Out of the desire to contribute to a stronger involvement of the academic community and partners in the development of education and the training of young generations, the University of Bucharest launched, in 2021, the “Virtute et Sapientia” Foundation and the program UB SEED | Educational Support for Disadvantaged Students.
Starting from the evidence that material deprivation stops many young people from continuing their studies and reaching their true potential, these projects aim to come up with concrete solutions to prevent school dropout for as many students as possible.
“Beyond the responsibility we all have for the training of future generations, we consider these two initiatives as an opportunity to reiterate the role of the University of Bucharest in society and to come to the support of some categories of young people with limited material possibilities”, is the message sent by the representatives of the UB Foundation.
Thus, through UB SEED | Educational Support for Disadvantaged Students, the “Virtute et Sapientia” Foundation of the University of Bucharest offers all employees the opportunity to contribute and support students from disadvantaged environments by redirecting 3.5% of the income tax. This contribution can be done by filling in Form 230 (in the case of payroll tax), that you can download here.
Steps to redirect 3.5% of your income tax:
1. Download Form 230 and fill it in with your details.
2. Filled in forms can be scanned and sent to the email address contact.seed@unibuc.ro. Scanned forms can be sent until May 21, 2023. Afterwards, you will be contacted by ANAF to confirm that you want to forward your income tax to us.
3. If you don’t want to submit it online, the form can be sent by post to your financial administration by May 25, 2023.
About the UB Foundation and UB SEED | Educational Support for Disadvantaged Students
The “Virtute et Sapientia” Foundation of the University of Bucharest aims to support and promote the values of education and science by initiating projects and activities that capitalize on the didactic, research and social involvement capacities of the academic community of the University of Bucharest.Thus, among its activities, the foundation aims to initiate projects, programs, social responsibility events aimed at local communities, groups and people in need; to organize and conduct congresses, conferences, communication sessions, colloquiums, symposia, workshops and summer schools and to contribute to the creation of educational and scientific materials. More details on the UB Foundation can be accessed here.
UB SEED | Educational Support for Disadvantaged Students aims to support students with potential starting from the 7th grade and up to admission to faculty: students from low-income families in disadvantaged milieus, for whom the socio-economic environment represents a threat to continuing their education and training. The project is carried out in partnership with the National Council of Students, the “Together” Agency and World Vision Romania.
More details on the UB SEED | Educational Support for Disadvantaged Students can be accessed here.
