Mihai Cimpoi is the author and developer of the long-term project "The World Congress of Eminescologists", launched in 2012 and became a tradition.

[5] The future academician, after primary and secondary education, graduated from the Faculty of Philology from Chișinău (1965), after which he became the editor of the magazine "Nistru" (until 1972) and a consultant of the Union of Writers.

In 1973, his signature and public activity are forbidden, because he "dared" to address the aesthetic critique of the Călinescian origin instead of the official, sociologistic.

Since May 1987 he has been elected secretary of the Steering Committee of the Writers' Union of Moldova and president since September 1991 until 2010.

In parallel, he is the head of the Department of Classical Literature of the Institute of History and Literary Theory of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, he obtained his Ph.D. in Philology in 1998, with the thesis "Eminescu, poet of Being" (conductor, Eugen Simion) and teaches at the "Ion Creangă" Pedagogical University in Chişinău.