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Application for Accommodation for New Incoming Students of 2020/2021
Vytautas Magnus University has opened an application for new incoming international students for accommodation in the dormitories of VMU during the academic year 2020/2021 or Autumn semester.
Rescheduled Host Meeting Dedicated to Traditional Chinese Medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting significant challenges for the world. We are reviewing developments and their impact on our event daily. The 8th Annual Meeting of Good Practice In Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Association (GP-TCM RA) is rescheduled to 2021.
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.
