International activities

The FA is co-organizer of “INTERARCH” – Triennial of Architecture – a prestigious forum in the world architectural society, dated by 1981. This event gives an opportunity of architectures, designers, theoretical specialists and students from all over the world to exchange ideas with leading representatives of the architectural profession.

Guests of the Faculty have been worldwide known architectures such as: Masimiliano Fukas, Daniel Libeskind, Patrick Schumacher, Kionori Kikutake, Fumihiko Maki, Toio Ito, Alvaro Siza, Yuhani Palazmaa, Manfredi Nikoleti, Richard England, Dominique Pero, Mario Bota, etc.

Guest lecturers from Tokyo, Gent, Rome, Florence, London, Seoul, Gdansk, Malta, Vienna etc. have taken lectures at the Faculty.

Membership in international organisations:

-AESOP – Association of European Schools of Planning;

-ATLAS – Association for Tourism and Leisure Education;

-EAAE – European Association for Architectural Education;

-EAIE – European Association for International Education;

-ICOMOS – International Council on Monuments and Sites;

-SPA-CE.NET – Network of Spatial Research and Planning in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe;

-LE:NOTRE – Linking Landscape Education, Research and Innovative Practice;

-CIB / W 66 – Industrial Buildings and Environment.

Participation in international projects

The FA actively participates in numerous international projects in collaboration with more than 100 universities from 30 countries, under the following programmes:

-TEMPUS

-PHARE

-ERASMUS-MUNSUS

-SOCRATES

-ERASMUS+

-INTERREG

-CEEPUS

-JESSICA

Faculty of Geodesy

General description

The degree programme of Geodesy is the successor of one of the first two degree programmes (Construction Engineering and Land Surveying), launched in 1942 with the foundation of the first higher technical school in Bulgaria. The Faculty of Geodesy was established as a separate unit in the structure of the school in 1951/1952 with two programmes: Land Surveying and Land Management. Later, the degree programme of Land Surveying was renamed Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography. In 1992 these two programmes merged into Geodesy. The training in the Faculty is performed in two models–full-time and part-time education. The length of the full-time study is 10 semesters, while the part - time study is 11 semesters. The last semester is being used for development and presentation of diploma project. The part - time education follows the same academic curriculum. The academic hours are 50% of those for the full - time education. The duration of the part - time course is 10 academic and 1 diploma semesters.

About 80 to 100 full - time students (20 part - time students from them) are enrolled annually. The total staff of the Faculty’s is 59, of them 49 are academic staff. Professors and as sociated professors represent 45 % of the academic staff. Only they read the lectures while the seminars and laboratory exercises are conducted by the whole academic staff, including part - time specialists with rich practical experience. In 2007 – 2008 academic year the Faculty of Geodesy is launching a new degree programme “Land and Real Estate Management and Planning” at Bachelor’s level. Education is full - time, with duration of 8 semesters, the last 8 weeks of the eight semester being devoted to diploma project development

Contemporary tools, apparatuses and computers are available in the Faculty’s subject-oriented and computer laboratories. Conducting field training after the summer examination session is a specific feature of the training in the Faculty. Field training lasts for 2 – 4 weeks and is carried out in the university’s training centres – near the village of Verinsko (40 km south of Sofia), and in the Rila Mountain (the resort of Semkovo). A considerable part of the seminars in Surveying, Geodesy and Photogrammetry are carried out in field conditions in order for students to acquire skills and knowledge about modern technologies in the most appropriate way. Students of the Faculty participate in the annual international meetings organised by the International Association of Students of Geodesy in Europe.

Graduates of the Degree Programme of Geodesy obtain diplomas for completed higher education at Master’s level and the qualification “Engineer-surveyor”. The acquired qualification allows them to carry out a wide scope of activities in geodetic, construction and transportation companies, design bureaus, research units and institutes, in the Cadastre Agency and its regional units, technical bureaus at the municipal councils, secondary and higher schools, etc. Geodesy is a wide-profile degree programme, allowing surveyors to perform a rich set of activities – composition of large-scale and small - scale topographic maps, cadastral maps, grading plans, plats of consolidation, space development plans, anti - erosion projects for agricultural land, land and property valuation, seismic and landslide processes studying, etc.

Graduates of Planning and Land and Real Estate Management and Planning will perform activities related to:

–Development of planning schemes and plans of agricultural, protected and damaged territories;

–Development of projects for sustainable land management;

–Assessment of real estates in case of transformation, acquisition, administration and change of use;

–Valuation of real estates in case of compulsory expropriation, mortgage, granting credits, insurance, concession, legal proceedings, procedures and transactions;

–Assessment and reassessment of fixed assets, according to the accounting standards as well as for bank guaranties;

–Development of investment and ecological projects;

–Real estate management;

–Expert and consulting activities in administration, acquisition and maintenance of real estates.

Graduates may make their way up in: executive bodies of the state and municipal administration; ministries and other state organizations; judicial bodies and notary offices; bank and tax administration; companies developing projects in planning and management of lands and properties; real estate agents, design and consultancy bureaus.

Many engineers – alumni of the Faculty of Geodesy have a successful professional career abroad – in different countries of Middle East, Africa, Europe, in Cuba, Argentina, Russia, etc. They enjoy a high esteem around the world for their theoretical knowledge and professional qualification.

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