UB students, invited to attend the courses of the “Civic Engagement” microprogram, developed within the CIVIS Alliance

The students of the University of Bucharest are invited to participate to the courses organized within the Civic Engagement microprogram offered by the University of Bucharest in collaboration with the Autonomous University in Madrid and Tübingen University.

Developed within CIVIS, the microprogram offers students a new learning path that completes the study program and allows them to build an individual curriculum, dependent on their own study and research interests. Through the structure and courses offered, the microprogram offers new learning experiences based on innovative pedagogies, cultural exchanges and connections with other students in the CIVIS Alliance.

Within the Civic Engagement microprogram, the University of Bucharest organizes two courses:

University-based projects for local sustainable development in European UNESCO Global Geoparks, held by lecturer Alexandru Andrășanu, PhD, Director of the Hațeg County UNESCO International Geopark and teaching staff of the UB Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, and by Cristina Toma, PhD student of the University of Bucharest.

Engaging Marginalized Communities, presented by professor Sorin-George Toma, PhD, teaching staff of the Faculty of Administration and Business of the University of Bucharest and professor Otniel Bunaciu, PhD, Dean and teaching staff of the UB Faculty of Baptist Theology.

Within the Civic Engagement microprogram, students have the chance to apply the acquired knowledge in real life, in a community context, they share experiences on the problems of current societies with student colleagues form the same university and from universities in the CIVIS partnership. The program promotes civic engagement in the academic community and supports students in taking responsibility and gain experience, securing, at the same time, a significant contribution to their professional and personal development. Further details can be obtained from the CIVIS website, on the section dedicated to the microprogram, here.

CIVIS is a European University Alliance reuniting 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), The University of Bucharest (Romania), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), Glasgow University (Great Britain), Paris Lodron University in Salzburg (Austria) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 pilot-universities alliances, CIVIS reunites approximately 500,000 students and over 70,000 staff members, including 37,400 teaching staff and researchers.