Romanian Association for International Cooperation and Development - Asociatia Romana pentru Cooperare si Dezvoltare Internationala

ARCADIA aims at bringing together experts, policy makers, scholars, and practitioners with expertise in Development and Romania’s relations with various parts of the world. A first event of the Network, initiated by Madalina Pruna and Stefan Cibian and organized in cooperation with MEP Corina CRETU and GRSPSociety, was a one day conference organized on the 18th of February 2009 in Brussels. The conference brought together Romanian policy-makers, scholars and practitioners in order to discuss Romania’s approach towards development cooperation and Romania’s relations with Africa.

A concept paper for the development of ARCADIA was created during the PATRIR Spring Academy course on 'Designing Peacebuilding Programs'. The document can be accessed on ARCADIA's ning platform - http://arcadianetwork.ning.com.

ARCADIA participated in the Development Summer Camp organized by MAE and UNDP in September 2009. 

During the GRSPSociety 2009 Annual Conference in Boston, a workshop was dedicated to the ARCADIA's development. For 2010 ARCADIA aims at establishing its legal entity and at organizing a Conference on Development, Trade and Foreign Policy.

If you are interested to join the Core Group - i.e. to contribute actively to the development of ARCADIA please contact Madalina or Stefan.

Visit ARCADIA's Blog

and ARCADIA’s network on Ning

ARCADIA Core Group E-list: http://groups.google.com/group/rodev_admin &

General List for the Romanian Development Community: http://groups.google.com/group/rodev

How to join

GRSPSociety’s working groups are virtual communities that allow their members to interact on the basis of their academic and professional interests. They serve as a forum for interaction and debate and give their members opportunites for collaborating on projects within their field of interest as well as developing themselves professionally.

To keep the working groups vibrant and interesting for everybody, we encourage all members of this working group to try to observe the following guidelines:
- Once you have joined the group, log yourself into http://arcadianetwork.ning.com/ and introduce yourself and your interestes and start sharing or discussing
- Participate in working group discussions and provide feed-back on activities, projects, and publications proposed or produced by the group
- Share any information (news, reports, studies, articles, conferences, relevant call for applications, etc.) you consider relevant to the group group on http://arcadianetwork.ning.com/
- Share information about the activity of the group with people or organizations you know that may be interested in the WG’s activity
- Join working group projects or propose or initiate new working group activities and projects and participate in their implementation

If you would like to join this working group, please follow the link in the right sidebar under “Join this working group!” and fill out the application. All working group members will then be asked to join the http://arcadianetwork.ning.com/ platform and to join the GRSPSociety web platform by creating a member account.