• Generate and use a substantive knowledge-base, on demography, migration trends and associative patterns (globally, but also applied to host-countries). 
• Assess the impact of diaspora initiatives and collaborations, in order to gauge the relevance and influence of Romanian communities transnationally. 

• Share knowledge across different institutions and agencies to better support and engage the diaspora. 

• Funding mechanisms must adapt to respond to actual needs, also informed by the context of host countries, where Romanians live, work and study. 

• Support the growth of organisational capacities for diaspora organisations / associations because this will help them pursue more ambitious agendas and partnerships. 
• Utilise this social capital from abroad by integrating know-how, expertise and other diaspora contributions into governance processes.

Perhaps one of the most relevant points, institutions ought to evaluate all the diaspora policies, strategies so far, the degree of implementation, as well as their effectiveness, before pursuing any future diaspora strategy – a systematic policy review of what worked and what hasn’t.

The roundtable placed our research, expertise and policy approach on the map. The mapping of diaspora demography, impact and associative models became both an organisational and an institutional resource.

HOW?

For us and other diaspora organisations / communities the networked approach helped us identify potential like-minded partners, with whom to pool resources and mobilise know how in pursuing long-term civic agendas with a transnational impact (see the diaspora mobilisation for voting abroad initiative)

For institutions, as well as for diplomatic missions our comprehensive analyses of Romanian communities abroad provide a basis for better, more effective engagement, applied to the context of each host country. Our research also scopes bilateral opportunities, therefore bridging national interests (explore our other projects mapping the diaspora in different countries)