Are you a PhD candidate or a young researcher at an Arqus university? Do you use Applied Linguistics methods in your research, or would you like to know more about it? Are you looking for an international forum to present your method and discuss it with peers? If so, we invite you to apply as a presenter for AL4ALL.

 About the platform

In today's globalized and digitalized world, when striving for more relevant research outcomes, it is vital to seek multiperspectivity in research. This can be fostered via interdisciplinary exchange. We believe that linguistics has always benefitted from methods of other disciplines just as we believe that linguistic methods could benefit other disciplines.

AL4ALL seeks to provide a space for discussion, exchange of ideas and growth in all stages of education in PhD studies. In doing so, AL4ALL aims to catalyze the potential of applied linguistics and other methods in order to bridge the gap between different fields of research.

AL4ALL provides an online video conferencing platform for PhD candidates and other young researchers from various disciplines who use applied linguistics methods. 10 seminars of 90 minutes each will allow participants not only to present their methods to other peers, but also to engage in fruitful discussions about these methods.

This project is one of the winning proposals presented by Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty and University of Graz for the 2023 call in student co-designed projects launched by The Arqus European University Alliance.

At the 15th International Conference on "Culture & Creativity" Assistant Professor Dimitra Kanellopoulou is willing to share her experience in urban planning and human geography. The topic of culture and creativity are large ones and give us the opportunity to federate scholars and professionals from different disciplinary backgrounds. From her position as a professor and researcher on public space and tourism issues, she finds it interesting to participate in this debate as I consider that a great part of the discussion around Culture and Creativity, takes as a tangible space of expression, the urban space, created by several political, social forces but also exposed to and shaped by cultural dynamics. The Professor strongly believes that a discussion on the subject should include questions and fieldwork experiences concerning the way people inhabit their everyday environments, invest on public space, claim urbanity, etc. The shift that has been taking place after 2000 in actions linking cultural activities bottom-up to urban transformation. It’s a must to question the impacts of such a shift and to highlight the important connection with the debate about environmental crisis and rapid urbanization.

Since 2019 she holds the position of associate professor at the ENSAPM School of Architecture in Paris. Her research focus on urban walking, public space, soft mobility and tourism issues applied to spatial planning using both quantitative and qualitative methods and a variety of perspectives (economic, sociological, psychological) to study this area. Her teaching experience include topics of urban planning theory, urban tourism and fieldwork methodology. She is a member of the Research Laboratory AAU within the research team CRESSON (France). In 2022, she holds the position of Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, coordinating the master class course Contemporary Cities.
How is creativity helping cities? How important is it for a city to be creative, especially in our times – in a world of transitions?

Creativity is present from the very first moment to the creation of the City. The latter, as an amalgam of competences, cultures, is based on creativity for its existence, survival, and evolution. Not only does creativity accompany scientific progress but it also nourishes a wide range of professions structural for the function of the City as a social formation. Arts, Politics, but also everyday life are transcended by forms of creativity that lead people claiming sociability, change, citizenship, and a common future. In our days of recurrent crisis and uncertain destiny for many territories across the world, creativity is in fact a line raft that can bring people to find sense in everyday life, reason to keep hoping, to keep inventing solutions to problems, and to believe in a shared world worthy of being inhabited and protected.

Free online Lithuanian for beginners course

Are you interested in learning Lithuanian? Join free online Lithuanian for beginners course!

This course is open to all the students, academic and non-academic staff of Arqus universities.

The course will run from 2nd October 2023 to 30th January 2024, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:00 am (CET).

More information and registration: https://arqus-alliance.eu/event/arqus-a1-online-lithuanian-course/">https://arqus-alliance.eu/event/arqus-a1-online-lithuanian-course/

This autumn, the Academic Singing Studio of Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty VENI GAUDERE will invite to the concert "Akimirkos" (Eng. "Moments") in three towns.

September 16 (Saturday) 6:00 PM

At the old Zapyškis St. John the Baptist Church (Bažnyčios St. 11, Zapyškis) (18 km away from Kaunas. There is a bus from Kaunas Bus Station to Zapyškis.)

September 19 (Tuesday) 6:00 PM

At the Holly Trinity Church in Ukmergė (Kauno st. 1, Ukmergė)  (74 km away from Kaunas. There is a bus from Kaunas Bus Station to Ukmergė.)

September 23 (Saturday) after 6:00 PM St. Mass

At the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Palanga (Vytauto St. 51, Palanga) (241 km away from Kaunas. There is a bus from Kaunas Bus Station to Palanga.)

The singers of the studio are led by Adelė Mikalkėnienė. The Studio was founded in 2006. Students and alumni of various specialties sing in it. In pursuit of high vocal culture, VENI GAUDERE singers regularly participate in the international competitions. They have won gold diplomas in the "Kaunas Cantat" competition (Lithuania), gold diplomas and GRAND PRIX in the "Canco Mediterrania" competition (Spain), the special prize of F. Chopin University "For unique sound culture" in the competition "Cantu Gaudeamus" (Poland), also they have held a concert tour in Japan.

The concert program will feature sacral and secular works by European composers. The main highlight of the concert is the cycle for women's choir "Akimirkos" – "Moments" composed by Lithuanian composer Dalia Kairaitytė.

THE EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE.

The 18th prof. Vladas Gronskas international scientific conference returns this year on 1 December, hosted by Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty (Muitinės str. 8, Kaunas LT-44280). Traditionally, the conference will include not only the presentations in the conference sections, but also the presentations of invited guests.

The conference invites Master and PhD students, as well as other researchers working in the field of social sciences and applied informatics to share their discoveries and establish academic contacts at the most important classical (comprehensive) university of science in Lithuania! Students who want to deepen their knowledge in the fields of Economics, Finance, Management, Business Administration, Marketing and are eager to get acquainted with the subtleties of these fields are also invited to participate.

The conference will be held on 1 December 2023 at the VU Kaunas Faculty.

The language of the conference is English.

Those who want to participate in the conference as speakers or audience members can register until 3 November 2023 by filling out this form.

Read more about the conference here: 18th prof. V. Gronskas international scientific conference.

Community Folklore Party with Uosinta

The Kaunas Faculty folklore ensemble UOSINTA invites you to the community party. Bring some good mood, wear comfortable shoes for active games and dances, meet new friends and enjoy some fun!

The event will take place on 13 September (Wednesday) at 19:00 EET (7 pm) at the Linden courtyard. See you there!

At the 15th International Conference on "Culture & Creativity" Prof. Dr. Berna Kurt Kemaloğlu (Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Turkey) is willing to share her experience in choreographic processes and explore how they deal with gender and race issues in dance. Referring to different dance productions, she focuses on the principal dramaturgical aim to break the orientalist, erotic, and exotic belly dance images and the related audience expectations. The scientist investigates different forms of creativity in movement and sound that enable us to show that “a different belly dance” is possible.

Since 2018 Prof. Dr. Berna Kurt Kemaloğlu, a performing arts scholar, who works as a pdramaturg in Berlin-based choreographer Tümay Kılınçel’s projects on belly dance, intertwins her academic research and creative work. Her dance experience and studies on the historical and socio-political contexts of dance in Turkey enable the scientist to check how a performance will work in front of an audience.

Dear researchers, 

The Lithuanian Research Council, promoting the development of the system of internships for young scientists after doctoral studies and raising the scientific qualifications of interns, announces a call for proposals for the projects of posdoctoral studies. 

Deadline for submission of the applications: 30 September 2023. 

Duration of the project: 24 months. The start of the project implementation must fall within the interval of 15.01.2024 - 31.03.2024. 

Budget of the project: up to 100 000 Eur. Funds must be planned for the entire duration of the project and for each calendar year. The research supervisor salary costs are not included in the project cost estimate.