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Learning All Things Lithuanian at VMU: Available Online this Summer
Summer schools around the world have been facing similar challenges this year: adapt or get cancelled until better times. Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), which has been hosting Lithuanian Language and Culture Studies for foreigners for 19 years, intensive Lithuanian studies for Lithuanian teachers from Lithuanian schools abroad for three years and other summer courses in its Baltic Summer University, has also faced many challenges and cancellation of the contact courses. But when life gives lemons to VMU, it... goes online! Course organisers have decided to use this time to explore the opportunities to teach Lithuanian culture and language courses online and apply the most successful practices in the future.
Students were awarded by “R1 Lietuva” nominal scholarships
Following the announcement of the opportunity to apply for scholarships, 56 student applications were received, of which 23 students met the formal requirements, and their applications were considered. Scholarships were awarded to students who met the prescribed criteria by a decision for a specially formed commission.
Work Possibilities for International Students in Lithuania
For EU citizens, the process of employment in Lithuania is quite simple. Those arriving from non-EU countries must go through certain procedures.
Catalogue of Internship and Volunteering offers
Are you looking for Internship of Volunteering opportunities? Right here in front of you is the twelfth Catalogue of Internship and Volunteering Offers, which was issued by the Career Centre of Vytautas Magnus University. In this catalogue students will find internship and volunteering offers of enterprises, public institutions, non-governmental organizations. We are hoping that each of you will find something useful in the pages that follow!
“I hope I’ll have the chance to go back again”
Blerina Bytyqi, student of Psychology from Kosovo, shares her experience about Erasmus+ studies in Lithuania.
Information about Registration for Accommodation in the Dormitories
Students, who are currently living in the dormitories of Vytautas Magnus University located in Kaunas, Akademija (Kaunas district) or Vilnius and have concluded a fixed-term Agreements for Accommodation that are valid only until June 30th, 2020, and wishes to continue living in the dormitory, must register for further accommodation by completing this form. Registration shall be made no later than by June 14th, 2020. Students who are not currently living in one of the dormitories of VMU dormitory, but are interested in living in it during the summer period (from July 1st until July 31st, with a possibility of extension until August 15th , 2020) must also register by completing the same form of application.
Mind the Gap: Not Social But Physical Distancing
An international initiative seeks to change the term "social distancing" to a more appropriate one: “physical distancing”. The campaign’s authors, Human Rights in Mental Health-FGIP and VMU, have also prepared COVID-19-related recommendations for closed institutions and initiated a fundraiser for protective gear.
Scholarship Competition for Most Active Students of VMU
Since 2016, Vytautas Magnus University in cooperation with „R1 Lietuva“ (former UAB „Intermedix Lietuva“) has established seven one-time scholarships of 200 EUR which are awarded for full-time, final-year students of VMU Bachelor, Master or integrated studies. Scholarships are offered for students with higher academic achievements (total grades average, except for final semester, must be 9,000 or higher) with a priority for students with higher grades average and strong involvement in social and public activities within the university and outside of it.
Prof. Robert van Voren. Getting Ready for the Next One
It might seem premature to start a discussion about future pandemics, but in fact it is already overdue. Three months into the lock-down which has gripped the majority of people on the planet and has already had unprecedented effects on the global community, we can already see where many things have gone wrong and how at least some of the consequences could have been averted.
“I cannot even imagine better experience”
Lukas Aleksa, student of Informatics at VMU, shares his experience about Erasmus+ studies in Croatia, University of Split.
