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VIKO representative attends high-level meeting on the future of European universities
2025-03-03Last week dr. Jolanta Preidienė, Head of International Relations and Projects Department of VIKO, together with Sofie Mols, President of HEROES, Piet Van Hove, Secretary General of HEROES, and Joep Houterman, Rector of Fontys UAS (the Netherlands), represented HEROES Alliance in a High-Level meeting ‘Shaping the future: European Universities alliances for a Competitive Europe”, organized […]
VIKO has officially become part of the groundbreaking European Universities alliance – HEROES!
2025-01-28From January 21-23, VIKO representatives, alongside 100+ staff members from partner institutions, attended the kick-off event at Thomas More’s campus in Geel, Belgium. The event marked the beginning of an ambitious journey as partners collaborated on specific implementation plans to bring HEROES to life! HEROES Alliance, co-funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ program […]
EU Commission selects HEROES as new European University allianceto boost smart regional resilience
2024-07-08The HEROES Alliance unites nine universities of applied sciences across the EU under one common objective: to strengthen the resilience of the regions they are located in through digital innovations. 120,000 students and 14,000 staff spread over 22 campuses in mainly non-urban areas will benefit from deep transnational collaboration in education and research, made possible […]
Vilniaus kolegija has been accepted into the European higher education consortium HEROES
2023-10-05Vilniaus kolegija has been accepted into the European higher education consortium HEROES (Higher Education Roaming Opportunities and Engagement for Society), which is preparing an application for the European Commission’s invitation to create European University Alliances. The consortium consists of 9 universities of applied sciences in Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Czech […]