The anniversary events have the patronage of the Ministry of Education
The University of Bucharest (UB) will organize, between July 16th – 19th 2024, several events meant to celebrate 160 years since its founding and 330 years of higher education in the Romanian academic space. Among these there are conferences, debates, book launches, guided tours, picnics and theatre plays, an educative treasure hunt, creative guitar workshops, as well as an anniversary stamp album.
The series of events will debut Tuesday, July 16th 2024, with an official ceremony hosted at the National Opera in Bucharest. The event will bring together teaching staff, researchers and students, representatives of the civil society, public policy makers and representatives of central and local authorities in Romania, and will represent a frame for meeting, connecting and discussing about the past, present and future of Romanian higher education. The program of the official ceremony includes, besides the official speeches and interventions, several retrospective moments of the 160 years of existence of the University of Bucharest, presentations regarding the evolution of our students, poetry readings, as well as the launch of the UB 160 stamp edition. Also, as part of the central event, the University of Bucharest has organized guided tours for the participants to places of memory in Bucharest, guided tours at the Museum of the University of Bucharest and at the Botanical Museum, as well as an official reception at the UB Dimitrie Brandza Botanical Garden.
Wednesday, July 17th 2024, the University House will host the conference The University of Bucharest – 160 – driving force of the modernization of Romania, event with an interdisciplinary character, that will reunite specialists from various fields to discuss and analyze the evolution of Romanian higher education. The main goal of the conference is to generate new analytic and methodologic approaches regarding the history of education, with an accent on the institutional development of the University of Bucharest as a main vector of progress in the Romanian space.
At the same time, the album The University of Bucharest: 1864 – 2024 will be launched during the conference. The album is a new and revised edition of the anniversary volume launched a decade ago, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary since the foundation of UB.
Thursday, July 18th 2024, representatives of the international networks that the University of Bucharest is part of, such as CIVIS, and decision agents from national institutions that are connected with the European Union, will attend the event 160 years of international relations. UB and the European and international university alliances, which will be hosted at the UB Rectorate, in order to analyze and identify solutions to current societal challenges.
On the same day, Thursday, July 18th 2024, students of the UB Faculty of History will organize a treasure hunt at the Palace of the University of Bucharest, challenging the UB community to discover, in an interactive way, the history of the building designed by Alexandru Orăscu.
Friday, July 19th 2024, the UB community is invited to the Dimitrie Brandza Botanical Garden, to attend, in the picnic area, an event that concludes a week dedicated to the anniversary of 160 years since the founding of the University of Bucharest and 330 years of higher education in the Romanian space. Realized in partnership with students of the I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest (UNATC) and of the Students’ Association of the University of Bucharest (ASUB), as well as with the team conducting the SciResCareer project, the event proposes a creative guitar workshop, a photo corner, a time capsule, as well as an inspiring messages wall. The central element of the event is the theatre play The last night of love, the first night of war by Camil Petrescu, which will bring in front of the audience, starting 7 PM, UNATC students Vlad Anghel, Adriana Mitu, Silvia-Alexandra Bem, Paul Pristavu and Fabian Ciobanu.
The series of events dedicated to the celebration of 160 years since the founding of the University of Bucharest and 330 years of higher education in the Romanian are possible thanks to the patronage of the Ministry of Education and with the support of the Romanian Commercial Bank – BCR, KPMG Romania, Kaufland Romania, The Civil Society of Lawyers „Stoica & Asociații” and Aqua Carpatica.
On this anniversary occasion, the University of Bucharest offers, between July 16th – 18th 2024, free access to the spaces of the Dimitrie Brandza Botanical Garden and invites nature lovers to discover the over 3.500 plants it fosters.
Not lastly, the largest event dedicated to art in Romania, Art Safari, opens its gates to the UB community and offers free access on Tuesday, July 16th 2024, to all students of the University of Bucharest to the exhibitions in the series Mysteries and treasures. Thus, UB art lovers are expected to the Dacia-Romania Palace (18-20 Lipscani Street, Bucharest) to discover the exhibitions The history of Romania in 100 portraits, The gold in Brukenthal, The secret museum, Eustațiu Stoenescu. The portrait of aristocracy and the Pangratti workshops. Free access will be permitted for those attendants presenting a UB student ID.
More information regarding the series of events organized by UB with the occasion of the 160th anniversary since its founding are available on the website dedicated to the anniversary, 160.unibuc.ro.
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The University of Bucharest was established by Decree no. 765 from July 4th/16th 1864 signed by Ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Successor of the higher education structures inaugurated by the Princely Academy (1694), the University of Bucharest has contributed, and is continuing to contribute decisively to the development and modernizing of Romanian education, science and culture.
Comprising 19 faculties, with 95 bachelor programs, 223 master’s programs, 23 doctoral schools on specific fields and an interdisciplinary doctoral school, over 50 centers and 9 research facilities, UB has established itself as an institution dedicated to achieving excellence in education and research, whose priority is preparing its students for life and professional activity.
Starting 2019, UB has been a part of CIVIS – A European Civic University alongside 10 other prestigious European universities: the University of Aix-Marseille, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Sapienza University of Rome, Stockholm University, “Eberhard Karls” University in Tübingen, University of Glasgow, University of Lausanne, the University “Paris Lodron” in Salzburg.
