Research News

Prof. Robert van Voren. Questionable Decisions

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The COVID-19 pandemic has found the world completely unprepared, in spite of multiple warnings. It has given huge possibilities to authoritarian regimes and rulers who exploited the panic to introduce supervisory or restrictive measures that will be hard to undo. In my view, a key mistake in many if not most countries is the fact that advisory bodies did not include psychologists or psychiatrists.

VMU Scientists Created a Tool for Predictions of Coronavirus Spread

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The number of infected people in Lithuania could exceed 3,000, while the spread of the virus will only be contained if quarantine restrictions are not significantly loosened for at least two more months. This is indicated by a new interactive mathematical model: a tool which can be used to conduct analysis and make decisions related to COVID-19. The model was created by researchers from Vytautas Magnus University (VMU): Prof. Juozas Augutis from the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, who is also the university’s rector, and PhD student Justinas Dainauskas from the Dept. of Applied Informatics.

Prof. Alpo Russi. About Recognition of Independence of Baltic States

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I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the victims of January events. Their courage paved the way for independence and freedom. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were the last to enter the Soviet Union as union republics and the first to leave in 1991.

Prof. Alpo Russi. On Recognition of Independence of the Baltic States

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I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the victims of January events. Their courage paved the way for independence and freedom. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were the last to enter the Soviet Union as union republics and the first to leave in 1991.

Cluster Combines Technologies with Management, Law and Other Fields

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Vytautas Magnus University, CEE Attorneys, DevSlate Group, Digital Solutions, S-PRO and SEC Consult have signed an agreement to create the BCCS (Blockchain, Cyber Security and Compliance Solutions) Cluster.

Conference to Discuss the Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies

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Vytautas Magnus University in collaboration with the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania will hold the international scientific conference "Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies".