About Us

RISE Institute is

a dynamic non-profit association, based in Transylvania, Romania, in the heart of Europe. We aim at responding the challenges of the 21st century by fostering the sustainable growth of communities through skilling, up/re-skilling, research, innovation, and excellence in education, industry and in public sector. 

Mission

Bridging people, businesses, universities, public and private entities to generate microcosmos of sustainable growth. 

Our mission is to develop microcosmos of growth for all, with a special focus on youth.

We aim at developing high skills for people, embedded in today's needs and changes, to generate added value for industries through trade knowledge transfer, to facilitate academic connectivity and research projects in order to sustain innovation and sustainable growth.

The first bridge is between England Midlands and Transylvania, Romania, due to the connections we have and several similarities between the two regions: agricultural historical areas, brain-drained phenomenon, fast economic growth in the last decades. 

Values

Trust

we work with reliable, long-run partners, with whom we have established trustable relationship, based on common values 

Collaboration

is the key of learning, exchanging and for growing 

People oriented

we believe in bridging people, and not institutions, or walls 

360° view and perspective

The world's increasing complexity necessitates a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary approach to analyse, work, and act in order to develop and replicate microcosms of development..

Continuous learning

is the key for sustainability. We like to consider ourselves students, in eveything we are doing, because there is always something new to learn, something new to be inspired from, a new perspective.

Excellency

in education, research, in action and in work in all fields and at all levels 

Founders

Dr. Craig Marsh

Teodora Chifor

Dr. Urs Hauenstein