On January 14, 2022, the Conference Center of Politehnica University Timișoara hosted a reunion of Timișoara University Alliance (ATU), an organization that established its relevance through pragmatism, concrete actions, work directions and its members.
The acting president of the alliance, assoc. prof. dr. eng. Florin Drăgan, the rector of Politehnica University Timișoara, spoke in the opening of the event about the necessity of organizing such events involving the four large universities in Timișoara - Victor Babeș Medicine and Pharmacy University in Timișoara, Politehnica University Timișoara, West University Timișoara, Banat Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Mihai I of Romania” in Timișoara - because since its inception, ATU had taken on the challenges of identifying, supporting and implementing large-scale, educational, scientific research and community projects with applications and changes for the public life of Timișoara, Timiș county and Banat as a region.
The main topic of the Friday session was increasing the appeal of Timișoara as a university city, the management of the four universities having the opportunity to debate the following subjects:
Joint teams were formed for each of the four major directions of the alliance, the first steps to be taken and the calendar of future activities were defined and the conclusions were presented in a plenary session.
Some of the activities decided by the teams formed by the representatives of the member universities are:
At the end of the session, the rectors of the four universities, prof. dr. Octavian Marius Crețu, Ph.D., assoc. prof. dr. eng. Florin Drăgan, Ph.D., prof. dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea and prof. dr. eng. Alin Cosmin Popescu, Ph.D., presented the conclusions of the event and underlined the importance of the collective impact of the four higher education institutions in Timișoara and the need for a joint development strategy, increasing the number of student positions in the city, continuing working in teams, supporting entrepreneurship.