Dear students,

Congratulations to those of you who have become part of the Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty community this year! Hopefully, the studies you have chosen will pave a path not only for your professional growth, but also for your personal development.

We would also like to congratulate all of our higher-course students and encourage them to continue discussing their ideas and exchanging knowledge in the 2022-2023 academic year, so that they become outstanding experts in their field.

More about the project:

The OPUS project (“Open Universal Science”) involves 18 different European partners, covering a wide range of organisations with relevant expertise to this project. Dr Gordon Dalton, Senior Research Fellow at PLOCAN, is coordinator of OPUS. 

OPUS will develop coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research and researchers at Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to practise Open Science.

There has been a recent upward trend in cyberattacks and data breaches, in particular due to insufficient data protection measures and a lack of preparedness, as well as an increasing number of attacks in the workplace, including hacking into mobile devices and exploiting IoT vulnerabilities, according to Varonis statistics. IBM says 19% of breaches are due to stolen login credentials, 16% of breaches are due to fraud, and 15% of breaches are due to improper cloud service settings. The principles of remote working, as demonstrated by the Covid-19 pandemic, have only increased the need for data protection measures and the need to be properly prepared to use them and to be able to detect cyberattacks.

One of the preventive measures is to increase cyber security, which is why VU Kaunas Faculty, together with partners from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus and Malta, noticed the increasing trend of attacks using various online fraud schemes and decided a year and a half ago to develop an online course called CyberPhish to help people recognise phishing attacks, understand the consequences and responsibilities, and know what to do if their data has been compromised.

On 26 June – 1 July the Bachelor students of Economics and Management and Master students of International Business Management (in English) Tadas Gatautis, Vaiva Ramanauskaitė, Ugnė Šimonėlytė, Iriowen Christopher ir Yaa Sarpomaa Benny Nyarko, together with Assist. Prof. Dr Ilona Kiaušiene and Assist. Prof. Dr Ingrida Šarkiūnaite took part in a summer camp organised by the Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania).

A training course was organised from 6 to 10 June 2022 at Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty. The training took place in order to achieve the intended objectives of the project „Transnational cooperation initiative fostering developing forward thinking skills of students, teachers and workforce in sustainability-relevant sectors posed by Business 4.0 trends through innovation in Business & Engineering education and training“. The project is coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania) and implemented with partners from Italy, Slovenia, Lithuania and Greece.

‘I always wanted to study International Business Management, so I went to the University website and searched for their available courses, I saw the course I wanted and immediately applied’ – states second-year Master student Dennis Osah Jnr from Nigeria. We invite you to learn more about the Vilnius university Kaunas Faculty student, his experience in Lithuania and what he thinks about studying.

We invite you to join a virtual study fair and get the answers to all your questions about the admission and studies at Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty.

For a whole month, you are welcome to visit the VU Kaunas Faculty stand and learn more about the following study programmes: 

• Bachelor programme Information Systems and Cyber Security 
• Master programme International Business Management 

Participants will get a chance to collect points, and the most active ones will receive 500 invitations to St. The Bell Tower of St. John’s Church and VU merchandise. Further information about the game will be provided on the study fair platform. 

To register for the Fair, please go to: https://vustudijumuge.vfairs.com/en

Шановні члени спільноти Каунаського факультету!

Завтра громадяни нашої країни святкуватимуть День відновлення незалежності Литви. Цього року – це вже 32 весна, коли до слова «Литва» ми додаємо ще одне, особливе слово – «незалежна». На жаль, Україна продовжує свою боротьбу за Незалежність на полях битв. Тому багатьох із вас у цей  важливий для нашої країни день охоплюють двоїсті почуття. З одного боку, хочеться вийти на вулицю й разом з усіма навколо святкувати здобуття свободи, з гордістю нести державні прапори, брати участь в урочистих заходах. З іншого боку, незручно навіть усміхатися й на повний голос висловлювати свою радість, бо в цей саме час в Україні наші брати й сестри віддають життя за свою свободу. Я переконаний: найкраще, що ми можемо зробити сьогодні, – не ігнорувати ці двоїсті почуття і, відзначаючи 11 березня, наскільки це можливо, радіти тому, що ми – люди вільної країни. А пізніше, і, сподіваємось, у недалекому майбутньому ми з радістю відсвяткуємо ще одне свято свободи й незалежності, і це буде день Свободи України. Тому зараз, вітаючи вас усіх, дорогі члени спільноти з Днем Відновлення незалежності Литви, хочу сказати: СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ!

Декан Каунаського факультету доц. д-р Кястутіс Дряуніс