ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM AND ADAPTATION BETWEEN THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

In today's society, characterized by a continuous process of globalization andknowledge-based economy, intellectual property is the central resource that creates the realvalue in all sectors of economic life. In this context, higher education's mission is to providethe highest quality standard representing a main actor in providing highly skilled workforceand creating knowledge. Thus, we say that to meet the new challenges that universities is needto go through the stages of a process of reform and adaptation, in line with the LisbonStrategy.Consequently, our approach is to put in the foreground the need to create a new system ofhigher education to meet the new demands of society.