Contact: Stelian Baraitareanu, doruvet@gmail.com
The University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (USAMV) is the oldest (160 years), biggest and most appreciated agronomic university from Romania. The Mission of the university is to develop a modern higher education for quality and performance in scientific research, training specialists with highly qualified and relevant skills, in key areas: “Agronomic and Forestry Sciences”, “Natural Sciences”, “Engineering Sciences” and “Veterinary Medicine”. The students follow a process of theoretical and practical training, which allows the accumulation of cognitive and functional skills and transversal competences. The University has research centres and numerous laboratories specialized, which can provide the logistics for experiments both in laboratory and experimental fields or farms. USAMV Bucharest has made impressive progress in involving teaching and research staff, both in development of research projects and coordination of its own projects or co-partners in a wide diversity of national, international and bilateral research and development – innovation or training education programs.
USAMV is involved in all work packages, supporting the lead partners in summarising, sharing and presenting existing best practice and research findings, producing best practice guides, practice abstracts, and the application of research findings to reduce antibiotic resistance.