Romania's largest student dormitory inaugurated in Timisoara

Interim Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan attended the inauguration of the largest and most modern student dormitory in Romania, built by the West University of Timisoara (UVT). The building has 902 accommodation places, and the investment, worth over 40 million euros, was financed by the Ministry of Development, through the National Investment Company (CNI), and from UVT's own revenues. The new student dormitory has 415 rooms, each designed for two people and equipped with its own bathroom. The building has a surface area of over 30,000 square meters. Students have access to spaces with washing machines, dryers, reading rooms, kitchens equipped with electric hobs and dining rooms. The building also includes shared bathrooms and showers on each floor, facilities for people with disabilities, parking spaces, bicycle spaces and a running track. The dormitory was built in two years, and UVT students will be able to benefit from the new spaces starting in October.

• Investments bring better conditions for students

Ilie Bolojan compared the current conditions in student dormitories with those he benefited from when he was a student in Timişoara. "Remembering the conditions in Dormitory 15, when I was a student in Timişoara, I realize that things have evolved a lot. There were four of us in a room, the toilets and showers were at the end of the hallway, and what we have today and what is happening through the investments that are being made, both from the PNRR and from the government budgets, certainly bring much better conditions for university students in Romania," said the interim prime minister. Bolojan emphasized that investments in university infrastructure can also contribute to attracting students to institutions that maintain high standards of education. According to him, infrastructure is an important element for increasing the quality of education and preparing young people for the future.

• UVT increased its accommodation capacity

The rector of the West University of Timişoara, Marilen Pirtea, showed that the institution has made efforts to develop accommodation spaces and bring them up to Western standards. "We have perpetuated this in our other investments (...), financed from various sources. In 1990, we had 2,000 accommodation places, and now we have 5,000 places. We had multiple sources of financing, from the government, PNRR, European ones," said the UVT rector. Marilen Pirtea specified that approximately 10,000 students from other counties come to Timişoara annually, appreciating that they represent an important resource for the economic development of the city. "Investments in education are investments for the future," emphasized the UVT rector.