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Project Focuses on Students with Visual or Hearing Impairments
“Diffability” project, a collaboration between VMU and other European institutions, is one of the first to develop educational materials adapted for students with hearing and visual impairments in the fields of natural science and technology.
Scholarship Opportunity for Students Engaged in Scientific or Artistic Activities
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) announces a competition for scholarships for the scientific or artistic achievements of VMU students, which aims to encourage students to pursue scientific or artistic activities for the purpose of representing the University.
VMU Birthday Celebration Introduces Student Well-Being Program
On February 17, as students celebrated VMU's birthday, the year 2025 was declared the Year of Student Well-Being. On this occasion, a new mentorship program, “Peer-to-peer,” was officially introduced.
Historical Content Creator on TikTok Kristina Petrauskė: Education is More Important Than Profession
“It may seem that talking for a minute is no big deal, but even a narrative as short as a minute or less requires me to be familiar with several historical sources, and sometimes to conduct my own research,” says Kristina Petrauskė, who can rightly be called Lithuania’s most famous historian on TikTok.
Ukrainian Children Speak Out: Watch Video Testimonies About Russia’s War Crimes
We invite our university's community to watch direct testimonies of Ukrainian children on the plan’s YouTube channel.
Saliamonas Banaitis Scholarship Competition Announced
On the occasion of February 16th, the Restoration of the State of Lithuania, VMU announces the Saliamonas Banaitis Scholarship competition.
VMU invites to events of Mother Language Day
On 20-21 February, Vytautas Magnus University invites the community of VMU and Transform4Europe alliance to join its events dedicated to the UN-announced International Mother Language Day. The theme of the events is “My tongue is my uniqueness: dare not to disappear”. The events are dedicated to VMU's presidency of the T4EU Alliance.
“It Is Undignified for a Lithuanian Not to Commemorate Independence”: The Traditions of Celebrating February 16th in the Diaspora
“In 1924, ‘Draugas’, the oldest newspaper published outside Lithuania, issued an invitation urging the celebration of February 16th, declaring it ‘undignified for a Lithuanian not to commemorate independence.’ This date marked a turning point for the Lithuanian diaspora, symbolising pride not only in Lithuania’s ducal era but also in the nation’s liberation from Tsarist Russian oppression in 1918,” says Dr. Asta Petraitytė-Briedienė, historian and researcher at the Lithuanian Emigration Institute of Vytautas Magnus University.
Ukrainian Center to Hold International Conference Marking 3rd Year of War in Ukraine
On Friday 21 February, 12.30–5.30 p.m., international conference ‘Three Years, Countless Futures: Protecting Freedom and Ukraine’s Children’ will be held at the Ukrainian Center in the Education Academy of Vytautas Magnus University (31 T. Ševčenkos g., Vilnius) in commemoration of the third year of the war in Ukraine.
Kino Pavasaris and VMU invite to a screening of The Lovers on the Bridge
In 1995, one of Lithuania’s most significant cultural events, the Kino Pavasaris festival, was born. Its very first screening featured Leos Carax’s iconic 1991 film, The Lovers on the Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf), a poignant story set against the backdrop of a Paris under repair, where two lonely souls find each other.
