The status of Framework Programmes Funding of the sustainable development of the Romanian energy sector

Currently, when the entire world faces and economic and financial crisis, the Romanian energy has mainly the following major problems: - Lack of a viable and sustainable energy strategy for long term; - Modernisation of the equipment and installations; - Liberalisation of the energy markets; - Interconnection of networks; - Ensuring the protections and the safety of the national energy system and of the afferent labour system. This paper highlights an opportunity that Romania has at its disposal through the funds of the main research funding instrument in the European Union to solve part of these problems and the way Romania has actually acted.