The Spiru Haret University is a private university in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1991 by the president of Tomorrow's Romania Foundation, Aurelian Gh. Bondrea, as part of the teaching activities of this foundation.[3] The university claims this has been done according to the model used by Harvard University.[3] The university bears the name of a scientist and reformer of the Romanian education, Spiru Haret,[3] who lived before the Great War.