anna soós: babeş-bolyai university – an effective example of higher education and business...
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DR. ANNA SOÓSVICE-RECTOR
Babeş-Bolyai University – an effective example of higher education and
business co-operation
Babeș-Bolyai University
the bigest university of Romania – 42000 students
uninterrupted functioning since 1872
3 lines of study: Romanian, Hungarian and German
250 bachelor programs260 master programs31 doctoral domains
Cluj-Napoca – an emerging Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe
second largest city of Romaniatraditionally multicultural and multiethnic5 state universities11000 people employed in the IT sectorinvestors like Bosch, Siemens, Emerson,
Bombardier, De’Longhi, Genpact, Steelcase, NTT Data, Office Depot
Cluj Innovation City: a plan for future collaboration ecosystem between different research institutions, local authorities and private companies (fields of IT, health, bio-economy and renewable energies)
Babeș-Bolyai University – research reputation
Best Global Universities Ranking 2015 750 universities from 57 countries it ranks the world’s top universities based on research indicators
global research reputation regional research reputation publications books conferences normalized citation impact total citations number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited international collaboration number of Ph.D.s awarded number of Ph.D.s awarded per academic staff member
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/methodology
Universities from Romania and Hungary in the ranking
Eötvös Loránd University – 465Babeş-Bolyai University – 560University of Debrecen – 585 University of Bucharest – 588Technical University of Bucharest –
706 Budapest University of Technology
and Economics – 722Semmelweis University – 736University of Szeged – 745http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/search?country=hungary&country=romania&name=
Babeș-Bolyai University – research reputation
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 800 universities from 70 countries it ranks the world’s top universities based on 13 performance indicators grouped into 5 areas
teaching reputation survey staff-to-student racio doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio doctorates awarded -to-academic staff ratio institutional income
research reputation survey research income research productivity
citations (research influence) international outlook
international-to-domestic student ratio international-to-domestic staff ratio international collaboration
industry income
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ranking-methodology-2016
Universities from Romania and Hungary in the ranking
501 – 600 rangeo Babeş-Bolyai Universityo Semmelweis University
601 – 800 rangeo Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univeresityo University of Bucharesto Budapest University of Technology and
Economicso University of Debreceno Eötvös Lóránd Universityo University of Pécso University of Szegedo West University of Timişoara
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016
The context – percentage of GDP invested in research and development
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
Outstanding research results at UBB
N.T. Markov, M. Ercsey-Ravasz, D.C. Van Essen, K. Knoblauch, Z. Toroczkai, H. Kennedy, Cortical High-density Counter-stream Architectures, Science, 342, 2013
Y. Ren, M. Ercsey-Ravasz, P. Wang, M.C. Gonzalez, Z. Toroczkai, Predicting commuter flows in spatial networks using a radiation model based on temporal ranges, Nature Communications, 5, 2014.
Outstanding research results at UBB
S. Jerez, I. Tobin, R. Vautard, J. P. Montávez, J. M. López-Romero, F. Thais, B. Bartok, O. B. Christensen, A. Colette, M. Déqué, G. Nikulin, S. Kotlarski, E. van Meijgaard, C. Teichmann, M. Wild, The impact of climate change on photovoltaic power generation in Europe, Nature Communications, 6, 2015.
How business-world contributed to these results
quality of education
and research at
the university
highly trained
professionals for the
firms
Case study 1 – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
6.400 students
20 BSc specializations
29 MSc specializations
6 PhD specializations
Romanian, Hungarian, German, English and French
Case study 1 – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Case study 1 – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
10% of the courses and seminars were delivered by a company
4% out of compulsory classespresentations, workshops and
company visitSMEs, multinational and large
companiestopics: main business functions
(marketing, management, finances and accounting)
B1. Into the courses B2. Extracurricularpresentations (29%),
company visits (27%), workshops (22%)
multinational companies (35%), non-profit organizations (18%), SMEs (15%), governmental institutions (13%), large companies (8%)
bottom-up initiatives, coming from individual teachers
Case study 2 – Branding college
students, teachers and professionals work togetherboth theory and practical skillsreal-life issues: orders from firms, organizations
students gain experience needed for job enrolmentfirms, organizations get their brands developed by young
professionals with the mentoring of experienced mentors
Case study 2 – Branding college – from the portfolio
Case study 3 – Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
37 partners
Case study 3 – Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
most complex co-operation education
summer practice for students (2 weeks) projects for diploma-work (coordonator at the university, mentor at the firm) projects for courses curricula development (new courses held by professionals from the firms – ex.
Bitdefender, Accenture) courses at the firm for BBU students (Bitdefender, Codespring) contests for students (Codespring)
research PhD research themes – Siemens, Bosch PhD scholarships sponsorship for conferences
Case study 3 – Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
the effect of the co-operation – students
experience the competitive milieu, have to participate at job interviews;
practice both soft skills (responsibility, humor, empathy, teamwork, leadership, communication, social skills) and hard skills (professional skills);
networking, getting in contact with future employers;
Case study 3 – Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
the effect of the co-operation – Faculty adjustment of the training programs (new master program: Software engineering
in English; new courses: Java, Python) receiving feedback on the quality of students and alumni; partner companies support the participation of students at competitions and
projects; companies organize tutorials for students; companies organize workshops at international scientific conferences organized
by the Faculty; companies stimulate research by identifying themes of special interest; companies facilitate student research by offering awards at different contests or
for excellent BA theses and MA dissertations; companies can offer topics for BA theses and MA dissertations.
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