Gaudeamus International Book & Education Fair - 19th edition, November 21 – 25, 2012, Romexpo Exhibition Centre, Bucharest

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Organized by Radio Romania, GAUDEAMUS IBEF is a complex cultural event, specialized in book exhibition, with a unique concept in the field of similar profile events, being the only book fair in the world to be initiated and organized by a public radio station.
The dialogue between the book and the radio lasts for 18 years now, in an original approach by which the Fair has been constantly growing and was enriched, to become an emblematic event for the Romanian book market.
The Fair is held every year in the Central Pavilion of Romexpo Exhibition Centre and gathers in an exhibiting area of 14.000 sq m, over 400 Romanian and foreign publishers, book distributors, cultural and educational institutions etc. Each year, during the entire duration of the Fair, a record of sales is reported, the event having a strong impact on the book market. During the last three editions, the Fair was visited by over 100.000 persons and the number of cultural events was more than 450 per edition.

The Top Cultural and Editorial Event of the Year
In the autumn of every year, GAUDEAMUS Book & Education Fair is at the focus of the editorial market in Romania and becomes the center of the cultural life, offering the excellent meeting framework between a complex and diversified editorial offer and its main beneficiary – the book-loving public. The Fair is opened to the following categories of exhibitors: Romanian and foreign publishing companies, printing houses, educational institutions, mass-media companies, agencies of book distribution, multimedia companies, literary agencies, NGOs with a cultural and educational profile, professional associations etc.

GAUDEAMUS – a Space for Inter-cultural Dialogue
Being a dynamic space of inter-cultural dialogue, the Fair opens its gates each year to exhibitors and visitors from abroad, facilitating the contacts between the foreign cultural personalities present at the Fair and the public, fostering also the exchanges among the professionals in the book market: authors, publishers, translators, book illustrators, cultural personalities etc.