School:Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
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Overview
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu is a Romanian public university founded in 1990 in the city of Sibiu. However, higher education in Sibiu has a tradition of over 200 years. The university's name is inspired by poet, philosopher, and playwright Lucian Blaga. The university is host to over 14,000 students in 9 faculties:
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Food Industry and Environmental Protection;
- Faculty of Economic Sciences;
- Faculty of Engineering;
- Faculty of Law;
- Faculty of Letters and Arts;
- Faculty of Medicine;
- Faculty of Human Sciences;
- Faculty of Sciences;
- Faculty of Theology.
The University defines itself by a set of 8 values: entrepreneurial spirit, organizational culture, human resources, sustainable education, high-quality research, innovation, quality, and openness. We believe these values are highly alligned with the University Innovation Fellows program.
Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship
Student clubs
- ULBS D-School: the first ever University Center in Romania to teach and research design thinking;
- ASPS: Students in Psychology Association;
- ATPS: Young students in Pedagogy Association;
- Solidus Student Club: Students' Association for Faculty of Engineering;
- Law School Students Club;
- SmartHub ULBS: a Center offering information, counceling and guidance to students and alumni.
Courses and programs
- Cisco Academy - offers Cisco Certified Network Associate Courses for people interested in networking;
- Innovation Labs: a country-wide program that helps students develop a tech start-up, teams of students from our University take part in it as well.
Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship
There is a Research, Innovation, and Development Office that supports Faculty in applications for Research Grants and an office for Intellectual Property Rights Support (Inside the ULBS HPI Knowledge Transfer Center).
ULBS D-School is soon to offer a Design Thinking Course for Students and Staff as well: the course will start in November 2022 and will be focused on co-creating a solution to optimize communication between students and teachers.
Actively supporting the university technology transfer function
- HPI Knowledge Transfer Institute at LBUS: contributes to the enhancing of economic competitiveness by stimulating and harnessing the scientific and innovative potential and by assimilating the technological progress in the key areas of ULBS.
Facilitating university-industry collaboration
Internships
- Internship @ Continental (Faculty of Engineering);
- Internship @ Marquardt (Faculty of Engineering);
- Internship @ Marquardt (Faculty of Social Sciences);
- Internship @ Continental (Faculty of Social Sciences);
- Internship @ Bertrandt (Faculty of Engineering);
- Internship @ Visma (University wide).
Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts
- 5-day working on a challenge related to SDGs or given by a company during the Summer School @ULBS D-School;
- FDI Project on grant writing conducted by LBUS Research and Development Office.
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