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VMU Deeply Shaken by Loss of Prof. Leonidas Donskis

The community of VMU as well as the entire country have been deeply shaken by a great loss: we are mourning for Professor Leonidas Donskis, a respectable and beloved colleague, friend and academic, and one of the most prominent thinkers of Lithuania. Professor Donskis was a philosopher, political th...

Conference “The dynamics of Polish-Lithuanian relations” 

On 15-16 September the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas together with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Vilnius and the Polish Institute in Vilnius are organizing a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Poland and Lithuania "The dyn...

Fulbright Experience

First of all, it is completely impossible to describe my Fulbright experience in few pages or in hundreds of pages. The reason is simple. Imagine that you have never tasted chocolate. You can read a bunch of books about chocolate, know the recipe and the smell of it, write a dissertation about it, b...

VMU to Celebrate Start of New Academic Year

Students, lecturers and employees – all members of VMU community are invited to celebrate the start of the new academic year by participating in the traditional events of 1 September. They will conclude the introductory week dedicated to the welcoming of first year students. As usual, festivities...

Public lectures by Alpo Rusi

19-23 September, public lectures by prof. Alpo Rusi, visiting professor at Vytautas Magnus University, will be held. Prof. A. Rusi served in the Foreign Ministry of Finland in several assignments (Hamburg, Copenhagen, New York, Bonn), and from 1994 to 1999 as foreign policy adviser to the Preside...

A. Rusi. European Energy Security

Prof. Alpo Rusi, a visiting professor at Vytautas Magnus UniversityE  European Energy Security - Is the EU too weak to compete with the Energy Companies and to contain Russian geopolitical pressure based on energy interdependence? Nord Stream 2 is a case in point. My intention is to introduce a co...