Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

A highly interconnected and interactive world, LBUS could keep in the mainstream of academic events only by promoting international cooperation. After 1992, the year which marked the beginning of Dr. Ciocoi-Pop’s administration, LBUS adopted a policy of unprecedented academic contacts and links. It was the leadership’s strong conviction that, among the forty-eight state universities, eight military academies and forty-nine private universities of Post-Revolutionary Romania, LBUS could be successful only by interaction and cooperation.

Consequently, LBUS has established academic links and partnership agreements with eighty-five universities in thirty-five countries. A special place is held by the partnerships drawn with American, German, French and English universities, which materialized in student exchange programmes, fact-finding data trips for academics as well as a precious cooperation which has kept the University tuned in to what happens in the world. Worth mentioning are also the new ties with Chinese, Russian, Italian, Greek and Polish Universities.

In recognition of its steady development towards academic excellence and social renewal, LBUS was granted full membership in various prestigious international academic organizations: The International Center of Tübingen, the International Association of European Universities, and the Alliance of Universities for Democracy. In cooperation with its partners abroad, LBUS has established a number of organizations for students. Among them, CAS and UBA hold a special place, C.A.S. – The Career Advisory Service, founded in 1996, in cooperation with the British Council and supported by the Know How Fund, aims at establishing links between students, graduates and the job market. Its activity consists in offering students, graduates or employees daily consulting and in facilitating interviews in order to help them define their needs in employment and career.

The centre organizes workshops, seminars and long-term courses. The Summer Job Fair, organized by C.A.S. each year, offers a great opportunity for students to meet employers and to get internships or full-time employment, U.B.A. The University Business Association, is a club which facilitates constant interchange among faculties, business people and students. The main purposes of the club are to assist students in developing business skills and contacts, English language skills, and to provide support in getting jobs and summer internships. The club is a result of collaborative program funded by the United States Information Agency (USIA). The Missouri University (MU) – Columbia, USA has assisted LBUS in developing a business school meant to be nationally recogni z ed as a centre of academic and research excellence in business management and applied research.

We strongly believe in this auspicious union of names and significances. We believe that the University of Sibiu will always honor the name of the one who, like no other, has rooted the Romanian cultural identity into the university. At present, the structure of the University includes nine faculties, namely: the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Letters and Arts, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, the Faculty of Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Environment Protection, Food and Agricultural Sciences, and the Faculty of Economics.