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EU4Belarus: The Call for Applications for Students
The European Union under the “EU4Belarus: Solidarity with the people of Belarus” programme is launching a call for proposals for EU4Belarus – SALT (Support for Advanced Learning and Training) scholarships for Belarusian students who are already studying at universities in Lithuania, Latvia,Czechia, and Poland, as well as for those who will start their studies in the academic years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
The Majority of Courses at VMU will take place In-Person
During the autumn semester the majority of courses at Vytautas Magnus University will take place in-person.
Student Registration into Study Subjects for Autumn Semester 2021
The first stage of the autumn semester 2021/2022 registration for lectures, seminars and laboratory works will take place on 23-29 of August.
Save the Date: Transform4Europe Week
University of Silesia in Katowice, one of the Transform4Europe (T4E) alliance partners of VMU and six other European universities, invites students to attend Transform4Europe Week – a week long event which will take place in May 2022, in Poland.
Call for Startups: Accelerate Growth & Get Investment with EVOLUT 4.0
Kaunas Science and Technology Park invites startups to join the EVOLUT 4.0 pre-acceleration program and prepare to attract investment.
VMU Graduates from Ukraine Were Awarded Diplomas in Kyiv
In a ceremony at the Embassy of Lithuania in Kyiv on 6 August, diplomas were awarded to Ukrainian graduates of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) who completed their studies remotely and did not come to Kaunas to receive their diplomas.
Students Invited to Join Free Text Animation Course Online
On 11–17 August, Transform4Europe invites students from the intiative's universities to attend free text animation course online organized by the Estonian Academy of Arts. Applications are open until 1 August.
Digital Sea Conference will hold discussions about Blue Economy
The importance of the blue economy is growing in the European Union: its contribution to the national budgets is increasing, the number of jobs created is growing, and the importance of sustainable aquaculture for nature, people and their food chain is becoming increasingly clear. In addition, the blue energy from the sea represents a huge unrealised potential for energy that will in the near future attract a large amount of investment, generate significant economic returns for society, help protect the environment and strengthen energy independence. The political and business leaders will discuss effective digital solutions to enable Lithuania’s blue economy at the Digital Sea Conference on the 8th of July.
From September VMU students will receive larger scholarships
During the last meeting of VMU Senate of 2020 – 2021, which took place on June 23rd, 2021, together with the VMU Student Representative Council, a decision was made to amend and supplement the existing provisions of the VMU Scholarship Description Procedure, which in addition to procedural changes, expands the circle of first-year students who would be eligible to apply for it, and also increases the sizes of scholarships that are already awarded to students who achieve the best academic results.
Prof. Avižienis: Boeing Airplanes Crashed Due to Lack of Extra Sensors
Two new Boeing 737 MAX airplanes crashed with the loss of 346 lives because Boeing did not install a pair of redundant Angle-of-Attack (AoA) sensors in addition to the original two AoA sensors that are on both sides of the 737 MAX nose. This assertion has been presented on June 22 at DSN 2021, the 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks that is being held virtually from Taipei, Taiwan on June 21-24, 2021. The author is Algirdas Avižienis, Ph.D. (U. of Illinois, 1960), who is a Senior Researcher and Rector Emeritus at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas, Lithuania as well as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
