ResearchIng, a magazine for those who produce and apply climate research

Romanian climate research has a long-standing visibility problem. Results reach international journals, read by other researchers, and travel much less easily to the town hall that has an action plan to write or to the civil servant looking for a source of funding. ResearchIng started from that distance. The first issue appeared in October 2026 under the aegis of the Support Centre for Climate Actions (CSAC-UPT), and it continues in print and in electronic format what the researching.ro website has been doing online for several years.

The publication appears quarterly and has been assigned ISSN 3153-5127. It is coordinated by Rareș Hălbac-Cotoară-Zamfir, director of CSAC-UPT. It is not a scientific journal in the classical sense, nor is it a promotional bulletin. It sets out to do four things: to present research results from Romania and the people behind them, to announce funding calls in good time, to highlight events relevant to the academic community, and to support cooperation between universities and public administrations across the country. Climate change adaptation and mitigation are the underlying themes, without the magazine being limited to them.

Issue 1 has 22 pages and is directly linked to the RO-ADAPT conference in Timișoara. It contains the conclusions of the conference, with the Timișoara Declaration and the Adoption Charter, a piece on funding calls for adaptation, a presentation of CSAC-UPT and of the LAND4CLIMATE project, and a synthesis of the volume "De la risc la reziliență" (From Risk to Resilience). The editorial addresses the human dimension of adaptation, the theme that also opened the conference.

The magazine is open to contributions. Every issue carries an invitation addressed to colleagues in academia, in local, regional and central administration, and to practitioners working on adaptation and mitigation solutions. Contributions run from one to three pages. For issue 2, planned for the first quarter of 2027, texts are received until mid-December 2026 at rares.halbac-cotoara-zamfir@upt.ro.

One clarification concerns how the magazine is made. Artificial intelligence tools were among those used for graphic design and layout, and this is stated in the editorial box. Responsibility for the content lies with the authors who sign it.

Acknowledgment. The launch of ResearchIng was funded in part by project 39PHE/2024, supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI - UEFISCDI, project number PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0110, within PNCDI IV.