Dezvoltarea unor competențe profesionale și transversale pentru studenții de la fizică, prin intermediul proiectelor de voluntariat

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of involving Physics students in the organization and development of volunteer projects that contribute to the development of some professional and transversal skills that formal education cannot provide. From the employers’ perspective, are highly valued at graduates’ skills as team work, communication at all levels and in all environments, critical thinking, project management, environmental education, entrepreneurship, lifelong learning and embracing innovation and technology as a life style. From the community’s point of view, it is expected for graduates to think rather for the benefit of the community than from individual perspective, adaptability to the current technological challenges and crises generated by an environment in a continuous changing. Also, a short description of the activities organized in the framework of some projects that bring added-value to the formal education will be made.