Program concept

The ISWinT 2008 project is wanted to be not only an event that takes place in a well defined period of time, but a change in what concerns the actions developed by the initiative student organizations.
Within the framework of multiculturality and the free dialog between the young, we suggest tackling present themes that increase the involvement of youth in their home community and ashore an international dissemination of information achieved and shared during the festival.
We want to put forward the person’s vocation through the angle of choosing a professional path, choice that doesn’t need to be influenced only by the multitude of information received via a virtual way or only by the existing educational system.
The virtual education based on the use of the computer and the WWW facilitates a better perception on information. Concomitantly, due to this technology the interhuman contact is lost resulting in a degraded integration of the person in the society. The festival proposes to moderate the access to virtual information through establishing equilibrium between the classical means and the new technologies.
In the present context of globalization the risk of losing the identity is evolving. We propose the facility and encouragement of activities that have as a goal the development of a personal value system based on the capitalization of vocations.
From the concept point of view, the International Students Week in Timisoara Festival frames in the youth dedicated activities category – students or fresh graduates of some learning institutions.
Being young we are drawn to develop activities in a constant changing society. The technological evolution and the cultural diversity are the two coordinates that we need to look-out for when we decide to follow out vocation or to get our calling according to the actual demands.
The two directions that we follow are: on one side, the acknowledgement and to draw the attention of students on some actuality problems, on the other side, the informing of the main personalities capable to give solutions in these matters: spokesmen of the private and academic environment, leaders of the youth organizations.
Taking into consideration the proportion this event will take, the theme of present interest – Revolution – real vocation meets virtual education – as well as the ingenious way to approach it within the workshops, conferences and debates, being aware of the need of evolution/progress, instigation to change and the courage to put into practice ideas at first sight unrealizable are inherent consequences of this project are. Therefore, those who will have benefits from this multicultural week will be a large section of the population of Timisoara.
Concomitantly we have to take into consideration the indirect benefits that will come out after the ending of this event. Involving in the same time the academic and the private medium, the communication between students and teachers and the spokesmen of the public and private domain will be facilitated. They will become aware of needs and will search for solutions for the safety of those which they are preparing for there future occupation, future employees – the students of today.
Also, by involving the students’ organizations and the cultural centers we will facilitate the access of students to information and we will lead towards new directions on cultural and youth level.
We predict that through this project we will succeed in actively involving the main structures of decision in student life and we will convince a large number of students that evolution and change are not only necessary but accomplishable in the simple context of initiative.
The theme of ISWinT 2008 is: “Revolution: real vocation meets virtual education”. Starting from the fact that we live in a world dominated by technology, through activities related to this theme we would like to combine classic with modern and bring together talent, aptitudes, accessibility and speed of communication. With this purpose workshops on different themes and conferences will take place during the festival and activities where participants will try to interact also know better Timisoara and its culture