Înființat în anul 2016, Institutul de Cercetare CAMPUS al Universității Naționale de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București reprezintă institutul universității dedicat cercetării avansate, dezvoltării și inovării în domeniul tehnologiilor multi- și interdisciplinare. Institutul se distinge printr-o concepție unică, atât din perspectiva infrastructurii, cât și a funcționalității. Acesta dispune de o clădire verde, sustenabilă și inteligentă, cu șapte niveluri, realizată la standarde de top, care integrează surse neconvenționale de energie, recuperarea energiei, reutilizarea resurselor și sisteme inteligente de management. CAMPUS reunește peste 40 de laboratoare și centre de cercetare, desfășurate pe o suprafață de peste 8.000 de metri pătrați. Laboratoarele și centrele sunt interconectate într-un flux tehnologic interdisciplinar complet, care pornește de la studiul materialelor, continuă cu ingineria electrică și electronică, energetică și mecanică și ajunge la telecomunicații, tehnologii informaționale și calculatoare. Clădirea însăși funcționează ca un laborator de cercetare. CAMPUS servește, de asemenea, drept mediu educațional pentru studii universitare, postuniversitare și activități de e-learning. Începând cu anul 2024, CAMPUS găzduiește și Centrul European de Competențe în domeniul Securității Cibernetice (ECCC), care, împreună cu Rețeaua Centrelor Naționale de Coordonare, contribuie la consolidarea comunității europene de securitate cibernetică.

As we enter Politehnica Bucharest’s 200th year of existence, our community is truly brimming with ideas and energy. Initiatives across the university seem to converge towards an even greater sense of community and a large common purpose: servicing our nation and the world through solutions to the global challenges. This is exactly why, thanks to the extraordinary sustained and distributed effort of faculty, staff, students and alumni, we have developed CAMPUS a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary problem-solving facility dedicated to the looming problems of society and the private sector. From clean energy to better traffic, from smarter cities and enterprises to the future of the Internet, CAMPUS aims at deploying the convergence of the life, physical, and engineering sciences as a catalyst for new solutions. At a time when the world urgently needs more people who understand science and engineering, we extend the power of hands-on problem-solving to companies and institutions around the globe in the effort to explore a new model of university activity — enhancing communities through science. This is CAMPUS’s business proposal.

We know that the world offers us limitless opportunities for important challenges. But for Politehnica Bucharest to commit itself to its distinctive mission, we must do more than simply bring perfectly theoretical scientific models to life. We must solve actual problems, faced by real people, which have immediate, direct and practical effects either in making life better or in increasing revenue for private partners. This is the expression of the ethos and driving impulse behind our work at Politehnica Bucharest. And I am certain that the brilliant confident spirit of the CAMPUS team will animate this pursuit for a long time to come — raising our ambitions, sparking new collaborations, and inspiring a new generation of young people to help us invent the future.

Community springs from shared experience. It grows out of values held deeply and in common. It cannot be manufactured on demand, but it can be fostered. That is our challenge now — to show the world that universities, the private sector and society alike can push together towards a world where true solutions are explored and discovered faster, better, together. And CAMPUS tells this story more clearly and more confidently than it may have been told in decades in Romania. CAMPUS sprang from the minds and hands of hundreds of people. On behalf of Politehnica Bucharest, I offer them and everyone who played a part in this project a most enthusiastic thank you.

Rector,
Mihnea COSTOIU

In addition to Politehnica Bucharest’s mission, in a nutshell, I can add that CAMPUS’s societal and engineering mission is to be human-centered and provide a creative environment for young as well as to experienced generations to learn through trial and error, to collaborate and share, to develop themselves as leading researchers/educators, to bridge the technology gap between various domains, to bring to light those impossible ideas that would lead to very high impact results shaping the future, to bring closer the industry sector and use their competitive environment to spinoff businesses that would advance our society, to live well and leave a legacy behind; all of these while cultivating our nation through “Made-in-Romania” results.

President,
Bogdan IONESCU