Next week we kindly invite KSU students and others to open lectures at Kazimieras Simonavičius University given by international lecturers.

2 April – Lecturer Azra Ahmic from International University Travnik (Bosnia & Herzegovina) will give lecture “Sustainability Management”. Lecture will start at 8.30 in room no. 214.

6 April – Lecturer Rafal Ozarowski from University of Business and Administration in Gdynia (Poland) will give lecture “War in Syria as a battlefield of super and regional powers. The ways of seeking the conflict resolution”. Lecture will start at 14.20 in room no. 214.

On 7 – 8 March, Director of KSU Business School Deimantė Žilinskienė participates in the international conference “Entrepreneurship and Development from regional Perspective. Exchange of Academic Experiences among Erasmus+ Program Countries” where gives the report “Leading tendencies of regional development from the perspective of globalisation” and participates in the working group on international scientific cooperation in the fields of entrepreneurship and social innovation.

The conference is organised by KSU partner in Poland, University of Information Technology and Management.

Open inception workshop “Dos and Don’ts of Big Data for Foresight“ took place at Turku, Finland on 28 February, 2019. Workshop was organised by University of Turku (UT) (Finland) and Kazimieras Simonavičius University (KSU) (Lithuania) within the framework of KSU R&D project “Platforms of Big Data Foresight (PLATBIDAFO)”.

Participants from KSU, UT, other higher education institutions, public sector and industry discussed new models of Big Data and Future Foresight methodologies and their social and business applications. Speakers introduced innovative tools for identification and analysis of large-scale social issues, new mechanisms for business decision support and new approaches to strategic planning for decision-makers. Topics discussed at workshop included strategic positioning in Big Data utilisation, using world-class data science resources to create smart and wise Turku city, Big Data potential for integrated territorial policy development in the European growth corridors, new possibilities in crowdsourcing Delphi method in Future Foresight, using systematic Foresight tools (the case of Futures Platform).

The project “Platforms of Big Data Foresight (PLATBIDAFO)” is implemented by Big Data Excellence Centre at Kazimieras Simonavičius University and is financed by the Research Council of Lithuania. The project aims to create tools and methodologies, which will enable companies and organisations to tackle social problems by helping them to identify social exclusion, demographic change, regional development and other problems as well as spotting and predicting future trends.

On 11 February we kindly invite KSU students and others to open lectures at Kazimieras Simonavičius University by international lecturers.

Lecturer Ömer AYDINLIOĞLU from Cumhuriyet University (Turkey) will give lecture „Brand Placement in Turkey”. Lecture will start at 12.00 in room no. 204.

Professors Juan Manuel Barceló Sánchez ir Francisco Cabezuelo Lorenzo from University of Madrid (Spain) will give lecture „Communication strategies and intercultural communication in companies”. Lecture will start at 14.20 in room no. 214.

Lecturer Ozan Özpay from Cumhuriyet University (Turkey) will give lecture „History of Turkish cinema”. Lecture will start at 16.05 in room no. 204.

In 4th of December was organized first project „Platforms of big data foresight“ kickoff meeting with all project partners: dr. Jari Kaivo-oja, dr. Steffen Roth, Dr. Levan Bzhalava, dr. Theresa Lauraeus, Mikkel Knudsen, KSU  rector prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, doc. dr.  Austė Kiškienė, KSU cancler Darius Verbyla with dr. Mathew Ferns (via interet conference).  Lead partner Jari Kaivo-oja informed all participants on general requirements of project implementation, including financial aspects, communication and reporting needs. All project experts discussed about main tasks in project, project work plan and time schedule.

Project results will be extremely valuable for future foresight in long term perspective, forecasting various social, economic, geopolitical processes, e.g. forecasting behavior of refugees and also start operating Hackathon events in the field of Big Data Economy and Foresight.

The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

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Today KSU hosted 30 students and professors from Belarus. Lithuanian higher education system, KSU study programmes and internationalisation were presented to the representatives of Economics University and Technical University. There were discussed cooperation possibilities in frames of joint study programmes and modules, international projects and academic exchanges.

Kazimieras Simonavičius University together with 7 international partners successfully implemented the project “Investigating, Developing And Providing Awareness About Innovative Lesson Syllabus Implemented in Cyber Security Technologies in Information Technologies” which was financed under Erasmus+ Programme (Key Action 2 for Strategic Partnership).

Project partners:

• Zonguldak Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi, Turkey (the leading partner)
• Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey
• Buckinghamshire New University, UK
• Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Lithuania
• Institute for Work And Technology, Germany
• Asociación Empresarial de Ingeniería y Formación, Spain
• EPRALIMA Vocational School of Alto Lima, Portugal
• Ud’Anet Srl, Italy

Background of the project

The companies and public offices have taken some cyber security precautions in order to strengthen IT system security and protect information. Depending on these precautions, cyber security market is growing. The increasing potential of cyber security market is also bringing an increase in employment in information security field which increases 13 % every year. In January 2013, 2013-2014 Cyber Security Strategy has been prepared by European Commission in order to take precautions against the cyber-attacks which are performed continuously to the public offices and strategically important offices. Within the context of this strategy, it was decided that the demand of academic trainings in cyber security field is increasing.

The main aims of the project were the following:

• Disseminating cyber security issues in formal and non-formal education
• Adding cyber security to the curriculum of computer programming departments in vocational schools
• Raising awareness about secure use of internet and secure internet services
• Improving and disseminating the service in this sector
• Fostering research & development activities in this context
• Broadening the pool of skilled workers capable of supporting a cyber-secure nation
• Fostering development and skills of teachers and trainers and founding partnership by focusing on the education of company trainers and partners in work-based education, school teachers and company trainers

During the project the following intellectual outputs were created:

• Cyber Security Lesson Curriculum
• E-Learning Platform
• Cyber Security Book
• Cyber Security Education Curriculum QR Code Application
• Reviewing and Analysing European Practice in Cyber Security Education

The project was implemented on 01.09.2016 – 30.11.2018.

More information on the project and its outcomes is available on the following website www.cybersecurityplus.org.

Kazimieras Simonavičius University starts working on a unique and ambitious project – Platforms of big data foresight. Project aim to create new type digital Big Data plaƞorms that allow us create, organize and use digital content for economic and social well being of society using new methods joining Big Data and Future Foresight methodologies

The project is prepared on the basis of the smart specialisaton ‘Inclusive and creatve society’, which is designed to address the challenges and trends of the future, with partcular attenton to the uneven economic and regional development problems. The main result of the project – the Big data plaƞorm for future foresights – is a tool for identfying and analysing societal issues, antcipating future development scenarios and selectng appropriate strategies for their decision. Great data and informaton technologies are used to tailor future insight methodologies for the development of social and economic welfare. Future Foresight is a methodology of social science (political science, management and Administratve sciences) designed to identify existng social problems and to antcipate scenarios for the development of various social phenomena. Great data and other tools being investgated in the project enables the use of this methodology to address public Development, business development, economic growth and other challenges and opens up new ways and means of more effectve and accurate antcipaton of future scenarios and the choice of acton strategies.

The leader of the project is Dr Jari Kaivo-oja is international expert in the field of foresight and innovaton studies. He is reviewer in 15 scientfic journals. Currently he is foresight researcher in the Radical Innovation Breaktrough Inquirer, R&D project (RIBRI) in cooperation with Fraunhofer ISI (Germany) and Institutul de Prospectva (Romania).

Project results will be extremely valuable for future foresight in long term perspective, forecasting various social, economic, geopolitical processes, e.g. forecasting behavior of refugees and also start operating Hackathon events in the field of Big Data Economy and Foresight.

The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

On 19-23 November KSU hosted the 2^nd session of International Aviation School which is the part of Erasmus+ project „Spread your wings“. The 1^st session of International Aviation School took part in October in Poland. Aviation Management students from University of Information Technology and Management (Poland), Transport and Telecommunication Institute (Latvia) and KSU took place in this session.

Students had activities which were arranged according to the teaching materials which were already prepared during the project. During lectures and workshops students got acquainted with terminal and airside capacity optimization, sustainable airport facilities management and international initiatives for sustainability.

The main objective of the „Spread your wings” project is to increase the quality and relevance of knowledge and skills of bachelor and master degree Aviation Management and related disciplines students’ in response to the needs of the labour market and the socio-economic environment. An innovative course titled „Development of Sustainable Aviation” will be developed in a partnership of three organizations (from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia). The course will include topics related to a new conceptual model of responsible and conscious aviation that sees its development in line with the interests of the social and natural environment and takes into account existing ecological barriers and expectations of the society.

The project is financed by Erasmus+ programme. Project No. 2017-1-PL01-KA203-038782.

On the 22-26th of October, Kazimieras Simonavičius University lecturer Prof. Dr. Viktoras Bolotinas holded a lecture on „Human factor in aviation“ in University of Turkish Aeronautical Association (Ankara) and discussed the cooperation opportunities between institutions.