The participation of romanian universities at the partnership “PEGASUS” - a chance for the aerospace higher education in Romania

The consolidation process of the European Aerospace Industry has implied a continuousprocess of cooperation and mergers during the last decades, initially within the national borders, butnow increasingly across these borders. Working in an international team, with linguisticdiversification and other cultural differences, will require a global mind setting which goes beyond amere technical education. In the framework of the educational reform within the European Unioninitiatives have been taken with the objective to harmonize the educational systems of the differentcountries and to introduce new international oriented study curricula based on two main study cycles.The objective of this paper is to present the Partnership of an European Group of Aeronautics andSpace Universities (PEGASUS) - a chance for the aerospace higher education in Romania.