RURALYOUTH project – 1st Meeting

Assoc. prof. Rasa Pranskūnienė and Erika Zabulionienė from Bioeconomy Development Faculty, Business and Rural Development Research Institute has attended the first online meeting of partners in the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for youth project “Empowering rural tourism through entreprenuership with youth” (acronym RURALYOUTH). Meeting took place at 7th of December and was hosted by Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey).

The meeting was attended by representatives of 6 project partners, including: project coordinator: Eskisehir Osmangazi University (Turkey) and project partners: Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia), University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), ProEduca z.s. (Czech Republic). During the meeting partners have shared their institutional presentations, as well the representants of consortium worked on a plan for future project activities.

The project, which has a 24 month implementation period, forms a lifelong education system for tourism students, who would like to be the entrepreneurs in rural areas.

The project creates actions to improve knowledge of agricultural, touristic, rural, cultural and entrepreneurship among young people and will prevent miss-match for tourism students. With this project, which was formed with 6 partners, it was aimed to support the development of rural areas, to support lifelong learning, to increase awareness of the nationality through education and technology-based distance education model and to develop action plans in line with the European Youth Strategy.

SMARTRURAL: Train the Trainers. We learn to teach our students

The Project is Starting – ERASMUS+ New Master’s Degree Curricula for Sustainable Bioeconomy in Uzbekistan (BioEcUz)

The aim of the project is to contribute to the development of sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth in Uzbekistan. Specific objectives: to develop new, innovative bioeconomy related master level curricula; to improve the level of competences and skills in three Uzbekistan’s HEIs to create and deliver content supporting and encouraging country’s sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth; to enhance involved HEIs internationalisation and innovation capacities; to share EU good practices in development and implementation of bioeconomy approach, thus supporting Uzbekistan in its intentions to deploy local bioeconomy sectors.

Project leader – Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Partners: Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), JAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Tashkent State Agrarian University (Uzbekistan), Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (Uzbekistan), Bukhara State University (Uzbekistan), Ministry of Agriculture of Republic of Uzbekistan.

Project manager – M.Sc. Irīna Kulitāne. Project co-ordinator – prof. dr. Vilija Aleknevičienė (VMU)

Project duration 2021–2023.

ONLINE MEETING OF SMARTRURAL PROJECT PARTNERS

The third meeting of the SMARTRURAL project partners (Erasmus + KA203 project – Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Towards smart rural tourism development in Europe) took place on 15th October, 2020. It concerns modern forms of education in the field of rural development and rural tourism. The meeting was online due to the pandemic situation. It was hosted by the University of Alicante (Spain). The partners in the project shared information on the implemented activities, including the results of the evaluation of training program prepared by specialists from 7 countries and evaluated by External and Internal Advisory Boards. In the next months, it is planned to teach the trainers, who in next step will conduct trainings on intelligent solutions for rural tourism destinations (pilot phase). The training will be attended by students from 7 countries, including Czech Republic, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey. Finally students will prepare projects for 5 pilot towns (in each country) where rural tourism is developing. The next meeting is planned at the Pegaso Universita Telematica in Naples (Italy), if the pandemic situation allows it.

We encourage you to follow the information on the project website http://smartrural.uwm.edu.pl

Project number: 2019-1-TR01-KA203-073781

Disclaimer: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN ONLINE CONFERENCE ON BIOECONOMY AS A CENTRAL PILLAR DURING COVID-19

The Horizon 2020 project BE-Rural invite you to its mid-term conference “Exploring the bioeconomy as a central pillar of regional recovery plans during and after COVID-19”. The conference will take place online on 8 September 2020 at 14:00 CEST.

The objective of the online event is to explore the extent to which the implementation of a bioeconomy concept can leverage the reactivation of regional economies across Europe. During the conference, the following questions will be answered:

How is the current crisis an opportunity to trigger systemic change?
Who is already incorporating the bioeconomy concept into their recovery plans and actions?
How do (short-term) recovery plans fit with bioeconomy strategies (which have a longer-term vision)?
How resilient is our current notion of the EU bioeconomy, and can it help us navigate future crises?

See the preliminary programme.

Registration: https://forms.ecologic.eu/be-rural-conference

Факультет является лидером в области подготовки бухгалтеров и финансовых специалистов!

Факультет является лидером в области подготовки бухгалтеров и финансовых специалистов! 💻💶📈

Присоединяйтесь к вебинару здесь: https://ac.vdu.lt/trd/

Больше информации о программе: https://www.vdu.lt/en/study/program/overview/316/

We cordially invite you to a lecture DIH – a Gateway to the Digital AgriFood Sector Future

We cordially invite you to a lecture DIH – a gateway to the digital AgriFood sector future. Or is the future now? by Kristina Šermukšnytė-Alešiūnienė,DIH Coordinator at AgriFood Lithuania DIH, hosted by VMU Agriculture Academy Faculty of Bioeconomy Development. Lecture will be held on 28 May 2020 at 10:00 (EEST). Registration is now open and required.

To register, please enter your details using the link below:

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Once we receive your registration – we will provide you with further instructions.

Kristina Sermuksnyte-Alesiuniene is a DIH Coordinator at AgriFood Lithuania DIH. She has more than 10 years experience working as Senior Product Development and Innovation Manager with innovations, information technology and services, ICT products in AgriFood sector. For the past two years she has been A Chairman of Agribusiness Commission at Lithuanian Business Confederation, cooperating closely with governmental institutions. Last December in the workshop, organized by European Commission on AgriFood digitalization, she was invited to represent AgriFood Lithuania DIH, as it was selected among the top 5 most actively working DIH’s in EU.

AgriFood Lithuania is a Digital Innovation Hub that brings together major research, business and public stakeholders in Lithuania for the common pursuit of digital transformations in the agriculture, food and associated sectors.

The mission of AgriFood Lithuania DIH is to contribute towards achieving the vision outlined in the EU Declaration of ‘A smart and sustainable digital future for European agriculture and rural areas’ and strengthen the national and European technological infrastructure.

The DIH links stakeholders with international and cross-sector initiatives to provide all-round support in the research, development and deployment of AgriFood Tech innovations.

For more information, please contact ausra.nausediene@vdu.lt

For Students Attention

Invitation to register for free online seminars on bioeconomy

We would like to draw your attention to the online webinar series of the BIOEASTsUP project, “Advancing Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy in Central and Eastern European Countries”, where an overview of the BIOEAST initiative and the BIOEASTsUP project will be presented. The webinars will provide a comprehensive review of how the BIOEASTsUP project helps the BIOEAST countries in developing national bioeconomy strategies & action plans, building a strategic research and innovation agenda (SRIA) for evidence-based policy making and engaging national stakeholders. The content is designed to contribute towards bioeconomy knowledge of all relevant stakeholders in the BIOEAST network.

1. 21 May 2020, 10:00 CET – Introduction to BIEOEASTsUP activities (open to everyone)

2. 28 May 2020, 13:00 CET – BIOEASTsUP BIO HUBs and national platforms for bioeconomy strategies development (open to BIOEAST NCPs, members of national BAIMG and Stakeholder Groups, TWG and BIOEASTsUP members)

3. 5 June 2020, 10:00 CET – Indicators and statistical evidence for bioeconomy development (open to BIOEAST NCPs, members of national BAIMG and Stakeholder Groups, TWG and BIOEASTsUP members)

4. 15 June 2020, 10:00 CET – Developing multi-stakeholder partnerships and co-creation for boosting the uptake of bioeconomy in CEE (open to everyone)

5. 09 July 2020, 10:00 CET – Planning sectoral analysis and exchange of good practices for bioeconomy value chains (open to everyone)

Registration is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/BIOEASTsUP_Webinar_series_2020

More about the project: https://bioeast.eu/

Webinar: Study opportunities for students and graduates from colleges/universities at VMU Faculty of Bioeconomy Development

We invite You to join a live webinar to discuss study opportunities for students and graduates from Lithuanian colleges/universities of applied sciences at the Faculty of Bioeconomy Development of Vytautas Magnus University.

Webinar will take place on May 18th at 3 p.m. Join webinar in here: https://ac.vdu.lt/trd/

Using your internet browser (Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer is recommended) access the link that you were given, select “Enter as a guest“, type the Name and press “Enter Room“ button. Microphone and webcam are not compulsory, unless you wish.

Information flyer about study opportunities for students and graduates from colleges/universities at VMU Faculty of Bioeconomy Development