It’s been an honor to me to be part of the SBSR Program. In additional to all the excellent speakers, I found the conversations I had on sidelines, at dinners, extremely interesting! I learnt so much by talking to people I don’t regularly tend to meet… this was invaluable for my research and for my understanding of the region!

This year’s program was a success in every respect: academically, thanks to the high level and broad area of topics; the organization was impeccable! And I would say it was also a success politically…what I saw here in Romania, with the hosting institutions, was a complete commitment to Romania’s Euro-Atlantic orientation.

There were several things that impressed me - the cooperation between the co-organizing agencies, the way panels merged together, how they all had relevance to the overarching topic, and the balanced mix of purely academic lectures with practitioners’ outlook. Finally, I can’t say enough about the Romanian hosting of the event!