ERASMUS+ Teaching visit in Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW
Professor Eglė Jotautienė and assoc. professor Antanas Juostas from Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Safety visited Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW by “Erasmus+” teaching mobility program (Staff Mobility for Teaching). https://www.sggw.pl/en/
Professors and researchers of VDU Agricultural Academy and Warsaw University of Life Sciences has long collaboration history according ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility for Teaching and Training program and participating in Conferences and organizing projects. The origins of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS – SGGW)* dated back to 1816, to the creation of the Institute of Agronomy in Marymont, the first agricultural institution of higher education in Poland and only the fourth one in Europe. The Institute offered programs at two levels: the higher level, intended for the administrators and management, as well as for sons of large landowners, and the elementary level, for agricultural labourers.
Prof. Eglė Jotautienė presented the study programs and mobility of ERASMUS+ possibilities in Vytautas Magnus University of Agriculture Academy. Eglė Jotautienė and Antanas Juostas presented the lectures on topics: “Telemetry systems in agriculture and yield mapping handling, data management”, “Spreading of granulated organic fertilizer by centrifugal fertilizer spreader” and „Innovative technologies in agrimachinery”. Master degree students and professors paid big interest on the topics presented during the lectures and seminars. There has been good discussion and interesting questions about Precision Agriculture and Organic Fertilizer.
Dr. hab. Dariusz Gozdowski has presented the laboratories. He shortly explained the areas of research. There was great possibility to find out good experience in organization of studies, other teaching methods, communication culture between teachers and students.
This visit has gave great opportunity receive and exchange the specific and new information in the development of research projects and research tests. The gained experience will be useful for enhancing the quality of studies at our university. The visit has given an opportunity for exchanging the ideas on future education and research cooperation, improving the academic relations between departments and student’s mobility and enhancing the studies direction towards the research results utilization to business.
Open Competition for University Fee Exemptions for Spring Semester
Vytautas Magnus university (VMU) has launched an open competition for university fee exemptions for Spring semester 2019/2020. The purpose of the competition is to achieve the mission of socially responsible university by reducing social exclusion, creating appropriate financial conditions for VMU students to be accommodated and (or) study (taking into account different social (material) situations, study results and (or) accommodation in the dormitory).
University fee exemptions for Spring semester 2019/2020 may be granted at a rate of up to 100% to cover:
TUITION FEES, and this exemption may be granted for students of a full-time bachelor, master or integrated studies:
- who are currently in a difficult social (material) situation;
- whose grades (taking into account credits) average for the last examination session is not lower than 8 (eight).
ACCOMMODATION FEES, and this exemption may be granted for students of a full-time bachelor, master, PhD or integrated studies, who are currently living in the dormitory of VMU and who have concluded Agreement for Accommodation, which is valid until June 30th, 2020, based on:
- social (material) situation;
- dormitory and room type, where student is being accommodated (NOTE: students, who are currently living in a single-bed room of the dormitory cannot be awarded accommodation fee exemption).
University fee exemptions through the open competition may be awarded as a matter of priority, by taking into account social (material) status, for:
- Orphans, students who were granted custody or guardianship until adulthood or who have lost both of their parents (both of the parents have passed away);
- Students with disabilities;
- Students from the families with large number of children (there are four or more children in the family, who are currently students, school pupil or minors, and who are not older than 24 years).
Given the social (material) status, students must provide following documents for the competition:
- Orphans: original documents of the death certificates of your mother and father, with official translations to Lithuanian, English or Russian languages with the translator’s stamp attached.
- Students with disabilities: original document, which proves your disability with official translations to Lithuanian, English or Russian languages with the translator’s stamp attached.
- Students from the families with large number of children:
- Original certificate of family composition with official translations to Lithuanian, English or Russian languages with the translator’s stamp attached;
- Original documents/certificates which proves age of your brothers and sisters with official translations to Lithuanian, English or Russian languages with the translator’s stamp attached.
Students who are willing to apply for fee exemptions, has to complete an electronic application form and submit (upload) documents, which proves social (material) status of the family, together with official translations to Lithuanian, English or Russian languages with the translator’s stamp attached. This must be done no later than by February 16th, 2020. Results of the open competition will be published by March 1st, 2020, by personally informing students about it by an email send to the emails address, which was indicated in the Application Form.
Tuition fee and accommodation fees exemptions shall be awarded by taking into account all the support granted for the student by VMU, awarded scholarships, granted exemptions and (or) size of the fees paid for the University and given the support and (or) scholarships awarded from the State budget funds, private legal or natural persons.
More information
Application for University Fee Exemption, Spring Semester 2019/2020
Visit to Bialystok university of technology
Lecturers from the Bioeconomy Development Faculty of Business and Rural Development Research Institute doc. dr. Lina Marcinkeviciute and lector Jolanta Vilkeviciute visited BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY under the ERASMUS+ staff training programme during 15 – 17 of January 2020 .
Bialystok University of Technology (BUT) was established in 1949 and has a long tradition of educating engineers and young scientists. Now in the university are studding 8,500 students and working 660 teachers – experts in their fields. Bialystok University of Technology has 7 Faculties (Departments).
Lecturers L. Marcinkeviciute and J. Vilkeviciute participated in plenary and group sessions, discussion forums as well as workshops of staff training week “Building strategies and tools for Innovation Ecosystem Internationalization”.
In the event was shared thoughts, experiences and best practices of tools for development of academic international entrepreneurship. Also discussed strategies for building a network for Internationalization Innovation Ecosystem.
During the visit was been presented faculty of Bioeconomy Development of Agriculture Academy of Vytautas magnus University, study programmes and main research fields.
More about this staff training week you can found: https://pb.edu.pl/2020/01/15/international-staff-training-week-na-politechnice-bialostockiej
VMU Academy of Agriculture researchers were visiting milk farms in Finland
On January 7-11, 2020 Assoc prof. Jolita Greblikaitė and lecturer Rolandas Rakštys (Vytautas Magnus University, Academy of Agriculture) were visiting milk farms at Finland, Tampere region. This visit is a part of the project with the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture, devoted to typical farms models‘ creation, their scientific and economic evaluation and grounding. Researchers were visiting one big farm (250 cows) and one middle siza farm (40 cows) in Finland. The interest spheres of the visit were related with technological, ingineering, finansial and economic decisions in milk farms. The futire development of the farms and milk sector in Finland was discussed.
VMU AA Graduation ceremony
MARHER project – 1st Meeting in Brussels
Dr. Rasa Pranskūnienė and Erika Zabulioniene from Bioeconomy Development Faculty, Business and Rural Development Research Institute has attended the first meeting of partners in the Erasmus+ Strategic partnerships KA2 project – Heritage Marketing for competitiveness of Europe in the global market (acronym MARHER). The first meeting of partners took place at CBE (Cooperation Bancaire Pour l’Europe) in Brussels (Belgium) on the 5th and 6th of December. The meeting was attended by representatives of 6 project partners, including two universities: Syddansk Universitet (Denmark), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and four companies: Danitacom (Denmark), I-Strategies (Italy), CBE (Belgium) and FVB S.R.L (Italy).
The project, which has a two years implementation period, aims to create the new professional figure (the Heritage Marketer), creative and innovative, able to help companies to valorize, in terms of heritage marketing and brand reputation, their own history and that of their brands and products. As well this project seeks to improve the competitiveness of European companies by enhancing what characterizes and differentiates Europe from other continents and markets: its secular history, to improve the brand reputation of companies by allowing them, on the one hand, to better communicate their stories and ethical practices (pushing them to intensify them); to improve the employability of young graduates in humanities who, in the periodic employment rankings of recent graduates, are systematically in the last positions.
Visit to the Khmelnitsky National University
Professor Juozas Padgurskas (Institute of the Transport and Machinery Engineering) visited Khmelnitsky National University on 02 – 06 December2019 (https://www.khnu.km.ua/root/page.aspx?l=0&r=8&p=26880).
Khmelnitsky National University – is the largest higher educational institution in Podolia region. The University was founded in 1962.
The main aim of the visit is to provide a course of lectures on green tribology, engineering materials testing, to educate the students who can follow engineering testing developments and apply it in the research.
Prospects for further cooperation in the educational field were discussed in the meeting with V. Oleksandrenko, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering mechanics, S. Posonsky, the Deputy Dean, A. Dykha, the Head of the Department of Tribology, Automobiles and Materials Science and with the staff of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Mandziuk I., Prysiazhna K. and Ivanishena T.
ERASMUS+ teaching visit to Cady Ayyad university, Morocco
Assoc. prof. dr. Dalia Perkumiene and lecturer dr. Rasa Pranskuniene from Bioeconomy Development Faculty, Business and Rural Development Research Institute have visited Cady Ayyad university, (Morroco) during the 24th – 30th of November. They were invited by prof. Youssef Makloul and PhD student Jaouad Chaab from National School of Commerce and Management in Marrakesh. PhD student Jaouad Chaab, writing the PhD thesis about sustainable development and responsible tourism, has spent 2019 spring semester at VDU Agriculture Academy. During their visit Dalia and Rasa presented the lectures for the fifth year students in the fields of Law and Tourism and the communicative aspects via the use of the social networks like channels of communication. As well, they discussed the possibilities for exchange studies at VDU Agriculture Academy. During the stay at the Cady Ayyad University the possible cooperation in research, the inter-university cooperation within the framework of the Erasmus+ program establish and strengthen the scientific cooperation were discussed as well.
Cady Ayyad university is a university in Marrakesh and one of the largest universities in Morocco. Cady Ayyad university was established in 1978 and operates institutions in the Marrakesh-Safi region of Morocco in four main cities, including Kalaa of Sraghna, Essaouira and Safi in addition to Marrakesh. Cady Ayyad University has 13 institutions which are: Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Faculty of Law, Economic and Social Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques; Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacie, National School of Applied Sciences, National School of Commerce and Management and Ecole Normale Supérieure, all in Marrakesh; Ecole Supérieure de Technologie in Essaouira; University Center in Kelaa of Essraghna; Ecole Supérieure de Technologie, Faculté Polydisciplinaire and National School of Applied Sciences in Safi.
Building networks for the future starts
Vice dean of Faculty of Forest Sciences and Ecology dr. Aida Stiklienė and assoc. prof. dr. Daiva Šileikienė from the Institute of Environment and Ecology visited the University of Applied sciences (AERES) during the 02 – 06 of December. At the beginning of training mobility was visit to university, to Agri Innovation Centre and meeting in International Cooperation Department. During International visit we met participants from more than 15 countries and colleagues of Aeres. Participants shared their experience of billaterial study changes, and discussed the possibilities of future study collaboration during the meetings. dr. Aida Stiklienė and assoc. prof. dr. Daiva Šileikienė visited the main laboratories of animals welfare, greenhouses of Aeres.
ERASMUS+ training visit to University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
In November 25–29 associated professor Rytis Skominas from the Faculty of Water and Land Management and associated professor Bernardas Vaznonis from the Faculty of Bioeconomy Development participated in 7th International Staff Week, organized by University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. During International Staff Week the biggest attention was given for Erasmus+ mobility organization problems, Erasmus digitalization possibilities (Erasmus without papers), preparation of double and joint degree programmes, improvement of intercultural communication and language skills, presentation of different departments of University of South Bohemia. The Staff Week had the following elements: lectures, group discussions using a brainstorming format, workshops.
During the visit to University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice not only training activities were attended, but also were discussed future collaboration possibilities in research and study projects between VMU and University of South Bohemia.
