KSU’s Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that KSU’s Interdisciplinary Research Center for Children Rights has become a member of The European Network of Masters in Children’s Rights, which brings together universities and other organizations involved in the promotion of the Rights of the Child, through the training of professionals working in the field of childhood.

The Network of Masters in Children’s Rights was founded in September 2004 in Berlin – the initiativee to create ENMCR came from the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean of Save the Children Sweden (SCS) and individuals in Europe devoted to the promotion and realization of children’s rights.

Dr. Aida Kišūnaite, Head of IRCCR, notes that becoming a member of ENMCR, is an important step in IRCCR’s activities and has mutual benefits.  IRCCR along with its academic staff and research experience, will contribute to the network by providing the training courses for local professionals working in the field of children’s rights.  In addition to that IRCCR will participate in sharing the experiences and knowledge in preparing international research projects, and also in establishing joint courses/modules in children’s rights for the BA and MA students at KSU.

This year a new course Fashion Journalism was added to Fashion Industry study program. Second year students learnt fundamental of fashion publishing and text writing and also done the final project. They created a new original publication about fashion.

‘Despite the fact that this task wasn’t accepted very enthusiastically’, say lecturers Reda Šatūnienė and Kristina Stankevičiūtė, ‘we were really surprised with the results. Publications created by students could compete with most of the Lithuanian fashion and lifestyle journals. All of the projects are interesting and reflecting todays issues.

Youthful, dashing and contemporary magazine I2EYE created by Augustė Paulauskaitė, Simona Jankutė , Karina Kurilovičiūtė ir Airida Petkevičiūtė became the best project. Except a few photos of foreign designers collections, all of the publishing works students did by themselves: created the conception of the magazine, wrote the articles, done the photoshoots and the interviews, created design, magazine layout, stylistics and the mood, selected the photographs, models and themes.

Students evaluated their work critically because the joy of creation was often clouded by organizational troubles. But lecturers think that information got during the lectures was perfectly adapted to practical work and that experience lack was fully offset with youthful ambitious and creativity.

We congratulate students with great work and hope that Fashion Journalism course will present more pleasant surprises next year.

You can take a look of the magazine I2EYE here.

Kazimieras Simonavičius University received the permission to organize the Private Detectives Courses according to the program made by Policy Department. This kind of courses is going to be arranged for the first time in Lithuania.

Private Detective Courses are intended for those who have the education in Law. The participants are going to be fully prepared for the exam at the Policy Department. Candidates who will pass the exam and will comply all of the requirements will be able to get the Private Detective license.

The kick-off meeting of EUCA INVEST project took place in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)  on 17-18th  March, 2016. The kick- off meeting aimed to present the projects activities, tasks and responsibilities of each partner and to discuss ways for successful cooperation during project time.

According to the project activities, representatives from Georgian and Kyrgyzstan universities will have a week of intensive training in Vilnius, at Kazimieras Simonavicius University. Experts of KSU will modernize teaching material of selected programmes. Staff of Partner Countries will be trained in order to introduce problem based learning, case studies and other new teaching methods.

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Kazimieras Simonavicius university has joint the Compostela Group of Universities – a prestigious 20 year-old international association of higher education institutions aimed at fostering cooperation and promoting dialogue in all fields of knowledge. It was created as an initiative of theUniversityofSantiago de Compostela, and currently brings together 67 universities from 28 different countries.

The CGU organizes activities focused on the different groups of the university community: it offers opportunities to participate in international projects (funded by the European Commission or initiatives between its members), international training and professional development (through Stella and Stella Junior Programmes) and worldwide recognition and promotion (International Prize Grupo Compostela-Xunta de Galicia, Video Contest for Students, publications, etc.). Besides, it provides access to a diverse and wide database of universities and sets up links with other networks, enterprises and official institutions.

This is the next step of KSU to promote it’s activities ant to become more visible internationally.

On 25 February 2016 Kazimieras Simonavičius University (KSU) hosted an International Workshop „Sharing EU Expertise: Gender Equality Index of Taiwan“. Lithuanian, Latvian and Taiwanese scholars from Kazimieras Simonavičius University (Lithuania), University of Latvia and Riga Stradinš University (Latvia), National University of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Taiwan) participated in the Workshop.

International research project team which gathered in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, was welcomed by the host of the event, Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, the Rector of the Kazimieras Simonavičius University, as well as by HE Mr Gary Ko, Head of the Taipei Mission in Latvia, and by Mrs Virginija Langbakk, the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).

International Workshop was initiated and led by the Vice Rector of Kazimieras Simonavičius University Mr Andrius Tekorius and the Member of the Academic Council of the University Assoc. Prof., Dr. Laima Andrikienė. Both chairmen of the Workshop visited Taiwan in December 2015 under the invitation of the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. International Workshop in Vilnius was financed by all universities mentioned above and co-sponsored by the Taipei Mission in the Republic of Latvia.

During the Workshop Dr. Jolanta Reingarde, the Expert/Analyst of the European Institute for Gender Equality, presented the Gender Equality Index, which has been created and calculated by EIGE for all EU Members States and some candidate countries. Dr. Reingarde outlined explicitly the methodology and possibilities of the potential implementation of the Index. Participants of the Workshop discussed in details the creation and calculation of the Gender Equality Index of Taiwan. The Work Programme for 2016-2018 presented by the KSU Project Coordinator, Assoc. Prof., Dr. Liutauras Labanauskas was discussed and approved.

On the 26th of February the participants of the International Workshop visited the Parliament of Lithuania and met representatives of the parliamentary Taiwan Friendship Group, Dr. Mantas Adomėnas MP, Dr. Egidijus Vareikis MP, and the Vice Chairman of the parliamentary group Mr Valerijus Simulikas MP.

The same day, Lithuanian, Latvian and Taiwanese scholars visited the headquarters of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in Vilnius. Visitors were introduced to the EIGE structure, ongoing and already implemented projects, they also visited EIGE’s Information and Documentation Centre.

The European Institute for Gender Equality is an autonomous body of the European Union, established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality, including gender mainstreaming in all EU policies and the resulting national policies, and the fight against discrimination based on sex, as well as to raise EU citizens’ awareness of gender equality. As an autonomous body, EIGE operates within the framework of European Union policies and initiatives. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union defined the grounds for the Institute’s objectives and  tasks in its Founding Regulation and assigned it the central role of addressing  the challenges of and promoting equality between women and men across the European Union.

Kazimieras Simonavičius University and three Taiwanese universities, i. e. National  University of Kaohsiung, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology and the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, are associated for the fourth year and their cooperation is based on the Partnership Agreements or Memorandums of Understanding signed in 2012.

Jeanette Stovel, the representative from Canadian Embassy, and  Paul McCarthy, the project manager from organization  “Agriteam Canada”, has visited KSU Faculty of Law.

The results of Kazimieras Simonavičius University institutional evaluation – excellent. University positively evaluated and accredited for the maximual possible period – 6 years.

This was confirmed by an official Report of the “Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education“.