Business and Social Partnership Center
The Business and Social Partnership Centre (BSPC) is a non-academic unit of the VMU Agriculture Academy established after the restructuring of the former Agricultural Science and Technology Park (ASTP). Our aim is to share knowledge and ideas, establish important contacts and carry out various activities. By retaining old partners and attracting new partners and customers, we strive to ensure that the public not only sees and hears about but also tries out the innovations presented.
The aim of the BSPC is to facilitate the Academy’s cooperation with business and social partners.
BSPC vision is to become a well-known, high-quality, and reliable partner for business and academia.
BSPC values:
- Professionalism
- Responsibility
- Innovative attitude
- Respect
- Quality
The Exhibition Organization Unit (EOU) promotes the name of the Academy by organizing national and international exhibitions and fairs in Lithuania. In total, the Academy has organised more than 100 national and international exhibitions and other events.
The BSPC has been hosting one of the major international agricultural exhibitions in the Baltics, “Ką pasėsi…”, for 25 years in a row. Around 300 businesses from Lithuania and abroad, as well as craftsmen, gardeners and national heritage promoters, take part in the exhibition. Each year, the exhibition attracts around 80 thousand visitors not only from Lithuania but also from neighbouring countries. We are delighted to be the first in Lithuania to implement a 3D virtual exhibition, which we can confidently refer to as an innovation. More than 1700 seminars were held during the exhibitions, making the exhibitions of the Academy a unique educational event in the field of agriculture. More than 300 medals were awarded to exhibitors for the most innovative, cutting-edge, and outstanding exhibits. The winners are selected by a competent jury.
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The Social Partnership Unit (SPU) organizes and delivers professional development, and non-degree programmes for farmers, agricultural advisors, innovation brokers, communities, NGOs, public and private sector workers, researchers, and other stakeholders. The aim is to enable the public to develop their competences to match state-of-the-art and to have access to recent and relevant scientific knowledge, thus promoting lifelong learning. The SPU initiates and coordinates cross-cutting and interdisciplinary, sectoral, national, and international partnership projects between researchers, experts and consultants, and farmers, communities, other associated structures, business and public sector institutions. The SPU aims to develop innovative forms of cooperation for high quality and integral agricultural knowledge and innovation transfer system. It also organises and develops partnerships and builds an information database dedicated to agricultural knowledge and innovation, open to all agricultural science and business, public authorities and other stakeholders at national and international level.
The Partnership Development Unit (PDU) initiates and coordinates partnership development projects between the internal units of the Agriculture Academy and with external business and social partners.
The PDU implements initiatives to strengthen partnerships between research, education and business; initiates business support projects at the Agriculture Academy.
The PDU contributes to the dissemination of scientific innovations, opening the Agriculture Academy spaces to businesses and the public, and improving the image of the Agriculture Academy and agriculture in general.
The BSPC is open to new ideas for joint activities. If you have suggestions and are looking for partners to help you implement them, we welcome you!
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CONTACTS
Director
Rita Petlickaitė
Phone +370 685 28646
E-mail rita.petlickaite@vdu.lt
Exhibition Organization Department
Department head
Dr. Rima Pranaitienė
Phone +370 377 52373
E-mail rima.pranaitiene@vdu.lt
Partnership Development Department
Department head
Audronė Arnašiutė
Phone +370 377 88121
E-mail audrone.arnasiute@vdu.lt
Department of Social Partnership
Department head
Aistė Čapienė
Phone +370 601 62564
E-mail aiste.capiene@vdu.lt
