INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN ONLINE LECTURES OF VISITING PROFESSOR BAIBA RIVŽA

We kindly invite You to participate in online lectures of visiting Professor Baiba Rivza
(University of Life Sciences and Technologies).

Lectures will be held on March 1-13, remotely (online) using “Adobe Connect” platform.

(Login link will be send to You the day before the lectures begin).

Lectures will be in English, detailed lecture plan with topics and lecture times – in the annex.

A link to join the lectures will be send to You after registration. To registrate click here.

We sincerely invite you to participate in the lectures to expand your field of knowledge!

Meeting with representative of Bio-based industries consortium Nelo Emerencia

The meeting with Nelo Emerencia, a representative of the Bio – Industry Consortium (BIC) was held on 9th of February, 2021. The event was attended by representatives of science, business and the public sector. During the presentation, Nelo Emerencia acquainted participants with activities, functions and importance of the BIC for the bioeconomy industry, reviewed the best practices of BIC projects and shared useful advices on finding partners and submitting applications. There were interesting discussions during the meeting. Business representatives were mostly interested in the possibilities of getting involved in international projects, and representatives of the public sector discussed the possibilities for improvement of activities of bioeconomy sector in Lithuania. Nelo Emerencia assured the participants that Lithuania has a great potential in the field of bioeconomy, as well as all opportunities to get involved in the activities and projects carried out by BIC.

More information about BIC: https://biconsortium.eu/bio-based-industries-consortium

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Bachelors of the Rural Development Administration study program have successfully prepared and publicly defended their final works. Their topics were: Strategic directions of Lazdijai district development; Prevention of Poverty in the Kasai Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Population Employment Strategy in Rural Areas in Ghana, Promotion of Rural Population Enterpreneurship in Bandagry Distict of Lagos, Strategies for Cultural Tourism Development in Lekki-EPE of Lagos, Public-Private Partnership for (Transportation) Service Sector Development in Lagos Mainland.

Congratulations wishing success to Bachelor of Public Administration, which will join the rural development management.

Invitation to the meeting with representative of Bio-based industries consortium Nelo Emerencia

Bio-based industries consortium (BIC) is a non-profit organization set up in Brussels in 2013. BIC represents the private sector in a Public-Private Partnership with the European Commission, also known as the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking. This public-private partnership aimed to invest € 3.7 billion in bio-based innovation between 2014 and 2020. BIC members cover the entire bio-based value chain and consist of large industries, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), regional clusters, European trade associations, and European Technology Platforms. More information: https://biconsortium.eu/.

During the meeting, you will get acquainted with the activities, functions and importance of BIC for the Bio-based industries, as well as the application calls for 2021 period and best practice examples of implemented projects.

Registration (till 5th of February)

Contact person for the event:

Anastasija Novikova anastasija.novikova@vdu.lt +37067261959

Greetings

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