„R1 Lietuva“ Scholarship Competition for VMU Students

For a third year in a row, Vytautas Magnus University is cooperating with „R1 Lietuva“ to offer seven one-time scholarships of 200 EUR to third/fourth year BA or first/second year MA students with higher academic achievements (grade average for the previous semester must be 9 or higher) and strong involvement in social and public activities within the university and beyond.

Students wishing to participate in the competition for the „R1 Lietuva“ scholarship have to submit the following documents to studentas@vdu.lt until June 16th, 2019:

  • Free-form letter of motivation for the scholarship;
  • A resume (Curriculum Vitae) and (or) description of activities within the University and beyond.

Scholarships will be awarded to the best students in the following fields:

1 scholarship – Humanities;

1 scholarship – Arts;

1 scholarship – Engineering and Technology;

2 scholarships – Social Sciences, Law, Business and Public Management and Educational Sciences;

2 scholarships – Mathematics, Informatics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences and Agricultural Sciences.

The decision regarding the awarding of the scholarships will be made by a commission, which will consist of representatives from „R1 Lietuva“ and Vytautas Magnus University. In the absence of appropriate candidates in a specific field of studies, scholarship may be reallocated to other fields of studies.

„R1 Lietuva“ scholarships will be awarded in a ceremony by the end of the spring semester of the 2018/2019 academic year.

About the Scholarship Founder

„R1 Lietuva“ is international company that is leading as provider of technology-based cycle management service. By adapting the latest technologies to human resources, the company effectively manages the cycle of maintaining health care systems.

Developed and tested by R1 RCM, R1 Performance Stack℠ seamlessly complements the healthcare organization’s infrastructure, helping to improve patient cash flow and cash flow management while reducing operational costs and patient satisfaction.

The mission of the company is to be a reliable partner to manage revenue while customers can focus on the post important things.

„R1 Lietuva“ Service Center has been operating in Kaunas since 2014 and currently has about 650 employees.

OPPORTUNITIES: first SAP Summer Academy “SAP Next-Gen Baltics 2019”

SAP Next-Gen Baltics is an initiative launched by SAP in the Baltic countries as a continuity of successful SAP Next-Gen student events in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It provides local students with an outstanding opportunity to gain insights on current trending topics within Technology and Business industry, solve real-life business use cases, expand professional network and open up career possibilities.

This year they are launching the first SAP Next-Gen Baltics 2019 as a 3-day summer academy that will take place on 26th-28th of August in Vilnius, Lithuania.

You will be invited to join 3 days of sessions and workshops hosted by SAP experts from Scandinavia. Each day will have a specific topic that will contain the following elements: introduction, short methodology and theory, group work on assignments and cases, group presentations and winner team announcement. There will also be local SAP partners and clients joining the academy as guest speakers so you will have a great opportunity to learn about their business specifics and open up the doors for your career during the joint networking event.

Main topics of SAP Next-Gen Baltics 2019:

Design Thinking

Business Analytics

Machine Learning

Networking / Career Development

Deadline for application: 30 June 2019. Application form. 

Date for final confirmation of acceptance: 15 July 2019

Second International Summer School 2019

SECOND INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 (ISS 2019):

VARIETY OF ASSESSMENTS AN EVALUATIONS:  RESEARCH, STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES.

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH:

ATTRACTIVENESS, PRIORITIES AND ENTIRETY

11-14 June, 2019

Kaunas, Lithuania

The Academy of Education, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in collaboration with The School of Social Researcher (SSR) is pleased to invite you to the Second International Summer School, which is dedicated to methodology and specifically focused in assessment and evaluation methodologies and ethnography.

We are pleased to introduce to you the most known and regarded researchers internationally from Canada, USA and UK. 

The ISS 2019 workshops, practical seminars, theoretical lectures and reflective discussions will last four days in total.

Four-days intensive inspiring and intellectually attractive methodological course will introduce to participants two the most topical topics:

  1. the peculiarities of research and methodology on assessment and evaluation and its relationship to teaching and learning, and teaching / learning outcomes;
  2. particularity of ethnographic research methodology from non-traditional methodological and conceptual perspectives.

The participants will learn about the practical approaches of the mentioned above methodologies and will construct their answers to questions such as “How to do the assessment / evaluation research?”, “What research methodologies are used to study the teaching / learning outcomes?”, “How to evaluate and assess the teaching and learning as it would be methodologically correct?”, “What are connections of ethnographic approach with different phenomena in social world?”, “What are possibilities to combine ethnographic research methodology with other quantitative and / or qualitative methodologies?”, “What are practical and methodological recommendations in regard to application of ethnographic research in humanities and social sciences?” and etc.

Join us at the International Summer School 2019 and be an active learner in workshops and in learning cooperation-based groups. Meet interesting people and discuss topics of your own interest concerning qualitative methods and how to give answer to your daily research problems. Relate these methodologies to you daily academic and research practices. Let’s improve our learning together!

 

What cover two topics about evaluation / assessment and ethnographic methodologies?

First. Evaluation and assessment are not rare seen as a pragmatic aspect of the academic environment, teaching and learning. Evaluation and assessment are often seen in a formalized way, and the research on evaluation / assessment methodologies that lack solidity, reliability and flexibility. We must also recognize that studies on evaluation and assessment methodologies and their application in teaching and learning and its relationship with teaching and learning outcomes are uncommon because we still lack the methodological skills, and there are few such research schools in regard to evaluation and assessment methodologies in the world. But assessment and evaluation are mandatory components of teaching and learning processes and outcomes, so understanding the assessment and evaluation methodologies is necessary. That requires skills to construct, design and apply assessment and evaluation methodologies within the teaching and learning.

In the world, research methodology courses on assessment and evaluation research and methodologies are a staple diet of postgraduate, PhD (doctoral) programmes in social sciences and humanities. Post-docs, young and senior researchers also lack such methodological courses.  Even with the large number of courses teaching research methods, there is limited published research into research methodologies on assessment and evaluation in teaching and learning.  To help tutors, supervisors, teachers and researchers use assessments and evaluations effectively, it is important to be familiar with the form and pattern of assessment and evaluation methodologies in the social sciences and humanities at postgraduate, undergraduate levels in relation to teaching and learning. However, innovative assessment and evaluation research methodologies may not be known to scholars, researchers, PhD students because of a lack of shared literature or community of practice. Without understanding the current assessment and evaluation research methodologies and practices of its application in teaching and learning, there is little scope for improving and extending these assessments and evaluation to encourage and enhance students’ and teacher’s engagement, including supporting the development of their identities as researchers and scholars.

Second. We often take for granted the importance of learning about other cultures and peoples who live outside our communities, however, if there are efforts to learn about others, we can begin to understand the importance of similarities among human civilizations and societies. There is a study that studies the importance of other cultures as well as during the process we learn about ourselves. We come from a place of extravagance, where the modern world allows us Westerners to have everything at our disposal; therefore, we must be cautious when we learn about other cultures especially from places with non-Western ways of doing things.

Suppose you were given several minutes to think about and write down problems facing your country today. What would you record? Teachers and researchers find that many of the issues that the students, researchers or practitioners consider problems facing the particular country or the world are social issues that requires change in social behaviour or social policy. The question asked attempts to go below the surface of the responses presented in order to understand the origin of the perceived problems. Ethnographic research, in much the same way, gets below the surface and challenges assumptions made regarding a variety of topics. In challenging basic assumptions, doing ethnographic research is like peeling an onion. As you peel back the layers of an onion, you discover there is yet more to be seen.

How does ethnographic research challenge assumptions? It describes a specific group of people and their interactions with each other and those not part of the group. Ethnographic research is conducted to contest and/or sustain stereotypes of particular groups by telling the stories of the lived experiences of individuals. This type of research is helpful in addressing stereotypes that are embedded within a society such as ideas about people based on their racial background, gender and etc. Ethnographic research may be done to challenge or “contest” the truth of variety of ideas. Note, however, that these experiences occur within time and space. As such, they are constantly changing. Thus, history and context (interrelated issues, settings, environment and social relationships) play important roles in the lives of individuals in determining the webs of significance.

Ethnographic research is also done in an attempt to discover patterns in human behaviour. Those engaging in ethnographic research are looking at society and cultures as integrated systems with interrelationships existing between communities and structures within and around them. In doing research that is detailed, descriptive and interpretive, researchers are better able to “see” the community through the eyes of those who live in the community. Researchers understand the danger in looking too closely at the part and not the whole.

Why it is worth attending the ISS 2019?

Researchers do not rare experience issues such as getting lost after collecting and coding data, overlooking possibilities for developing their ideas, and producing disjointed and mundane research reports. Your active engagement into learning in ISS 2019 will help you expedite analyzing your data and writing your report in regard to assessment and evaluation, and / or ethnographic research.

This ISS 2019 focuses on improving your skills in research on assessment and evaluation methodologies and its practical application, and in ethnographic research methodology.

Studies in the ISS 2019 will help you retain the flexibility of your research while furthering the conceptual depth and scope of your research design, data collection and analysis.

Who are invited to be participants of learning community in the ISS 2019?

The ISS 2019 invites to participate the researchers, scholars, PhD students and scientists who already have acquired their PhD’s and are working with different methodologies, are teaching in variety of contexts and institutions and still meet challenges in:

  • finding the right assessment and evaluation methodology and researching it;
  • using qualitative methodologies and still have not chosen the “right” methodology in their research-based scientific path.

All the study process will rely on learning, discussing, practicing, constructing and interacting. Representatives from the social and behavioural, humanitarian, health and technology sciences are particularly encouraged to participate in ISS 2019.

Apply now: Additional Competition for Erasmus+ Traineeship

The Additional competition is open for Erasmus+ student or recent graduate traineeship grants. Application deadline is the 16 of May, 2019.

The placement period is from 2 to 6 months. Traineeship must end before 20-09-2019 (for recent graduates – in a year after graduation).

Note, those students who are graduating studies on June 2019 and wish to take part in Erasmus+ recent graduate traineeship, should participate in this competition.

Selection

All VMU fulltime degree students who have not used more than 10 months of their Erasmus mobility (study / traineeship) period are eligible for the Erasmus grant.

Selection documents

For student traineeship (traineeship during student’s year of studies)

Documents must be submitted online

For recent graduate traineeship (application must be submitted during the last year of studies)

The priority in the selection is given to

  • students whom traineeship is an obligatory part of their study programme;
  • students who have never been Erasmus traineeship students before.

Selection criteria

  • student’s motivation;
  • good knowledge of the language which will be used during the traineeship;
  • student’s work, study, traineeship, participation in the international / academic projects, social activities experience in Lithuania and abroad;
  • conformability between the chosen traineeship and student’s study programme;
  • study results (first year MA students should attach transcript of records of their BA/MA degree to the application form).

The competition results will be sent to every participant via e-mail on 28th May, 2019.

More information: https://www.vdu.lt/en/studies/internships/erasmus-traineeships/

Project „Innovative Business Transfer Models for SMEs in the BSR (INBETS BSR)“

Programme: INTERREG Baltic Sea Region 2014-2020

 

Project Budget: total – 2.46 million EUR, VMU – 132 605 EUR

 

Project Duration: 01/10/2017 – 30/09/2020

 

Lead Partner – Baltic Sea Academy (Hamburg, Germany)

 

Other Partners:

  • Small Business Chamber (Warsaw, Poland)
  • Vilnius Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Riga, Latvia)
  • Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Tallinn, Estonia)
  • Petersburg Foundation for SME Development (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • Association of SMEs support centers of the Kaliningrad region (Kaliningrad, Russia)
  • Foundation Drivhuset Skaraborg (Skövde, Sweden)
  • Vocational Academy Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
  • Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk, Poland)
  • Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania)
  • Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (Pori, Finland)
  • University of Skövde (Skövde, Sweden)
  • IBC International Business College (Kolding, Denmark)

Project Description and Aim:

 

SMEs are mostly owner-managed, often for years. Companies risk to lose knowledge and jobs, once that owner retires. This is happening at increasing speed in the BSR, where more and more owners retire without having transferred the business to the next generation.

 

Business transfers have a higher impact on the economic growth than start-ups. The future growth and sustainability of innovative companies in the BSR severely limited by failed business transfers. In all countries the number and qualification of potential successors must be improved. The majority of projects and measures focus on the creation of new firms, while the challenge of keeping firms running successfully is not covered. Therefore, the aims of the project are to examine, further develop and design innovative and transferable models and tools for facilitating SME business transfers, make them widely available and implement them in companies.

 

For more information:

 

Official Project Website: http://inbets.eu/

Official Programme Website: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/projects/inbets-bsr-96.html#budget

 

Contact Details:

 

Prof. dr. V. Navickas

Head of Social Education Program Group

Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy

Tel. +370 5 219 2855

Email. vytas.navickas@vdu.lt

Apply now: competition for exchange studies at non-EU/EEE countries

Students are invited to participate in a competition for one semester or one academic year long exchange studies at non-EU countries with Erasmus+ or VMU Mobility scholarship.

Students have to submit completed online application form (Outgoing – Application for Bilateral and Erasmus Study Exchange (non-EU countries)) until for Japanese universities 17th of February, 2019; other universities till 25th of February, 2019.

 Selection criteria:

  • compatibility between the plan for studies or research at the Higher Education Institution abroad and the study programme at VMU;
  • motivation;
  • results of studies or research during the last two semesters (for VMU Mobility scholarship GPA should be no less than 8.0);
  • good knowledge of the language in which lectures will be taught.

Selected students will receive Erasmus+ or VMU Mobility scholarship.

Students will be personally informed via email about the results of first selection stage and invitation to second stage – interview.

More information about universities, conditions and contact persons

Student Registration to Courses of Spring Semester

The registration to study subjects, seminars and laboratory works for the Spring semester of 2018/2019 starts on the 28th of January. The registrationt will be performed online only, having connected to VMU Students’ Self-service Portal.

A username is: name.surname (lowercase, no Lithuanian alphabet letters) and a password. If a student has forgotten the password, he/she can set up a new one at the site. Instructions are available here. If the student still fails to connect to his/her account, he/she has to address the staff of the Student Centre via email: migration@vdu.lt, studentas@vdu.lt, by phone 837 751 175, or in person at S. Daukanto g. 27, Room 206.

THE STAGES OF ENROLLMENT:

 For the students of VMU (except for Education (accepted till 01/09/2018) and Agriculture Academies students)

 STAGE I

Main enrollment into study subjects, seminars, and laboratory works:

FROM TO
28 January 2019, 10.00 a.m. 31 January 2019, midnight
·         For full-time students of bachelor and integrated studies·         For full-time students of master studies

·         For full-time students of professional studies

·         For free-movers

·         For exchange students

·         For students accepted from 2018 to the following VMU EA study programs:Subject Education, Pedagogy of Primary Education and Early Foreign Language Teaching, Pre-School and Pre – Primary School Pedagogy, Education Management, Pedagogy (Professional Studies), and

·         For students accepted before 2018 to Career Management, Career and Professional Counseling, Educational Management

STAGE II

Final revision of enrolled subjects, crossing out of undesirable subjects and enrolling into the vacancies of study subjects, seminars, and laboratory works:

FROM TO
4 February 2019, 10.00 a.m. 10 February 2019, midnight
·         For full-time students of bachelor and integrated studies  For full-time students of master studies·         For full-time students of professional studies

·         For free-movers

·         For exchange students

·         For students accepted from 2018 to the following VMU EA study programs: Subject Education, Pedagogy of Primary Education and Early Foreign Language Teaching, Pre-School and Pre – Primary School Pedagogy, Education Management, Pedagogy (Professional Studies),

·         For students accepted before 2018 to Career Management, Career and Professional Counseling, Educational Management

For the students of VMU Agriculture Academy

Main enrollment into study subjects, seminars, and laboratory works:

FROM TO
11 February 2019, 10.00 a.m. 17 February 2019, midnight
·         For full-time students of bachelor and integrated studies·         For full-time students of master studies

·         For exchange students and free-movers

Students can register and cross out from the courses only electronically. Paper registration forms will not be distributed at the beginning of the semester.

Apply now: Competition for traineeship at non-EU countries

VMU students are invited to participate in competition for traineeship at non-EU countries with Erasmus+ or VMU Mobility scholarship. Students have to submit completed online application form (Application form for traineeship in non-EU/EEE countries) until 16th of December 2018.

Selection criteria:

  • traineeship compatibility with Study programme at VMU;
  • confirmation from hosting organization for acceptance into traineeship programme;
  • motivation;
  • results of studies or research during the last two semesters (for VMU Mobility scholarship GPA should be no less than 8.0);
  • good knowledge of language in which traineeship will be commenced.

Traineeship period starts no earlier than 2019-01-01 and ends no later than 2019-08-31.

Students will be personally informed via e-mail about the results till 21st of December.

Selected students will receive Erasmus+ or VMU Mobility scholarship. Eligible countries and number of scholarships:

Erasmus+ scholarship

Country Duration of Traineeship Number of scholarships Scholarship and travel grant
Bosnia and Hercegovina 2 – 4 months 3 700 Eur/month + 275 Eur
Israel 2 – 4 months 2 700 Eur/month + 360 Eur
Russia 2 – 4 months 2 700 Eur/month + 275 Eur

 VMU Mobilitity scholarship

Group of countries Duration of Traineeship Number of scholarships Scholarship
Countries of regions: South Asia, East Asia and Pacific; Middle East; North America; Latin America & the Caribbean 1 – 3 months 8 650 Eur/month
Countries of regions: Europe and Central Asia; North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa 1 – 3 months 550 Eur/month

More information about traineeship

Student of VMU Education Academy A. Tamašauskaitė becomes a World Champion

A student of VMU Education Academy, Sport pedagogy study programme, Ms. Aurelija Tamašauskaitė has become a World Champion of the World‘s Triathlon (swimming, running, shooting) championship that took place in Hurgada, Egypt.

The community of VMU Education Academy congratulate the student with this victory !

Meeting with the delegation from Gunma University in Japan

On the 22nd of October a delegation from Gunma University in Japan was visiting VMU Education Academy. The delegation, which included vice-rector of Gunma University prof. Michiko Suematsu, Head of International Exchange Committee Takashi Itoh, lecturer prof. Tetsuo Kitamura, met with the Chancellor of Education Academy prof. Vilija Salienė, specialists of International Relations Department Ms Jurgita Mickevičiūtė and Mrs. Sofija Pivoriūnienė, lecturer prof. Giedrė Riškutė.

During the meeting, future plans of cooperation of the two institutions were discussed.