USF St Pete - ULIM Spring 2022 Research Collaboration: Partner Spotlight: VALENTINA CIUMACENCO

We are so pleased to be partnering with ULIM this semester. 

 We are grateful to all of the efforts of Vice Rector for Internationa Relations VALENTINA CIUMACENCO to make this project possible. 

On this blog we will feature the bios of our research partners. 

 Here we want to share more about Vice Rector Ciumacenco:

Valentina Ciumacenco, PhD, associate professor, currently acting as Vice-rector for International Relations at Free International University of Moldova (ULIM). She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the State University of Moldova. She has graduated from the Master Program: Diplomacy, Security, Business and Communication (ULIM). Professional training: “University Strategy Building in a Regional Perspective: Action Learning in University –Business –Society Cooperation” (ISOB GmbH Regensburg, Germany, May 2020/ 60 hours); “Cultural Diplomacy and Official Diplomacy: Areas of Common Interest and Interaction”, (Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, October 2020/ 30 hours); “Emotional intelligence as key to the development of skills”, (Alicante University, Spain, September- December 2014/ 30 ECTS). 

She has conducted research and professional development visits to D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics, Svishtov, Bulgaria (2021); University of Vienna, Austria (2020); University of Liege, Belgium (2019), Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France (2019); University of Cadiz, Spania (2018; 2017), Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes (2018); University ”Mykolas Romeris”, Vilnius, Lithuania (2016), John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (2016), University of Pécs, Hungary (2014) etc. 

Experience in international projects management. Currently, she is the institutional coordinator of EU project “Integrating Dual Higher Education in Moldova and Ukraine – COOPERA”, Project Reference No. 617490-EPP-1-2020-1-MD-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP. Implementation period 2020-2023; Expert: ,,Moldova Higher Education Leadership and Management”-MHELM. Project Ref. No. 609656-EPP-1-2019-1- MD-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP. Period 15 Nov 2019 - 14 Nov 2022; Member of Advisory Board: ,,Strengthening Research Management and Open Science Capacities of HEIs in Moldova and Armenia” – MINERVA. Project Ref. No. 597912-EPP-1-2018-1-MD-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP. Period: 2019-2022. 

 Membership of professional bodies: Member of Administrative Board of Confucius Institute based in Moldova; Member of the European Association for International Education; Member of EURAXESS Initiative ‘Researchers in Motion’; Member of Competition Assessment Board, University Dunarea de Jos, Galati, Romania; Member of the Editorial Board ‘Journal of Development Studies’, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Georgia, etc. 

Research interests: Terminology, Lexicology, Semiotics, Stylistics, Communication Sciences, Discourse Analysis, Internationalization of Higher Education, Higher Education Management.

Publications: one monography, several didactic-methodical supports for Foreign Language Education and over 50 research articles published in Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation and Georgia.