News for Students
VMU Invites Students to a Meeting With Prof. Birutė Galdikas
Birutė Marija Galdikas, a world-renowned anthropologist, conservationist, and the world's foremost orangutan researcher of Lithuanian parentage, will be visiting Lithuania. She is a specialist in modern primatology, nature conservation, and ethology, and the author of books on endangered orangutan species.
VMU Athletes Won 45 medals at the SELL Games in Tartu
The 38th SELL Student Games took place in Tartu, Estonia, on 19-21 May, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the SELL Student Games in 1923. The 38th edition of the Games was attended by almost 1,000 students from Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Turkey. The Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) delegation consisted of 69 athletes, who brought back to Kaunas a rich baggage of awards, winning 45 medals in ten different sports.
Scholarships Awarded to Students for Academic or Artistic Achievements
For the first time this year, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) announced a competition for scholarships for scientific or artistic achievements for VMU students, which aims to encourage students to pursue scientific or artistic activities.
Day of Georgia at Vytautas Magnus University
On 26 May, Georgia celebrates its Independence Day. In order to commemorate this day, the Institute of Foreign Languages of Vytautas Magnus University and the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy are inviting you to the meeting with the Ambassador of Georgia in Lithuania, Salome Shapakidze, on 22 May.
Young People from Ukraine and Lithuania will Unite for a Discussion
On 23 May, at 3 p.m., schoolchildren and VMU students from Lithuania and Ukraine will gather at the Small Hall of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU). Together with VMU professors Gintautas Mažeikis and Andžej Pukšto, young people will participate in the discussion “Europe and Ukraine – Today and Tomorrow” and launch the “Think Tank” tradition at the University, which originates from the Centre of Ukraine in Vilnius.
Open Competition for Nominal Scholarship of V. and S. Čepukėnas
The Kazickas Family Foundation, Neila Baumilienė, graduate of Vytautas Magnus University, the daughters, Milda and Rasa Čepukėnas, have established a Scholarship in memory of Drs. V. and S. Čepukėnas. Its purpose is to nurture the French language and Francophone culture, enabling the most active students to get to know and study it more deeply, and to foster and spread it in the society.
