University of Bucharest

IRO co-ordinates the internationalisation process within the UB. It suprevises all the in-coming and out-going academic and research exchanges developed by the University of Bucharest.

In this context, its main responsabilities are monitoring and counselling the international independent undergraduate and postgraduate students, the foreign guest lecturers, the Romanian UB students and teaching staff who wish to study abroad. IRO promotes the scholarships on higher education offered by the Romanian Government and organises the Doctor Honoris Causa awarding ceremonies. It also organises the UB summer school, at Sinaia.

UB has 18 student accommodation buildings with the capacity to host over 5,300 students and 2 cafeterias. Our University has numerous libraries which harbour thousands of books and volumes. Students have the possibly to benefit from state-of-the-art laboratories.

The “Carol I” Central University Library of Bucharest features a complex organisational structure. It includes the Central Unit, the “I.C. Petrescu” Pedagogical Department and 16 other branches of libraries (to be found within the University of Bucharest).

Nowadays, the Internet has become one of the main communication and information facility of the modern world. The number of Internet users grows constantly. In Romania there are several companies that provide services of this kind. The easiest way to rapidly access the web is used in the Internet-cafes in every town of the country.