CECSC — Centre of Excellence for Climate and Societal Changes Română

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  1. CECSC project workshop

    Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 10:00–16:00 · Mihăilescu Amphitheatre, University of Bucharest, Șoseaua Panduri 90

    The Centre of Excellence for Climate and Societal Changes (CECSC), coordinated by the University of Bucharest, brings together six partner institutions and specialists from nine disciplines — from geology, history, archaeology, geography and physics to linguistics, psychology and ethnology — to understand the relationship between climate change and human behaviour. The project follows how communities responded to climate change over the last 11,000 years and uses those lessons to develop strategies that encourage pro-environmental behaviour today.

    The workshop of 22 September 2026 brings the project teams together to take stock of the work so far. The work package coordinators present the state of the research, and the partner institutions — the “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Research and Development in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology, the National Institute for Earth Physics, the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, and Babeș-Bolyai University — present their contributions.

    The event is internal and is addressed solely to members of the project teams and to the project partners.

Publications

Articles

  1. Hu, F., J. Li, H.-B. Chen, M. N. Ducea, J. B. Chapman, X.-C. Liu, J.-M. Wang, S.-X. He, H. Pu, and F.-Y. Wu, 2026: Crustal shearing induced significant magmatic fractionation of Himalayan leucogranites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 696, 120384, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120384.
  2. Ronemus, C. B., C. J. Howlett, P. G. DeCelles, B. Carrapa, A. Echaurren, M. Barrionuevo, J. G. Mosolf, M. L. Foley, and M. N. Ducea, 2026: Building the Andean Crust at ∼35°S: Arc Geochemistry Reveals Cretaceous Thinning and Rapid Neogene Thickening. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131, e2026JB034002, https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JB034002.
  3. Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., L. Preoteasa, N. Evelpidou, L. Țuțuianu, D. Hanganu, M. Dobre, A. Cîrjan, G. Grosu, A. Berbecariu, and E. Anthony, 2026: Rethinking Holocene landscape evolution at Olympia (Greece): challenging the palaeolake hypothesis in favour of an open fluvial system. Quaternary International, 783, 110442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110442.
  4. Mărgărit, M., G. Fazekas, and F. Gogâltan, 2026: Bronze Age deer antler processing workshop at Sântion-Dealul Mănăstirii (Bihor County, Romania). Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 13, 106–124.
  5. Stoica, A. M., C. G. Popescu, M. Pârlea, and V. V. Ene, 2026: Petrogenetic significance of almandine garnet in intermediate calc-alkaline magmas from the South Apuseni Mountains, (Romania): Constraints from mineral geochemistry and phase equilibria. Lithos, 542–543, 108722, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2026.108722.
  6. Mărmureanu, L., D. Ene, and B. Antonescu, 2026: Spatial clustering of air pollutant trends and exposure burden across Romania (2013–2024). Environmental Pollution, 407, 128759, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2026.128759.
  7. Pârlea, M., V. Ene, M. Ducea, P. Luffi, and C. Stremțan, 2026: LA-ICP-MS protocols for U-Pb geochronology and trace element analysis of zircons: Optimized implementation at the PetroChron laboratory. MethodsX, 17, 104014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2026.104014.
  8. Toderaș, M., and M. Mărgărit, 2026: Investigating Spondylus shell ornaments at the Chalcolithic tell settlement from Pietrele – Măgura Gorgana (Romania): Typology, functionality and symbolism. Archaeologia Bulgarica, XXX, 1–28.
  9. Mărgărit, M., 2026: Osseous projectile points at the Gumelnița tell settlement from Căscioarele-Ostrovel (Romania). Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, XXII, 53–72.
  10. Opriș, V., M. Constantinescu, T. Ignat, A. Bălășescu, S. Ailincăi, V.-I. Bîndea, A. Darie, E. Gavrilă, D. Pîrvulescu, M. Mărgărit, D. Baciu, V. Radu, M. Golea, C. Covătaru, C. Stal, A. Șerbănescu, C. Roth, B. Manea, M. Voicu, M.-Ș. Florea, M. Drăghici, C. Dinu, A. Vespremeanu-Stroe, L. Preoteasa, L. Țuțuianu, A.-F. Vasile, G. Grosu, A. Cîrjan, O. Gâza, M. Mihon, M. Ilie, and C. Mănăilescu, 2026: New investigations at Glina Tell: 2025 fieldwork results and preliminary insights into material and environmental evidence. Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice (serie nouă), XXII, 87–167.
  11. Ciur, V., 2026: Light for the afterlife. Contribution to the study of funerary symbolism of the Roman lamps from Moesia Inferior. Pontica, 58, Supplementum XII, 265–276.

Books

  1. Iliescu, I.-A., 2026: The Late Roman Pottery at Istros (4th–7th centuries AD). Biblioteca Istro-Pontică, Seria Arheologie, 23, Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca.

Book chapters

  1. Lițu, A., and A. Țârlea, 2026: Textual representations of materials, artefacts and artefact related terminology in Classical Antiquity. Case study: glass. In: A. Dinu, A. Resceanu, L. Dinu, M. Dobre, and M. Chitez, Eds., Digital Humanities in the Age of AI: Methods, Applications, and Cultural Insights, Peter Lang. (in press)

Proceedings

  1. Uban, A. S., T.-G. Marchitan, I.-B. Iordache, S. Georgescu, and L. P. Dinu, 2026: What Makes Blood Thicker than Water: Related Word Discrimination in Romance Languages from a Multi-dimensional Perspective. In: Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary, 24–29 October 2026. (in press)
  2. Creanga, C., and L. P. Dinu, 2026: Who Warmed the Archives? LLMs Overestimate Historical Warmth. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP), co-located with EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary, 24–29 October 2026. (in press)
  3. Butnaru, Ș., C. Creanga, and L. P. Dinu, 2026: Larry Caused the Car to Stop, But the Model Didn’t Notice: Transformer Blindness to the M-Heuristic. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2026), Palermo, Italy, 14–16 September 2026. (in press)
  4. Dinu, A., A.-M. Florescu, and R. G. Marin, 2026: Named Entity Recognition for a low-resourced language and a specific domain: a case study on Romanian fairytales. In: Procedia Computer Science, 30th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2026), September 2026. (in press)

Who the results are for

The research is designed to reach people outside academia.

Who can use them

  • Decision-makers and public authorities
  • Education professionals
  • Local government agencies
  • Climate assessment organisations
  • Small communities working to reduce their own climate footprint

What the Centre will deliver

  • A policy guideline on pro-environmental behaviour
  • A guide promoting green solutions for small communities
  • An adaptation and intervention strategy guide for urban heat
  • A short cognitive behavioural therapy protocol for change at household level

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