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Agora Foundation, established on 10.01.2000, decided to found a private university (the General Meeting of Founders of 17.03.2000): Universitatea Agora (Agora University). The management team of the Agora University of Oradea assumes transparency as an essential component of quality. The Agora University of Oradea is a higher education institution of private law and public utility, founded in 2000 by the Agora Foundation, accredited by ARACIS in 2010, and validated by the Romanian Parliament by Law 59/2012 the national system of higher education in Romania. On 24.04.2012, I was elected rector by all teachers and students of the University Agora, the legislature from 2012 to 2016, and in 2016 I was re-elected for the mandate 2016-2020. Rector legally represents the University Agora of Oradea (UAO) in the National Council of Rectors in relations with the Ministry of National Education and its subordinate entities or advisory (ARACIS, CNATDCU, UEFISCDI, etc.), with central and local government, educational institutions, and national research and abroad, with domestic and international public bodies. Although young and small, with two faculties (Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Law and Administration), University Agora is dynamic and active. Instead of a quantitative, prefer qualitative development. Without false modesty, Agora University has some performance challenging to achieve even some old and larger academic institutions: 5 research centers (two international), a publishing house editing five international scientific journals in English language (one of which is indexed in ISI Web of Science), five international conferences in English, a computer laboratory, a forensic laboratory, three rooms with smart boards for videoconferencing courses, three lecture halls with over 100 seats, platform for e- active learning, and 10 POS-DRU successfully projects. The team has enjoyed learning about the characteristics of Agora University and its role as an entrepreneurial provider of higher education in the fields of law, management, and social science. It has been an exciting experience to discuss with staff, students, and external stakeholders the challenges faced by UAO and the university's efforts to address constraints and explore future opportunities. We believe the university has the potential to take successful steps in its next stage of development. If you agree, a higher quality education, through modern teaching technologies, in full transparency and legality, comes with tremendous confidence in University Agora. The mission of Agora University is based on the initial vision of the founders, who not randomly chose as the name an ancient symbol of public democracy. The democratic spirit of "Agora" was and always will be the straight line of its development and will also bring the university an innovative value, dynamism, and balanced growth. The founders understood that the encouragement of thinking and expressing freely of the Agora's students, academic and research staff, the opening mind, in order to have as managers and leaders professionals and influential cultural and scientific personalities from outside, able to obtain and even to exceed in a short time the performances of some important academic institutions with tradition in this area. Being a young university centered on education in social sciences, the Agora University assumes the mission to transmit to its students the spirit of "Agora", based on the values of democracy and trans-disciplinary humanism being forwarded to the society by the students. Starting with the present goods and internal potential, with the opening towards external collaborations, the Agora University wants for the near future to add new values for the human knowledge, promoting and encouraging the research, tending towards a mission of education and research, to be well recognized in the Romanian and European academic areas as an efficient model for the access to success in a dynamic society. The Agora University aims to become a cultural and civic center, designed to contribute to forming and transmitting the national and universal values, promoting the pluralism of options for civic and political development and, through its graduates and scientific researches, to contribute to the improvement of the performances obtained by the economical companies in the Western part of Romania. View full university