Founded in 1913, Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti, ASE) is the leading economic university in Romania, consisting of 11 schools and many research centres. It is a state university which has been granted a high confidence rating by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Bucharest University of Economic Studies has around 22.000 students across the undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes which comply with the educational guidelines of the Bologna process. Bucharest University of Economic Studies’s mission focuses on advanced research and education, developing general, specialized and transversal competencies for a better integration in the modern society, etc. The list of European and international projects in which the University of Bucharest is involved can be found at the following link.