Research News
“The Vital Nature Sign” Dedicated to Lithuanian University Centennial
16th International Scientific Conference "The Vital Nature Sign" was organized online on May 12-13, 2022, by Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and Nordic Separation Science Society. The Conference is organized annually and provides an opportunity to present the most recent scientific results to colleagues and guests of the Conference for no conference fee.
Online Course on Novel Optimization Methods in Economy
You are welcome to attend the course „Introduction to Novel Optimization Methods in Economics“, which will be held online on 23-27 May, 2022.
Summer School: Researching Migration and Religious Diversity
This COREnet training school aims to provide early career researchers (PhDs, postdocs and researchers up to 40 years old) with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of migration and religious diversity field and highlight research and practice-based knowledge from international trainers in order to present best practice to international trainees and to increase the knowledge in the field as well as to learn how to apply it in preparation of practice-oriented research.
Bad news for hateful commentators
In April 2021, a virtual patrol was launched on Lithuanian Facebook - a great and undoubtedly necessary initiative to control the violations taking place on the platform. From the beginning of the patrol to November, over 2,700 reports of misconduct were received. Such a number would probably not surprise anyone who spends at least a few hours a day scrolling on Facebook. It is an open secret that we can easily notice at least one such violator ourselves.
VMU – the Most International University in Lithuania
A recently published international ranking of universities in Europe and central Asia (QS EECA University Rankings) revealed that Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) was ranked 61st out of 451 higher education institutions ranked in total – VMU was included among the 13.5 percent of the best universities in the region. As in the previous year, the internationality of the university received the highest position: with regard to this indicator, VMU received the first place among all other Lithuanian universities ranked and the 43rd place in the overall ranking.
Religious Minorities in Soviet Lithuania: Secret Meetings in Forests
"As the holidays approach, many still remember the stories of people celebrating religious holidays in hiding, with their curtains closed during the Soviet times. The Soviet government's hostility to religion may be interpreted in various ways, but it is important to emphasize that it was a political regime whose hostility toward religion came primarily from the state's desire to control and subordinate all religious organizations for its own purposes, although freedom of conscience was not officially forbidden," says VMU Professor Milda Ališauskienė, who, together with her colleagues, conducted a study on religious minorities in Soviet Lithuania.
