WELCOME PART 1: ABOUT ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA PART 2: FOR YOU, ERASMUS STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF IAȘI About Romania Historical references Pre-arrival advice International Relations Romanian language courses University Urban Campus-map Travel to Iași Faculties and fields of study Accommodation Libraries Erasmus on www.uaic.ro Internet facilities Erasmus students associations Medical services Facilities for special needs students Meals Sports facilities Anastasie Fãtu Botanical Garden Structure of the academic year 2014-2015 Registration at the faculty The Residence Permit Examinations Erasmus office Erasmus Day At the end of your study mobility PART 3: OUR CITY The City of Iași Main local events Climate Entertainment Other information On behalf of the Today, with its fifteen faculties, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University academic community offers to all inquisitive young minds a large diversity of academic of our university I programs which invite you to join me are aimed to open the way towards their personal fulfillment and on a short and dense social recognition. In a world characterized by rapid and profound intellectual itinerary. changes, where knowledge is the most valuable asset, Alexandru By the end of this Ioan Cuza University aims to strengthen the flexibility of learning, “journey” you will to create opportunities for the intellectual and professional discover a part of our development of its students, to assist quality research and to country’s culture, contribute to the society’s cultural and economic growth. which reverberates Due to its performances, our university has signed partnerships both traditions and present European achievements, and focuses with more than 200 prestigious academic institutions throughout on the genesis and evolution of the easternmost modern the world and has actively promoted the development of the Humboldtian academic institution. Founded in a time of scientific European Higher Education Area. Prepared to confidently assume effervescence and emulation of great European ideas, Alexandru the unforeseen paths of the future, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi has been a bridge between the secular of Iaşi openly awaits both diligent students and professors from all values of the civilized Western society and the spiritual beliefs over the world. shared by the local people. Our university has gradually turned Consistent with its creed “Fides et Ratio”, the University is into a forum of free ideas, a unity of education in the spirit of that grateful to you all, who share its joys, and warmly recommends which is true, good and beautiful, as well as an emblematical those in expectance to assay its challenges. landmark of this region. Free from the constraints of the totalitarian system, in the past two decades, our academic community has been rebuilding the formative vocation of Prof. dr. Vasile IŞAN characters, with determination in the creative transmission of Rector of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University quality knowledge and respect for the world’s miraculous diversity. University contact data: Phone: 0040-232-201010 Fax: 0040-232-201121 [email protected] www.uaic.ro Travelling abroad is a relevant part The Erasmus team and the other student services do their best to of education; more so if the visit is make our incoming students feel that Alexandru Ioan Cuza academic. University is their home away from home. The fact that so many The Erasmus Programme provides incoming students came for one semester and then asked for a excellent educational opportunities second semester here is their touching way of saying that our for all students. work reached its goals. Upon their return, they are the most Our university sent and received credible ambassadors of our university, of the city of Iasi. the first Erasmus (Socrates, by that time) students and teaching staff in Our university expands the scope of its Erasmus - like exchanges 1998. Over these 14 years, more by coordinating 3 Erasmus Mundus projects which join together than 4,500 outgoing students and almost 900 incoming students 35 universities from the EU and seven neighbor countries in turned Erasmus at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University into an ongoing Europe and Asia. success story. All the meetings we have with the outgoing Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is ranked 67 in Europe by the students just before their leave and then with the incoming number of outgoing Erasmus students. Such a standing is the students of that year are rewarding through the refreshing result of a university-wide work - teaching staff and discussions with very good, highly motivated students. Many of administrative staff supporting mobile students before, during our best students become Erasmus students and consequently and after their visit abroad. leave us for one or two semesters. Each of them visits one of our Whether we say it at the beginning of your Erasmus visits (that is, 300 partner institutions. Some of them are enrolled in joint you are incoming students) or after its completion – welcome to degrees with our partner universities. All outgoing students Alexandru Ioan Cuza University! return not only more advanced in their studies, but also more confident in themselves. Furthermore, they increase, year after Prof. dr. Henri LUCHIAN year, the trust and willingness to cooperate between our Vice – Rector for International Relations university and our partners. •Foundation of the Academic College in Iasi •The Great Union of Romania •Foundation of the Prince’s Academy of Iasi •Faculty of Agricultural Sciences •Reorganisation of the Academy of •The Faculty of Sciences becomes the Learning and Sciences Gheorghe Asachi Polytechnic Institute of •Foundation of “Academia Mihaileana” Iasi (nowadays, the Technical University of Iasi) •Inauguration of the University of Iasi: •Communist Reforms of Education •Faculty of Law (disciplines censored or eliminated, •Faculty of Philosophy extreme rigidity, restricted academic •Faculty of Theology freedom) •New law of education passed, university •The University was structured in eight reorganised: faculties: •Faculty of Law •Faculty of Mathematics – •Faculty of Letters and Philosophy Mechanics •Faculty of Physical, Mathematical •Faculty of Physics and Natural Sciences •Faculty of Chemistry •Faculty of Biology–Geography •Faculty of Medicine •Faculty of Law •Faculty of Philology •Faculty of History–Philosophy •Inauguration of the New University Palace (present location) •Faculty of Economics In accordance with its mission and strategic objectives, with its widely-recognised academic status of excellence in education and scientific research, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is firmly committed to its policy of internationalization. By using a wide range of different approaches, the University is actively involved in: Disseminating the Romanian language and culture at an international level (the Romanian Language and Civilization Summer School, Open Distance Learning courses, the Department of Romanian Language for Foreign Students); Increasing the awareness of the unity and diversity of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University attaches the world languages and cultures (the Centre for European greatest importance to developing multiple Studies; permanent French, German, Italian, Spanish, partnerships, being a member of the Coimbra Polish, Greek, American and Chinese lectureships Group, the Utrecht Network, the Balkan offered by teachers from these countries; compulsory Universities Network, the founding member of the courses on EU languages and culture in all our Francophone Universities Network Alexandru Ioan academic curricula); Cuza (RUFAC) and affiliated, among others, to the European Universities Association (EUA), the Fortifying the EU membership of Romania (education of International Association of the Universities (IAU), translators, courses on European legislation). L'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). Mutual academic trust, academic strength specific Alexandru Ioan Cuza University develops excellent to multiple partnerships, exchange intensification relationships of academic cooperation in Europe, but also for students, teaching staff and also ideas continue outside Europe with universities in the United States of to make out of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University an America, China, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Singapore appreciated academic partner and a favourite and South America. destination in higher education. 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