The Minister of the Environment, Waters and Forests, Mircea Fechet, visited on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, the Institute for Advanced Environmental Research - ICAM, within the Western University of Timișoara and signed, together with the Rector of UVT, prof. Dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea, two agreements for student practice and inter-institutional cooperation.
The first of these, the "Framework collaboration agreement regarding the implementation of internships within undergraduate and master's university study programs", provides solutions for the partnership organization of internships through which UVT students will be initiated in the application of specialized theoretical knowledge . The declared purpose of these internships is to consolidate and capitalize on the theoretical knowledge received by practitioners during the training process, but also to train the necessary skills to apply what they have accumulated during the theoretical training period, in accordance with the specifics of the specialization for which they are preparing .
The second agreed document is a "Collaboration Protocol" through which a coherent manner of inter-institutional cooperation was established between the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests and the West University of Timișoara, regarding activities carried out for professional training in public administration in the field climate change, but also for the development of public policies based on scientific evidence in the field of the environment, respectively collaboration in the research fields arising from the needs of MMAP.
