In order to realise the competitiveness objectives, European Union (EU) “can have only one alternative in the global economy, that to form highly trained human resources, who are supposed to act on more flexible labour markets” because “the knowledge based economy involves the human capital improvement” (Mulatero and Riela, 2006).

In this context, the paper aims to identify the main possibilities through the human resource factor influence a nation competitiveness and the place occupied by it in some European states competitiveness models, proposing, according to the realised analyses, a model for assuring the Romanian economy competitiveness