On 29 May the Chairwoman of the committee of the Master study programme International Business Management Assoc. Prof., Dr. Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė and one of the committee members, Assist. Dr. Rasa Bartkutė, met with the representatives of the Manipal Center for European Studies (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India) Assist. Prof. Richa Gupta and Academic Affairs Coordinator Jyothi Kumar.
The guests aimed to discuss various possibilities of cooperation with the lecturers of the International Business Management programme in the fields of science and studies, such as preparing joint tasks, projects, as well as student exchange opportunities. "My colleagues and I from Manipal went through the programme structure in Master in International Business Management at Vilnius University and were so pleased to realize the mutual academic connect between the programmes offered at our institutions. We see a lot of opportunities for cooperation,” – the Academic Affairs Coordinator Jyothi Kumar revealed to the representatives of VU Kaunas Faculty.
"Manipal Centre for European Studies was established in 2009. Our Master programme, comprised of 4 semesters offers different specializations: Business & Economics as well as Politics & International Relations. We encourage our students to study the third semester or one academic year at our partner European universities," – Assist. Prof. Richa Gupta presented their organisation and described the guidelines for cooperation.
During the meeting, the representatives of two universities exchanged information about study programmes, opinions about concluding an Erasmus cooperation agreement for the mobility of students and lecturers, and discussed the possibility of cooperation in the process of individual study subjects, bringing together students of the Manipal European Studies Center and the Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty to perform joint tasks and other academic initiatives.