Our mission. The Romanian Diplomatic Institute (RDI) has the mission to make a substantial contribution to increasing the quality of Romanian diplomacy through training, further education, research, the development of critical and strategic thinking and international networking. A good foreign policy serves as a beneficial domestic policy.

Guiding principles: human resource development, professionalism, respect and dialogue, and responsibility for the community.

Based on the founding legal attributions of the RDI, the further development of the Institute is carried out, according to the needs identified in the MFA, along the following four directions:

• Training and further education of diplomats and other trainees;
• Deepening the research and expertise dimension on regional and functional issues;
• Operating the RDI as a think-tank of the MFA;
• Integration of the RDI into an international network of similar relevant institutes.

The four main directions are mutually reinforcing and are achieved by: (1) optimizing communication, collaboration and coordination between the RDI and the MFA; (2) improving the management of human resources in the RDI; (3) optimizing institutional management.

In order to fulfil its mission, the RDI needs a dynamic team and an environment of emulation that inspires confidence among diplomats, state institutions and the general public in Romania.