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The activity of public project managements consists in the initiation and implementation of projects with non-refundable funding and other international funds, using project management strategies. The local public administration is one of the main beneficiaries of the financing from the Structural and Cohesion Funds, considering the opportunities created by Romania's accession to the European Union. Unfortunately, the potential to attract European funds is not exploited at the level expected by the local public administration in Romania due to several causes, including the lack of a proactive culture of project management, reduced administrative and human capacity. These aspects could be improved with good practices in public investments funded by EU that largely contributed to the local development.

The current study proposes an analysis of the management of a public investment project and importance for the local development in the North East Region of Romania. The case study represents a project that had an important impact in the community and improved the quality of citizens life. We believe that such an analysis would benefit other local administrations and results could be replicated in other regions as well.

local development, project management, results, impact