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On 22 September this year, the first working meeting was held in Oslo to review the progress of the European Qualifications – Refugees and Recognition 4 (EQUAL) project, no. 101101707, funded by the European Commission, for members of the ENIC/NARIC National Recognition Centres network, in which Romania is a partner together with Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Greece and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

OCTRA 2 project – Course catalogues and online databases for transparency and recognition 2 / ARAQUA project – The road to automatic recognition of qualifications for access to higher education

The First Session of the Intergovernmental Conference of States Parties to the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education, organised by UNESCO, was held in Paris on 4-5 July 2023. On behalf of Romania, Ms Gianina Chirazi, Director of the National Centre for the Recognition and Equivalence of Qualifications (CNRED) - ENIC/NARIC National Centre and representatives of the Permanent Delegation of Romania to UNESCO participated.

On the occasion of the 30th Annual Joint Meeting of the Member Centres of the ENIC-NARIC (National Academic Recognition and Information Centres) Networks, which took place on 11 – 13 June 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden, the CNRED representative was appointed member of the NARIC Network Advisory Board.

The Norwegian ENIC-NARIC center organized, between 4 and 5 May this year, in Oslo, the launch meeting of the European Qualifications – Refugees and Recognition 4 (EQUAL) project, no. 101101707, financed by the European Commission, project intended for members of the ENIC/NARIC National Recognition Centers network, in which Romania is a partner along with Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Greece and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

At the invitation of the American Councils for International Education, Romania Branch, CNRED representatives participated at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, on April 7th, in a meeting with the new generation of FLEX Romania 2023-2024 scholarship holders.

On March 10, 2023, in Riga, was held the launch meeting of the OCTRA 2 project – Online course catalogs and databases for transparency and recognition 2, no. 101101695, financed by the Erasmus+ program, action 3, project intended for members of the ENIC/NARIC National Recognition Centers network, in which Romania is a partner alongside Latvia, Poland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On February 17, the launch meeting of the ARAQUA project was held in Riga – Road to Automatic Recognition of Higher Education Access Qualifications, no. 101101645, financed by the Erasmus+ program, action 3, project intended for members of the ENIC/NARIC National Recognition Centers network, in which Romania is a partner alongside Latvia, the Kingdom of Denmark, Italy, Malta, Estonia, Slovakia, Armenia and Ireland.

The European Commission published, on February 6, the Single Market Scoreboard - 2023 edition, which highlights all Romania's indicators for the Internal Market Information System (IMI) and Professional Qualifications, coordinated by the National Recognition Center and Diploma Equivalence (CNRED), maintaining the very good results obtained in previous years.

The Romanian National Council for Refugees, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), organized, on November 22-23, the National Conference on the Integration of Refugees to discuss actions, progress and current issues related to the integration of Ukrainian citizens in Romania.