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“Autojuta” CEO Rasa Sinkevičienė: A True Career Is Doing What You Enjoy

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“Business isn’t a competition where the outcome is clear-cut: you either win or lose. You either perform well, change, and adapt to the market, or… you don’t. There are no winners or losers – only those who manage to keep moving forward,” says Rasa Sinkevičienė, an alumna of VMU and CEO of “Autojuta”, a company specialising in the sale and service of new and used cars.

International Mobility Opportunities for VMU Students: Studies and Traineeships Abroad

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VMU International Cooperation Department invites all VMU students to take the opportunity and apply for studies or a traineeship abroad.

University Fee Reduction Competition Open for Applications

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VMU has launched an open competition for university fee reductions for spring semester of the academic year 2026. The purpose of the competition is to achieve the mission of socially responsible university by reducing social exclusion, creating appropriate financial conditions for VMU students to be accommodated and (or) study (taking into account different social (material) situations, study results and (or) accommodation in the dormitory) and increasing engagement in the activities implemented by the University community, encouraging the choice to study at the University, promoting the pursuit of the highest academic achievements and active participation in the University activities. 

The 51st KBS Symposium Will Be Held at VMU

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The Call for Abstracts for the 2026 KBS Symposium is now open. The 2026 meeting in Kaunas, Lithuania, taking place from 1 to 5 June, will be a wonderful opportunity for our community to come together, share new insights, and reconnect. We warmly invite all colleagues engaged in alcohol research to take part in the 51st Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society.

A call for early-career researchers: “My First Research Team”

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Vytautas Magnus University announces a call “My First Research Team” which is addressed to 9 early‑career researchers - Principal investigators (PI). The announced call creates conditions for nine researchers to establish their first independent research groups and implement independent research projects.

Entrepreneur Gediminas Kvietkauskas: “You Won’t Find Me Where There Are Boundaries”

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“It’s very sad to see businesses that lack creativity. These are often large, overgrown organisations run by technocrats with no wings, no drive,” says entrepreneur Gediminas Kvietkauskas, who ranks among the 500 wealthiest Lithuanians. A philologist by vocation and an engineer by education, he sees business as a creative project, because where there is no creativity, there is no freedom to advance.

Studies Abroad: An Adventure and One of the Best Decisions You’ll Ever Make

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“Doing a semester abroad was one of the best decisions I have made”, says Magdalena Heeg, a student from Germany who spent a semester studying at the Faculty of Informatics of VMU in Kaunas as a participant of Erasmus study exchange.

Call for Participants: T4EU Week in Portugal

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The Transform4Europe Alliance (T4EU) invites students of VMU to participate in the events of the T4EU Week in Lisbon, Portugal in May. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for selected students. Online registration is open until 16 February.

Free Screening of Following the Jäger Report

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The Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development and Jewish Heritage Lithuania warmly invite you to a free screening of the documentary Following the Jäger Report, followed by a discussion.

Student Registration into Study Subjects for Spring Semester

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The first stage of the spring semester 2025/2026 registration for lectures, seminars and laboratory works is on 26-30 January.