Viorel Proteasa
West University of Timișoara
Romania

Viorel Proteasa is lecturer with the Department of Political Sciences at the West University of Timișoara. He researched social phenomena circumscribed to universities and students, ranging from performance evaluation to students’ collective action. He was a researcher in the project ‘From Corporatism to Diversity: A Neoinstitutionalist Study of Representative Student Organizations in Postcommunist Romania’ (code PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2296, contract no. 379/2015), funded under the Human Resources – Young Teams programme of Romania’s National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (PN2). Recently he engaged with the employability of university graduates – a first article on the topic deals wit the institutionalisation of social sciences from the perspective of the jobs the graduates obtain.

Liviu Andreescu
University of Bucharest
Romania

Liviu Andreescu is professor with the Faculty of Administration and Business at the University of Bucharest. He has published on higher education and research policy, church-state relations, and futures studies, sometimes at the intersection of these fields. He was a researcher in the ‘GRASSROOTSMOBILISE Research Programme’ funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Seventh Framework Program/ERC grant agreement Number 338463, and the director of the project ‘From Corporatism to Diversity: A Neoinstitutionalist Study of Representative Student Organizations in Postcommunist Romania’ (code PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2296, contract no. 379/2015), funded under the Human Resources – Young Teams programme of Romania’s National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation (PN2).