UDJ Galati is an academic educational public institution training specialists at all the higher education levels in engineering, sciences, humanities, economics, law, arts, medicine. The teaching/research and administrative/technical staff consists of 1300 people. The university’s activities are developed in three ways: education, research and professional training. The activities are strategically planned with the surrounding socio-economic environment in mind. Throughout the years, the university has achieved a high reputation as an institution of learning and leadership, combining strategic vision with a capacity to innovate, a long with rigorous scientific, academic, administrative and financial management. One of the main priorities of the university is international affirmation and cooperation. UDJ Galati has participated as promoter or partner in many EU projects (5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, INTERREG III B, PHARE, LIFE, and Intelligent Energy - Europe programe).

The Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering conducts research and education focusing on the energy processes for sustainable development.

The research is based on the expertise in the fields of applied thermodynamics, exergoeconomy, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, heat and power generation (cogeneration, trigeneration), combustion, cooling, renewable energy (thermal solar energy, biomass energy and biofuels), energy saving in industries and buildings, air and water pollution control. The department staff is authorised to perform energy audits for buildings.

The research aims to optimise the complete chain of energy production and utilisation, thermodynamic design of a process and its integration into a larger system, to the development of highly efficient, environmentally friendly and integrated processes for the production of heat/power and cooling.