks: websurvey (design, data collection), data analysis, reporting.

• Expert with European Institute of Romania, within the project A Key Access to EU Rights (EUReKA ), founded by European Commission (REC-RCIT-CITI-AG-2018), implemented by a consortium lead by CENTRO STUDI E RICERCHE IDOS (Italy) (December 2019-June 2020). Tasks: research design adviser, data analysis, reporting. (analysis of best practices to integrate immigrants)

• Sociologist within the project Accessibility of education and training services in Tulcea county for disadvantaged communities, through using open educational resources, implemented by Tulcea School Inspectorate and financed through ESF (POCU 74/6/18/LO6346) (2019-2021) Tasks: websurveys with students/professors (design, data collecting, analysis, reporting), vulgarization, designing intervention methods.

• Expert within the project Transparent Decision Process in Re-offending Risk Assessment in Republic of Moldova, GRADO - Romanian Group for The Defence of Human Rights, September 2017-February 2018. Tasks: assessing the capacity to implement risk assessment formulas în the Penitenciary system of Moldova.

• Consultant for Ernst & Young: Increasing quality and availability of open data published by public administration, at the request of Romanian Government (August-December 2017). Tasks: research design, data collecting, data analysis, reporting.

• Expert for Romanian Government and Bucharest School of Political Science within The State of the Nation project. tasks: developing indicators for social capital, political participation, and quality of life.

• Consultant for GRADO and ANP (National Authority for Penitentiaries), as expert in social statistics for assessing the risk of recidivism and related risks (August 2015-May 2016, continued in the present as permanent consultant )

• Member of Eurofound’s network of correspondents managed by the European Institute of Romania, Bucharest (2015-2016).

• Consultant for UNICEF, contract In-depth Assessment of the social, health, and education status of children and their families in one county Tasks: baseline study, designing a complex assessment (surveys, interviews, administrative data), data analysis, reporting. (March-December 2015)

• Consultant for UNICEF, contract Rapid Assessment of the social, health, and education status of children and their families in Bacău County (September-December 2014)

• Expert in various projects of ARACIS and UEFISCDI supporting Romanian Ministry of Education in its attempt to propose an evidence-based ranking of Romanian university sector. (March-October 2011)

• Expert for the project Professionalizing the teaching career – new competencies for education stakeholders in Dâmboviţa and Buzău counties (POSDRU/87/1.3/S/62624), Dâmboviţa School Inspectorate. Tasks: research design (impact study), data analysis, reporting. (December 2010-March 2013).

• Senior expert for the project PREZENT! Stimulating participation to lifelong learning of the employees at risk: informing, awareness, and access to quality lifelong learning, carried out by the Institute of Education Science, and financed by the EU and Romanian Government, through ESF-POSDRU, January-May 2010. Tasks: contribution to research design (surveys of employees at risk and of their employers), data analysis, reporting.

• Senior expert for the project Sociological study on the relation between higher education qualifications and the demand of the labor market, carried out by ACPART (National Agency for Higher Education Qualifications and Partnership with the Socio-Economic Environment) and financed by the EU and Romanian Government, through ESF-POSDRU. (October 2009-September 2010). Tasks: research design (three surveys: university graduates, employers, recruiting agencies), data analysis, reporting.

• Expert as quantitative data analysts for the project Impact evaluation and dissemination of the results of PHARE programs – Access to education for disadvantaged groups, implemented by LDK at Ministry of Education’s request. Task: research design (impact study of training programs), quantitative data analysis, reporting. (January-November 2009).

• Senior expert for the project “Quality and Leadership in Higher Education”, UEFISCSU. Tasks: policy and data analysis. (July-November 2009)

• Senior expert for the project Active adaptation of university education to the labor market demands, implemented by CEDU 2000+ at the ARACIS request. Tasks: coordination and research design for the quantitative research (surveys of the Romanian employers and recent university graduates from four fields – Law, Mechanical Engineering, IT, Communication Science), coordination of the data collecting, data analysis, reporting. (January – July 2009)

• August 2008 – June 2009. Expert in the project Technical Assistance to Support The National Centre For Staff Training in Pre-University Education (NCPTE), developed by WYG International on the behalf of NCPTE. Tasks: designing the impact studies for training courses, data analysis, reporting.

• June-December 2008. Expert in the project The transition and the completion rates by education levels. School level’s Perspective, implemented by CEDU 2000+ at the request of the Romanian Ministry of Education, within the framework of the Rural Education Project. Tasks: research design, data analysis, reporting.

• January-June 2007: Member of the project team „Educational policies in higher education”, Open Society Foundation, Bucharest. Tasks: research design, data analysis, reporting. Assessing the state of the Romanian higher education system by surveying the opinions of university staff and students.

• September-December 2005: member of the „Rural Eurobarometer” jury, Open Society Foundation. Tasks: coordination, research design (survey), analyzing the survey data, reporting.

• July-November 2005: expert for the project „Private Higher Education in Europe and Quality Assurance and Accreditation from the Perspective of the Bologna Process Objectives”, Designed and implemented by UNESCO-CEPES in collaboration with “Leon Koźmiński” Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (LKAEM) and The World Bank. Tasks: coordination of data collection (survey of private universities in 12 European countries), analyzing the survey data, reporting.

• January-May 2004: CEB (Council of Europe Development Bank) consultant, via TRANSTEC Bruxelles, as expert in socio-economic assessment for the project „Ex Post Evaluation in Romania: Natural Disaster and Prevention Project”. Tasks: research design (qualitative research, studying the social impact of several infrastructure forest-related works in Romanian communities), fieldwork (20 communities), reporting.

• February – July 2002: World Bank consultant for the Romanian “Education Policy Note”

• April-June 2001: team member in the project “The new curriculum impact in mandatory education”, realized by Center Education 2000+, National Council for Curriculum, Romanian Ministry of Education and UNESCO. Tasks: research design (survey), data collection coordination, data analysis.

• January – May 2001: team member in the project “Poverty Overcoming Strategies”, contracted by ICCV for UNDP

• January - March 2000: team member in the project “Early Warning Report – Romania” (financed by UNDP and the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

• October - November 1999: USAID and Urban Institute New York consultant as ”Housing Market Specialist”

• August 1999 - September 2000: consultant on “Revitalization of rural education”, project of the Institute for Educational Sciences and the Romanian Ministry of Education

• October 1998 - May 1999: World Bank consultant on „Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Romanian Pre‑University Educational System"

• September-October 1998: „Expert on Social Policy and Institutional Strengthening" at UNDP-Poverty Alleviation Project, Phase II, Bucharest

• Rural community studies: Cristian (Sibiu – 1996), Voineşti (Dâmboviţa – 1995), Crăsani (Ialomiţa, 1994-1996). Team member in the research teams coordinated by prof. Vintilă Mihăilescu within the Social Observatory.