The Green Week at UVT is, in 2022, in its fifth edition and we are happy to share with you that this year too the event has been selected by the European Commission as a partner event of the European Green Week, which takes place internationally during 30 May – 5 June 2022.
We invite you to consult the agenda European Green Weeks at UVT and participate in the proposed events by completing this form.
This year's program was entirely proposed by members of the UVT community (students, academic or administrative staff), the events being then subject to participatory voting. In this way, we thank all those who made possible the variety of initiatives and actions!
May 30, 2022, 14:00 p.m - "Innovative candle making" workshop - UVT URBAN GARDEN
OilRight, an eco-inclusive social business from Timișoara, will expose the threats of the improper disposal of cooking oil and the solution they come up with in this sense: the production of candles with the cooking oil generated by households in the city as a raw material. These explanations will be followed by a demonstration.
ï Organizer: Maria CIOARĂ, UVT student, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, psychology major
ï Partner: OilRight, Timisoara, Romania & UNITA – Universitas Montium
ï Estimated event duration: 60-90 minutes
May 31, 2022, 10:00 p.m - Plant care workshop – UVT URBAN GARDEN
You bought your first one delicious monstera at a discount from the supermarket? Or you're a plant parent looking to add to your collection monstera albo? Whichever category you belong to, this workshop suits you perfectly! With the team at @bloomonpoint you'll learn tons of tips and tricks on how to care for houseplants, their benefits and more, so you can live a happier, cleaner, greener life together.
ï Organizer: Bloom. – Sara CIORTAN, Rareș MOȚ, Valentin REGEP, Ana VLASIU – UVT students, Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences, Digital Media spec, first year. With the guidance of lect. university Dr. Adela-Oana BARBU-BANEȘ-KLEITSCH.
ï Partner: UNITA – Universitas Montium
ï Estimated event duration: 60-90 minutes
June 1, 2022, 10:30 a.m - The Workshop of the Little Ecologist – UVT URBAN GARDEN
The children (3-6 years old) present will experience the awareness of their own emotions through the activities:
- listening to the story "The Color Monster" and participating in debates about it.
- creating your own "color monster" from reused materials and customizing a t-shirt by painting. Resources needed: Enthusiasm and good cheer. The event is organized under optimal conditions for a group of 10-20 children.
ï Organizer: Andreea RADU – Support CenterTM, UVT
ï Partner: Mariana Cristina ȚERESCU, teacher for preschool education at Grădinița PP12, founder of the project Stardust Bag – Kindergarten Journal and member in the project inEDU, Initiative in Education
ï Estimated event duration: 60 minutes (between 10.30 and 11.30)
The children (7-11 years old) present will experience the awareness of their own emotions through the activities:
- listening to the story "The Color Monster" and participating in debates about it.
- creating your own "color monster" from reused materials and customizing a t-shirt by painting. Resources needed: Enthusiasm and good cheer. The event is organized under optimal conditions for a group of 10-20 children.
ï Organizer: Andreea RADU – Support CenterTM, UVT
ï Partner: Alina IGA, teacher at Babel School, the founder of the project The story chest and member in the project inEDU, Initiative in Education
ï Estimated event duration: 60 minutes (between 10.30 and 11.30)
June 2, 2022, 13:15 a.m - Vernissage – Reimagining the "Cardinal Points" Fountain as an island of biodiversity – UVT URBAN GARDEN
The creative project Reimagining the "Cardinal Points" Fountain as a biodiversity island started a month ago, based on a challenge received from Aquatim. The creative project is carried out within the UVT Digital & Green Living Lab, coordinated by Dr. Alexandra PETCU. Through the open innovation collaborative approach, 8 multidisciplinary teams made up of students from the Faculty of Arts and Design (coordinator of university lectures Dr. Sergiu ZEGREAN and associate professor Dr. Diana ANDREESCU), Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography (lect. university dr. Adrian SINITEAN) and the Faculty of Sociology and Psychology (conf. university dr. Irina MACSINGA, assistant cerc. dr. Patricia ALBULESCU) each proposed a concept of "Reimagining the fountain as an island of biodiversity" . Each concept includes design aspects, specific flora (pollution prevention, air and water cleaning, aesthetic function), respectively storytelling appropriate to the citizens' perception of the space.
The citizens of Timișoara are invited to vote for their favorite proposal by accessing a form that will be made public with the opening of the exhibition.
ï Organizer: university conf. Dr. Diana Andreescu, UVT, Faculty of Arts and Design
ï Partner: Aquatim SA
ï Estimated event duration: 60 minutes
June 3, 2022, 08.00-20.00 - All green – ALL THE PREMISES OF THE WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA
A day for everyone to wear green to show their support for sustainability.
ï Organizer: lect. university dr. Iris MIHAI, UVT, Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences ï Estimated event duration: 12 hours
June 3, 2022, 14.00 p.m - The Impact of Automatic Deployment of Software on Climate Change – UVT URBAN GARDEN
The increased market demand exacerbated by the Covid19 pandemic determined the application service providers to invest in platforms that allow software to be deployed and run on the Cloud, eg Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud. Although the use of Cloud already reduces the carbon footprint compared to local servers, manual deployment of software could lead to the use of extraneous resources. To tackle this issue, automatic deployment is proposed. This is a non-trivial task due to the complexity of the software and to the various Cloud offers. We formalize it as a constrained optimization problem and use mathematical methods (computational logic, graph theory, symmetry breaking) to solve it efficiently.
ï Organizer: university conf. Dr. Mădălina ERAțCU, UVT, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
ï Estimated event duration: 30-60 minutes
June 4, 2022, 16.00 p.m - UVT Urban Garden from present to future – UVT URBAN GARDEN
The interventions will be structured as follows:
- The story of the place - a psychological perception of the UVT community on the space that became the Urban Garden - Alin Semenescu;
- The becoming of the place - a landscape perception of the space - Raluca Rusu & Alexandru Ciobota;
- The future of the place - UVT planters auction - Patricia Albulescu,
ï Organizer: university conf. Dr. Irina MACSINGA, UVT, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology
ï Partners: Landscape Studio, THERAPY
ï Estimated event duration: 30-60 minutes
June 4, 2022, 19.00 p.m - The song of nature – UVT URBAN GARDEN
The song of nature is a concert that I propose out of the desire to bring the young audience closer to classical music through nature – the inexhaustible source for inspiration in art. I propose that the event take place in the UVT Garden, with an interdisciplinary approach combining music, painting and poetry. Pupils and students interested in the event can register to present their own creation, to give life to a musical work through their own interpretation and to give color to nature through their own creativity. I believe that it is important to develop key skills for promoting the values of local, regional, national and European culture/education through instructive - educational and extracurricular practices like the proposed event. Also, in addition to art connections, students and people need to develop attitudes of good citizens and adopt a behavior of respect and care for nature and health, for cultural expression in the city/community/surroundings in which we live. Participants are stimulated to become creators of positive social attitudes, which combat indifference and negligence towards the consequences of environmental destruction through human activity.
I want this event to bring together students from general culture schools, students from vocational schools, with students who are already following the path of art and who can become models for the younger ones. This inexhaustible transfer can be achieved in nature, the place of beautiful encounters.
ï Organizer: Daniel Milencovici, UVT, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, dom. Psychology
ï Partners: The Institute for Formation of Generations through Education, Culture and Art, National Chamber Choir Madrigal, Cantus Mundi National Program, Cărturești Bookstore Timișoara
ï Estimated event duration: 60-90 minutes
June 5 2022 - MountainBACH – concert of music by Bach – POIANA ŞERONI FROM THE TARCU MOUNTAINS
It won't be an outing on a mountain bike tour, but it will be about listening to Bach's music in a unique setting. We propose a combination of mountain hiking with musical art by presenting a concert with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in Poiana Șeroni in the Tarcu Mountains. The joy of spending time in nature will be amplified by the pleasure of listening to Bach's music in the natural amphitheater formed in Poiana Șeroni.
Students will be picked up in front of the FMT headquarters on June 5 at 09:30. At 11:30 we will arrive in Saua Jigoriei, from where we will continue the route on foot, towards the Cuntu Meteorological Station, stopping after approx. 50 minutes in Poiana Şeroni. The concert will start at 13 p.m., presenting works for flute and solo violin, alternatively. The duration of the concert will be approximately one hour. At 14 p.m. we will continue the route to Meteo Cuntu Hut, arriving around 15 p.m. After a short break, we will return to Saua Jigoriei, from where the students will be taken back to the UVT headquarters.
Students will participate:
- from the class conf. univ. Dr. Cristina Mălăncioiu violinists Andrea Petran, Anamaria Joldea, Damaris Prisăcariu, Luiza Prisăcariu, Debora Andronesi, Eunice Bahnaru
- from cda class. dr. Matei Ioachimescu flutists Alexandra Mahu and Dumitru Palagniuc.
On the one hand, we hope that those students who do not have the culture of walking on the mountain will develop a healthier lifestyle, on the other hand, we hope that the audience that will participate in this event will return to the concert hall more often.
If the weather is bad, the event will be postponed.
Locations on Google Maps: Saua Jigoriei, Vârful Șeroni, Cuntu Meteorological Station
ï Organizer: university conf. Dr. Gabriel Mălăncioiu, UVT, Faculty of Music and Theatre
ï Partners: university conf. Dr. Cristina Mălăncioiu, cda. Dr. Matei Ioachimescu, UVT, Faculty of Music and Theatre
ï Estimated event duration: 12 hours
June 5, 2022, 12.00 p.m - Let's talk about (eat) it at picnic! – UVT URBAN GARDEN
A debate on food waste and why we as a species do it. A free picnic discussion where participants bring food from home and share a moment of connection with those around them. Transversal themes: circular economy in the agri-food sector
ï Organizer: Corina-Ștefania Verdea, Center SupportTM, UVT
ï Partners: Andreea Bălășan – UVT General Administrative Directorate, Alexandra Petcu – UVT Technological Transfer and Innovation Center
ï Estimated event duration: 60-90 minutes
