VU Kaunas Faculty

Sustainable development group

Scientists of Sustainable development group focus on the realization of cohesive development principles in the development of instruments for monitoring, the creation and development of sustainability assessment methodologies and their application to political sustainability assessment. Scientists work in the field of climate change – they examine the measures of climate change mitigation and prepare recommendations to the Lithuanian policy of climate change mitigation. Whie modeling sustainable development, a lot of attention is put on the application of the logistic theory of capital management. From 2002 to 2005, the group organised over 20 seminars with speakers from Lithuania (Prof. dr. (HP) Vladas Gronskas, Prof. dr. (HP) Juozas Burniekis, Prof. dr. (HP) Jonas Čičinskas, Prof. dr. (HP) Jonas Čepinskis, Prof. dr. (HP) Regina Virvilaitė, Prof. dr. (HP) Rimvydas Simutis, Prof. dr. (HP) Povilas Gylys, prof. dr. (HP). Juozas Rimantas Gylys etc.) and other countries (Prof. dr . (HP) Lars Ryden (Sweden), Prof. dr. (HP) Paula Lindroos (Sweden), Prof. dr. (HP) Walter Leal Filho (Germany), Prof. dr. (HP) Poul Wolffsen (Denmark), Prof. dr. (HP) Leah Zacher (Poland), Prof. dr. (HP) Joost Platja (Poland) etc.). Scientists of the group actively participate in international conferences, prepare scientific publications and monographs.

Scientists

Scientist	Position	Department
Aliūkaitė Daiva	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Alosevičienė Eglė	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Bankauskaitė - Sereikienė Gabija	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Baranauskienė Rita	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Bartkus Edverdas Vaclovas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Butleris Rimantas	Professor	Department of Informatics
Čiegis Remigijus	Professor	Department of Business Economics and Management
Deltuvienė Daiva	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Foreign Languages
Diomidova Ala	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Foreign Languages
Driaunys Kęstutis	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Droessiger Hans Harry	Professor	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Freitakas Eduardas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Finance and Accounting
Garšva Gintautas	Professor	Department of Informatics
Gipienė Gailutė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Finance and Accounting
Girdzijauskas Stasys Albinas	Professor	Department of Informatics
Golovko Valerijus	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Gudas Saulius	Professor	Department of Informatics
Jasinskas Edmundas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Jurėnienė Virginija	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Juzelėnienė Saulutė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Kanapickienė Rasa	Professor	Department of Finance and Accounting
Kazimianec Jelena	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Foreign Languages
Kerevičienė Jurgita	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Keturakis Saulius	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Krasnovas Aleksandras	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Krikščiūnienė Dalia	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Krūminienė Jadvyga	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Kuvykaitė Rita	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Lopata Audrius	Prof.	Department of Informatics
Matekonienė Jūratė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Mickienė Ilona	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Mikulėnienė Danguolė	Professor	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Pareigis Aloyzas Rimantas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Pasvenskienė Vytautė	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Patackienė Nijolė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Pilinkus Donatas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Poliakovas Olegas	Professor	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Poliakovas Olegas	Professor	Department of Foreign Languages
Pučėtaitė Raminta	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Pukas Valdas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Rimkutė Audronė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Rudžionienė Kristina	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Finance and Accounting
Rudžionis Vytautas Evaldas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Rumšienė Goda	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Ružė Albertas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Sakalauskas Virgilijus	Professor	Department of Informatics
Satkauskaitė Danguolė	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Sekliuckis Vitolis	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Simutis Rimvydas	Professor	Department of Informatics
Solomonik-Pankrašova Tatjana	Assoc. Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Svičiulienė Jūratė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Šarkauskienė Skirmantė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Šarkiūnaitė Ingrida	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Business Economics and Management
Šarkiūnaitė Ingrida	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Šlekienė Virginija	Professor	Department of Lithuanian Philology
Štreimikienė Dalia	Professor	Department of Business Economics and Management
Telešius Eugenijus	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics
Teresienė Deimantė	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Finance and Accounting
Ulvydienė Loreta	Prof.	Deparment of Germanic Philology
Virvilaitė Regina	Professor	Department of Business Economics and Management
Žigienė Gerda	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Finance and Accounting
Žilinskas Gintaras	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Žvinys Pranas	Assoc. Prof.	Department of Informatics

Services and Consultations

Voice technologies in service systems.
Business ethics.
The implementation of corporate social responsibility.
Information systems expertise.
The formation of technical tasks in the establishment of information systems, information systems project.
The development and analysis of models of intellectual systems in investment projects.
Integration means of negative impact of production on environment.
Editing services of Lithuanian, English, German, French and Russian texts.
Editing the language of advertising.
The translation of texts from/into Lithuanian, English, German, French and Russian.
The modelling of knowledge-based computer-integrated activity, the analysis of computer-integrated activity policy.

Scientific Events

Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty organises scientific conferences and seminars that allow presenting scientific research results. These events invite not only the lecturers and students from Kaunas Faculty, but also guests from foreign education institutions.

Within the Faculty

Within the Faculty

Title	Date	Responsible persons
TELL ME MORE 2026: Translation Conference for Students and Early Career Researchers	5 May 2026	Assoc. Prof. Jurgita Astrauskienė, Prof. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Lect. Livija Grikietis The Organisational Committee of Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Students of the Audiovisual Translation study programme Institute of Language, Literature and Translation Studies
20th Prof Vladas Gronskas International Scientific Conference	8 May 2026	Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė, Aistė Kukytė Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics ,
The 16th International Conference “Creativity and Culture”	16–22 November 2025	Prof. Virginija Jurėnienė, Ugnė Pavlovaitė, Neringa Grigarienė, Daiva Masaitytė Scientific group “Creative Industries and Innovations” at the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics
TELL ME MORE: Translation Conference for Students and Early Career Researchers	7 May 2025	Assoc. Prof. Jurgita Astrauskienė, Prof. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Lect. Livija Grikietis The Organisational Committee of Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Students of the Audiovisual Translation study programme Institute of Language, Literature and Translation Studies
19th Prof. Vladas Gronskas International Scientific Conference	29 November 2024	Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė, Viltė Lubytė Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics ,
Beyond Words: Persuasive Narratives and Multimodal Discourse	24–25 October 2024	Saulutė Juzelėnienė, Skirmantė Šarkauskienė, Rita Baranauskienė Institute of Language, Literature and Translation Studies
29th International Conference Information Society and University Studies – IVUS 2024	17 May 2024	Ilona Veitaitė Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics
TELL ME MORE: Translation Conference for Students and Early Career Researchers	14 May 2024	Assoc. Prof. Jurgita Astrauskienė, Prof. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Lect. Livija Grikietis The Organisational Committee of Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Students of the Audiovisual Translation study programme Institute of Language, Literature and Translation Studies
18-th prof. Vladas Gronskas International Scientific Conference	1 December 2023	Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė, Aistė Kukytė Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics ,
The 15th International Conference on Culture and Creativity	11 November 2023	Ugnė Pavlovaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Prof. Dr. Virginija Jurėnienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Prof. Dr. Svitlana Gutkevych (National University of Food Technologies, Ukraine), Dr. Skaistė Jurėnė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Dr. Ingrida Griesienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Dr. Dovilė Balevičienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), Neringa Grigarienė (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania), Ilona Ellen Askey (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania)
AL4ALL Applied Linguistics for All: a specialized forum on methods for language lovers and students of all disciplines	October, November, December 2023	Project coordinator: Angelica Peccini, Project members: Angelica Peccini, Danguolė Straižytė, Indrė Višinskaitė (Vilnius University) Barbara Hinterplattner, Alma Ibrahimpašić (University of Graz)
Scientific conference of Lithuanian Philology students "Final Rehearsal"	11 May 2023	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Skirmantė Biržietienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Gabrėnaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Robertas Kudirka, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Keturakienė, Prof. dr. B. Speičytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rita Baranauskienė . Institute of Language, Literature and Translation Studies .
TELL ME MORE: Translation Conference for Students and Early Career Researchers	25 April 2023	Assoc. Prof. Jurgita Astrauskienė, Prof. Danguolė Satkauskaitė, Assoc. Prof. Jurgita Kerevičienė The Organisational Committee of Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Students of the Audiovisual Translation study programme Institute of Language, Literature and Translation Studies
Hackathon on big data analysis and visualization	30 September–1 October 2019	Prof. Vladislav Fomin
MultiMeDialecTranslation 8 – Dialect Translation in Multimedia	6–7 May 2021	Danguolė Satkauskaitė
Prof. Vladas Gronskas International Scientific Conference "Economy Development: Theory and Practice"	2020 12 03	Ugnė Pavlovaitė, , Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics
Making and shaping things in creative economies.Making and shaping things in creative economies. From history to present day	2019 11 28	Virginija Jurėnienė Jerlei Triin
International Scientific Conference “Texts and Contexts: the Phenomenon of Boundaries”	2017.04.27 – 2017.04.28	S. Biržietienė Department of Lithuanian Philology Phone: +370 687 21739
Scientific Conference of Lithuanian Philolgy Students	2017.04.27 – 2017.04.28	R. Baranauskienė Department of Lithuanian Philology Phone: +370 698 46244
International Conference on Information Technologies IVUS	2017.04.28	A. Lopata Department of Informatics Phone: +370 37 422566
The 23rd Conference "Information Society and University Studies“ IVUS2018	2018.04.27	A. Lopata I.Veitaitė Institute of Applied Informatics Phone: +370 37 422566
International conference “Thought Elaboration: Linguistics, Literature, Media Expression: TELL ME	2017.05.09 - 2017.05.11	J. Astrauskienė Department of Germanic Philology Phone: +370 37 422477
Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business 20th International Conference on Business Information Systems	2017.06.28 - 2017.06.30	V. Sakalauskas Department of Informatics Phone: +370 37 422566
Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Data Analysis and Computer Aided Software Engineering. 23rd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2017)	2017.10.12 - 2017.10.14	A. Lopata Department of Informatics Phone: +370 37 422566
13th International Scientific Conference “Culture and Creativity”	2017.11.23 - 2017.11.24	A. Rimkutė, V. Jurėnienė, A. Urbonienė, M. Radzevičius, D. Jankauskaitė, I. Vitkauskaitė Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies Phone +370 37 20 26 27
14th International Scientific professor. V. Gronskas Conference “Development in Economics: Theory and Practice”	2017.12.08	I. Šarkiūnaitė, D. Štreimikienė, I. Mikalauskas, I. Ščiukauskė, A. R. Medeišienė Department of Business Economics and Management Phone +370 37 422344

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