On February 22-23 the international workshop „Towards Data Economy Excellence Centre and Big Data Lab“ took place at Kazimieras Simonavičius University. Prof. Dr. Jari Kaivo-Oja (Finland) moderated the workshop.

Experts from various countries talked about the Data Economy and Big Data:

• Dr. Jari Kaivo-Oja (University of Turku, Research Director of Finland Future Research Centre),
• Dr. Dr. Steffen Roth (La Rochelle Business School),
• Levan Bzhalava (Business School of Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia),
• Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis (Kazimieras Simonavičius University),
• Lasse Härkönen (Founder, CEO, Future Winners Oy, Finland),
• Darius Verbyla (Director of Business School of Kazimieras Simonavičius University).

Representatives from business and public sector have also participated in the international workshop.

The workshop was aimed to:
– review the latest Data Economy and Big Data techniques, research and utilization trends;
– shape the Data Economy Excellence Centre and international virtual Big Data Lab establishing and operating principles;
– discuss about the joint projects and commercial cooperation opportunities and forms.

KSU Rector Prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis welcomed all gathered and presented the shift from Information Management to Big Data concept. Professor emphasized that Big Data is a quite new concept and it is constantly changing.

Prof. Dr. Jari Kaivo-Oja noted that „The big data revolution it is going to change the way we live, work and think in business and society“.

IT Strategist and Big Data Expert Adomas Svirskas looked at Open Data as a raw resource like crude oil and noted that organizations try to monetize data as a saleable asset. Data Economy fosters innovation, creates jobs and is useful not only to business, but also to public sector.

Adomas Svirskas noted that the aim of Data Economy Excellence Centre is to facilitate and foster advances in Data Economy field. It could operate as a synergy centre and forum to foster dialogue amongst the players of Digital/Data Value Chain.

Potential activities of Centre may include the following:

• Modern Data Science curriculum and study programme for undergraduate and graduate students
• Training centre and tailored programmes for corporate and public sector professionals, attracting leading professionals, innovators and practitioners of this field
• Applied research and innovation through participation in national and international projects, collaboration with industry and the Government
• Showcases, pilots and living labs to experiment and demonstrate value of Data Economy solutions
• Business incubator for datatech start-ups

On February 22th Kazimieras Simonavičius University invites you to participate in the international workshop „Towards Data Economy Excellence Centre and Big Data Lab“.

On February 22th Kazimieras Simonavičius University invites you to participate in the international workshop „Towards Data Economy Excellence Centre and Big Data Lab“.

Data Economy and Big Data role is a new challenge in all areas of modern life, business and management. Data Economy extend, modernize and replace the information management and economic models and paradigms of knowledge, adapting them to the modern business and management for smart logic. Use of Big Data radically changes the planning, forecasting and foresight methodologies.

Big Data studies, research and practical use is one of the most important priorities of the Kazimieras Simonavičius University.

The purposes of the seminar are:
– to review the latest Data Economy and Big Data techniques, research and utilization trends;
– to shape the Data Economy Excellence Centre and international virtual Big Data Lab establishing and operating principles;
– to discuss about the joint projects and commercial cooperation opportunities and forms.

Topics:
1. Introduction to Data Economy Excellency Centre and Lab
2. Big Data – Big Deal – Challenges and Prospects
3. Towards Data Economy Excellence Centre and Big Data Lab
4. Persons, Organizations and Societies in Systemic Big Data Analysis
5. Vinted experience with Big Data
6. Data-Smart City and Industry Solutions
7. Workshop for planning DEE Centre and Big Data Lab (Guidelines for DEE Centre and BD Lab Roadmapping Work)
8. Reporting Findings and Roadmaps for DEE Centre and Big Data Lab, WS leaders
9. Concluding Remarks and Next Roadmap Steps

The discussions will be moderated by:
1. Prof. Dr. Jari Kaivo-Oja (University of Turku, Research Director of Finland Future Research Centre)
2. Prof. Dr. Steffen Roth (La Rochelle Business School)
3. Dr. Levan Bzhalava (Business School of Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
4. Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis (Kazimieras Simonavičius University)
5. Lasse Härkönen (Founder, CEO, Future Winners Oy, Finland)
6. Darius Verbyla (Director of Business School of Kazimieras Simonavičius University)

More details will be sent before the event.

Please register by email: arunas.augustinaitis@ksu.lt or darius.verbyla@ksu.lt until February 17th.

For more information please contact:
arunas.augustinaitis@ksu.lt, 8686 60890
darius.verbyla@ksu.lt, 8612 78493

 

Kazimieras Simonavičius University Central Building and 5 years anniversary was held today. The new building (Dariaus ir Girėno st. 21, Vilnius) was symbolically opened with the lightening of the ice sculpture representing a rocket from Kazimieras Simonavičius sketches. Education and Science Vice-Minister Assoc. Prof. Dr. Giedrius Viliūnas, Chairman of Vilnius City Municipality Committee on Culture, Education and Sports Vytautas Mitalas and Auxiliary Bishop Arūnas Poniškaitis participated in the event and gave the greeting speeches.

 

 

January 26th, Bachelor‘s and Master‘s diplomas were served to Kazimieras Simonavičius University graduates: 17th Law Masters and 2nd international Business Law Bachelors, 1st Entrepreneurship and management Bachelors, 2nd Creative and Cultural Industries Bachelors, 1st Fashion Industry Bachelors, 1st Entertainment and tourism industries Bachelors, 1st Political Communication and journalism Bachelors.

The graduates were congratulated by KSU Rector Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, Law Faculty Dean Dr. Aida Kišūnaitė, Business School lecturer Dr. Austė Kiškienė, Creative Society and Economy Institute director Assoc. Prof. Dr. Remigijus Venckus, Head of Economic Linguistics Cathedral Prof. Dr. Elena Jolanta Zabarskaitė and Creative and Cultural Industries graduate Olesia Kazoit.

Dear colleagues,

Being together, long and sincere talks, cheerful jokes, pleasant meetings, genuine wishes, pleasing surprises and endless cosiness – all of these things create the real holiday. Season‘s greetings and a happy New Year! I wish you cosy holidays, meaningful and creative year!

I kindly invite you to watch the video greetings from the community of Kazimieras Simonavičius University. To watch the video, please click the picture below or the link: .

Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis
Kazimieras Simonavičius University Rector

December 5-15, 2016 Kazimieras Simonavičius University experts Andrius Bagdonas and Darius Verbyla delivered  in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and Tbilisi (Georgia) universities. Experts shared their experiences as well as Lithuanian and world’s best practices on entrepreneurial ecosystem development with lecturers and students from 8 universities as well as local business leaders and start-ups.  Lean Startup Launchpad, Business Model Canvas and other the most advanced teaching methods in teaching entrepreneurship were introduced through the series of workshops, focus groups and simulations. Trainings is a part of EU Erasmus+ financed project EUCA INVEST.

Aviation Student Club was established at KSU this month. If you understand the importance of students and professionals network, participation in extra curriculum activities during your studies, want to hone your leadership and presentation skills and looking for new opportunities, join the Aviation Student Club!

Possible activities may include:

• Meetings with representatives from different aviation industry companies
• Company visits
• Organizing various aviation courses outside university curriculum
• Organizing aviation school for the children during their school holidays
• Organizing open days for aviation management study programme
• Managing Facebook account for aviation management
• Student scientific conferences and seminars
• Aviation management graduates CV book
• and others.

Every activity brings to you knowledge, skills, network, new friends, fun and other things, which at the end will help you to find a better job in the future and to enjoy more your studies at University.

If you want to join the Aviation Student Club, please contact:

Darius Verbyla
Chancellor
E-mail: darius.verbyla@ksu.lt

On December 1^st the international workshop “Achieving Progress in Children’s Welfare: Interdisciplinary and Multilevel Governance Perspectives” took place at Vilnius City Municipality. The workshop was organized by Kazimieras Simonavičius University Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Children Rights and Children’s day centre “Navininkai”.

This workshop aimed to address the question of an interdisciplinary approach in children’s rights related policies and their implementation in order to promote the idea and the role of inter-institutional cooperation for children’s welfare at all levels of governance.

More than 100 specialists from various public institutions and NGOs participated in the workshop. The presentations were made by Ombudsperson for Children’s Rights of the Republic of Lithuania Dr. Edita Žiobienė and 12 scholars and practitioners from Lithuania and foreign countries:

• Prof. Dr. Steven M. Shardlow (United Kingdom)
• Cheri Lovre (USA)
• Prof. Dr. Stefanos Spaneas (Cyprus)
• Prof. Dr. Theano Kallinikaki (Greece)
• Dr. Sara Serbati (Italy)
• Dr. Aida Kišūnaitė (Lithuania)
• Jolanta Tupko-Mazur (Lithuania)
• Doc. Dr. Tomas (Lithuania)
• Doc. Dr. Živilė Vilma Jonynienė (Lithuania)
• Prof. Dr.Giedrė Kvieskienė (Lithuania)
• Dr. Eglė Celešienė (Lithuania)
• Doc. Dr. Justinas Sadauskas (Lithuania)

Presenting the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Children Rights which was established on July, Dr. Aida Kišūnaitė said: “It is important for us, scholars of Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Children Rights, to be heard by legislature and executive institutions because we seek to encourage the complex attitude to children’s rights not only between the members of scholar’s community but also to foster forming researched based politics in the field of children’s rights. The main goal of the international workshop is to attract the attention of society and practitioners towards the implementation of interdisciplinary approach in the field of children’s welfare and to encourage the cooperation between the separate sectors such as social, health, education and legal”.

We kindly inform you that Kazimieras Simonavičius University moves to the new building (address: Darius ir Girėnas str. 21, Vilnius). You will find it at the new place from November 14th.

We kindly invite you to watch the online broadcast of the international conference “Legal regulation of alternative dispute resolution between consumers and businesses: experience of EU and Lithuania” from Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. To watch the broadcast, please press Tiesioginė transliacija anglų kalba.

The conference is organized by Kazimieras Simonavičius University‘s Law Faculty, National Consumer Confederation and Committee of Legal Affairs of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.

You can download the programme of the international conference here.

Dr. Marcin Białecki

On November 7^th at 12 noon the open lecture of advocate dr. Marcin Białecki (Poland) “Mediation in civil cases. Recent developments in Polish Civil Procedure from theoretical and practical perspective” will be held at Kazimieras Simonavičius University (15 auditorium). Lecture language – English. We kindly invite you to participate!

Some information about the lecturer:

• deputy Disciplinary Officer for the Łódź Regional Council of Advocates (Okręgowa Rada Adwokacka) in Łódź;
• mediator;
• family mediator for transnational disputes;
• Ph.D., Legal Sciences in the field of law;
• Associate Professor at the Chair of Civil Procedure, Faculty of Law and Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw;
• ex-judge;
• tutor;
• speaker at the Academy of European Law in Trier;
• lecturer at the Łódź Regional Council of Advocates;
• graduate of the School of German Law (Münster);
• awarded scholarships at the University of Strasbourg and Justus Liebig University Giessen;
• served pupillage at the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe in Brussels (CCBE)
• an award winner in Polish public speaking competitions and finalist in the Human Rights public speaking competition held in Caen, France;
• the author of publications on civil procedure and mediation.

Prof. dr hab. Monika Jaworska-Witkowska, Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Kujawsko-Pomorska Szkola Wyższa in Bydgoszcz, Iwona Waszkiewicz , Deputy Mayor of Bydgoszcz, prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, KSU Rector, and prof. dr hab. Lech Witkowski.

On October 27-28^th Kazimieras Simonavičius University (KSU) Rector prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis participated in the International Interdisciplinary Conference “One World – Many Cultures“ which took place in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The 7^th international conference is organized by Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoszcz.

On the first day of the conference KSU Rector prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis shared his experience and talked about Management and Ethics of Private University in a Changing Europe.

KSU together with Kujawy and Pomerania University in Bydgoszcz (Poland), the Kyrgyz National University (Kyrgyzstan) and Romanian University of Sibiu signed the quadripartite cooperation agreement to share didactic experiences, to cooperate in business, culture and sports, to raise quality and efficiency of studies, to strengthen the competitiveness of universities and ensure the interaction of education, business and innovation.