International Summer School

Selection of Students

“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu implements the Erasmus+ intensive programme SavingHearts: Innovative Methods in Cardiovascular Disease Treatment.

The project is implemented between 01.09.2014 – 30.08.2017 and the partner institutions are Lund University, Sweden, Western Vascular Institute, Ireland, Polisano Hospital, Romania.

Within the project, the summer school Saving Hearts will be organized between 20^th -31^st July 2015 in Sibiu and students from all the three universities will participate. The number of students which every university will select is as follows: LBUS – 15 students, and Lund University- 5 students.

The process of selection will be organized respecting the principles of transparency, the equality in terms of opportunities of access and avoiding the conflict of interests (in establishing the commission for selection and in granting).

Each university will organize the process of selection of students at the university level, giving all the necessary information about the number of available places, date and place of the selection, list of documents that participants must submit before the selection, eligibility criteria and selection criteria in a transparent way, preferably by posting all the information on a notice board.

After the process of selection, the list of selected students and the waiting list will be posted in descending order according to the score obtained by every student. The deadline until which the contestations can be submitted, the period and the manner of solution will be also made public.

The students selected by Lund University will have the transport covered and they will receive a daily grant of 55 Euros for housing and subsistence costs; for LBUS students this grant is not allocated. After taking part in the project’s activities the students will be awarded with 4 ECTS.

Level of students and selection process

The present Intensive programme/Summer School is addressed to Medicine Bachelor level students, enrolled in the 5^th and 6^th year of study.

Location of implementation: Lucian Blaga Univeristy of Sibiu, Romania

Participating students will be required basis knowledge of general medicine and some particular knowledge in the field of cardiology and medical imaging.

The student application file will consist of:

• Student application form
• Motivation letter
• CV
• Student certificate issued by home university, to show the study level/year of study
• Transcript of records

ECTS-award

The participants at the summer school will be awarded 4 ECTS which will be recognized for their respective study. The amount of ECTS to be awarded has been calculated by the consortium based on the workload proposed for the summer school.