The International Bureau of Education (IBE-UNESCO) launched the first postgraduate Certificate In Curriculum Design and Development for Central-East Europe Central Asia together with VMU in Lithuania on 28 November. This will be followed by UNESCO IBE’s first postgraduate Diploma for the Arab States in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 4 December.

A group of student counsellors providing free, one-on-one, confidential, walk-in services to VMU students. Currently student-initiated and student-run group is in its second year and introduce improvements such as counselling in English. If you are feeling down, experiencing difficulties in your life, need someone to talk to but are hesitant to see a professional counsellor, come to Student to Student Peer Counselling, they are waiting for you and would be happy to talk to you. As peer counsellors, they provide a supportive atmosphere where students can openly talk about their feelings.

Last week the Research Council of Lithuania (LMT) has announced the research and study institutions who were allocated funding from the Council for submitting the research projects for the EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon2020. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is the most active among Lithuanian institutions: 54 project applications were approved and allocated LMT funding.

Vice-Dean for Strategic Partnership of VGTU Faculty of Business Management Agnė Vaiciukevičiūtė visited Haga Helia University of Applied Sciences in Finland where more than 30 international guests from Nepal, Finland, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, France, Malta, Spain, The Netherlands, Estonia, Colombia and Lithuania convened for the International Co-Creation Workshop event from 31 October to 3 November 2016.

“Our research focuses on two countries geographically in the margins of Europe – UK and Lithuania, and both of them are currently undergoing a conflicting time”, says Dr Johann Unger from Lancaster University. Unger, together with his colleague researcher Dr George Green carried out a pilot research, based on student writing experiences at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU).

He will replace Ingrida Simonyte, who won a parliamentary seat in last month's general elections., a Lithuanian businessman engaged in high-tech development, has been elected president of the Vilnius University Council, the university said.

From 23 November until 23 December, registration is open to the group A, B, C and D subjects (courses) of 2016/2017 spring semester for the full-time first-cycle (BA) and integrated programmes’ students. Enrolment will be performed online only, having connected to VMU Students’ Self-service Portal (further in the text SSP).

The popularity of take-away hot drinks in public coffees and institutions, especially universities, has prompted Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) to organise the movement “Pay for drink, not for packaging”. This week, 21–27 November, everyone buying coffee in their own mug instead of a disposable container will get a 20 percent discount.

November 25th 2016 (Friday) at 10:00 AM at the VMU Multifunctional Centre for Research and Studies (23-413 V. Putvinskio Street) VMU students are invited to attend the public lecture “Formal Modelling of Creole Languages with Tree-Adjoining Grammars” with lecturer Pascal Vaillant.

55 students occupied the managing positions at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) on Thursday, 17 November. On the occasion of the International Student Day, the University’s managing group, deans and vice-deans of all the faculties, and Kaunas Municipality officials rendered the power of decision-making into students’ hands.