University News
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Historical Content Creator on TikTok Kristina Petrauskė: Education is More Important Than Profession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.
