Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca has obtained a grant of 2.5 million euros for the research project 'RORIENT', coordinated by Anca Pârvulescu

Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca has won a research project worth 2.5 million euros, as part of the ERC Advanced Grant competition, which is part of the European Union's Horizon Europe program. The project titled 'RORIENT: Romanian Orientalism: Inter-imperial Entanglements in World Literature' is coordinated by Anca Pârulescu, a professor of English literature at Washington University in St. Louis and an associate researcher at UBB. The aim of the project is to conduct a comparative literature study on the Orientalist literary discourse in Romanian culture, with the objective of developing an innovative methodological model for the global study of Orientalism. The rector of UBB, Prof. univ. dr. psych. Daniel David, emphasized the importance of these grants, mentioning that UBB has won six such projects so far, five of them after 2020, thus highlighting the quality of the research conducted within the university.