Banat`s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary

Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences
and Veterinary Medicine from Timişoara
Romania
Corina ABRAHAM-BARNA
Romania
16/04/2013
The university is placed in the Western part of
Romania, in the Banat Region, which is
well-developed, with the unemployment
increased at about 2%, after years of zero
unemployment.
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Many foreign companies, both European and
International, opened their factories in
Banat.
Timişoara
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Timişoara
16/04/2013
Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences
and Veterinary Medicine from Timişoara
UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI
MEDICINA VETERINARA A BANATULUI DIN
TIMISOARA
The Banat
Banat’ss University of Agricultural
Sciences and Veterinary Medicine is a state
university founded in 1945
university,
1945.
It offers university courses at undergraduate
and
d postt graduate
d t levels,
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post doctoral level.
UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI
MEDICINA VETERINARA A BANATULUI DIN
TIMISOARA
In the recent university ranking exercises carried out
byy the competent
p
authorities in Romania, the
university received the qualification of High
Degree after the institutional evaluation carried
out by the Romanian Quality Assurance Authority
in Higher Education (ARACIS).
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According
di tto th
the national
ti
l classification
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ifi ti performed
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db
by
the EUA, the university is an educational and
scientific research institution (2011)
Faculties
• Faculty
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lt off Agriculture
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• Faculty of Horticulture and Forestry
• Faculty of Farm Management
• Faculty of Food Processing
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Technology
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Animal Sciences and
Biotechnologies
Faculty of Agriculture
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Faculty
lt off Horticulture
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and
d Forestry
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t
Faculty of Farm Management
Faculty of Food Processing
Technology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Animal Sciences and
Biotechnologies
• The teaching staff of BUASVMT numbers
336 members, of which: 84 professors, 59
associate professors, 99 assistant
professors, 86 assistant lecturer and 8 junior
teaching
• BUASVMT has 6.990 students enrolled in
study programmes
• Most of the doctoral students and all the
post-doctoral students are financed through
structural funds for human resources
resources.
• A large number of our university graduates
are now professionals in 77 different
countries
• Undergraduates and PhD students from
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Austria,
Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, USA, Iran,
Israel, Syria, Morocco, Serbia, Moldova are
studying at the BUASVMT
Our number of foreign students increased four
times in last years. Their number is equilibrated
between European and third country students.
Scientific research
Scientific
S
i ifi research
h iis a major
j concern off the
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academic and research staff in our university.
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Our
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are recognized
i d on a national
ti
l and
d
international level for research in areas related to
agriculture and veterinary medicine,
medicine such as:
• breeding varieties and hybrids of agricultural and
horticultural species through classical methods
and genetic engineering;
• sustainable technologies in agriculture and
horticulture;
• improving the integrated crop protection system;
sustainable use of agricultural land;
Scientific research
• iimprovement, preservation,
i
and
d restoration
i off
degraded soil;
• prevention
ti
and
d control
t l off pollution
ll ti iin agriculture;
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• obtaining genetically modified plants,
• environmental impact assessment and ecological
restoration;
• alternative energy resources;
• agricultural restructuring and sustainable rural
d
development;
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• financing systems in agriculture;
Scientific research
• the
h study
d off chemical
h i l compounds
d applicable
li bl to
the food industry;
• food
f d produce
d
quality;
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• food safety and security;
• food science research;
• domestic animals protection and welfare;
• animal disease prevention and control;
• techniques and technologies in animal breeding
and amelioration by embryo transfer and genetic
engineering;
Scientific research
• ffarming
i technologies
h l i iimprovement;
• improvement of production, harvesting,
preservation,
ti
and
d fforage crop optimization
ti i ti
technologies;
• optimization
ti i ti off animal
i l ffeeding
di as a means off
improving the quality of foods of animal origin.
• The scientific research in our universityy has
been honoured by a number of awards from
the Romanian Academyy and CNCSIS,, byy
diplomas and medals at National and
International Exhibitions for Research,,
Innovations and Inventions, by Excellence
awards,, etc
For alignment
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with
i h EU requirements
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and
d standards,
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the laboratories belonging to the Research
Platform passed through the process of sanitary
sanitaryveterinary evaluation and authorization, as
follows:
• Laboratory for food and animal feed
microbiology (with specializations: Microbiology
of animal products and by-products, Microbiology
of non-animal products, Microbiology of animal
feed and water);
• L
Laboratory
b
for
f physical
h i l and
d chemical
h i l
analyses of food and animal feed (with
specializations: Physical and chemical analyses
of animal products and byproducts, Physical and
chemical analyses of non-animal
non animal products,
products
Physical and chemical analyses of animal feed);
• Laboratory for residue control (with
specializations: Residue control of live animals,
Residue control of animal products, Residue
control of water and animal feed, Residue control
of non-animal products).
Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences
and Veterinary Medicine from Timişoara
DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH,
EDUCATION AND SERVICES
INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE FIELDS OF
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
FOR RO 05
SECTORAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME INCREASE OF ECONOMIC
COMPETITIVENESS
New building :
Small animal clinics – Research laboratories
Small animal clinics – Research laboratories
Research laboratories – first floor
•Laboratory of
Microbiological Risk
Assessment in Foods
•Laboratory of
research and
diagnosis in
infectious diseases
with
t tthe
e help
epo
of
immunofluorescence
•The Parasitology and
Mycotic Diseases
Laboratory
•Laboratory of toxic
pharmaceutical
researches
•Laboratory for
metabolic
t b li disorders
di
d
Research laboratories – second floor
•Cell biology
•Molecular
biology
•Cell cultures
•Antioxydative
systems
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•Immunology
Research laboratories – molecular biology
•GenomicsGenomics-proteomicsproteomicsmetabolomics
•Microarray platform
•GC MS
•LC MS
Completed laboratories
AUTOLABORATORY
FOR ANIMAL GROWTH AND
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES –
TCPA (B13)
Completed laboratories
LABORATORY OF BIOCHEMICAL
RESEARCH OF ANTIOXIDANT SYSTEMS
(A1.c.)
Experimental research units and biobase
16/04/2013
Thank your for your
attention !
abraham.barna@yahoo.com