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The Natural Sciences Subject Committee is wholeheartedly committed to the main idea of the EUF-CE project, which grounds on belief that only educated, multidimensional, curious, open-minded young people are truly able to create a better world. Moreover, to cherish that very world and enjoy living in it.

This Committee has been the integral part of the EUF-CE project from the very beginning, but with certain changes for the better enlargement wise. Initially, there were only the subgroups of Physics and Biochemistry study programmes, and then due to turning the good ear to students’ needs, the study programmes of Biology and Ecology were joined. Now, there exists a variety of possibilities to combine not only the courses and study programmes, but, to a certain extent, mix the study years and levels (meaning to allow e.g. master students to take up the courses valuable for their competences, but which are found at the bachelor levels at partner universities). The goal is to foster and support the mobility flow in every possible direction.

This is, in the first place, made possible by the very nature of the sciences existing in the Committee. Inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinarity has become a conditio sine qua non for successful understanding and utilizing sciences. Furthermore, there’s the superb cooperation among the institutional coordinators in charge of the three main study programmes within the committee. Professors - academic coordinators stand as solid bridges connecting the universities and allowing the flow. Besides the attractiveness of the idea itself, it is these people who are the motivators, the sparkle that actually lights students’ fire to decide to spend a study period abroad, which is eventually a decision made solely by an individual student.

The Natural Sciences Subject Committee comprises the network of universities committed to EUF-CE, at this very moment the most active being: University of Aveiro (Portugal), University of Novi Sad (Serbia), University of Nancy 1 - Henri Poincare (France), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Gazi University (Turkey), University of Trento (Italy). All of them are equally committed to EUF-CE milestones: adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees, adoption of a system essentially based on undergraduate and graduate cycles, recognition of ECTS system, promoting the overall mobility and free movement by finding ways to overcome the obstacles, promoting the European cooperation in quality assurance thus enhancing the European dimension in higher education.

Apart from supporting these ideals in principle, the Committee is putting a lot of strength in making things work in practice. The important step towards successful recognition of study periods spent in the EUF-CE network, happened right here in the Natural Sciences branch. Joined efforts bore their fruits and were materialized through a document which lays down the procedure, appoints the responsible coordinators, and finally recognizes and validates the work undertaken while studying abroad. A well-though out, comprehensive, clear and fair document, transparent and achievable by all. Further steps are directed towards raising this document from the faculty/departmental level onto the university level thus making it work every time, everywhere and for everyone. 

By respecting and believing in European tradition and freedom of science, the Natural Sciences Subject Committee strives to make its sciences accessible, available, applicable, transferable, and cherished in the world outside the university community. Our students are not only scientists-to-be specializing in Biology, Physics, Biochemistry… They are all-around persons, cosmopolitan individuals, well-educated, sophisticated, urbane, multilingual, multicultural, intelligent, and universally attractive. We are proud of the fact that EUF-CE moved past the 500 students milestone, and happy to be working for the future thousands of them.