Brief history of the institute

1926 Professor Ioan Borcea, the pioneer of Romanian oceanology, founded the first Romanian marine biological research organization, Agigea Marine Zoological Station
Marine Zoological Station Prof. Ioan Borcea
1932 The illustrious naturalist and biologist Grigore Antipa founded the Bio-Oceanographic Institute in Constanța
Bio-Oceanographic Institute in Constanța
1954 The Bio-Oceanographic Institute of Constanta has been transformed into a Marine Research Station, acknowledged for conducting complex research on the Black Sea ecosystem
1960 The Institute of Hydrotechnical Research has created the Oceanographic Research Station in Constanța and a smaller research station in Sulina
1964 A marine sedimentology laboratory was established in Bucharest
1970 As a result of the merger of the five institutions mentioned above, the Romanian Institute for Marine Research was established (RIMR)
Romanian Institute for Marine Research in Constanța (1982)
1999 Through the reorganization of RIMR, the National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” (NIMRD) was established, under the authority of the Ministry of Environment and Water Management. As a sign of appreciation for the centennial tradition, it was named in honor of Professor Grigore Antipa (1867-1944)
National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Grigore Antipa” Constanța
2009 NIMRD became a subunit with legal status of the National Research and Development Institute for Environmental Protection Bucharest, under the coordination of the Ministry of Environment and Forests
2013 NIMRD was transferred under the coordination of the Ministry of National Education
2015 NIMRD was reorganized as a national institute under the coordination of the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research
2017 NIMRD was transferred under the coordination of the Ministry of Education and Research
2021 - present NIMRD is managed under the coordination of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization