International Lecturers at WUT

Every year West University of Timișoara supports the internationalization process and education development through hosting international lecturers and collaborators.

In the 2020-2021 academic year, within WUT 7 international full-time lecturers and many other lecturers and collaborators paid on an hourly basis carry out their academic activity. From teaching foreign languages, civilization and culture, to conducting research activities the lecturers are involved in many various events and projects of or in collaboration with WUT.

International lecturers at WUT in the academic year 2022-2023:

Martin Mozo Borja, Spanish lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;
Dimitrije Savic, Serbian lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;
Linda Gaia, Italian lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;
Petru Hațegan, Croatian lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;
Paul Gardner, USA (Fulbright), American lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;
Eric Fure-Slocum USA (Fulbright), American lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;
DU Xiaorui, China (PhD student), Faculty of Letters, History and Theology;

Within our university there are more categories of international lecturers/ collaborators:

A. Full-time lecturers:

Lecturers nominated and employed at WUT based on an issued Order of Ministry signed between the two countries as a result of:
- Existent Intergovernmental agreements;
- Proposals received by WUT from the Ministry of Education and Research in Romania;
- Prior agreements signed with our institution (our faculties) – for example: for the Italian lecturer, French lecturer, Serbian lecturer, Austrian lecturer, German lecturer, Spanish lecturer, etc.
International lecturers hosted by WUT:
- Lecturers who carry out their activities based on an agreement signed with an institution for foreign language promotion or through the embassies of each State/ commissions (for example: any Fulbright lecturer from United States of America, Chinese lecturer, Portuguese language lecturer, etc.).

B. Lecturers paid on an hourly basis:

International collaborators invited by faculties for teaching courses at WUT.

Benefits offered to international lecturers and collaborators from WUT:

Office at the Host-Faculty;
Free, unlimited access to WUT and Host-Faculty facilities;
Free access to WUT electronic resources;
An @e-uvt institutional account;
Picking up/ transportation from the airport, train station or bus station to the accommodation place upon arrival in/ departure from Timișoara (if necessary);
Free accommodation in the university campus (if necessary);
Monthly salary in accordance with the Order of Ministry issued by the responsible institution with the lecturer’s nominalization or in accordance with a signed inter-institutional or intergovernmental agreement/ partnership.

Administrative and informational support is offered by Department of International Relations in collaboration with Host-Faculty and Human Resource Department. Academic support is offered by the Host-Faculty, where the lecturers will carry out their activities.

Visiting@WUT grant programme

The Visiting@WUT grant programme is divided into two components: Visiting Professor and Visiting Researcher. Therefore a teacher or researcher from an accredited Higher Education Institution and / or a Research Institute abroad is eligible.

General activities:

Mention of (co-)affiliation with UVT in every published work, participation in a conference, organization of an event, project submission, patent obtained during or as a result of the Visiting@UVT grant;
Active participation in the activities and events of the UVT academic community and to support the academic initiatives of the host Faculty and Department;
Sending a detailed activity report to the program coordinator at the end of the grant;
Activation as a UVT Ambassador in the universities and institutes of origin, and presentation of the Visting@UVT grants program to the respective communities.

Short description for Visiting Professors activities:

To offer at least one teaching discipline (with related course and seminar activities) whose activity will take place during a whole or modular semester (proposal, development, teaching, evaluation);
To organize at least one other type of activity (course/seminar/round table, lecture) and/or engage in (co)-tutoring, (co)-coordinating thesis activities, editing volumes, etc.)

Short description for Visiting Researchers activities:

To carry out research activities;
In case of short-term grants: to submit for publication at least 1 article (Web of Science/ Scopus, according to the main research areas of the Host Faculty or of the Department for Teacher Training);
In case of long-term grants: to submit for publication at least 2 articles (Web Science/ Scopus, according to the main research areas of the Host Faculty or of the Department for Teacher Training);
In case of research in collaboration with WUT colleagues - to contribute to the submission of at least one Europe 2020 Horizon project proposal or equivalent of it.

For details on eligibility criteria, deadlines, required documents, benefits, grant periods, selection process and other information, please see the document below Call for applications Visiting@UVT.

Call for application - Visiting@WUT

Contact: Claudia POPESCU (e-mail: claudia.popescu@e-uvt.ro, Phone: +40256592653)

Romanian Diaspora@WUT Guest Lecturers/Workshops Series

This action involves the organization in UVT of 11 + 1 conferences/workshops within each faculty, as well as within the Teaching Staff Training Department, supported by lecturers from the Romanian Diaspora. The objective is twofold:

continuous professional training of UVT staff and students, by stimulating Romanian professionals from abroad to contribute to the development of the human resources of the Western University of Timisoara (Romania) through an action that adds a new dimension to internationalization "at home".
(re)connecting the academic environment from the Western University of Timişoara (Romania) to Romanian specialists abroad and establishing new international collaboration bridges in the medium and long term.

The events are organized annually in physical and/or virtual format, between September and November of each year. In order to organize these activities, UVT will cover the expenses of round-trip transport and accommodation in Timisoara for 2-3 nights/guest.