History


1993 – The first 25 Romanian Open University Business School students found CODECS - Centre for Open Distance Education for a Civil Society, with the purpose of promote, implement and develop distance education in Romania.
1995Open University and CODECS sign the Master Agreement, CODECS thus becoming the exclusive Romanian partner of the Open University.
1996CODECS finalizes its national network, reaching 10 regional centers.
1997 – The creation of Open Print
1998 – The creation of CODECS Publishing House, specialized in business book publishing.
1998 – The creation of the Training and Consultancy Division.
1998 CODECS Business Travel offers integrated service packages for business trips.
2000CODECS introduces in Romania the "Project Management" program
2001 – The CODECS Foundation for Leadership comes into being and it begins the preparations for its first project, "Leaders of the Third Millennium", an educational program about the art of leading offered to the Romanian high-school students.
2002 – The official launching of CODECS Club – the club of the Professional Management Diploma and MBA graduates. Special guest: Alain Cardon, the manager of the International Consultancy Company Metasysteme and ex-C.E.O. of Transformation S.A.
2003 – The CODECS group has a new member, Career Solutions International, the Romanian representative of the American corporation DBM.
2007CODECS launches a new product, HR Vocational School, the first school specialized in Human Resources, certified by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD from Great Britain).
2007 – The Training and Consultancy Division brings a new element on the Romanian training and consultancy market: the integrated development of organizations, 360 Solutions (USA license)
2007CODECS is certified ISO 9001:2000.
2007CODECS is accredited "Investor in People", thus being one of the first Romanian companies that has this certification, attesting the implementation at organizational level of the international standard with the same name.
2008CODECS launches Business Operations, a modern course, provided in an "open learning" system, addressed to both operations managers and the entrepreneurs interested in the increase of the operational efficiency in production, services, acquisitions and logistics.
2009 – The year with the biggest number of MBA and Professional Management Diploma graduates.
2010 – The Tender Group becomes the major CODECS stockholder, by buying a pack of 50 990 stock (51% of the total stocks).
2010CODECS launches Certificate New Generation – a professional program in the management field, with international recognition.
2010 – Within the MBA program – first phase – the course Management: perspectives and practice is introduced.