Outstanding achievements of the USAMV Cluj-Napoca community
The beginning of December brought great news for our entire university community!
On the same day, 10 December 2024, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine obtained the official accreditation of the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) for the next 7 years, and at the Ministry of Education was signed by the Minister Ligia Deca and Prof. Dr. Cornel Cătoi – Rector, the contract for funding through the PNRR, won by USAMV Cluj-Napoca, along with other universities, for the training of teachers in agricultural high schools.
“Over half a million euro for teacher training in agricultural high schools in the country! We have signed, at the Ministry of Education, the PNRR funding contracts won by the universities that will provide teacher training in agricultural high schools. This programme represents a major step in modernising agricultural education in Romania, adapting it to the requirements of new technologies.
The training programme will address key topics such as digitisation and artificial intelligence in agriculture, sustainable agricultural technologies, circular economy, reducing pollution in agriculture, biodiversity conservation, modern biotechnologies and farm-friendly financial management. These topics cover both efficiency and sustainability and the integration of new technologies in agriculture. I wish success to all the winners in implementing their projects”, is the statement of the Minister of Education, Mrs Ligia Deca.
Another remarkable achievement for our university is the fact that the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has obtained the official European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) accreditation for the next 7 years, a recognition offered by the prestigious organisation The European Committee of Veterinary Education – ECOVE!
This success is the fruit of hard work, dedication and collective effort of the whole team. Every teacher, researcher, student and administrative staff member has played a key role in this success!
Congratulations to all our colleagues at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for this remarkable achievement, which inspires further performance, innovation and passion for education and science!
Congratulations and good luck to the entire USAMV Cluj-Napoca community!
Film workshop on the challenges and realisation of research work at USAMV Cluj-Napoca
Our University is a partner in a very interesting project, organised with the Persona Association, with the support of SciFilmIt: the film workshop “Science communication through stories, film and animation”.
Researchers from our university will be involved and will collaborate with students from the Babeș-Bolyai University – Faculty of Theatre and Film, respectively students from the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima”, to make four short films about the challenges and achievements of research work at USAMV Cluj-Napoca.
The filmmaking workshops are hosted on our campus from 16-18 December, and the creative work focuses on screenplays in the fields of Sustainability and Perspectives in Life Sciences, One-Health, Biodiversity, etc.
The main objectives of the film workshop are:
For researchers – Learning about structuring scientific information to create stories in narrative sequences, to express ideas to the general public through frame-by-frame animation and film;
For the public – Presentation of the four 3-5 minute short films on themes chosen by the participants.
The first meeting of the project took place on 16 December, so we wish the participating teams and the organisers all the best of luck and look forward to seeing the films!
USAMV Cluj-Napoca has signed with the Ministry of Education the financing contract for the Project “Sustainable agricultural education for ensuring the transition to green bioeconomy”
PNRR. funded by the European Union – NextGenérationUEUE
Component 15 – Education, Pillar VI – Policies for the new generation
Reform 4 – Creating a comprehensive vocational route for ethnic higher education
Investment 7 – Transforming agricultural high schools into vocational training centres
Call for proposals – Teacher Training Programme for Agricultural High Schools
Beneficiary: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
Project Title: Sustainable agricultural education to ensure the transition to the green bioeconomy
Financing contract Ministry of Education no. 14116/10.12.2024
The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) Cluj-Napoca, through its legal representative, the Rector Prof. Dr. Cornel Cătoi, signed with the Ministry of Education, through its legal representative, the Minister Ligia Deca, on 10.12.2024, the financing contract for the Project “Sustainable agricultural education to ensure the transition to green bioeconomy”.
This project is implemented by PNRR within Component 15 – Education, Pillar VI – Policies for the new generation, Reform 4 – Creating a complete professional route for higher technical education, Investment 7 – Transforming agricultural high schools into professionalisation centres, Call for Projects – Teacher Training Programme for Agricultural High Schools.
General Objective (GO) of the project: to increase the capacity of 14 agricultural high schools in the North-West, North-East and Centre development regions (Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brașov, Iași, Maramureș, Mureș, Satu-Mare, Sibiu, Suceava counties) to provide modern and relevant agricultural education for students, as a result of the extension of the competences of 150 teachers in the Technology curriculum areas: agricultural/silvicultural and related (biology, chemistry, etc.).
SO1: Extend the offer of continuous professional training for teachers in technical education with an agricultural and/or forestry profile, by developing and accrediting the Transition to Green Bioeoconomy (TBV) programme as a quality continuous training programme, adapted to current trends in the field of agriculture. The proposed in-service training programme will fall under the category of competence development for career development in teaching. The training programme will be addressed to teachers in the curricular areas that include subjects relevant to the agricultural/forestry field, as well as in related fields (biology, chemistry, etc.).
The curriculum areas addressed in the programme are: Farm management; Biodiversity conservation and adaptation to climate change impacts; Applicability of UAVs in agriculture, forestry and environment; Use of modern biotechnologies in agriculture.
The programme will be blended learning (on-site and online). Total number of hours – 84 and total number of credits – 30.
SO2: To broaden the skills and increase the motivation of teachers in 14 agricultural high schools in the North-West, North-East and Centre development regions by training 150 teachers in the Technologies curriculum area, such as agricultural/forestry, and related fields (biology, chemistry, etc.), as a result of the implementation of the Transition to Green Bioeoconomy (TBV) in-service training programme. As a consequence, they will develop the following key competences: 1. implementation skills in the teaching-learning process of new agricultural concepts and technologies; 2. the ability to apply, explain and utilise new agricultural/forestry information in the educational act through activities with students.
The project team will be composed of teachers from USAMV CN and will be coordinated, as project manager, by Prof. Dr Ioana Pop.
USAMV Cluj-Napoca
Project email address: tbv@usamvcluj.ro tbv@usamvcluj.ro