Professional Development Activities for VMU Staff in May
VMU Professional Competence Development Centre team invites you to actively participate in professional development activities organised in May for academic and non-academic staff and students. Training topics range from English language training and research data management to business idea generation workshop and home exercise. We also encourage the University community to participate in international “Transform4Europe” trainings (in English), which will offer the opportunity to learn more about creating podcasts, delivering lectures to multilingual student groups, promoting the well-being and inclusion of students with disabilities in the university environment, and intercultural communication.
If you are interested in attending, please register for the trainings you wish to attend. Links to the webinars will be sent 2 days before the trainings.
Writing an Abstract (B2).
May 3rd, at 1–5 p.m. MS Teams. Registration
VDU UKI English language lecturer Žieda Tamašauskaitė.
Seminar is for both academic and non-academic staff and doctoral students.
“Transform4Europe“ seminar “Podcasting as a teaching tool – how to prepare and create an interesting podcast“.
May 4th, at 2–4 p.m. CET. (3–5 p.m. EET) MS Teams. Registration
Lecturer Stuart Garlick (Estonian Academy of Arts).
Seminar is for both academic and non-academic VMU staff.
“Transform4Europe“ seminar “Getting through the Culture Maze“.
May 10th 9.30–11:45 a.m. CET. (10:30–12:45 a.m. EET) MS Teams. Registration
Lecturer doc. dr. Nikolina Tsvetkova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”).
Seminar is for both academic and non-academic VMU staff.
“Transform4Europe“ seminar “Teaching of multilingual groups“.
May 17th 4–6 p.m. CET. (5–7 p.m. EET) MS Teams. Registration
Lecturer dr. Barbara Morcinek-Abramczyk (University of Silesia in Katowice).
Seminar is for academic VMU staff.
„Transform4Europe“ seminar „The well-being and inclusion of students with disabilities in university settings“.
May 18th 11 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CET. (12–1 p.m. EET) MS Teams. Registration
Lecturer prof. dr. Elena Bortolotti and lecturer dr. Barbara Bocchi (The University of Trieste).
“Transform4Europe“ seminar “Informal language learning formats: what, why and how?“.
May 25th 1–3 p.m. CET. (2–4 p.m. EET) MS Teams. Registration
Lecturer – director of VMU Institute of Foreign Languages and English language lecturer Teresė Ringailienė (Vytautas Magnus University).
“Transform4Europe“ seminar “Launching knowledge-based companies. Main issues, concerns, and some tips“.
May 29th 11 a.m.–1 p.m. CET. (12–12 p.m.EET) MS Teams. Registration
Lecturer Loren Moreno Monteagudo (University of Alicante).
Seminar is for both academic and non-academic VMU staff.
Personal Development
We invite you to study individually in other learning platforms:
“Coursera“ – both academic and non-academic VMU staff and doctoral students are invited to register for free for “Coursera“ learning platform until May 2nd. Registration
“Udemy“ – one of the most popular online learning platforms with more than 50 million students and more than 150 000 courses. Registration
On May 1st – June 13th VMU scientists, research managers and librarians are invited to take part in international “Elsevier“ trainings online. Registration
