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Director, coordinator, member or expert in over 40 projects on assessment and developing social services and social work education (TEMPUS, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundwig, FP6, FP7, Erasmus and Erasmus + etc). Targeted intervention, projects and partners in UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, Hungary, Finland, Slovenia, Moldova, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nederland, Belgium, Norway, Bulgaria, Slovenia. Evaluation, development or renewing of over 30 study programs in universities from Romania, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Moldova at bachelor and master degree level. Main topics: persons with special needs, children and adolescents on residential care, victims of violence, offenders, persons with special needs on jail, migrants, international cooperation.

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Professor Daniela Soitu have training-research experiences, as coordinator and expert in many international and national research and development projects; she is author of publications in areas of wellbeing, health and education, gerontology, social services for vulnerable groups.

She has postdoctoral studies in Social and health care policies for vulnerable persons - ethics of health care policies, social determinants of health. The research of vulnerabilities and risks in accessing the social and health care services has been published in peer reviewed journals.

The doctoral research underlined the social perceptions of institutionalised and not institutionalised elderly on their needs and opportunities of fulfilments. Relations with aims, resources, social services market and social policies had been suggested and directly contributed to debates on social care in Romania.

As professor, besides preparing courses, teaching and evaluation of students, and coordinating their final papers and dissertations, she is member in the final evaluation commissions of doctoral thesis and perform research activities in domains like: social work system, social care for the elderly, counselling in social work, mediation and other alternative disputes resolutions, counselling for personal development, applied social work, NGO`s and civil society cooperation.
She is manager (representing UAIC, as a partner) and manager for certificate modification in the project: Modification of the educational module - EDE certificate for providers of long-term care for seniors. (Coordinator: ASSP, Czech Republic. Partners: UAIC – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania); Akademie für Sozialmanagement (Austria); Bundesverband der Alten- und Pflegeheime Österreichs "Lebenswelt Heim" (Austria); Rath Wolfgang Consulting e.U. (Austria); IBG - Institut für Bildung im Gesundheitsdienst GmbH (Austria); E.D.E. – European Association for Directors and Providers of Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly  (Curently: European Ageing Network) (Luxemburg)). Erasmus +; Key Action 2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices; KA202 - Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training. Project number 2018-1-CZ01-KA202-048076.
Professor Soitu is member in the UAIC team of the project: Study on elaboration of conceptual and methodological framework for analysis and interpretation of long-term care: conceptual definitions, ways of analysis and interpretation. (Contract PSCD MMJS nr. 3677/28.09.2018)
She represented the university, in many European projects:  ERASMUS-ENW –EUHAP - 14PS0003 (2014-1-BE01-KA203-000910) European Humanitarian Action Partnership: ERASMUS-ENW –EUHAP (http://euhap.eu/); EUPRHA - European Universities on Professionalization on Humanitarian Action; proiect 518362-LLP-1-2011-1-ES-ERASMUS-ENW.
ProfesorDaniela Şoitudesigned and managed the CompEd project: Comparing collaboration in education and practice in the health and welfare fields. Romania and Norway, SEE Small size bilateral cooperation projects (EEA Financial Mechanism 2009-2014) (http://www.fssp.uaic.ro/comped/).
She is National coordinator of Research Network COST IS 1409: Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in western countries – and Management Committee member of European Concerted Research Action (https://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1409)
At the faculty level, she coordinates mobility studies and teaching in Erasmus + and EAA frameworks.

Latest publications:

Şoitu, D. (2018). The integrated social design of future long-term care. Scientific Annals of UAIC. Sociology and Social Work Section, Tom XI (1), 5-15.
Soitu, D., K.-J. Johansen (2017). The Space of Innovation and Practice on Welfare, Health and Social Care Education and Practice in Romania and Norway. Scientific Annals of UAIC. Sociology and Social Work Section. Tom X(1), 1-22; 
Maturo, A., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Soitu, D.-T., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds).  (2016). Recent Trends in Social Systems: Quantitative Theories and Quantitative Models, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40585-8; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8; Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40583-4

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Coordinator of teaching, clinical and research activity - Romanian Alzheimer's Society, Department of Memory Center, Clinical Psychiatric Hospital "Prof. Dr. Alexandru Obregia", Bucharest.
Chief Physician of the Department by competition of the Psychiatric Clinic nr. 11 "Prof. Dr. Alexandru Obregia', Bucharest.

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Father Ilarion Mâţă is also the president of the Association "St. Voievod Stefan cel Mare – Hârja" from Onesti, Bacău County, which provides social services for the elderly and children.

In 2018 Father Ilarion Mâţă received the distinction "100 examples of good practices in social services in Romania", distinction offered by the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice for his activity as president and director of the Harja Social Services Complex.

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Multidisciplinarity and Longevity

Physiological, psychological, social and cultural approach shows a heterogeneous old population.
Ageing involves an individual functional decline modeling stress adjustment and “frailty” is addressed to older persons with high vulnerability. A research concerning frailty as a physical, psychological, cognitive, functional, social and environmental interaction result is essential for a better understanding Ageing. 
Although frailty of older people can be associated with less capacity in normal systems, clinic conditions and geriatric syndromes are very complex.
Comorbidity, disability and frailty may be apart or simultaneous entities to older person and, a multidimensional evaluation or a comprehensive geriatric assessment directing a decision making in geriatrics is crucial.  There is a geriatric challenge for this complexity including many medical and social interaction concerns.
Geriatric services are able to respond to this complexity by assessment approaching, multidisciplinary team, and multidimensional interventions.
There is no always clear how specific interventions or care approaches “make the difference” for a patient or a group. Clinic complexity and comorbidity make the older person to be excluded from many clinic trials.
Although is seen as common, frailty at longeviv people should be carefully approached. A multidisciplinary approach takes us out of the routine when decreased functional capacities are even within normality.  
To stimulate restant capacities should be the main care plan objectiv even for a longevity person; the premise of personalised, specialised care with impact on the longevity is created.
Frailty prevention with its impact is a challenge for an Ageing society and many barrieres we expect to overcome.

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Experience in the social field of over 20 years.
At the level of the central public administration, I was involved in legislative initiatives related to social services and the application of many social protection measures for the elderly, in the implementation and monitoring of national strategies in the field of social assistance.
I was an organizer and participant in numerous events with and for the elderly, at national and international level, in which I presented both policies on the social assistance system focusing on the field of social services, as well as on social participation of the elderly and active ageing.

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Alexandra DOBRE holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Bucharest, an MBA in Business Administration from the UNESCO Chair, and currently is a doctor in Administrative Sciences, with  the Ph.D. thesis topic “Smart ecosystems, with applications in social policies”. She has also completed a course in International Law at the International Business Management Institute in Berlin and in Business Administration at the Cambridge Business Academy, being accredited as a trainer, DPO trainer and Cultural Manager.
Between 2016 and 2018, she was General Director at The European Cultural Centre for UNESCO “Nicolae Bălcescu” – District 4 City Hall, and beginning with 2018 she was, until 2022, General Director at the Bucharest Senior Citizen Centre – Bucharest City Hall. She is also the President of the Institute for Active Aging. Her main focus over the past few years is to emphasize the importance of the applicability of the “active aging” concept in Romania, by promoting adequate responses to the growing number of individuals reaching advanced ages, recognizing their specific dependability on health-related aspects, social interactions, and on services attendance.

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