RESEARCH PROJECTS AND WEB 2.0: CHALLENGES AND EFFECTS Gabriela MEȘNIȚĂ Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania gabriela.mesnita@feaa.uaic.ro Dumitru OPREA Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania doprea@uaic.ro Florin DUMITRIU Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania fdumi@uaic.ro Abstract There are already a few years since we heard about Web 2.0. There was a real frenzy around this new concept. In short time new terms have emerged related to Web 2.0 like Government 2.0, Research 2.0, e-Science 2.0 and Project Management 2.0. This paper aims to focus on the challenges of project management under Web 2.0, especially research projects. What is the awareness of project teams in using Web 2.0 tools? What is the confidence on information gathered with Web 2.0 tools? How will the team results and productivity be affected? These are few questions that undertake to find some hypothesis for next article with focus on Romanian research projects. The analysis needs and the paper conclusions will be based on interpretation of existing statistics and data gathering on the web. Keywords: Web 2.0, project management, research project JEL classification: M15, O33 1. WEB 2.0 IN THE WORLD OF RESEARCH AND PROJECTS For the past 10 years, in the current vocabulary of all those falling under the category of Internet users entered a series of terms, that changed the method for using the different web-based tools. We mainly refer to blogs, wiki pages, social networks, databases with online publications or links to them, online seminars - webinars, the joint using of docu- ments (Google document), automatic reminder regarding the updating of some web sites,