Ministry

Ministerul Educației și Cercetării

Education, higher education, research and innovation.

Leadership, as the ministry's site lists it

Who leads it now

Read from the ministry's leadership page on 1 Nov 2026. The names and posts are as printed there; a post with no name on the page is not here. The dates beside a name are the page's own; we only see who is listed at each reading, so whoever disappears from the page is shown below.

State secretaries

Gigel PARASCHIVSecretar de stat // Învățământ superior
KALLOS ZoltanSecretar de Stat

Undersecretaries of state

Marian DARAGIUSubsecretar de stat

No longer on the page (1)

Sorin IONSecretar de stat // Învățământ preuniversitar · last seen on 18 Oct 2026

How the institution changed

This portfolio has been held by different institutions. Policy continuity is shown separately from each ministry’s legal existence.

Ministerul Educației și CercetăriiOfficial act

23 Dec 2024 — present

EducationResearchInnovation

Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și DigitalizăriiOfficial act

25 Nov 2021 — 23 Dec 2024

ResearchInnovationDigitalisationCommunications

Ministerul EducațieiOfficial act

25 Nov 2021 — 23 Dec 2024

Education

Documented reorganisations

Ministerul EducațieiMinisterul Educației și Cercetăriirenamed23 Dec 2024

Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și DigitalizăriiMinisterul Educației și Cercetăriisplit23 Dec 2024

Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și DigitalizăriiMinisterul Economiei, Digitalizării, Antreprenoriatului și Turismuluisplit23 Dec 2024

The state budget

The ministry's money

All ministries, by year

How much the ministry got from the state budget in each year and what share of that year's whole budget it is. These are the amounts of the budget voted for the year (the budget credits, from every source), not actual spending; "of GDP" relates them to the year's gross domestic product, so that years are comparable. The name is the one the budget gives that year.

State budget by year: Ministerul Educației și Cercetării
Year	Amount	Of the budget	Of GDP
2025	64.8 bn lei	12.3%	3.38%
2024Ministerul Educației	61.6 bn lei	14.7%	3.50%
2023Ministerul Educației	37.1 bn lei	10.1%	2.33%
2022Ministerul Educației	32.5 bn lei	10.5%	2.35%
2021Ministerul Educației	31.1 bn lei	11.6%	2.62%
2020	32.9 bn lei	14.8%	3.09%
2019Ministerul Educației Naționale	33.2 bn lei	15.8%	3.13%
2018Ministerul Educației Naționale	23.8 bn lei	13.0%	2.50%
2017Ministerul Educației Naționale	8.24 bn lei	5.2%	0.97%
2016Ministerul Educației Naționale și Cercetării Științifice	10.6 bn lei	7.1%	1.41%
2015Ministerul Educației și Cercetării Științifice	9.13 bn lei	6.0%	1.28%
2014Ministerul Educației Naționale	8.57 bn lei	6.1%	1.28%

What the money goes to in 2025

The parts of the ministry's amount this year; the percentage is of the ministry's amount, not of the whole budget.

On what (type of spending)

Staff costs37.9 bn lei (58.5%)
Transfers between public administration units7.44 bn lei (11.5%)
Other expenditure6.79 bn lei (10.5%)
Projects financed by the recovery plan's grants (PNRR)5.62 bn lei (8.7%)
Other transfers1.86 bn lei (2.9%)
Projects financed by post-accession non-reimbursable external funds1.44 bn lei (2.2%)
Goods and services1.08 bn lei (1.7%)
Projects financed by the recovery plan's loans (PNRR)1.02 bn lei (1.6%)
Non-financial assets824 m lei (1.3%)
Social assistance605 m lei (0.9%)
Programmes with repayable financing205 m lei (0.3%)
Projects financed by non-reimbursable external funds (2014–2020 framework)38 m lei (<0.1%)
Repayments of credit6 m lei (<0.1%)
Interest550 thousand lei (<0.1%)
Financial assets50 thousand lei (<0.1%)

For what (the field)

Education62.6 bn lei (96.6%)
Fundamental research and research and development2.15 bn lei (3.3%)
Culture, recreation and religion35 m lei (<0.1%)
Health2.5 m lei (<0.1%)

Where the money comes from

The state budget60.2 bn lei (93.0%)
Own revenue4.56 bn lei (7.0%)
Non-reimbursable external funds8.5 m lei (<0.1%)

Ministerial history

32 periods · 27 people · 13 sat in Parliament while in office

The periods come from the President's decrees (appointment, dismissal, resignation, acting posts), and the title is the decree's: the same ministry has gone by different names over the years. Where today's ministry was several ministries (industry, commerce, tourism), their ministers appear side by side. A government whose naming decree is not in the catalog is not here.

20 Oct 2026— present

Valentin-Sorin CostreieCurrent

Ministrul educației și cercetării · Government Niculescu