On 5\u20136 February 2026, our university hosted an important event dedicated to rural development consultancy at the Transylvanian Institute for Advanced Horticultural Research, organised in partnership with the Romanian-American Foundation, the Civitas Foundation and the University of Georgia \u2013 UGA Extension.<\/p>\n
On the first day of the event, where USAMV Cluj-Napoca was represented by academic staff from the Faculty of Agriculture, the Faculty of Animal Science and Biotechnology, and the Faculty of Horticulture and Business in Rural Development, the implementation status of the three pilot agricultural consultancy projects was presented, designed according to the American \u2018land-grant university\u2019 model, launched in June 2025, while the future activities necessary for the development of action plans were outlined.<\/p>\n
The agricultural extension pilot projects are coordinated by the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, the \u201cKing Michael I\u201d University of Life Sciences Timi\u0219oara and USAMV Cluj-Napoca.<\/p>\n
Special guests included representatives from S\u0103ndule\u0219ti Town Hall, the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, the Blaj Research and Development Station for Viticulture and Winemaking, alongside representatives from the Cenana Cooperative and the NGO Terra Gloria.<\/p>\n
The second day of the event was set aside for meetings with representatives of the local communities participating in the pilot project led by the team from USAMV Cluj-Napoca: the Some\u0219-Arie\u0219 Agricultural Cooperative, the Agrobob Ardeal Agricultural Cooperative, GAL Some\u0219 Transilvan, the Bon\u021bida Rural Discovery Centre, as well as the local councils of Apahida, Bon\u021bida, D\u0103b\u00e2ca and Jucu.<\/p>\n
Discussions focused on ways in which universities with an agricultural focus (agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry) can contribute to the development of rural communities. For further details, please contact us via email at extensie@usamvcluj.ro<\/a> , WhatsApp chat \u2013 https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/xdz9uvrz<\/a> or by phone on +40 772115 501.<\/p>\n Congratulations to all participants and good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 5\u20136 February 2026, our university hosted an important event dedicated to rural development consultancy at the Transylvanian Institute for Advanced Horticultural Research, organised in partnership with the Romanian-American Foundation, the Civitas Foundation and the University of Georgia \u2013 UGA Extension.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evenimente"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}