VMU priority research and arts fields
Scientific research at VMU is carried out in five science areas (Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Technological Sciences and Agricultural Sciences) and Arts regarding the prioritized research and arts fields approved by the Senate.
1. Social transformations: individual, group and society
- Psychosocial Functioning of an Individual and Psychological Possibilities of its Improvement in Organisations and Institutions of Education and Health (Research Cluster)
- Centre for Demographic Research (Research Cluster)
- Citizenship and Identity in Modern Society (Research Cluster)
- Research on the Impact of Globalisation on the Law (Research Cluster)
- Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute
- Constitutionalism Centre at the Faculty of Law
2. Cultural diversity: language, heritage, and art
- Research on Lithuanian Art and Cultural Heritage: Identities, Memories, Policies (Research Cluster)
- Connections between Texts of Literature and Culture Processes (Research Cluster)
- Research on Intercultural Art Exchange in Eastern and Central Europe: Global Contexts and Local Practices (Research Clusters)
- Research of Lithuanian Military History and Heritage (Research Cluster)
- Ancient and Medieval Studies (Research Cluster)
- Research on Plurilingual Competence Development (Research Cluster)
- Research on Multiculturalism and Language Change in the Context of Globalization (Research Cluster)
- Applied Research on Intercultural Communication and Translation Problems (Research Cluster)
- Linguistic and Cultural Contacts of Lithuanian National Minorities (Research Cluster)
- Research on Practical Philosophy (Research Cluster)
- Research in French Philosophy (Research Cluster)
- Research on Religion and Culture (Research Cluster)
- Nation and Tradition in the Modern World: Ethnological Studies (Research Cluster)
- Research on Migration and the Diaspora (Research Cluster)
- The Church’s Relations with the Government and Society in Lithuania (Research Cluster)
- Research on Human Relationships in Bioethics (Research Cluster)
- Research on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania State and Society Development
- Interdisciplinary Research on Lithuanian Cities (Research Cluster)
- Nations, States and Memories in the Former Lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia (Research Cluster)
- Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute
- Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research
3. Educational and social innovations
4. Sustainable organisational systems, governance, and communication
- Research on Marketing Management in Contemporary Environment (Research Cluster)
- Research and Experiments of Socio-economic, Political and Financial Stability, and Smart Growth (Research Cluster)
- Managerial Transformations for Socially Cohesive Society and Development of a Competitive State (Research Cluster)
- European Public Sphere: Politics, Communication, Discourse (Research Cluster)
- Processes of International Relations and Security: Lithuania in Global Arena (Research Cluster)
- Citizenship and Identity in Modern Society (Research Cluster)
- Inter-disciplinary Area Studies (Research Cluster)
- Department of Applied Economics, Finance and Accounting
- Department of Business and Rural Development Management
- Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute
5. Smart technologies
- Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization Systems (Research Cluster)
- Security, Reliability and Risk Analysis Methods (Research Cluster)
- Smart Technologies and Materials in Applied Physics (Research Cluster)
- Research in Lifelong Learning (Research Cluster)
- Department of Forest Sciences
- Department of Agricultural Engineering and Safety
- Research Institute of Natural and Technological Sciences
- Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research
- Bioeconomy Research Institute
6. Biotechnologies and health technologies
- Biophysics for Bio-nanotechnology and Biomedicine (BIOMEDTECH) (Research Cluster)
- Development of Instrumental Analysis Methods and their Application to Molecular Analysis of Biological Objects, Synthetic Products and the Environment (Research Cluster)
- Molecular Bioenergetics (Research Cluster)
- Research on Delivery of Medicine and Genes (Research Cluster)
- Effect of Anthropogenic Environmental Changes and the Climate to Alive Organisms (Research Cluster)
- Application of Innovation Technologies to the Research on Health Risks Raised by Climate Change and Environmental Pollution (KLIGEN) (Research Cluster)
- Alternative Energy (Research Cluster)
- Research Institute of Natural and Technological Sciences
- Bioeconomy Research Institute
7. Bioeconomy and biosystems engineering
- Department of Applied Economics, Finance and Accounting
- Department of Business and Rural Development Management
- Department of Mechanical, Energy and Biotechnology Engineering
- Department of Water Engineering
- Department of Land Use Planning and Geomatics
- Department of Agricultural Engineering and Safety
- Department of Agroecosystems and Soil Sciences
- Department of Environment and Ecology
- Bioeconomy Research Institute
8. Sustainability of agro-, forest and aquatic ecosystems, climate change
- Department of Plant Biology and Food Sciences
- Department of Agroecosystems and Soil Sciences
- Department of Forest Sciences
- Department of Environment and Ecology
- Department of Water Engineering
- Department of Land Use Planning and Geomatics
- Department of Mechanical, Energy and Biotechnology Engineering
- Department of Agricultural Engineering and Safety
- Bioeconomy Research Institute
