Mission
UBT offers a dynamic and innovative 21 century academic environment. UBT provides a supportive and challenging opportunity for the students, faculty and staff in participatory and self-governance setting.
Building on a tradition of teamwork between Students, faculty, staff and administrators, UBT is committed to enhance its participation as an active member of community by providing learning opportunities driven by teaching and research excellence, intellectual interaction and creativity.
UBT is a preeminent center of intellectual and cultural activity in Kosovo, improving the region’s quality of life through the skills, knowledge, experience and engagement of its faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Vision
The UBT will be a modern and leading higher education institution in Kosovo, committed to apply excellence in teaching, learning and research within an inclusive student-centered environment through applying a multi-disciplinary approach that will contribute to the economic, social and cultural development of Kosovo and beyond
There are certain core values at UBT
- Sought after place to study and work
- Dynamic environment that promotes personal and professional development
- Reference point that disseminates international best practices and quality standards
- Centre that rewards excellence in learning, teaching, research and innovation
- Actions driven by the agreed benefits of all our stakeholders and community
Our Strategic Goals
- Transdisciplinary = Cross Disciplines and Internationalization
- Leadership and Innovation
- Resilience, Sustainable Development, Small Scale Ecosystem
- Achieving Academic, Business and Governance Excellence
- Maintaining and increasing Internationalization and regional partnerships
- Creating Positive Living, Working and Learning Environment
- Partnership with the Community – Co-Creator
- Research based Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility
UBT measures society results in three different perspectives: its contribution to the industry and community, its contribution to higher education and its contribution to national goals. UBT contribution to the industry and community is based on its wide geographical scope and services that it provides. In delivering the mission statement for the benefit of students and all other stakeholders, the institution has identified several strategic objectives through which planning for future activities in established.
These objectives are:
1. Achieving Academic Excellence – The institution aspires excellent quality standards and consistent active learning approaches which offer authentic experiences and an inspiring, values-based learning environment to a diversity.
2. Developing Research, Innovation and Social Responsibility – Offer innovative ways for learners, spin-in and spin-out companies as well as external clients to engage with enterprise supports and applied research, thus creating new knowledge and new employment.
3. Creating a Positive Working and Learning Environment – Creating a Positive Working and Learning Environment aims to offer a high-quality and supportive working and learning environment for all types of students (full-time, part-time, priority groups) and staff.
4. Maintaining and increasing internationalization and regional partnerships – Maintaining and increasing internationalization and regional partnerships; Formation of the new local and international higher education alliances and continued excellent performance against international and regional efficiency and effectiveness benchmarks.
5. Partnering with the community – Partnering with the community will continue to forge strong links with industry and wider society, which will be supported through mainstream funding, alternative income streams and volunteering arrangements in order to provide service to industry and the community at institutional, staff and student level.
Moreover, the institution has a Risk Assessment and Management Policy to regularly assess both internal and external risks and propose the mitigating measures and structures. The institutional risk assessment procedure is performed and reviewed annually. The Annual Risk Report and Review serve to dynamically model and simulate the effect of each risk so that the risk owners can produce mitigating actions. A full Risk Management Action Plan is produced annually and distributed to risk owners in the organization.
On the other hand, the UBT Scorecard tracks the results that the organization has achieved in key outputs which contribute to the overall outcome of contributing to the society where the institution operates. It has since tracked its key results in four essential dimensions: (1) Customer results – which includes the number of students, their satisfaction and their performance in the labor market, (2) Financial results – tracks organization’ funding for the strategy, (3) internal business – tracks the number of products and services (academic programmes, research activity and training) and (4) Learning and growth – the number, quality and satisfaction of staff members with the organization.