Associate Professor Dr. Raminta Pučėtaitė (Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities) presented the results of the research “The Status of Scientific Research Ethics in Lithuania” in an international conference in Jacksonville (Florida, US).

Kaunas Faculty of Humanities has few very special professors and more than a few exceptional students - that is our conclusion from our 3 days teaching course there, supported through the Erasmus program. We are independent curators from Zagreb, Croatia, running an non-for-profit curatorial organisation for 14 years called KONTEJNER |  bureau of contemporary art praxis. KONTEJNER is oriented towards critical examination of the role and meaning of science, technology and the body in contemporary society. KONTEJNER deals with investigative intermedia and interdisciplinary art projects referring to relevant phenomenon of today's art and culture, dealing with societal taboos and ethical systems, society of the future, intervention to to body by cybernetics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, etc.

The Incubator for Creation that aims at becoming the centre of attraction of creative students sang the Lithuanian anthem and Ukrainian songs. What exactly did the students celebrate on the 12^th of January?

On January 29 – February 14, 2014, Associate Professor Dr. Raminta Pučėtaitė (Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies) and Associate Professor Dr. Rasa Pušinaitė (Department of Business Economics and Management) – the executives of a Global Grant project – paid a research visit to the University of Queensland in the sunny Brisbane (Australia).

On 15-16 October, 2013, Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities held the final meeting of the international project HEUROPA partners. The organisers of the meeting were the associate professors in the Department of Lithuanian Philology Saulė Juzelėnienė and Rita Baranauskienė. The partners of the projects are scientists from Dresden University of Technology and University of Prague as well as representatives from language teaching centres in Krakow, Paris and London.

Initiated by the President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, it’s the third time that the national campaign “Christmas of Books” has taken place. The VU KHF community was invited to participate by the 3rd year students of Cultural Management, with encouragement coming from the Republic of Lithuania’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belarus Evaldas Ignatavičius and the Embassy’s Second Secretary Eglė Railė after the last-year second-hand book campaign that the Faculty organised.

Students of Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities together with pupils from certain Old Town educational institutions put Kaunas citizens in an uplifting mood by organising a colourful and loud demonstration down the Vilnius street.