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The period 2000-at present is characterized by the diversification of the faculty activity by organizing new specializations, as well as by implementing the provisions of the Bologna Declaration.

This period represents the time for the diversification of the students’ academic preparation within the Faculty of Animal Husbandry of Bucharest by introducing new specializations. Thus, besides the specialization Animal Husbandry, in 2000 the functioning of the specialization “Animal Products Technology” is authorized, accredited in 2005 under the name of Agricultural Products Processing Technology. In 2003, another specialization was authorized to function “Pisciculture, Aquaculture and Fish Processing” accredited under the name of Pisciculture and Aquaculture. In 2006, the specialization Cynegetics was accredited, and in 2017 the specialization Consumer and Environmental Protection was authorized.

In addition, during this time the Faculty of Animal Husbandry started implementing the action lines of the Bologna Process, respectively organizing the education process by adapting it to the new requirements of the market economy, to the political, economic, and social changes that have taken place in the economy in general and in agriculture in particular.

In 2017, the Faculty of Animal Husbandry changes its name into the Faculty of Animal Production Engineering and Management.

During the university year 2000 – 2001, as a result of the implementation of the Bologna Process decisions, the Advanced Studies were replaced with “Master courses”, considered the second cycle of academic preparation. Master courses have, depending on the specialization, a duration of 1.5 – 2 university years (three or four semesters), respectively 90 or 120 ECTS. The duration of each semester is set for 14 weeks of courses and practical activities. The number of weekly hours is also 14, the activities taking place on two days, as a general rule on Saturday and Sunday. The Master courses started in 2000 with one single specialization entitled “Durable Systems in Animal Production” with a duration of 4 semesters.

Starting the university year 2007 – 2008 two more specializations were authorized, namely: “Designing and Developing Animal Farms” and “Special Technologies in the Food Industry”, both with a duration of 3 semesters. During the university year 2011 – 2012, the academic preparation for the specialization “Durable Systems in Animal Production” comes to an end. The same year, the specialization “Biosecurity of Food Products” was authorized with a duration of 4 semesters, the last semester being dedicated to the internship and the scientific research activities. During the university year 2015-2016, the specialization “Designing and Developing Animal Farms” is replaced with the specialization “Entrepreneurship in Animal Production”. In 2018-2019, the English taught specialization “Food Safety and Biosecurity” was set up. These Master courses have only been organized in the full-time system.

Founded in 1948, during its over 60 years of activity, the faculty has trained over 5,000 animal husbandry engineers who, through their activity, both at the level of animal farm management, as well as in the domain of scientific research have continually contributed to the economic and social development of the country.

Deeply rooted in the realities of each completed stage, the faculty has put to the foreground of its activity the principle of quality, setting new requirements and standards to the process of education, therefore, today, the Faculty of Animal Production Engineering and Management is both nationally and internationally recognized, possesses a rich intellectual potential and a good infrastructure dedicated to the teaching activity, scientific research and providing social conditions.

The Faculty of Animal Production Engineering and Management within the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest has in view the following missions and objectives:

• training specialists with higher academic preparation in the Bachelor studies domains: Animal Husbandry (study programs: “Animal Husbandry”, “Pisciculture and Aquaculture”), Food Products Engineering (study programs: “Agricultural Products Processing Technology” and “Consumer and Environmental Protection”);
• higher qualification of specialists by means of Master and PhD studies;
• lifelong learning in view of covering the demand for specialists in the animal husbandry and food industry;
• developing and updating the faculty and the existing specializations; setting up new Bachelor and Master studies programs consistent with the European structures;
• increasing the compatibility of the faculty for the integration of the animal husbandry and food industry higher education into the European structures;
• improving the organization framework of studying by means of the educational programs (structuring the contents of the study programs into modules and evaluating them in terms of ECTS), teaching methods, evaluation criteria;
• correlating the structure of the study programs with the dynamics of the activities the faculty graduates will be engaged in, in order to facilitate the rapid adaptation to the conditions of their future jobs;
• promoting the activities of fundamental and applied scientific research, in laboratories, research centres and in the specialized departments of the faculty in accordance with the strategy and priorities defined at local, regional, national and European level;
• editing some publications through which the academic community to be correctly informed regarding the capacity and performance to use them (books, text books, scientific journals, admission guides, catalogues, reports, balance sheets);
• extending the relations of national and international cooperation in the domain of higher education, as well as in the domain of university scientific research;
• maintaining and expanding the scientific, cultural and educational reputation of the faculty.

The higher education system provided by the Faculty of Animal Production Engineering and Management is organized into the three cycles of university studies, namely:

During its existence, the Faculty of Animal Sciences has experienced a series of reorganizations and, consequently, we can highlight the following periods of time:

During 1948 – 1952: The Faculty of Animal Sciences functioned as an independent unit within the Institute of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. According to the Decree-Law no 175 on “Education Reform”, published on August 3^rd, 1948,  passed by the Romanian Great National Assembly, the Institute of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, was established and had three faculties: the Faculty of Animal Sciences, established pursuant to this decree, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (that had been established in the interwar period) transferred from the University of Bucharest and the newly established Faculty of Fishery, located in Constanta.  

According to the approval of the Romanian Ministry of Education, the Faculty of Animal Sciences began its activity in the academic year 1948/1949 with the first two years of studies. An admission exam was organized for the first year of study, while students passing their first year in other faculties all around Romania were enrolled in the second year of study.

In the first half of November 1948 a higher education institution specialized in Animal Sciences in Romania organized the first admission exam. The Faculty of Animal Sciences’ task was to train specialists with higher education specialized in livestock rearing,  breeding, and exploiting, the graduates being awarded, after passing their graduation exam, the ”Animal Scientist Engineer” title.

The duration of studies for the students admitted in the academic year 1948/1949 (both Ist year and IInd year students) was 3 years (6 semesters). The duration of studies was extended to 3,5 years  (7 semesters) for the students admitted in 1949/1950 and 1950/1951, and further extended to 4 years (8 semesters) for those admitted in 1951/1952 (the last semester was dedicated to internship training).

During 1948-1952 the Faculty of Animal Sciences, Bucharest, provided only full-time courses. During this period of time 623 students were admitted (63 directly in the second year of study) and 127 graduated. The Animal Sciences higher education is by its nature closely intertwined with practical training that might be achieved only in production units. Consequently, from the very beginning much of time for study was dedicated to practical training, i.e. the number of hours dedicated to seminars and practical training was approximatively the same as the number of lectures. Annual internships were also organized in farms and production units under the supervision of the academic staff.

During 1952-1957, the Faculty of Animal Sciences operated as an independent unit within the “Nicolae Balcescu” Agronomic Institute. In the autumn of 1952, the first reformation of the higher education institutions established pursuant to the Decree-Law no 175/1948 took place. According to this reorganization, the Institute of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine merged with the Agronomic Institute (established according to the same decree) in a single higher agricultural education institution: the “Nicolae Balcescu” Agronomic Institute. The Faculties of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine were included in this new institute, while the Faculty of Fishery was affiliated to the Institute of Shipbuilding and Fishery of Galați.

As an independent faculty within the “Nicolae Balcescu” Agronomic Institute, the Faculty of Animal Sciences functioned for 5 academic years with both full-time courses and with distance-learning courses. The latter were established in the academic year 1952/1953 (duration of studies - 5 years) for the high school graduates working in animal production units.

During 1952-1957, 1430 students were admitted to the undergraduate programs, 566 at full-time courses and 864 at distance learning; 389 full-time students graduated being awarded the “Animal Scientist Engineer” title, 310 of these had been admitted in the previous period and 79 in the current period.

1957-1962 – After the reorganization of the “Nicolae Balcescu” Agronomic Institute, the Faculty of Animal Sciences merged with the Faculty of Agronomy, the two faculties functioning as independent departments within the “Faculty of Agriculture and Animal Sciences”. Starting with the academic year 1957/1958 the duration of studies was 5 years (10 semesters).

During 1957-1962, 511 students were admitted to the Animal Sciences Department: 355 full-time students and 156 distance learning students. In this period of time 400 students graduated being awarded the ”Animal Scientist Engineer” Diploma (400 from the full-time courses and 115 from distance learning).

During 1962-1968, the Animal Sciences Department of the “Faculty of Agriculture and Animal Sciences” was dissolved because the specialization “Animal Sciences” was removed from the classification list of the Romanian higher education system.

The dissolution of the Animal Sciences Department in 1962 was performed without prior grounded analysis of the activity of 3,000 specialists in Animal Sciences trained between 1948-1962 in the three Romanian Academic Faculties who contributed to the development of the Animal Husbandry domain, both in the state agricultural and in the co-operative units, and also the need for specialized staff in this field.

In this period of time, there were several events that influenced the further evolution of the Animal Sciences higher education in Romania. As expected, pros and cons opinions regarding the independence of the Animal Sciences higher education were brought forward in the printed press (Vasile Gheţie, Eugeniu Paştea, Drăgănescu Condrea etc.) or during scientific symposia.

În 1963, FAO organized in Rome the first world conference on animal production. During debates the issue of trainees in Animal Sciences was dealt with. As a result, it was decided that FAO should organize two conferences on higher education specialized in Animal Sciences: the former – regarding the Veterinary Medicine higher education and the latter – on Animal Sciences. The conference on Veterinary Medicine took place in Copenhagen, in 1965, while the conference on Animal Sciences was hosted in Göttingen, (the former Federal Republic of Germany), in July, 1966. Representatives from 27 countries and observers from 10 countries gathered together in this conference. Debates on the FAO Experts’ Report and on the issues presented by delegates from participating countries revealed the necessity of ensuring an independent higher education training for the Animal Sciences field.

In April 1968 the situation of the Romanian educational system (for all levels) was analysed (the educational system was organized according to the Decree-Law no 175/1948) and it was appreciated that “pursuant to analyses and debates of the latest years, a suitable structure of the Romanian Agronomic higher education was reached; and yet it is necessary the improvement of the content of students’ training. For the completion of the specialization in the field, the Animal Sciences department shall be founded, duration of studies – 5 year”.

During 1968-2000, pursuant the re-listation of the specialization, the Faculty of Animal Sciences was re-established and functioned as an independent unit within “Nicolae Bălcescu” Agronomic Institute, re-organized in 1994 as the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest.

As a result, in 1968 Law no 11 (Law on Education) was adopted and replaced Decree-Law no 175/1948, which became void.

In the classification list as made by the Romanian Ministry of Education, according to the provisions of art. 127, Law 11, the Animal Sciences academic education in Bucharest 53 was also mentioned, within the Agricultural higher education; consequently the Faculty of Animal Sciences was re-established in all three universities functioning until 1962; also the Faculty of Animal Sciences was founded in Cluj-Napoca.

The re-establishment of Animal Sciences faculties was imposed also due to the fact that the specialization, concentration, modernization and diversification of agricultural production and particularly of animal production required also a ber qualification as specialists in Animal Sciences.

During this period of time, the Faculty of Animal Sciences, Bucharest, functioned as an independent educational institution, but for three academic years (1986/1987, 1987/1988 and 1988/1989) when the faculty operated jointly with the Veterinary Medicine Faculty, under the name: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, with two independent departments – according to the two united faculties.

During the academic year 1994-1995, graduates from the Faculty of Animal Sciences could top up their studies after graduation, for one academic year, in the following fields: Genetics and Animal Breeding, Biotechniques and Reproductive Biotechnologies, Animal Nutrition; Milk Production, Industrialization and Marketing; Meat Production, Industrialization and Marketing.

Each year such trainings were organized for two or even three areas from the five above-mentioned. These advanced study programs were organized until the academic year 2000/2001, when Master studies replaced the previous forms of study.

Each training domain had a study program based on subjects with 5-7 topics of advanced studies.

As happened before in the specialization courses, teaching activities were performed by the academic staff of the Faculty and, occasionally, by scientific researchers (I-st and II-nd degree) of the research institutions and units of the Romanian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences.

Dean
Prof. univ. dr. Gheorghe Emil MĂRGINEAN

Vice-Dean

Vice-Dean Conf. univ. dr. Monica Paula MARIN

DEPARTMENTS

Formative sciences in animal breeding and food industry Departament director Șef lucr. dr. Elena Narcisa POGURSCHI

Production and processing technologies Departament director Prof. univ. dr. Ioan CUSTURĂ

Modern languages Departament director Lect. dr. Carmen MAN

Production and processing technologies department

• Head of department: Prof. Dr. IOAN CUSTURĂ
• Prof. Dr. Livia VIDU
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgeta DINIŢĂ
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carmen Georgeta NICOLAE
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Minodora TUDORACHE
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Iulian VLAD
• Lecturer Dr. Gratziela Victoria BAHACIU
• Lecturer Dr. Daniela IANIŢCHI
• Lecturer Dr. Dana Cătălina POPA

Formative sciences in livestock and food industry department

• Head of department: Prof. Dr. Cristiana DIACONESCU
• Prof. Dr. Octavian Cornel PANĂ
• Prof. Dr. Paul Rodian TĂPĂLOAGĂ
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Monica Paula MARIN
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Răzvan Alexandru POPA
• Lecturer Dr. Iulius Sorin BĂRBUICĂ
• Lecturer Dr. Nicoleta DEFTA
• Lecturer Dr. Elena Narcisa POGURSCHI
• Lecturer Dr. Carmen MAN

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• Prof. Dr. Paul Rodian TĂPĂLOAGĂ
• Prof. Dr. Livia VIDU
• Lecturer Dr. Elena Narcisa POGURSCHI
• Student Florentina ANDREI

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