Seeking to increase student awareness and participation in political life, to nurture tolerance and human rights and to analyze global problems, the United Nations Student Club was founded several years ago at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, eventually evolving into the Lithuanian United Nations Youth Association, LUNYA. This summer the association was recognized as an official member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) and was invited to implement joint projects with Columbia University in New York, USA.

Budget Committee MEPs reversed all the cuts proposed by the Council to the draft 2017 EU budget to meet the needs of the migration crisis and slow economic growth, in a vote on Wednesday. They also boosted funding to fight youth unemployment and increased spending on research and infrastructure projects. The full plenary will vote on 26 October on a proposed budget amounting to €161.8bn in commitments, €4.13bn more than the original Commission proposal.

17-24 of September 2016 Faculty of Economics organized the second exchange project with the Polessky State University (Pinsk, Belarus). This year the exchange topics were international business and finance. 10 students and 2 teachers from Polessky State University visited VIKO. VIKO was represented by the students from all study programs of the Faculty of Economics.

On Monday 19th September, Colonel Jakob Sogard Larsen (Danish Army) Commander NATO Force Integration Unit in Lithuania (NFIU LTU) was invited to deliver a guest lecture at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The lecture, which attracted students from Germany, France, Sweden, Lithuania and other EU, and non-EU countries, was co-organised by Renata Korsakienė, Assoc. Professor of Business Management Faculty. The opening address was given by Manuela Tvaronavičienė, Professor of Business Management Faculty and Expert of NATO for project “Energy security: Cultural Change” (2015-2016).

“Fair use” safeguards to prevent mobile phone users from taking unfair advantage of EU rules on “roaming” charges will be debated in the Industry Committee on Monday 26 September.

Delegation from Japan, which consisted of members of Japanese Government and 14 students from various universities visited Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) this week. The guests from Japan were very interested into study and research organising at KTU, and paid great attention to the entrepreneurship development among students.

Vytautas Magnus University Centre for Asian Studies together with VMU Library kindly invites You to the opening of Asian Books Space (ABS). The ceremony will take part on the 30th of September (Friday), 15:00 in V. Biržiška Reading Room (Donelaičio 52, Kaunas).

“Being able to express oneself is vitally important to humans and creative writing – in whatever form – is a wonderful tool to facilitate that. It is also a way to seek to understand each other and regardless of what career one embarks on”, says a writer and a creative writing teacher Zoe Venditozzi. The Scottish writer will be delivering a series of creative writing workshops for the New Media Language students at the KTU’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities next week.

Set in a lush forest area not far from the Vilnius University’s east-end campus, the Vilnius Smart Park – one of the largest technology park projects in Lithuania – opened with a presentation of the first several buildings, and plans for future development.

The Baltic-German University Liaison Office has announced project competition 2017. The project competition offers support to the universities and the research institutions of the Baltic states in cooperation with a partner institution from Germany. Supported will be projects in any field of science with the financial support up to 5 000 EUR.