Dincă, DragoșValentinNicolescu, Cristina ElenaBerceanu, Ionuț Bogdan2025-09-262025-09-262024Admin. (2024). Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, superior education demonstrated remarkable adaptability during crises, particularly . . . ERAZ 2025. https://eraz-conference.com/exploring-the-universities-resilience-in-times-of-crisis-by-reporting-to-the-pattern-of-the-national-culture/https://doi.org/10.31410/ERAZ.2023.281https://eraz-conference.com/exploring-the-universities-resilience-in-times-of-crisis-by-reporting-to-the-pattern-of-the-national-culture/https://debdfdsi.snspa.ro/handle/123456789/1187This is an Open Access article under the CC-By 4.0 license available at: https://eraz-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/10.31410ERAZ.2023.281.pdfAmidst the COVID-19 pandemic, superior education demonstrat­ed remarkable adaptability during crises, particularly by swiftly embracing a borderless virtual learning environment. From this perspective, the paper is focused on the resilience of the university educational system, underlining the importance of two key pillars that model it: the pattern of national cul­ture and the level of public spending on education. To this end and by reference to Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, the paper highlights that the pattern of national culture explains a good deal of the levels of budget allocations on education between 2007-2020 of the cur­rent 27 EU member states. Thus, beyond the good practices identified in the institutional development plan by implementing a new management model, the results of the paper analysis indicate the need to consolidate the national educational policies through proper financing of the field, towards achieving the European Ed­ucation Area.enThe EU universities' resiliencePublic expenditureHofstede's model of national cultureArticle