Research and Innovation Department

E-mail darbuotojai.mid@vdu.lt
Research and Innovation Department is a non-academic VMU unit, which seeks for the highest quality in research and artistic production created at VMU, administers and organises doctoral (PhD) studies, seeks to maintain active relations with various international and national research networks, unites researchers in research priority groups, ensures the spread of information about the results of the University’s scientific or artistic activities and achievements by scientists and researchers, introduces the latest innovations to the lecturers and researchers, and pursues other strategic goals in research development.

Director Dr. Darius Milčius
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 219, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – organising and coordinating the work of the Research and Innovation Department.

Head of Research and Arts Unit Dr. Karolina Gugytė
Phone +370 37 325 457, +370 662 11035
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 219, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – organising and coordinating the work of the Research and Arts Unit.

Chief Specialist Assoc. prof. Remigijus Žalkauskas
Phone +370 37 788 147
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 202, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – consulting on the annual evaluation of research and arts activities and on comparative expert assessment of R&D.

Chief Specialist Laura Stankevičienė
Phone +370 37 327 946; +370 611 46396
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 202/203, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – organising and administering various competitions funded by VMU Research Foundation, administering the scientific and artistic production of VMU researchers and teachers, handling documents for the granting of pedagogical and Professor Emeritus titles, preparing information for sending documents to research and other organisations.

Chief Specialist Viktar Khilman
Phone +370 37 327 946
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 202/203, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – coordinating research clusters, systematising and submitting data for international rankings.

Chief Specialist Assoc. prof. Raimundas Žaltauskas
Phone +370 85 27 34 244
Address T. Ševčenkos str. 31, room 223, 03111 Vilnius
Area of responsibility – consulting researchers and teachers of the VMU Education Academy on scientific and artistic activities, scientific and artistic productions, scientific journals and other issues, coordinating research clusters at the VMU Education Academy, analysing the results of the University’s scientific production, coordinating research events at the Academy.

Head of Doctoral School Dr. Viktorija Kavaliauskaitė-Vilkinienė
Phone +370 620 64637
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 202/203, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – organising and coordinating the work of the Doctoral School.

Chief Specialist Rasa Andrišiūnaitė
Phone +370 37 209 815, +370 619 21615
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 203, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
>Area of responsibility – organising and coordinating doctoral studies, administering admission procedures, administering doctoral committee’s documents, providing assistance and information to enrolled and prospective doctoral students, managing doctoral student’s files, creating and registering certificates.

Chief Specialist Dr. Rasa Kimbirauskienė
Phone +370 37 209 815, +370 620 30067
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 203, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
>Area of responsibility – handling the documentation of doctoral students’ and other files, administering the defence of doctoral dissertations, mediating in the preparation of doctoral students’ applications for scholarships from the Research Council of Lithuania, preparing doctoral students’ documents for archiving.

Chief Specialist Monika Brimaitė-Kemėšė
Phone +370 37 752 254, +370 672 63856
Address Universiteto str. 8A, room 203, 53341 Akademija, Kauno raj.
Area of responsibility – organising and coordinating the work of VMU Agriculture Academy.