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Building closer relationships between universities and companies can encourage exchange of information between the two institutions, to create long-term partnerships and opportunities and stimulates innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. The main objective of this research is to identify the significant elements of the collaboration between the university environment and the business environment in Romania, by extracting current information about this collaboration and to try to realise a general framework related to this issue. The research is part of a future larger investigation conducted as an integral part of the Erasmus + project Personalized Engineering Education in South Africa - PEESA III. The study analyzed the perceptions of respondents from some companies operating on the Romanian market, regarding the company in which they are activating and its level of cooperation with the university environment.

This paper presents the current situation of school practice and internships as ways of reducing the gap between the labor market and education. In the first part, there is highlighted the current situation of Romania comparing with other European countries when it comes about graduates finding a job in their field of studies. Among the biggest issues encountered by a young graduate we see that

Due to the current pandemic situation caused by SARS-CoV-2 the need of effective precautionary methods is increasing. Besides the transmission of this virus by aerosols induced to air, it is assumed that the transmission route of SARS-CoV-2 is mainly by contaminated surfaces. It has been demonstrated that viruses can contaminate dry surfaces and can be further transmitted to the host even after extended time. The amount of disinfection and hygiene systems has increased drastically over the recent year. Although, the conventional disinfection method via spraying and wiping is labour intensive and efficacy is dependent on the application. Aim of this study was to improve conventional disinfection methods. This new disinfection system based on hydrogen peroxide and silver nanoparticles displays a quick and effective alternative. The composition which was proposed in this study shows unique features in terms of application, health risk and effectivity. The novel application by vaporization helps to disinfect the environment and even the air to reduce virus spreading. New disinfection formulation shows efficacy on the surface proteins and genetic information of the virus. Integration of the effective disinfection method shown in this study in the current precaution measurements will help to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

This article aims to highlight the most important ideas about internships and school practices from students’ point of view. The paper is structured in three parts. In the first section the topic based on building a career in Romania while being a student is discussed along with the employers’ expectations of having experience for getting a job and the problematic of today educational system. Further on the differences between traineeships and internships are detailed according to the Romanian framework and international sources to see exactly what do these mean and which one weights more for a company at the time of interviewing. Taking into the account what has been mentioned a survey was conducted among students from Faculty of Engineering where 100 replies were received. The questions asked highlighted how often Romanian students are being a part in such an activity, which are means of information they use to find out about the open positions and the students’ degree of satisfaction about the opportunities internships and school practices offer them, on a long-term aspect.

The logistics services are represented by the logistic organizations through the characteristic features of the developed economies of the rich society. The mission of logistics can be found inside their centre. However, we well know that in the XXI century, the world economy is based on knowledge, and it is led by services, logistics being one of the main under the sector, next to the banking operations, tourism, education, or health. Taking into consideration that there are few studies which approach the part of leadership and motivation inside logistics, the main objective of research is to point out the relationship between leaders and employees, the type of leadership the company promotes, the motivation of the employees at the workplace inside the logistics department. The aim of the research is to offer a view of developing the abilities of leadership and motivation of the employees inside the logistics department. In this regard, a questionnaire was made and distributed to 30 people from the logistics department within the management and middle management group, inside a production profile company.