Transcript Student’s View of Bologna Process

Student’s Expectations from
Bologna Process
STEPS by EUPEN Group 5
Liviu BÎLTEANU
IAPS President Elect
Outline
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What is IAPS ?
 What is ICPS ?
 IAPS gives feed-back: Physics Students’
Expectation from Bologna Process
 Joint Efforst
 IAPS and EUPEN
What is IAPS ?
International Association for Physics Students
www.iaps.info
•1986/88 – Birth of IAPS in Hungary: Run entirely by Physics
Students
• National Committees, Local Committees, Individual
members
•Europe, North America, Africa, Australia
IAPS Aims
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To encourage Physics stdents in their academic
and professional work in an international context.
 To promote peaceful relations among physics
students arround the world.
 To introduce Physics Students to the international
community, help them to build professional
relations and foster a collaborative attitude among
young physicists arround the world.
Members
Austria (TU Graz)
Macedonia
Australia (Univ. Melbourne)
Netherlands (Univ. Groningen)
Croatia (Univ. Zagreb)
Nigeria (Univ. Illorin)
Dennmark (Univ. S. Dennmark)
Norway (Univ. Oslo)
Finland (Univ. Helsinki)
Poland (Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Torun)
Georgia (Univ. Tbilisi)
Portugal (Univ. Coimbra)
Germany (Univ. Siegen)
Romania (Bucharest, Craiova, Cluj)
Ghana
Serbia (Univ. Novi Sad)
Greece (TU Athens)
Turkey (Middle East TU)
Hungary (Univ. Budapest)
UK&Rep. Ireland (Nexux-UCL)
Italy (Univ. Pisa)
United States (Society of Physics Students)
Lithuania (Univ. Vilnius)
Projected Members
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France
 Estonia
 Russia
 Ukraine
 Belgium
IAPS Executive Committee
1. Executive President: Ozana Celan (CROATIA – Univ. of Zagreb)
2. Secretary: Adlan Cehobanovic (CROATIA – Univ. of Zagreb)
3. Treasurer: Marko Banusic (CROATIA – Univ. of Zagreb)
4. Webmaster: Vedran Derek (CROATIA – Univ. of Zagreb)
5. Past President: Davide Venturelli (ITALY – ENS Lyon)
6. President Elect: Liviu Bîlteanu (ROMANIA – Université Paris XI)
7. Dir. of Development: Tugba Bolat (Turkey – Middle East Techn. Univ.)
8. Dir. of Communication: Laura Pickard (UK – Univ. of Bristol)
9. Dir. of Activity: David Visontai (HUNGARY – Univ. Eotvos Lorand)
10. jIAPS Editor: Cary Pint (USA – University of Northern Iowa)
What is ICPS?
International Conference for Physics Students
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mid-August and lasts one week
 Fee =130 € including accomodation, meals,
conference materials, excursion.
 Attended by 300 – 400 students (graduates
and undergraduates).
 21st Edition of ICPS, Bucharest, Romania
(14th – 20th August).
ICPS Activities
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Students’ lectures lasting 20 – 25 minutes;
Poster sessions;
Guest lectures;
Excursions to places of scientific, cultural or historical
interest;
City Tour
IAPS General Meeting and Weokshops
Football Tournament
Parties: Welcome, Farewell, Costume and National Party
IAPS and EU
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IAPS is funded (sometimes),, by EU
 IAPS is supported by EPS
 IAPS has a level and a potential of
representativity in Europe
 IAPS is an interface between Academic
Stuff, Central Administration and Students
Statistics
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289 participants (350 students participated to
ICPS) + ICPS Organising Committee (18)
 Participating Countries: Austria (22), Croatia
(50), Denmark (5), Estonia (4), Finland (18,
France (2), Germany (5), Greece (11)
) Hungary (4), Ireland (4), Italy (24), Lithuania
(21), Norway (13), Poland (19), Portugal
(10), Romania (18), Russia (3), Serbia (24),
Turkey (14), Ukraine (7), UK (7)
Main problems when students start
University Studies
1. different approach in Mathematics teaching.
2. different application of Math knowledge in Physics.
3. new approach about Physics teaching.
4. the distant attitude of some of the academic stuff.
5. difficulties in scheduling
the needed speed of learning.
Joint Efforts
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Pilot Forum in Romania – premise for
simiar events in Europe.
Bologna Process Information
Students’ View about Bologna Process
Spreading Questionnaire of the Group 5 to
our IAPS - LC/NC
More feed-back i.e. PhD Programs
Stopping flow to other parts of the world
EUPEN and IAPS
(Conclusion)
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Helping IAPS to get in touch with Physics
Students from the EUPEN Members
Department
 Advising IAPS in the relation with
European Comissio
 Collaborating with IAPS for better
communication with students