Prof.Dr. Agron Kasa, Rector of SUT, attended  the inaugural meeting of the Regional Conference of  Rectors of  Member Institutions  of AUF (L’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) in ECO (C2R-ECO), which was organized by AUF in Central and Eastern Europe (AUF-ECO).
The activity was organized on June 30, 2023, in  Bucharest, in  the presence  of  AUF  Rector Prof. Slim Khalbous, and was welcomed to the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest by Mr. Sorin Mihai CIMPEANU, President of the National Council of  Rectors of  Romania.
The meeting included the election of the president and vice presidents of  C2R-ECO  by  about twenty rectors from the member institutions of AUF-ECO who had been invited by the presidents of the national councils of  rectors  of  the eleven  nations in the area.
The formation of the Regional Conference of Rectors of Central and Eastern Europe (C2R-ECO), with  the proposal of the Statute, the  election of the President, and the establishment of the Bureau, was the main objective of this constitutive meeting.
The countries represented in the meeting on June 30, 2023, in Bucharest are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, and Romania.
We are delighted to introduce C2R-ECO’s  President and  Vice Presidents:
â–¶President – Mr. Dan CASCAVAL, Rector of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University in Iasi, Romania.
â–¶Vice Presidents:
Andrea MALIQARI, Rector of  the  Polytechnic  University of Tirana, Albania;
Jaba SAMUSHIA, Rector of  Tbilisi  State  University, Ivane  Javakhishvili, Georgia;
Alexandru STRATAN, Rector of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova.