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A recipe for the future
2019-11-18“Education is education, there is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human” – it was the aim message in the 4ᵀᴴ International Conference and Erasmus+ Staff week „Inclusive Internationalization“ (4-8th of November, 2019) in Ryga‘s Stradina University. In this Staff training week had been participating representatives from Vilniaus kolegija/University of Applied Sciences The Faculty of […]
Study tour “Challenges of Work Based Learning in Smart Cities”
2019-10-28Study tour “Challenges of Work Based Learning in Smart Cities” in Ülemiste City, Tallin 40 lecturers and students from eight educational institutions from six Nordic and Baltic countries in third week of October explored the innovative and renowned companies of Ülemiste City, talked to their key employees, participated in work-based learning workshops and made new […]
Tourism Resource Practice in Vilnius and Trakai
2019-10-15In October 2019, Tourism Management first-year students left the Faculty building and spent two weeks in Vilnius Old Town and Trakai. During the internship, they visited the most interesting places in Vilnius city, took part in tours: “Užupis – The Bohemian District”, “The Love Stories of Vilnius”, “Artistic Vilnius”, “Orthodox`s Legacy in Vilnius” and many […]
EIFtronic 2019 – already a traditional and famous international electronics contest
2019-04-18A traditional international Electronics contest (EIFtronic 2019) was organized at the Faculty of Electronics and Informatics on 11 – 12 of April. The contest gathered together higher education institution teams from Georgia, Poland, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania. It is pleasing that the list of different country representative teams is increasing every year. This year the […]
International (Teaching) Week at Vilniaus kolegija | University of Applied Sciences
2019-03-13This year, 47 international guest lecturers from foreign higher education institutions exchanged their knowledge and experience with VIKO community. International (Teaching) Week – an initiative that has already become a tradition, attracting more and more foreign lecturers who want to share knowledge with VIKO students and exchange experiences with colleagues from all over the world. […]
EURASHE meeting
2019-02-25On the 21st of February 2019, Vice-Rector for Research and Partnerships Dr Nijolė Zinkevičienė participated in the working group meeting which is trying to identify the evaluation criteria of the applied research activities performed by the universities of applied sciences in Europe. This is a really challenging task as different countries and institutions in Europe have different […]
Strengthening partnership with partners from India
2019-02-21On 11-15 February 2019 Dr Nijolė Zinkevičienė, Vice-Rector for Research and Partnerships and Jolanta Preidienė, Head of International Relations and Projects Department visited Parul University, in Gujarat, India. The main aim of the visit was to strengthen cooperation between the two institutions. Dr Nijolė Zinkevičienė and Jolanta Preidienė met the President of Parul University, Dr […]
The Transnational Project Art and Social Change: a Path to recovery
2019-01-28The Transnational Project Art and Social Change: a Path to recovery Meeting took part on 22nd – 23rd January in Palermo (Italy). The meeting was hosted by Comunità Terapeutica Casa dei Giovani. The Project partners VšĮ Socialiniai paramos projektai (Lithuania), Arts and Health South West (UK), Portraits of Recovery (UK) and Asilo Bianco Association (Italy) focused on the final evaluation […]
International Project at the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
2019-01-23On 21 and 22 January 2019 the Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies was visited by the foreign partners of our International Project “Nordic languages: The Ethnic process”. The participants of the project Rosa Thorsteinsdottir and Gunnsteinn Olafsson introduced specimens of the Icelandic art and culture. The Department of Performing Arts, together with the Icelanders, […]
Digital competences in the EU textile, clothing, leather and footwear (TCLF) industries
2019-01-12Professor Eugenija Strazdiene of Fashion Design Department at Vilniaus kolegija / University of Applied Sciences has attended the EURATEX (the European Apparel and Textile Confederation) conference on the 8th of February 2019, which was organized at the Centre of Business and Science 14 in Brussels. During the conference the results of two projects: Digital TCLF […]
International Symposium
2018-12-17On 13-14 December 2018 Viktorija Kielaite, lecturer of the Department of Nursing at the Faculty of Health Care, participated in the international symposium “Empowering Patient Education. Visualization of Innovation in Patient Education ” at the University of Turku (Finland). The main aim of this symposium was to provide new knowledge on the use of theoretical and […]
“Personal leadership and goal setting” seminar to the VIKO community
2018-12-12Today lecturer and writer Michael Daly shared his knowledge on leadership, personal development and goals setting to the VIKO | UAS lecturers and administrative staff after intensive week of lecturing to the students. During the seminar we received His Excellency David Noonan, Ambassador of Ireland to Lithuania who honoured us by coming to the […]