Let’s Celebrate the Start of the New Academic Year Together!

Like every year, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) invites the entire university community – students, lecturers, and employees – to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year together. This time, the celebrations will take place on 2 September and will begin with the Freshman Pledge and welcoming speeches at 1 p.m. in the courtyard of the Historical Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania in Kaunas (Vilniaus g. 33).

The VMU community will gather in some of the most beautiful spaces of the city: following the festive meting, a massive procession will make its way from the courtyard of the Presidential Palace to the Town Hall Square of Kaunas. The crowd will be joined by the Ąžuolynas Wind Orchestra.

The festivities are dedicated to not just the new but also all other VMU students as well. The day’s events will culminate with a free concert by Linas Adomaitis in the Town Hall Square. The performance will be dedicated to the students of VMU and Kaunas as well as the city residents and guests. The concert is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Holy Mass for the academic community will be held on Monday, 2 September, 12 p.m., at the Kaunas Cathedral Basilica of Apostles St Peter and St Paul (Vilniaus g. 1).