Erasmus Policy Statement
1.
“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, through its mission and vision described in the
University Charter, and through its internationalisation strategy supports a collaborative and proactive culture to achieve the strategic objectives set by its management for the current mandate, namely the internationalisation of UAB. UAB focuses on a constant increase in the quality of its teaching and research activities, and to international recognition of our University as a performance-oriented higher education institution. Our strategic objectives and internationalisation policy are aimed at:(1) Increasing the quality of learning while developing the international dimension of teaching / learning process; One of our priorities is to recruit valuable students from EU and non-EU countries and to constantly increase their numbers, based on well-balanced admission strategies. Our programmes are designed to best meet the labour market needs by extending cooperation with the business environment so as to be highly appreciated in Romania and abroad and to be well anchored into the national and international reality. We have designed new programmes, taught in English, in order to attract international students and staff at UAB. Therefore, our University acts in accordance with the following guidelines: to ensure the compatibility of our study programmes with those of foreign universities and credit transferability by using ECTS; to increase the visibility of study programmes taught in a widely spoken foreign language; to constantly promotethe educational offer of UAB worldwide. (2) Developing and strengthening international academic partnerships.
The exchange of academic staff and researchers between our University and higher education and research institutions abroad is an important objective, which has major consequences on the development of the educational and research capacity of our University. Therefore, we aim to: extend cooperation partnerships with higher education and research institutions in view of developing flagship projects and creating a model of good practices in education; forward the educational offer of our University, which includes Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral programmes, towards countries that present a shortage of highly qualified human resource; develop new partnerships at international level (EU and non-EU, especially eastern Europe-
Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro and Asia - China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia); identify employment opportunities for the graduates of the University abroad; develop partnerships with private international companies, with the aim of developing mutually beneficial activities, where the role of the University is to provide study programmes and highly qualified human resources, whilst the role of companies is that of ensuring practical training of students and providing support.
The development of the international dimension of teaching / learningprocess is based on the following targets:(1) Increasing international appeal of our university’s educational offer by increasing the number of permanent international students in undergraduate programmes,

master and doctoral degrees. (2) Developing bachelor and master programmes fully taught in a foreign language (English, French). (3) Mobility support for teaching and research staff in pursuit of teaching or training from or in international institutions.(4) Increasing study and training students mobility (bachelor and master, especially Erasmus, but not only), with an indicator of 15% outgoing students to have participated in a study or training mobility at partner institutions until March 2016. (5) Elaborating course textbooks/hand-outs in a foreign language
(English / French) for disciplines related to study programmes attractive to international students who are studying at our University and content digitization on RAEL e-learning platform and establishing an online tutoring system. (6) Development of joint master degree programmes with universities and research institutes from EU and outside the EU. Currently, there are 5 agreements signed for joint supervision of doctoral thesis between UAB and
European universities (7) Attracting foreign lecturers with high academic tenure to be employed on a short-time or indefinite period in our university. The successful achievement and implementation of the set objectives are under the direct coordination of the Vice-Rector for
Research and International Relations and of the Vice-Rector for Education, in consultation with members of the Centre for International Relation’s Council and in close collaboration with the
Faculty Deans, the heads of teaching departments, the tutors, the course leaders, as well as the
Erasmus institutional coordinator and Erasmus departmental coordinators.
2.
International cooperation projects in teaching and training are a priority for UAB, as defined in its strategic plan and internationalisation strategy. They are organised and implemented by the
Centre for International Relations through its Office for EU Programmes and International
Agreements, according to its own regulations and procedures, elaborated in line with national and EU legislation in force. Partner HEIs, research institutions, stakeholders of education and training are sought in the EU and non-EU countries that best meet our University’s criteria for international cooperation, in keeping with its mission and objectives. New cooperation agreements are signed every year in order to increase the impact and visibility of our institution abroad and to enable our students and staff, in equal distribution of study and teaching areas, to expand their mobility opportunities. The recent years have brought about an increase in number of EU projects that our University has participated in as partner or coordinator, such as Erasmus
Intensive Programmes and Leonardo da Vinci, and applications have been made for more extensive cooperation projects, including non-EU countries, such as Tempus or Erasmus
Mundus. This trend is going to be continued in the 2014-2020 period to include more projects to be designed and implemented, in other areas and priorities, including knowledge alliances, strategic partnerships, development of joint degrees, and EU and non-EU mobility projects.