This is my first experience of participating in the Academic mobility program from Erasmus +. I am very glad that the quarantine restrictions didn’t hinder the implementation of this project. As part of the program, lectures and seminars were planned for students of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, and we were able to implement it.

I thank to the Head of the department, Prof. Krzysztof Jóźwiakowski, and his entire team for their hospitable reception. We have been cooperating for more than 2 years in the format of scientific cooperation, we have joint projects and publications and the academic mobility program helped us to deepen cooperation and identify ways to develop it. Thanks to the project, I gained invaluable teaching experience to foreign students and the opportunity to disseminate the results of my own research and the research of my colleagues in the field of wastewater treatment technologies and biogas production.

We look forward to the arrival of Polish colleagues under this program to Sumy State University. I hope that we will be able to implement this successfully as well. I am very grateful to the Erasmus+ Coordinators and staff of the Academic mobility offices of both universities for great support and assistance in all organizational matters, thanks to which this trip became possible and went perfectly.

Faculty of Construction, Geodesy and Cadastre (FCGC) – Technical University of Moldova (TUM): academic mobility Staff Mobility For Teaching Assignments at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland

In 8 months, after the last visit in July 2022, Mrs. Livia NISTOR-LOPATENCO, associate professor, Ph.D. Eng., dean of the Faculty of Construction, Geodesy and Cadastre, Technical University of Moldova, returns to the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland with the greatest love to teachers, friends and colleagues, but first of all to students. She was accompanied by Mr. Vasile GRAMA, associate professor, PhD at the Faculty of Construction, Geodesy and Cadastre, Technical University of Moldova, who returned to Lublin after a distance of almost 4 years.

During the period 27 – 31 March 2023, two professors of of the Faculty of Construction, Geodesy and Cadastre, Technical University of Moldova carried out academic mobility, Staff mobility for teaching assignments, supported by the European educational program ERASMUS+, for students of the first and second cycle from the Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Faculty of Production Engineering.

The activities started at the ERASMUS+ Center of the University of Life Sciences, Lublin, Poland, our representatives being cordially welcomed by Ms. Izabela WOLSKA, international exchange coordinator, after which a week marked by educational activities followed, meetings with decision makers of the department, Faculty and University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland.

The first day in Lublin began with a series of meetings with Polish professors: with the head of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, university professor, Dr. Hab. Krzysztof JÓŹWIAKOWSKI and Patrycja POCHWATKA, PhD student (who will soon defend her PhD thesis and we wish her much success on this path) it was discussed the extension of the joint research activities, which have started since 2017, and from 2020 completing with multiple Erasmus+K1 activities, academic mobilities for students (Denis ȚIGANU, student at specialty Geodetic Engineering and Cadastre , TUM, returned on June 30, 2022 from Lublin), for teaching staff from FCGC-UTM 3 mobilities have already been carried out, and in May 2023 2 teaching staff from the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland are going on to carry out mobilities at the Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Construction, Geodesy and Cadastre.

The next two days were dedicated to lectures on the discipline “Cadastre” (course owner: associate professor, Dr. Eng. Livia NISTOR-LOPATENCO) and on the “Geoinformational Systems” discipline (course owner: associate professor, Dr. Vasile GRAMA).

Mrs. Livia NISTOR-LOPATENCO, FCGC dean, started her Cadastre course with a presentation of TUM and FCGC, the study programs within the faculty she directs, about the benefits of student participation in academic mobility, both from TUM in the EU and and vice versa. And the direct Cadastre course started with an incursion into the Automated Cadastral Informational System “LEGALCAD” from the Republic of Moldova, describing the 12 types of complex cadastral works in the Republic of Moldova, followed by a description of the implementation of the Automated Informational System “Registry of Territorial Administrative Units from Republic of Moldova”, achievements in the field of Cadastre in the Republic of Moldova, since 1991 with the approval of the first legislative document – the Land Code, approved by the Government of the Republic of Moldova, referring to the Real Estate Cadastre Law, no. 1534 from 25.02.1998 and many other legislative acts.

Associate professor, Dr. Vasile GRAMA started the Geoinformation Systems course with an introduction to spatial data infrastructure, data and information, locations and geolocations, referring to the implementation of European INSPIRE directives in the Republic of Moldova, etc.

After the 8 hours successfully completed, the two professors of FCGC-TUM continued the series of meetings with the vice-rector for research and international relations, university professor, dr. hab. Bartosz SOŁOWIEJ. Given that the two universities have a solid scientific potential in the field of Geodesy and Cadastre, it was discussed about the double degree cooperation at the master’s cycle, but also about the joint doctorate.

During the grandiose “Open Door Day” event at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland, the TUM teaching staff discussed with the Rector Professor Krzysztof KOWALCZYK and the vice-rector of human resources, Prof. Andrzej MARCZUK, about how to organize this extensive event at TUM and how some experiences can be mutually taken over by the two universities.

The representatives of FCGC-TUM also had a cordial dialogue with the vice-dean of the Faculty of Production Engineering, associate professor, dr. hab. Andrzej MAZUR, geodetic engineer as a basic training. They also responded to the invitation to visit the specialized laboratories of topographical equipment (with simple Levels, Digital Levels, GNSS Receivers, Terrestrial Laser Scanner, laser distometers, Total Stations, etc.).

The cooperation between the two universities can be considered as a model that contributes to the development of the didactic-scientific potential and capitalizing on the prestige of university studies.

At the end, the program was completed with visits and cultural activities at the Majdanek State Museum – a memorial and education center founded in the fall of 1944, on the grounds of the Nazi German death camp Majdanek, located in Lublin, Poland, where teachers of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy, Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland carried out laser scanning and three-dimensional modeling of the land with a total area of 270 hectares.

ENGINEERS CREATE THE FUTURE!!!