Institutul „Bucovina” - aspirații, realizări, perspective

Abstract

In 2022, 30 years have passed since the founding of the “Bucovina” Institute. It was founded at the initiative of the Society for Romanian Culture and Literature in Bukovina, in 1992, with the name of the “Bucovina” Study Centre / Centre for the Study of the Issues of Bukovina and reorganized as an institute by Government Decision no. 102/31 January 2007. At the time of the establishment of the “Bucovina” Study Centre, there were two other institutes that researched the history and culture of Bukovina, each of them with its own vision of the province: the Bukowina Institute in Augsburg (1988) and the Bukovina Centre attached to the “Yurii Fedkovici” National University in Chernivtsi (1992). In these conditions, the establishment of the institution in Rădăuți under the aegis of the Romanian Academy was a Romanian contribution to the area of interest regarding Bukovina. The activity sphere of the institute, “a facility of fundamental research and advanced research”, is “the elaboration of studies and researches on the history and culture of Bukovina, through its own sections of history, literature, folklore and natural sciences, as well as through the development of domestic and international partnership and collaboration”. Since 1994, the institute prints at the Publishing House of the Romanian Academy the biannual magazine “The Annals of Bukovina” (indexed in the CEEOL and BDD databases), that during the 29 years of uninterrupted publication has established itself in the national and international scientific life, putting into circulation less known or controversial topics regarding the history of the province and proposing new directions of its research. In 1996, the Collection “Encyclopaedia of Bukovina in Studies and Monographs” was founded, within which there have been published so far 52 works of reference in the field of history and culture of Bukovina. The Institute organizes annually international scientific conferences, sessions of scientific papers and communications, internal colloquia, book, photographs and documents exhibitions, with themes connected to its own research projects, as well as to important cultural events of the respective year. The “Bucovina” Institute develops scientific research projects in collaboration with internal and external partners, such as the Bukowina Institute in Augsburg, the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova, the “A. D. Xenopol” Institute in Iași, the “Yurii Fedkovici” University of Chernivtsi, the “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, etc. Following the directions of activity assumed at its founding, the “Bucovina” Institute has established itself in the academic scientific life through the systematic research of the issues of historical Bukovina, the results of which are capitalized in scientific publications in the country and abroad, in the publication “The Annals of Bukovina”, in the works published in the collection “The Encyclopaedia of Bukovina in Studies and Monographs” or at the domestic and international scientific meetings. The implementation of new directions of investigation of Bukovina’s past, with emphasis on the capitalization of archival documents, as well as the involvement in projects of national and international level are the future objectives of the academic institution in Rădăuți.