ASCIS – Association of Chemistry Students of Iași

Contact

Address: 53 Păcurari Street, Bl. 547, Entrance A, Apt. 4, 1st Floor, Iași County
Website: www.ascis.ro
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aschemiasi
Instagram: @_ascis_
E-mail: contact.ascis@gmail.com

Board of Directors

• Pădurariu Luciana-Dumitrița – President
• Munteanu Valentin – Secretary
• Coți-Chifor Larisa – Vice President of External Relations
• Spatari Bogdana – Vice President of Internal Relations
• Macoiveiciuc Maria-Parascheva – Marketing & PR Director
• Ursan Bogdan-Alexandru – Applied Chemistry Director

Overview

Involved in activities for the professional and personal development of young chemistry volunteers, ASCIS offers young people the opportunity to get involved in organizing and participating in various cultural, social, sports, and artistic events.

To the question “What does ASCIS mean to you?”, the young members answered:

“ASCIS helped me integrate more easily, get rid of inhibitions, broaden my horizons, and form interpersonal relationships”;

“You learn to work in a team, to be more responsible, you have the chance to put your ideas into practice and to know and develop your potential. Another benefit of being an ASCIS volunteer is being appreciated and receiving feedback from others”;

“For me, ASCIS means a place full of warmth, inspiration, self-rediscovery, evolution, and challenges. Whether it’s a project, an action, or a phone call to solve a problem, the team spirit I found in ASCIS gave me energy and inspired me in the desire to achieve more and better.”

This involvement in the student-university-employer assembly allows us to provide useful information to any member, student, and young chemist.

The purpose of ASCIS is to create an organized framework that brings together students and graduates of Romanian higher education institutions in the field of chemistry.

Objectives

• Organizing projects and activities that contribute to achieving the Association’s purpose;
• Representing the association’s members before higher education authorities and state administration, as well as before other national and international organizations;
• Supporting and promoting the socio-professional interests of chemistry students;
• Supporting the modernization activity of chemical education;
• Strengthening relations with academic and scientific research environments abroad;
• Propagating chemical culture among the Association’s members, promoting chemical ideas and studies with an impact on applied chemistry, including through its own publications;
• Organizing cultural, sports, and entertainment events;
• Collaborating with other associations, foundations, trade unions, employer organizations, central or local state public administration bodies, educational institutions, and other bodies to carry out activities necessary for fulfilling the Association’s main purpose;
• Facilitating international exchanges of people, knowledge, and information;
• Cooperating in international programs for student and higher education graduate exchanges from Romania;
• Facilitating access for interested parties to the information available to the Association as a result of the projects and activities carried out;
• Attracting and using, under legal conditions, funding resources and economic goods in the form of subsidies, subscriptions, donations, contributions, membership fees, sponsorships, etc., in order to achieve the Association’s purposes;
• Carrying out direct chemical activities if they have an accessory character and are closely related to the main purpose of the Association;
• Carrying out actions that lead to the creation of conditions necessary for an efficient integration into West European structures;
• Promoting the democratic spirit in the university environment, respecting and consolidating university autonomy;
• Promoting the civic spirit among youth;
• Promoting and defending human rights;
• Facilitating ASCIS members’ access to scientific, cultural, sports events, and leisure facilities;
• Organizing clubs, circles, and student and higher education graduate meetings.

Projects

• Trainings and Outdoor Activities
• We are directly interested in the personal and interpersonal evolution of young ASCIS members, as well as students from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University.
• Freshmen Party
• Starting from the motto “Be a freshman, you will become a Chemist”, we carry out this activity with the purpose of integrating young chemistry freshmen into the student environment.
• Halloween Party
• An event carried out with the same energy and dedication by ASCIS members, celebrating both the first month of the academic year and respecting American tradition.
• Miss & Mister Freshmen (Balul Bobocilor)
• Held independently or in partnership with other student associations, we aim to promote and develop young talents from the first year of undergraduate studies, offering them informational, technical, and motivational support.
• Christmas Evening
• A charity evening where a carol concert is organized by the students of the Faculty of Chemistry in order to collect donations for people in need (children in placement centers, pensioners, or people in family care centers).
• Chemistry Party
• A party organized in the desire to establish closer ties, not only between volunteers but also among young chemists, students of the Faculty of Chemistry, UAIC.
• Flashmob “Be a Chemist Too” (“Fii şi Tu Chimist”)
• An event held in Unirii Square with the purpose of promoting the “Magda Petrovanu” National Contest organized by the Faculty of Chemistry in partnership with the Association of Chemistry Students of Iași.
• Science Festival
• Collaborative activities with other student groups or associations within “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University whose objective is to promote exact sciences with practical application.
• Unifest
• A student festival held throughout Romania in major student centers such as: Iași, Timișoara, Cluj, Bucharest, Târgu Mureș, Constanța, and others, promoting MOFT activities (museums, opera, film, theater) as well as various sports, intercultural, musical, and artistic activities.
• Student Festival of Culture and Art, “Gaudeamus”
• Organized in partnership with the Student House of Culture in Iași as well as the rest of the Iași student leagues, where, for 2-3 hours, artistic moments were presented following which students could assert themselves in front of a diverse audience.
• Festudis
• A student festival aiming to involve students in sports, artistic, and socio-cultural activities.
• Gfest
• An outdoor socio-cultural-artistic festival for all age groups, implemented by the Moldavia Cultural Association and the Iași Student House of Culture in partnership with student associations.