FACULTY OF SCIENCES

1. Student Exchange Program section

International cooperation is evolving mainly through programs such as SOCRATES and ERASMUS. These programs facilitate student and instructor contact and mobility in the EU framework. Foreign Student assignments (in the area of their study) are common at the FBS.

2. Science and research section

Among the most important contacts are:

• Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise, Arlon, Belgie (Cooperative study regarding the cleaning of water using vegetation , mutual visits, joint data taking, joint project development)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Botany, Madison, Wisc., USA. (Cooperative Ecological Research)
• Österreich. Akad. d. Wiss., Limnologisches Institut, Mondsee (instruction in UNESCO courses),
• University of Essen, Germany (cooperation at the doctorate level, ethology of mammals)
• Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ( Co-Principal Investigator on a project "Host specificity and diversity of herbivorous insects in Papua New Guinea", financed by two National Science Foundation grants (DEB-96-28840, DEB-97-07928, Principal Investigator Scott E. Miller)
• University of Wurzburg (prof. Klaus Scheller, consultant at VR 96153)
• University of California, Irvine (prof. P.J. Bryant, dtto)
• Harvard Medical School, Boston (prof. S. Reppert, dtto)
• University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (bionomics of aphids, prof. A.F.G. Dixon)
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherches de Rennes, B.P.29 - Domaine de la Motte, 35653 Le Rheu cedex (dtto, Dr. M. Plantegenest)
• Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (regular study-visit of French students at BF JU, prof. R. Arditi)
• Department of Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Utrecht University, Sorbonnelaan 16, NL-3816 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands (bionomics of terrestrial orchids, prof. J.H. Willems)
• Netherlands Institute of Ecology, P.O. Box, POB 40, 6666 ZG Heteren, The Netherlands, (plant ecology, Wim van der Putten)
• Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (dtto, Dr. Katarina Hedlund)
• CAB-International, Silwood Park, United Kingdom (dtto, prof. Valery K. Brown)
• Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France (dtto, Dr. Jacques Roy)
• Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia, Salamanca, Spain (dtto, Dr. Claudino Rodrigues-Barrueco)
• Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia, CNR, Verbania-Pallanza (the mutual exchange of researchers and cooperation on EC – MOLAR project, specialization: the flow of carbon in lakes and reservoirs, microbial loop in mountain lakes and reservoirs )
• Centre for Biometry Wageningen, CPRO-DLO, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands (multivariate statistical analysis and   multivariate data visualization)
• Botanical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (multivariate statistical analysis, modelling species responses to   climatical gradients)
• Universität Bayreuth, Lehrstuhl Tierökologie I, Universitätsstrase 30 D - 95440 Bayreuth, BRD (The utilization of insect neuro-hormones in biological fight)
• Biology Department, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, England (Adipokinetic Neuropeptides in Pyrrhocoris apterus) Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry, Jena, BRD
• Universität Innsbruck, Dept. Zoology and Limnology, Austria
• University of Barcelona, Dept. of Ecology, Spain (the study of longitudinal gradients if biological parameters in reservoirs)
• CNRS ESA 7076, Station Zoologique, B. P. 28, F-06230 Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France
• Zentrum für Angewandte Genetik, Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien
• University of Missouri, Department of Rural Sociology (Comparative Analysis of Knowledge Systems Affecting Rural Landscape in the Czech Republic and U.S.Midwest)
• Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth SY23 3AL, United Kingdom (Developping and Promoting Integrated Tourism in the Lagging Region of the European Union)
• University Sao Paulo a University Minas Gerais, Brazílie (project participation, regular cycles of lectures for PhD students, joint publications, joint workshop preparations)
• Department of Environmental Chemistry, Farmaceutical University Copenhagen (joint publications)
• University of Georgia, Athens, USA (joint publications)
• Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus (joint publications and coordination of curriculums )
• University of Barcelona, Spain (joint publications and coordination of curriculums)
• Jinan University v Guanzhou, China (joint publications and coordination of joint projects)
• Limnologische Bureau Hohn, BRD· Dublin City University, UK
• Institut für Festkorper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden (diagnostic PA CVD processes)
• Dept. Plant & Animal Sci., Univ. Sheffield, U.K. (dr. Steve Rolfe, the study of mechanisms of resistance to pathogens in plants )
• Institut für molekulare Biotechnologie, Jena, BRD (the development of hybridization methods as applied in DNA microchips)
• Abt. Allgemeine Zoologie, FB 9- Biologie, Universität - GH Essen, D-45117 Essen, Germany ( the biology of sub-terrestrial mammals)
• cooperation on joint project CLUE - Changing Land Usage Enhancement of biodiversity and ecosystem development).
• Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (ETH), CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland (cooperation in the research of pathogen influence in Calystegia sepium)
• Sheffield Centre for Arctic Ecology, Dept of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, 26 Taptonville Road, Sheffield S10 5BR, United Kingdom a Department of Ecology, Plant Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, S-223 62   Lund, Sweden (joint research in the modeling of clonic plants)
• Department of Botany, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm (joint research modeling the population dynamics of Trientalis europaea)
• Systematisch-Geobotanisches Institut, Universitat Gottingen, Untere Karspule 2, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany (Himalayan flora research)
• Department of Systematic Botany, Östra Vallgatan 18-20, S-223 61 Lund, Sweden Bot. trädgarden, Östra Vallgatan 20, 223 61 Lund, Sweden (research of genetic variability of Glechoma hederacea)
• Dept.of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK (Ancient landscape reconstruction in North Bohemia project)
• National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan (Microbial primary succession on newly deglaciated landscape, Ny-Alesund Spitsbergen)
• Dept. Biochemistry; Center for Insect Science; Undergraduate Biology Research Program, University of Arizona, Tucson   AZ, USA (BRAVO - educational grant N.I.H-Fogarty Foundation, MIRT T37TW00036-01)
• University of Glasgow, UK (cooperative research regarding the tsetse fly vector characteristics)
• Cryosphere Science Research Section, the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (Prof. Toshihiko HARA, the study of mountain forests of the temperate zone and boreal forests)
• Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi Research Station, Rovaniemi and Vantaa Research Centre, Vantaa, Finland (Dr. Timo PENTTILA, the study of long range dynamics of boreal forests in the area of the Finnish Lapland)

All of the contacts mentioned above have been involved with FBS in are dealing with long term cooperation and in majority of the cases joint publications in reputable periodicals have been made, and further cooperation in the future is very probable