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Why UVT is different?
The West University of Timișoara (UVT) is neither the largest nor the oldest higher education institution in Romania, but it is certainly the most dynamic!
Innovative ideas have found their place at UVT and we are always concerned to offer our students unique experiences that contribute to their development. That is why the motto of the university in recent years has become #BecomeYourBest, because we want to help every student to discover his best version and we constantly offer new opportunities in this regard. And the way we do this we strive to be directly correlated with the interests of today's young people, taking advantage of digitalization and the technology that surrounds us.
Thus, we stand out in the academic landscape in Romania with a series of awards or activities that make us different from other institutions and that make student life at UVT a unique one, full of diverse learning experiences that ensure a harmonious development of each member of the sea. UVT families.
We present to you, below, some of the unique elements that make UVT a different institution, close to its students, always open to new things and innovation, always interested in being directly connected with the profile of the new generations and concerned with their opinions and suggestions to make student life a defining period for their career and later life.
At the West University of Timișoara the student starts with a "Initiation week", in which every freshman will discover the secrets of student life and better understand the new world they are entering.
Each academic year begins at UVT not only with a festive opening ceremony, but also with a big celebration, right in the university premises - UNIVIBES, a cultural-artistic event that transforms the university into a space for concerts, exhibitions and film screenings.
Student Counseling and Support Service (SCSS) of UVT, with the support of UVT faculties, organizes every academic year Peer to Peer Tutoring (P2PT), through which it aims to provide first-year undergraduate students with educational assistance and career development services, with a focus on their integration into the university environment, with the support of colleagues from older years.
Because we want UVT students to design their career path from the beginning, in the first year, first semester of undergraduate studies, all our students undergo a Professional Counseling and Career Guidance activity, supported by representatives of Student Counseling and Support Service (SCSS) from UVT, after which each student will draw his own career development plan. In addition, because we want students to choose responsibly and informed their educational path, we have developed a vocational guidance platform where they can test for free - YTM, and then they can get in touch with our colleagues for additional individual counseling sessions.
Since at UVT ethics and academic integrity represent fundamental values, we want to transmit to students, from the first semester of studies, healthy principles on the basis of which to carry out their entire academic activity and more. Thus, all students in the first year of undergraduate studies go through, in the first semester, the complementary discipline Ethics and academic integrity, respectively in the second semester, the complementary discipline Academic writingLater, all first-year students of master's degree studies take the complementary discipline in the first semester. Research ethics.
At the UVT level it works InfoStudent Center, the only structure responsible for communicating with students for issues related to administrative processes related to the educational process. All student requests are taken through a online form, being subsequently solved by the officials within the InfoCenter.
As we live in an increasingly cosmopolitan world with an extremely dynamic job market, we want our students to be permanently prepared to face the career changes that they will inevitably go through throughout their lives. Thus, we want to equip everyone with as many transversal skills as possible, so every UVT student in the undergraduate degree cycle will study international languages for at least four semesters, as well as three complementary subjects from a field different from their field of studies. In addition, we offer our students the chance to participate in international study or practice mobility internships, with over 500 active partnerships in this regard.
UVT is a member of the European University Alliance UNITA (supported by the European Commission through the European University Consortium program), together with 11 universities from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Ukraine and Romania. Membership in UNITA represents a context in which UVT students will have access to unique professional and personal development opportunities at national and European level (virtual international mobilities, international internship programs in rural areas, training courses, projects and competitions for students in topical areas: Cultural Heritage, Renewable Energy, Circular Economy, Intercomprehension as a form of communication, European Citizenship).
UVT is a comprehensive university, consisting of 12 faculties, offering 89 bachelor's degree programs and 96 master's degree programs in 35 different fields of study, as well as doctoral studies in 26 fields.
Starting with 2020, the West University of Timișoara (UVT) organizes university master's degree programs in teaching, in 5 fields of study: Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Physics and Physical Education and Sports.
We are aware that the old Latin saying "mens sana in corpore sano" is still very valid today, so we are also concerned about the health of our students: every UVT student must complete, for four semesters, during their undergraduate studies, the Physical Education discipline, having the opportunity to choose from a very wide range of individual or team sports and to benefit from UVT's sports base. UVT is also the only university in Romania that organizes its own marathon - UVT Liberty Marathon – where we offer our students special benefits for participation.
We want UVT students to be civically involved and we encourage them in this regard, so we offer them the opportunity to accumulate special credits for involvement in volunteer activities and student organizations, as a formal recognition of the effort they put into such activities, which will be recorded upon graduation in the Diploma Supplement received by each graduate along with the actual diploma.
We want to reward meritocracy, so we offer students with outstanding results in national and international competitions and olympiads, class leaders from UVT partner high schools and those who obtain an average of ten in the baccalaureate exam special benefit packages if they become UVT students, and during their studies we offer a diverse package of scholarships to reward academic performance and, annually, we award the "Student of the Year" within the UVT Awards Gala.
We are concerned about ensuring equal educational opportunities for all our students, so we offer social scholarships students from disadvantaged backgrounds, accommodation in UVT dormitories, 50% discount on local public transport and rail transport, special places in the admission process for Romanian candidates from everywhere, Roma ethnicity, come from placement centerwith disabilities/special educational needs or high school graduates from rural areas, But and forms of support for students with disabilities.
UVT students benefit, throughout their years of study, from a multitude of personal and professional development opportunities, including workshops and webinars organized by the UVT Student Counseling and Support Service team. The SCSS-UVT team also permanently offers UVT students, upon request, individual counseling sessions: educational and vocational counseling, career counseling or counseling for personal optimization.
University studies at UVT are completed through a unique graduation ceremony, which marks this festive moment throughout the community and recognizes the effort made by each graduate.
Living in the age of technology, we offer our students a wide range of IT facilities, including an institutional email account (@e-uvt.ro) with access to GMail/Google Suite for Email, Google Drive & Google Suite for Education, the entire Microsoft Office 365 application package, with a license, free of charge for all UVT students, access to e-learning platforms or the global internet network. EduRoam.
UVT students have the opportunity to constantly participate in conferences or workshops held by prominent national and international personalities from the scientific, cultural, artistic, sports or entrepreneurial worlds, and to learn about all the news dedicated to them through materials prepared by the university's own television studio - UVT Media Hub.
Student representation is a strong point of UVT, with the strongest student organization in the country developing and operating within our university – BONE – Student Organization of the West University of Timișoara.
Ensuring the quality of the educational process is a permanent priority of UVT, offering the opportunity for students to be directly involved in this process, to evaluate the teaching activities they participate in and to provide feedback on the experiences they go through. UVT is also the only university in Romania that has developed its own educational vision, which is implemented at all levels of studies – UVT Teaching & Learning Brand.