Choosing Vytautas Magnus University was the best decision in my life
Choosing Kaunas and Vytautas Magnus University for my Erasmus destination, was the best decision in my life. I choose Kaunas with purpose; I wanted to experience life in a country that I knew only from Lithuanian basketball players from national team; because during the Eurobasket in 2013 I was their team attaché in Slovenia.
Lithuanian impressed me since my first visit. Simple people, tasty food, good basketball and nice countryside. Studying at Social Science faculty was also perfect. Teachers and staff at the faculty of social science, made me feel like I am at home. Every time I came to faculty atmosphere was so warm and teachers were always available (in personal or via e-mail) for students, if we needed something.
I would choose VMU again for my Erasmus destination without any hesitation. And I hope I will return back to Kaunas soon as possible, at least just for a visit.
Ačiu VMU!
Blanka Šiško
Slovenia
International scientific-practical conference „SEX OFFENDING BEHAVIOR: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS“
First announcement. International scientific-practical conference „SEX OFFENDING BEHAVIOR: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS“, 23rd September 2016, Kaunas, Lithuania
- What are the differences between inappropriate sexual behaviors and person labeled as a sex offender? What causes sexual offending behavior?
- Challenges in counseling clients with sex offending behaviors: ethical, moral and legal issues.
- Myths about sex offenders: why “bad guys with candies” are not the main problem? Why inappropriate sexual behavior must be noticed and addressed as early as possible? How to help kids, adolescents and adults who demonstrate inappropriate sexual behavior?
- Relation between sex offender and the victim. Do sex offenders have history of sexual victimization by themselves? Could working through victimization help clients change their inappropriate sexual behavior?
These and many other questions will be discussed in an all day event, which is dedicated to broaden the understanding of the problem of sex offending behaviors and ways to treat them.
The event is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and other specialists, who encounter kids, adolescents or adults with inappropriate sexual behavior problems in their work.
In this conference, specialists from Lithuania and other countries will share their scientific and practical work experience. Dr. David Hof and Dr. Daniel Hof from the United States of America will lead a practical seminar. They have over 40 years of combined experience working with high risk individuals and individuals with sex offending behaviors.
Organizers of the conference offer a possibility of free participation in the Conference “Sex-offending behavior: problems and solutions” for 10 university students from Lithuanian educational institutions. Application deadline: September 12, 2016. For more information please visit www.konferencija.info
Organizers: Vytautas Magnus University, General and Theoretical Psychology Departments and Psychology Clinic, PO Psichikos sveikatos institutas. This conference is made possible by funding from the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF). For more information about BAFF scholarships and speaker support, visit www.balticamericanfreedomfoundation.org.
VMU International Cooperation Department extends competition for Erasmus+ studies for the 2018/2019 Spring semester
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If you want to gain even more international study experience, improve your foreign language skills, become a VMU Ambassador and a part of even bigger international community, participate in the competition and fill in the online application form on https://goo.gl/kcTvbg-> Application form for outgoing students / Erasmus+ studies (log in with studentas.vdu.lt account) until September 30 (23:59), 2018.
Eligible applicants are full time and part time students, except 1st year bachelor’s degree students. Students with disabilities or special needs have an opportunity to receive additional funding.
The results of competition will be announced on October 5, 2018 on VMU website. Each selected student will also be informed personally by e-mail.
Additional information about Erasmus+ studies, partnerships with Higher Education Institutions in foreign countries, criteria of the selection, scholarships, contacts here.
OPPORTUNITIES: Catalogue of Internship and Volunteering offers
Are you looking for Internship or Volunteering opportunities?
Right here in front of you is the eighth Catalogue of Internship and Volunteering Offers, which was issued by the Career Centre of Vytautas Magnus university. In this catalogue students will find internship and volunteering offers of enterprises, public institutions, non-governmental organisations. We are hoping that each of you will find something useful in the pages that follow!
FOLLOW THE LINK:
Catalogue of Internship and Volunteering Offers No. 8 / June, 2018
The catalogue provides a standardised presentation of enterprise, institution or organisation which is offering internship or volunteering opportunities, indicates the name and conditions of the offered internship / volunteering position. Each publication of an offer includes information about ability to combine activities with your studies, about the period of internship / volunteering, specifies which of offered positions are adapted for students with disabilities and which activities are organised in foreign languages.
VMU Career Centre is not responsible for the content of the offers published in the Catalogue. Companies and organisations decide themselves about the conditions of internship and/or volunteering.
We hope that this catalogue will help you to find a place of internship or you will use an opportunity to test yourself in volunteering, which will be useful in finding your path to labour market!
For more information:
VMU Career Centre (Student Affairs Department)
Address: S. Daukanto str. 27, room 301, LT-44249 Kaunas
Website: www.karjera.vdu.lt/en/
Phone no: +370 37 327 983
E-mail: career@vdu.lt
Strengthening the cooperation of ENU and universities of Lithuania
April 25, 2018 ENU was visited by a delegation of Lithuanian universities, including Vytautas Magnus University, Alexander Stulginskis University and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The delegation was led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Kazakhstan Vytautas Nauduzas and Rector of Vytautas Magnus University Juozas Augutis.
In a welcome speech, Rector Erlan Sydykov spoke about the history of our university and the opportunities for strengthening relations. Vice-rector for International cooperation and innovations Baubek Somzhurek also noted the pace of cooperation development between our universities, and the special contribution of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Kazakhstan. In turn, Ambassador and rector Juozas Augutis thanked the university for the invitation and organization of the meeting and expressed the intention of further fruitful cooperation. Juozas Augutis introduced the students to the history of Lithuania, and the history of the formation and development of Vytautas Magnus University.
Visit to Lucerne Teacher Training University
On the 7th of December, the head of the Institute of Education assoc. prof. dr. Lina Kaminskienė and assoc. prof. dr. Ilona Tandzegolskienė from Institute of Education met with the prof. Kathrin Krammer, the head of Faculty of Pedagogy in Lucerne Teacher Training University (Switzerland), dr. Janine Gut, representative person at Faculty of Continuing Teacher Education, prof. Reinhard Hölzl, the head of the Teacher Training Department at the Gymnasium, Brigitte Kürstainer, the head of International Relations at the University and the coordinator Marisa Ernst, also with the other colleagues. During the visit, were discussed the possibilities of studying, as well as the research and project activities between Vytautas Magnus university and Lucerne Teacher Training University. It is planned that from the next year, after signing the cooperation agreement, students of Vytautas Magnus University will have the opportunity to go for one semester for studies in accordance with the Swiss-European Mobility Program. This program also envisages teacher co-operation and mobility.
A few notes about the Augean stables of Lithuanian politics
Several last weeks with the e-mails from Eligijus Masiulis, former Liberal Movement Party leader and who is currently under criminal investigation, a scandal of e-mails from Ms. President with a „tulip“ pseudonym, hidden political influences from the MG Baltic corporation and leaked files from the State Security Department about politico-business relations at least partially opened the curtain of the backstage „kitchen“ of Lithuanian politics. Although it was not a big surprise to the insiders of national politics that instead of kitchen of politics we might be brought suddenly to the Augean stables. And exactly this has happened. A smell and picture here are far from nice.
International conference “Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom”
On the 9th-10th of November Vytautas Magnus university together with European distance and e-learning Network (EDEN), the UNESCO Institute of Information Technologies Application in education (UNESCO IITE) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania organized an international scientific conference “Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom”. The conference seeks to bring synergies between national, regional and European initiatives and programs, professional associations and the promotion of education and business partnerships for open learning.
Competition for Erasmus+ Studies Abroad
If you want to gain even more international study experience, improve your foreign language skills, become a VMU Ambassador and a part of even bigger international community, participate in the competition and fill in the online application form until September 25, 2016.
Eligible applicants are full time and part time students, except 1st year bachelor degree student. Students with disabilities or special needs have an opportunity to receive additional funding.
The results of competition will be announced on September 30, 2016 on VMU website, VMU International Office announcement board. Each selected student will also be informed personally by e-mail.
Selection Criteria
- conformability between the plan for studies or research at the higher education institution abroad and the study programme at VMU;
- study results of the last semester;
- good knowledge of the language which will be used during the studies;
- the student’s motivation;
- student’s experience in work, studies, placement, international or academic projects and social activities in Lithuania and abroad;
- student’s ability to independently solve the arising problems.
Additional information about Erasmus+ studies, partnerships with Higher education institutions in foreign countries, criteria of the selection, scholarships and on individual consultations with International Programme’s Coordinators in faculties.
Erasmus Coordinators:
Generation and value changes in Lithuania: a few insights through the prism of European Social Survey
In recent years in Lithuanian politics, or even more broadly in the whole public sphere, it has become popular to talk about a renewal that has been almost exclusively related to some younger people coming to various public positions. In other words, it is all about a generational change. Today or exactly 30 years after the reform movement Sąjūdis inspired political and social revolution in Lithuania, such generational change is inevitable simply due to the flow of time. But much more important than just simply to state that Lithuanian society is experiencing fast generational change, to think about what this change means and what it brings. Let’s discuss today only a relatively narrow subject – values and generations – with a simple question: can we observe value changes comparing the older and younger generations?
A few remarks about generations
A very dynamic generational change is taking place and will continue in near the future in all areas in today’s Lithuania. It simply cannot be otherwise as the pre-independence generations are replaced by the post-independence generation. How fast this process might be it is well illustrated just by the fact that even those who were born in 1990 or at the moment of all political transformations begun, today are 28 years old — still young but reasonably grown up and mature. Moreover, if we look through the prism of technological innovation, it is namely those over twenty and around thirty who have presented most of today’s well-known innovations for the last 30-40 years globally. If we are to check the age of the founders of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Alibaba or GetJar, which has clear Lithuanian roots, when they started with what they have achieved now, we will be easily convinced that young age proves beneficial for breakthroughs in various areas.
