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 Social Sciences and Humanities;
- 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
There are multiple students' clubs which promote the department's interests and organize extracurricular activities.
- 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;
- Sociology and Social Assistence Student's Association;
- Hipocrates - Society of Medicine Students Sibiu;
- Solidus Student Club: Students' Association for Faculty of Engineering;
- League of Letters and Arts Students;
- Economy Students Club;
- Law School Students Club;
- ELSA Sibiu - European Students in Law Sibiu;
- OSD Sibiu - Organization of Dentistry Students Sibiu;
- SmartHub ULBS: a Center offering information, counceling and guidance to students and alumni.
- EduHub: ULBS' entrepreneurial society, aiming to support and guide undergraduate, as well as graduate students' initiatives. They play a major role in maintaining the school's entrepreneurial spirit.
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.
- Research Hacks Bootcamp: a transformative workshop meant to enhance students' research skills.
- IT Summer School: an event hosted by Sibiu IT Cluster, an organization whose sole purpose is to help aspiring tech students the opportunity to grow and perform. They also host other events and meetups during the school year.
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.
In addition, there is the ULBS D-School Design Thinking Camp organized to teach the Design Thinking mindset and values through practical application. The students are given a challenge and only have 5 days to solve it using the Design Thinking process and principles.
For aspiring scientists or researchers, ULBS has collaborated with Games of Science to host public speaking training workshops, along with a final competition. This initiative is meant to help young scientists learn different ways of explaining their findings while maintaining an appeal to the masses.
As an entrepreneurial "way to turn your hobby into a proffession", TIE is hosting 6 different contests for ULBS students, covering several bases, including Proffessional Electronics Packaging, Structural Analysis and Thermal Management and other manifestations of Computer Aided Design (CAD).
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.
- Project Learn Inc: a 3-year initiative whose team has partnered up with ULBS and several others in order to teach innovation through cross-institutional collaboration.
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.
- IECS: a conference meant to analyze several topics including economics, management, research methods and regional developments.
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