“Lower Danube” University in Galati is the largest higher education institution in the southeast of the country. It is located in the center of the city of Galati, port on the Danube, with a population of over 250,000 inhabitants. “Lower Danube” University in Galati has 12,500 students, being the center of technical, scientific, cultural and social progress with immediate applicability or in the medium and long term, intended to contribute primarily to the progress of the municipality of Galati. In this sense, the university collaborates closely with the socio-economic environment, offering it the specialists it needs, consultancy, technical solutions to current problems.

Currently, the “Lower Danube” University in Galati has 14 faculties and prepares students for undergraduate, master’s and doctoral studies in various fields (technical, humanistic, economic, health, artistic). “Lower Danube” University in Galaţi organizes the second cycle of two-year studies for the graduates of the first cycle. Within the “Lower Danube” University in Galaţi, doctoral studies are conducted in 4 Doctoral Schools, 16 doctoral fields, under coordination of 113 PhD supervisors.

“Lower Danube” University in Galati undertakes the mission of generating and transferring knowledge to society through:

•  initial training and continuous training at university and postgraduate level, for the purpose of personal development, professional insertion of the individual and satisfying the need for competence of the socio-economic environment;
•  scientific research, development, innovation and technological transfer, through individual and collective creation, in the field of sciences, engineering sciences, economic sciences, arts, letters, humanities, medical sciences, legal sciences, by ensuring performances and physical and sports development, as well as the valorization and dissemination of their results.

The objective of the university is to ensure the quality of the didactic activity at the level of national and international standards by:

• the improvement of educational plans, analytical programs and didactic methods of teaching and evaluation;
• the improvement of education based on transferable study credits, to ensure the possibility of students moving from one study program to another and the international recognition of the diplomas awarded by the University;
• the development, diversification and capitalization of concerns related to the computerization of the didactic-formative process;
• discovering, stimulating and valorizing students’ skills, paying particular attention to individual values.

The development of advanced, fundamental and applied research is done through:

•  increasing the human potential and material resources of the research centers;
•  stimulating the participation of research groups in national and international competitions, for financial support and ensuring the visibility of fundamental and applied research;
•  development, certification and diversification of research centers;
•  the development of international scientific cooperation, including by stimulating participation in research, development and innovation programs at the international level.

The university offers all members of the community the necessary conditions for putting personal skills into practice through education, scientific research and social-cultural activities.