The Globalization and the opening of economic and social frontiers have conducted to an increase of the acknowledgment of the differences in economic and social development at global level. In this context, some international, transnational or supernational organizations are concerned with the formulation of global strategies for human, economic and social development. These strategies concern both the increase of knowledge in the field, and the reduction of the differences in development, by allocation of funds and elaborating social development programs. Besides elaborating strategies, each of these organizations builds and consolidates an own system of indicators in order to measure and evaluate the dynamics of social development. Thus, being preoccupied especially with the reduction of social inclusion, the European Union promotes, in every member or candidate state, a set of indicators in order to monitor social exclusion. Likewise, the United Nations Population Fund, an initiator of the strategy regarding the Millennium Development Goals, promotes indicators and specific measures for evaluation and monitoring.

In order to connect to the international practices attacking this domain and to facilitate the steps taken to access the benefits risen from social development programs, the present project sets itself the following objectives:

1. Building a national system of indicators and databases in order to sustain social development
2. Conducting a study regarding institutional development elements. Elaborating recommendations for concrete directions for institutional development and for increasing the capacity to elaborate social programs in the field of social development and quality of life.
3. Establishing a M.A. program in the filed (social development and quality of life), which should insure the formation of competences in the field.