University Dzemal Bijedic of Mostar

Content

• Background
• Dzemal Bijedic University – ID
• Mission & Vision
• International visibility
• Services
• Mostar+
Pre-war Mostar • Unofficial Capital of Herzegovina
• Industry – 50000 employees
• Avio, textile, agriculture,
technology, powerplants
• Culture – events, theaters, ...
• Tourism – UNESCO
• Population – 126000
• First mentioned in 1452
• World renown for Otoman Haritage –
The OLD BRIDGE
Post-war Mostar

 Infrastructure rebuilding
• Reputation rebuilding

5/16/2014 BIHTEK Kick-off Meeting, Gent, Belgium

 16th Century – Higher Religious Schools

Education Informal Centre for Trade

through time
20th century – Formal Higher Education
1950 Pedagogy
1959 Mechanical Engineering
1960 Agronomy

1971 Faculties – University of Sarajevo

Economy
Law

February 24th 1975, Municipality of Mostar

THE NEED FOR REGIONAL UNIVERSITY

Formal Decision February 11th 1977

All existing Faculties, research Institutes and

Offices, Development Centers join the
University
 • Public University (1/8 in B&H, 1/6 in
Dzemal Federation of B&H)
Bijedic • Located in Mostar, University Campus
University ID • Medium Size (250 employees, 6500
students)
• 8 Faculties
– Agro-Mediterranean Faculty
– Faculty of Civil Engineering
– Faculty of Economy
– Faculty of Educational Sciences
– Faculty of Humanities
– Faculty of Information Technologies
– Faculty of Law
– Faculty of Mechanical engineering
• Student Services, Library, Institutes at
Faculties, QA, IR, DS Offices
• Classrooms, laboratories >15000 m2
BUILDING!
Mission & Vision

Vision
University Development
• Small to medium size but flexible
• Academic excellence
• International & regional recognition
• International Curricula
o New knowledge and technologies
for the future needs
o Modern education methodology
o Multidisciplinary study programs,
modern technologies, education
for international market
o International standards in
education to boost local social
development
 • Regional economy
– Power plants
Regional • Mechanical Engineering
outreach • Civil Engineering
– Agriculture
• Agro-Mediterranean faculty
• Departments for biology + chemistry

• Nation wide ICT sector

– Faculty of Information Technologies

• Regional demands
– Law
– Economy
– Education
– Languages
• Turkish language + Yunus Emre
 • EU
– IPA, Horizon, Erasmus (Tempus)
– Research, CSA, Structural Measures
International • Other
visibility – TIKA, MEVLANA
– International Cooperation Memorandums

• Networks

Bologna Process
• Quality Assurance
• University Management
• Curriculum Development

• Research
– Focused Fields of Academic Excellence
 • BSc in English
– English language end literature
– Biology
For foreign – Information technology
students • BSc – other
– German language and literature
– Turkish language and literature

• MSc in English
– English language end literature
– Biology
– Information technology

BSc + MSc partial offer

Contact: mirsada.behram@unmo.ba

PhD – Polytechnics
 Rectorate

University Library Services

Students‘ Union + BEST
info@unijamo.ba

International
Relations Office
Quality Assurance Office

www.unmo.ba
 Mostar
• The center of HNK
(Herzegovina
Neretva Canton)

• Nearest airports
• Sarajevo
130km
• Split 160km
• Dubrovnik
142km
 Rujište
•Mountain spa and
nature park
•18 km north of
Mostar
•Bosnian pine
•endemic
•very rare
•Richest
concentration of
oxygen in this part of
Europe
•1050 meters in
altitude
 Neretva River

• Rafting
• Konjic
• 70 km from Mostar
 Hutovo Blato
• Nature and bird
reserve
• Marshlands
• On the list of Birdlife
• Home to over 240
bird species
Kravice
• Waterfall on
the Trebižat
• Forty kilometres
south of Mostar
• Height up to 25 m
• Radius of the base
lake 120 m
 Blagaj
•The spring of the Buna river
•Historical tekke built around
1520
Buna
•Short river
• Strong karstic spring
• Emerging from karstic cavern
•Beneath a high vertical cliff
• Diversity of above-ground and
underground hydrography
• Example of an underground
karst river
• One of the largest and most
beautiful springs in Europe
•30 m3/s extremely cold and
clean water.
 Vjetrenica
• The largest and most important cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dinaric mountain range
• Karstic and speleological riches
Pocitelj
• Wholly
preserved
Othman
settlement
• Art colony

Stolac
• Tombstones
• Historic core
• Pre-history to
Austro-
Hungarian
Medjugorje
• Franciscan
church
• Lady of
Medjugorje

Adriatic
coast-60km

Dubrovnik
• 2 hours by car
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