Students Expectations from Bologna Process

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Students Expectations from Bologna Process

• STEPS by EUPEN Group 5

Liviu BÎLTEANU IAPS President Elect
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Outline

• What is IAPS ?
• What is ICPS ?
• IAPS gives feed-back Physics Students
  Expectation from Bologna Process
• Joint Efforst
• IAPS and EUPEN

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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

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IAPS Aims

• 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.

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Members
Macedonia Netherlands (Univ. Groningen) Nigeria
(Univ. Illorin) Norway (Univ. Oslo) Poland
(Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Torun) Portugal (Univ.
Coimbra) Romania (Bucharest, Craiova,
Cluj) Serbia (Univ. Novi Sad) Turkey (Middle East
TU) UKRep. Ireland (Nexux-UCL) United States
(Society of Physics Students)
Austria (TU Graz) Australia (Univ.
Melbourne) Croatia (Univ. Zagreb) Dennmark
(Univ. S. Dennmark) Finland (Univ.
Helsinki) Georgia (Univ. Tbilisi) Germany (Univ.
Siegen) Ghana Greece (TU Athens) Hungary (Univ.
Budapest) Italy (Univ. Pisa) Lithuania (Univ.
Vilnius)
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Projected Members

• France
• Estonia
• Russia
• Ukraine
• Belgium

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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)
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What is ICPS?
International Conference for Physics Students

• 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).

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ICPS Activities

• 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

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IAPS and EU

• 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

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Statistics

• 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)

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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.
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Joint Efforts

• 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

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EUPEN and IAPS
(Conclusion)

• 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