Biography

Miroslav Tașcu-Stavre, PhD, is a Researcher and former Programme Director of the "Save Vama Veche" movement. He is a Post-Doctoral Researcher of a major research project on creative tourism, "CREATOR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas" (2016-2019). His research focuses on sustainability, cultural tourism and local communities in touristic areas. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, Department of Cultural Studies (Romania), teaching seminars and laboratories concerning Methodology for Social Research, Cultural Policies in European Context, European Institution, Transition and Democracy. He holds a doctorate, and wrote his PhD thesis on Institutional Approaches of Romanian Transition. An analysis of Institutional Change in Vama Veche and 2 Mai. His research was focused on the evolution of local communities in the context of touristic development of the area.