Research News

Prof. Birutė Galdikas’ Visit at VMU Has Been Cancelled
Professor Birutė Galdikas' scheduled teaching visit at Vytautas Magnus University has been cancelled due to serious health issues.

VMU Researchers on March 11th, the Signatories‘ Jokes, and the Singing Revolution
“In my closest circle of acquaintances, a simple, clear-cut belief was prevalent: what’s most important is to declare the restoration of the independent Republic of Lithuania. After that, as God wills. Maybe we would succeed, or maybe we would all be interned like the heads of the Solidarity movement were after Wojciech Jaruzelski’s coup. Or perhaps we would be deported to Siberia or simply shot. What mattered was to do everything in our power to give Lithuania a chance to become not just a free but also a democratic state”, recalls Rimvydas Valatka, a signatory of the Act of Independence, journalist, and professor at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), reflecting on the mood of March 1990.

VMU Researchers Share Insights about Geopolitics on T4EU Podcast
VMU researchers are participating in Reach Out, a podcast launched by the Transform4Europe Alliance and dedicated to insights about the future of the world. You are welcome to listen to the latest episode "The New World Order? America, Europe, China".

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.

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.

T4EU Online Course on Matlab and Data Analysis for PhD Students
The European university alliance Transform4Europe and Saarland University invite PhD students to register for the online course Matlab and Data Analysis, which will be held on Microsoft Teams on the 25th and 27th of March and on the 1st and 3rd of April at 3–7 p.m. (Lithuania time). Online registration of participants is open until 28 February.