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VIKO student João Pedro Oliveira feedback about Erasmus experience
2023-01-13“With the Erasmus experience in Vilnius coming to an end, it is time to make a summary of some personal thoughts and initiatives I had the pleasure to take part in. Beyond everything, the experience of living abroad for one semester, along with the assimilation of a different European culture, provided me with some insights […]
The Winter edition of VIKO Staff Training Week
2023-01-06The Winter edition of VIKO Staff Training Week, which took place in December, 2022, gathered 24 participants from 9 European countries who worked on entrepreneurship and creativity topics throughout the week. The first day of STT was dedicated to getting to know each other, Vilnius, Lithuania, it’s culture and language. The following activities included meeting […]
Invited Lecturer at VIKO
2022-12-19Last week VIKO had a great honour to welcome Michael Daly, author, mentor and workshop facilitator from Ireland. Michael conducted inspiring seminar for the VIKO international coordinators „The six steps to enjoying and striving as an International Coordinator at VIKO“ and self-leadership lectures for the VIKO students. The participants of the meetings could experience the […]
What competences are needed for researchers in professional higher education institutions?
2022-12-19Vilnius UAS, together with its international partners, is completing the Erasmus+ project “Enhancing Staff Research and Innovation Capacity in Professional Higher Education” (RECAPHE), 2019-1-PL01-KA203-065823, which has developed an inventory of the nature and scope of R & D activities in the European professional higher education institutions (PHEIs), identified the competencies necessary for the sector’s researchers, […]
Training in the selection, creation and evaluation of sustainability indicators of a newly launched Erasmus+ project “USD – Universities for Sustainable Development”
2022-12-16Last week Vilnius University of Applied Sciences has hosted partners from Spain and Finland at two days training session “Training in the selection, creation and evaluation of sustainability indicators” of a newly launched Erasmus+ project “USD – Universities for Sustainable Development”. The training session was about getting to know the history and background of the Sustainability […]
Vikis, Lesė and Reksas are robot-dogs of VIKO Robotics Workshop
2022-12-16The VIKO Robotics Workshop team is currently actively applying a new robotic platform in the study process. These are the new robot-dogs. Yes, yes, they are robots belonging to the class of general-purpose mobile robots, which have four independently moving limbs. They have integrated sensors that allow the robot to “feel” and experience the environment […]
Educational tour of Poland
2022-12-13On the 3-4th of December the students of Tourism Management and Hotel and Restaurant Business study programmes together with the lecturer of the Tourism Department Jelena Scedroviene took part in an education tour of Poland. During the trip they visited the historic old towns of Warsaw and Toruń, tasted traditional Polish food and enjoyed the […]
Vilnius University of Applied Sciences signed a cooperation agreement with the Seimas Chancellery of the Republic of Lithuania
2022-12-09On the 29th of November Vilnius University of Applied Sciences signed a cooperation agreement with the Chancellery of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania providing for the development of studies, applied research, experimental development and project activities, the enhancement of social responsibility, the promotion of the development of an integrated study system and the […]
Marianna and Valery LYUBAS (Ukraine, Krivoy Rog) Paper Cutting Exhibition “Ukraine – My Love”
2022-11-29The works of the authors are kept in the Vytynanka Museum of the House of Folk Art of Mogilev-Podolsk, the Vinnitsa Regional Center of Folk Art, the Domodedovo Museum of History and Art (collection of Prof. A. M. Petrichenko), in private collections in Ukraine and abroad. The exhibition presents works from the collection of Laimute […]
Minister of Education, Science and Sports J. Šiugždinienė Met with the Community of Vilnius University of Applied Sciences
2022-11-28On 25 th November the Minister of Education, Science and Sports J. Šiugždinienė met with Vilnius University of Applied Sciences community and presented the most important changes in the education system and answered the questions of the community members. At the beginning of the meeting, Vitalija Gražienė, Prof. Dr. of the Faculty of Pedagogy of […]
An international external evaluation of activities took place at Vilnius University of Applied Sciences
2022-11-28During the International external evaluation visit (22 nd to 24 th November) experts prof. Colin Raban (group leader), Ewa Kolanowska (evaluation secretary), prof. dr. Wes Wierda (member of academic community), Kersti Viitkar (member of academic community), Simonas Razminas (social partner), Edvinas Levišauskas (student), Jolanta Revaitienė (coordinator) met with the Rector and Deputies of the Rector, […]