PhD plan

1. General information Name: Dan Valentin PALCU Civ. Reg. No. (CPR. Nr.): Department or place of employment: E-mail: dan.palcu@gmail.com Date of enrolment (dd/mm/yy):

Title of project (working title):

5+3 Scheme

4+4 Scheme

Industrial PhD

Name of principal supervisor (employed at the Faculty of Science):

Title: Nicholas Zouros Department: E-mail:

Name of co-supervisor (external) if any:

Title: Place of employment: E-mail:

2. Status

X This is a preliminary PhD plan (when applying for enrolment)

This is the nal PhD plan This is an adjusted PhD plan (e.g. in connection with the half year assessment report)

3. Afliation to Research School (FUP):

4. Description of the PhD project:

Geological Heritage - developing a new renewable geological resource for local economies. In the context of recent global development, when emphasis is stronger and stronger towards the green, recyclable and renewable resources, geology has to integrate in its portfolio of research and income generating activities also renewable resources such as geological heritage. The research will try to transfer geological elements from the sphere of aesthetic, educational and scientically valuable resources to income generating resources. The resulting methodology will be developed in a manner to ease application on a wide scale and emergence of a new green renewable geological resources based economical activity. Further more, in the geoscience community, there also is resilience and lack of condence in the efciency of such endeavors based on the misunderstandings and lack of communication. The research will provide the geoscientists' community the tools to approach the The aim of this PhD is to identify a methodology to asses geological heritage from the geological resources' perspective and to prepare platforms for science, education and economy-development that are using this geological resources' approach on geological heritage. The proposed study area is the proposed Buzu Country Geopark where I will be focusing on - developing a tool to assess the geological heritage value - researching the relationships between the geological heritage tools and the existing geodiversity assessment tools. - mapping local geological heritage - identifying areas of high geological heritage concentrations and - implementing development structures - income generating solutions - evaluating economical incomes: Income - spanning income in time , economical consideration, projections, side costs; Direct economical benets - minerals, fuels, building materials; Indirect economical benets - tourism, education, science, settlements - place identity ? (terrain prices); Non-economical benets - shelter, inspiration, health, faith.

5. Time table for the PhD project

Documentation Assessment of existing literature Development of mapping and assessment tools Geo-heritage Mapping Interpretation of geo-heritage mapping Proposals of income generating structures based on the mapping results Development?

6. Planned PhD courses Types of courses 1. General courses: e.g. scientic writing, dissemination of knowledge, Introduction to University Pedagogy, project management (up to a total of 7 ECTS credits can be approved). 2. Academic courses, summer schools, courses at foreign institutions. 3. Journal clubs, self-study etc. (up to a total of 7 ECTS credits can be approved). Please tick off Master level courses Name of the course Type Master Organised by (1-3) course? ECTS

7. Change of scientic environment. Planned stays and visits to other academic environments for more than 7 days. Institution Country Period (dd/mm/yy)

8. Planned communication and teaching activities Course name/activity Contribution Total number of hours

9. Budget Write a short explanation for any special nancial needs or deviations from the standard terms of the budget. The PhD School of Science cannot cover any of these nancial needs or deviations from the budget. It is for information only.

10. Agreement on intellectual property rights (e.g. patents) Not relevant The co-author agreement on intellectual property rights is attached

11. An agreement on the form and extent of supervision Within fourteen days after admission, the principal supervisor and the PhD student must have discussed the form and extent of the supervision. The principal supervisor is committed to conduct regular meetings and take responsibility for the PhD students academic progress. If there is more than one supervisor, their individual roles must be claried.

To be lled out by the PhD coordinator

The 3 most important subjects of the Ph.D. project Subject code (see list below) Percentage share of total research time. (The sum must be 100%) Research areas (Percentage of total research time) Climate Energy Environment Bio-technology Food products (including food safety) Cancer Nanotechnology ICT hardware ICT software ICT usage Integration Democracy Welfare Gender research Globalization Experience economy Prevention and health promotion Other Subject Subject Subject

1-24%

25-49%

50-74%

75-100%

No research

Subject codes
Natural sciences 120 Mathematics 125 Computer and information sciences 130 Physical science, incl. biophysics 135 Chemical sciences 140 Earth and related Environmental sciences, geology and geophysics 141 Physical geography 142 Cultural geography 145 Biochemistry 150 Biology Technical sciences 220 Civil engineering, construction engineering and transport 225 Electrical and electronic engineering and communication engineering 230 Mechanical engineering and production technology 235 Chemical engineering 240 Materials engineering 245 Medical engineering 250 Energy and environment engineering 255 Environmental engineering 260 Industrial biotechnology Other 320 Basic medicine 325 Pharmacy and pharmacology 330 Clinical medicine 370 Medical biotechnology 380 Other allied sciences 535 Pedagogy

155 Other allied sciences

265 Nanotechnology 270 Other allied sciences

Signatures

PhD student: ________________________________________________________Date: _________________ Signature (dd/mm/yy)

Principal supervisor: _________________________________________________Date: _________________ Signature (dd/mm/yy)

PhD coordinator: ____________________________________________________ Date:_________________ Signature (dd/mm/yy)

NB: The handwritten signatures requested above are not necessary if the PhD student forwards a brief e-mail correspondence to the PhD School which documents that all parties have seen and approved the completed PhD plan.

When completed, the form must be forwarded by e-mail, preferably as a PDF le, to the PhD School of Science.