Dear members of the Kaunas Faculty community,

The anticipation of the 60th Faculty winter holidays inspire gratitude and pride, invite to focus and reward with the blessing of having completed the year's work.

Thank you for your contribution to fostering a distinctive identity at Vilnius University together, to representing academic values with integrity, and to shaping tomorrow's questions today.

May this Christmas be as bright and inspiring as the ideas that change the world. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Giedrius Romeika,
The Dean of Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty

On 6-7 December, Dr. Omonboy Khalmuratov, the Deputy Director for Education at the Urgench Faculty of Tashkent University of Information Technologies, and Dr. Otabek Khujaev, the Head of the Department of Information Technology at Tashkent University of Information Technologies, visited VU Kaunas Faculty.

During the meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and the heads of the administration, the matters of joint projects, research, and exchange of lecturers, students, and researchers were discussed, as well as the possibilities of further international cooperation were outlined.

VU Kaunas Faculty and Tashkent University of Information Technologies established relations three years ago when representatives of Kaunas Faculty were visiting Uzbekistan. After the Faculty won an Erasmus+ grant for cooperation with this university, Kaunas Faculty representatives had the opportunity to visit the Urgench branch in the spring. The return visit of the Uzbek colleagues demonstrates the mutual aspiration to develop international cooperation and the desire to promote exchanges between academic communities, which allows the sharing of experience and knowledge.

On 24 January, 13:00 EET the VU Kaunas Faculty will hold a graduation ceremony for the class of Winter 2025 at the Lithuanian Basketball House (Santakos Str. 33, Kaunas). 

Diplomas will be awarded to Lithuanian and international graduates of the Bachelor programmes Information Systems and Cyber Security and Marketing Technologies and the Master programmes: Art Management, Financial Technology, and Sustainable Financial Economics.

The ceremony will also be streamed live on the VU Kaunas Faculty Youtube channel and the VU Kaunas Faculty Facebook page.

Have a great time at the ceremony!

VU Kaunas Faculty is excited to invite you to an online lecture featuring Siranuš Barščiauskė and Neringa Eidukienė from Visma Tech Lietuva. The meeting will be held in English.

Date: 13 December 2024
Time: 10:00
Location: MS Teams link to join

During the session, the guests will discuss project management practices, the Agile and No Management methods applied at Visma Tech Lietuva, as well as the tools they use to streamline their processes.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and engage in a Q&A session with industry professionals!

The lecture is organised by Dr Dovilė Balevičienė, the lecturer of the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics of VU Kaunas Faculty.

The doctoral student of the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics at VU Kaunas Faculty Mahyar Kamali Saraji (social sciences, economics (S 004)) will defend his PhD thesis “Analyzing Challenges to the Low-Carbon Energy Transition in the EU”.

The defence will take place on 10 December 2024 at 10:00, in the Auditorium No 10, Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty. Address: Muitinės Str. 14, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Language of the dissertation defence: English.

Scientific advisor – Prof. Dr (HP) Dalia Štreimikienė

Dissertation Defence Board:

Prof. Dr Jelena Stankevičienė – Chair of the Board (Vilnius University, social sciences, economics – S 004);

Prof. Dr Diana Cibulskienė (Vilnius University, social sciences, economics – S 004);

Prof. Dr Rasa Kanapickienė (Vilnius University, social sciences, economics – S 004);

Prof. Dr Astrida Miceikienė (Vytautas Magnus University, social sciences, economics – S 004);

Prof. Dr Tudor Edu (Romanian – American University, social sciences, management – S 003).

Doctoral Dissertation

 “GAISO project is an important step not only in the field of cyber security, but also in the academic context of scientific research, when the systems that allow easier identification of cyber threats and more effective management of them are being developed. It is exciting that the researchers of the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics can contribute to solving important contemporary problems in scientific practice with their knowledge and research,” says Assist. Dr Indrė Ščiukauskė, the director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics, Vilnius University (VU) Kaunas Faculty. The research project “Research on Cyber Resilience Through Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Chief Information Security Officer Operations – GAISO” is financed by the Research Council of Lithuania.

The project financed under the designated programme "Information technologies for the development of science and knowledge society" will contribute to the activities of this programme in order to achieve the use of artificial intelligence research with high applied potential for new scientific and technological results and new research directions, as well as newly emerging and rapidly developing scientific areas important for the research development in cyber security.

On 25 October, 2024, on the second day of the international scientific conference "Beyond Words: Persuasive Narratives and Multimodal Discourse", the monograph "Approaches to Multimodality: Rhetoric and Stylistics in Public Discourse" was presented to Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty community and the conference participants.

This volume was prepared by the research group "Multimodality in Public Discourse", working at the Institute of Languages, Literature and Translation Studies of Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty. The members of this research group are Assoc. Prof. Dr Saulutė Juzelėnienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Skirmantė Šarkauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Rita Baranauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Gabrėnaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Skirmantė Biržietienė, and Assoc. Prof. Dr Jurgita Kerevičienė. The monograph was edited by Assoc. Prof. Dr Saulutė Juzelėnienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Skirmantė Šarkauskienė and Assoc. Prof. Dr Rita Baranauskienė and published by the internationally renowned publishing house Brill (https://brill.com/display/title/69417).

Dr Edgaras Abromavičius, Head of Esports and Games at the Lithuanian Football Federation, lecturer and researcher in interactive media marketing, teaches esports management and media communication at Vilnius University Business School. His research and practice in the esports and gaming industry is aimed at developing international sports projects. He has already contributed to the organisation of the FIBA Esports World Championship, developed the Lithuanian football and basketball esports teams, and joined the development of the esports area of Fenerbahçe Club.

He will present how esports innovation is helping sports organisations expand internationally and achieve incredible results at the 19th Prof. Vladas Gronskas International Scientific Conference on 29 November.

Esports potential in Lithuania is not yet realised

According to Abromavičius, the growth of the esports industry in Lithuania is obvious and the potential is great, both in organisational and sporting terms. He is convinced that the potential of esports will be realised when the talents and the organisations that support them unite. This will allow the establishment of a particularly high value-added industry in Lithuania.

"We have talented players who can reach heights, and sports organisations and universities are actively contributing to the development of this field by providing the necessary support and building infrastructure. The biggest challenges we face are the building of the right infrastructure and consistent player development," he says.