Dr. Aida Kišūnaitė has been appointed as a new Dean of KSU Law Faculty. Congratulations!

Previously dr. Aida Kišūnaitė was a KSU Law Faculty Vice-dean for studies and research.

Dr. A. Kišūnaitė’s research interests are children’s rights, European Union Law, social and health policies and legal regulations of non-governmental organizations activities.

Dr. A. Kišūnaitė was awarded PhD in “Political systems and institutional change” from IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) in 2012, European Studies Master’s degree from Hamburg University (Germany) in 2010 and the Master of Laws from Vilnius University (Lithuania) in 2006.

As a scientist dr.  Aida Kišūnaitė has participated in the research and working groups in the various European institutions.

Publications:

Kišūnaitė A. and Pūras, D., Toward holistic approach to children’s rights. Case study – Lithuanian mental health policy, Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Vol. 18(2), 2016, p. 40-47.

Kišūnaitė, A. Establishing National Human Rights Institution in Lithuania: Theoretical and Practical Lessons, In The Mediterranean Human Rights Review, Issue 2016.

Kišūnaitė, A. Future Perspectives: The Emergence of Postnational Citizenship in Latin America, Alter/nativas, Latin American Cultural Studies Journal (forthcoming).

Pūras, D. and Kišūnaitė, A. Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice in Lithuania: Historical and Critical Review In Adolescent Psychiatry Reviews, Bentham Science Publishers, Vol. 4, 2014, p. 284-292.

Kišūnaitė, A. Participation of social civil society organizations in the Open Method of Coordination: How does it affect European governance and civil society organizations themselves? Case studies: European networks and Lithuanian civil society organizations, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy, 2014.

Research:

Favorable environment for children: challenges and opportunities (original title: Palanki aplinka vaikams: iššūkiai ir galimybės) (2013).

Participation of social CSOs in the OMC inclusion: How does it affect European governance and CSOs themselves. Lithuanian case study (2009-2013).

Education as an integration tool of second-generation migrants in the EU. Case study: France and Germany), (2007-2008).

Enlargement as a social policy problem? The pressure on harmonisation of social systems stemming from increased labour and capital mobility within the EU), (2007-2008).

Dear KSU community members: students, graduates, lecturers, administration personnel and friends, we invite you to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year together!

Students, we kindly ask you to fill in the registration form till the 29th of August. Everyone who registers till the 29^th of August will be treated to the most delicious Beigel and non-alcohol punch for free!
You can find the registration form here: https://goo.gl/hkdp3g

FEAST PROGRAMME
September 1^st

11:00 – 11:30 Official opening of the new academic year at the University (J. Basanavičius str. 29 A)

11:30 – 12:00 Moving to the Vingis Park

12:00 – 14:00 KSU PICNIC in the Vingis Park near the „Picnic” bistro, M. K. Čiurlionis str. 98:
• DJ JuoKaz
• Party meniu: beigels, humus, crispy vegetables and punch. Yummy!)
• Dance lesson
• Photoshoot
• Active games and entertainment
• First year students meeting with mentors
14:30 First year students go to the afterparty “Even the forest doesn’t scare us” which is organized by KSU Students Association. The price is only 10 euros. Registration is necessary: https://goo.gl/pZnzns

In 2016 KSU has launched two international LL.M degree programmes, which are also open to the legal practitioners who wish to attend just several courses and obtain the post qualification training certificate.

Post qualification training certificate can be obtained within the framework of these Master programmes:
The courses in both LL.M programmes are practice-oriented and cover latest developments, main actual problems and proposed solutions in certain field, and are taught by legal expertise from prestigious European universities such as:

• Brunel Law School (Great Britain),
• University of Hamburg (Germany),
• Ghent university (Belgium),
• College of Europe (Belgium),
• University of Geneva (Switzerland),
• Business School Lausanne (Switzerland),
• Central European University (Hungary).

Each course in the programme is taught 4 hours/day and consists of 20 hours (6 ECTS). KSU Law faculty organizes post qualification courses using the module system meaning that each course is taught within one week.

The participant who is interested in obtaining a post qualification certificate can choose to attend one or more courses and is free to choose whether or not he/she will participate in the final exam. In the case the participant chooses to take the final exam, he will be provided with final certificate, which includes the number of earned ECTS (6 ECTS/course) that are recognized at the university level.

Meanwhile if the participant chooses just to attend the course(s)– he/she will be provided with final attendance certificate without ECTS, which is also recognized as post qualification training.

PRICE OF POST QUALIFIKATION TRAINING:
400 EUR per course (attendance of the course and post qualification training certificate).
300 EUR final exam (exam and post qualification training certificate with 6 ECTS).

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 01.09.2016

COURSES FOR POST QUALIFICATION TRAINING
Fall semester 2016

Prof. dr. Makane Moïse Mbengue is Associate Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. Prof. Mbengue is also a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris (School of Law). He holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the University. He acts as a professor for courses in international law organized by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) and by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Prof. Mbengue acts as counsel in disputes before international courts and tribunals.

Dr. Guglya holds SJD degree, in International Business Law from Central European University (CEU), as well as three graduate level degrees in law, all – with a certain extent of concentration on international commercial law and international dispute settlement issues – from (chronologically) the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine); Central European University (Hungary) and University of Geneva Law School and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland). Dr. Guglya has worked with several international law firms in Ukraine, Belgium and France and carried out a major interdisciplinary international investment arbitration research project at the University of Geneva Law School. Being currently in charge of law and dispute settlement in several academic institutions in Switzerland, Dr. Guglya is an author of a number of publications on international law and dispute settlement topics.

Prof. Dr. Jacques Bourgeois is a counsel in the law firm WilmerHale where he advises on all aspects European Union law, specifically in relation to EU competition matters and international trade law. Mr. Bourgeois has been appointed Chairman of the Competition Commission advising the Belgian government. Mr. Bourgeois is Professor of the College of Europe (Bruges), guest professor at the University of Gent.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bruha is Emeritus professor for European law at the University of Hamburg and the Director of European Integration Foundation of Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. He is one of the leading German legal experts  of economic and legal aspects of Europe’s Integration into the world economy.

Prof. Dr. Gerard Conway lectures at  Brunel law school and specializes in European constitutional law (European Union and comparative), especially the role and legal reasoning of the European Court of Justice and held a number of visiting positions, most recently iCourts Centre in the Law Faculty of the University of Copenhagen (2015), University of Buckingham, as leader for the course Systems Analysis in International Law (in 2009), and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal law, Freiburg, Germany (2011).
For more information, please contact:
Dr. AidaKišūnaitė
Vice-Dean for Research and Studies,
Law faculty, Kazimieras Simonavičius university
Tel./fax +370 5 213 5172,
E-mail: aida.kisunaite@ksu.lt

Based of Inter-institutional agreement and interest for the benefits of students and professors and administrative

International University Travnik

staff within Erasmus+ programme, Kazimieras Simonavičus University and International University Travnik from Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina proudly announces joint Erasmus+ mobility programme for 2016/17. It is agreed on 3 staff mobility for teaching, also –  3 students mobility for studies and  2 staff mobility for training from IUT to KSU. Also it will be planned 1 staff mobility for teaching, 1 student’s mobility for studies and 1 staff mobility for training from KSU to IUT.

Participant of the international workshop

On 15th of July Kazimieras Simonavičius University organized international workshop “Bridging the Gender Gap: Gender Equality Index of Taiwan“ which took place in Vilnius. Scholars from Kazimieras Simonavičius University (Lithuania) and University of Latvia and representatives from Taiwan Government Department of Gender Equality, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Labor participated in the event.

Assoc. prof. dr. L. Labanauskas and dr. M. Zitmanė

This was the second international workshop on gender equality theme which Kazimieras Simonavičius University organized this year. The first workshop “Sharing EU Expertise: Gender Equality Index of Taiwan“ took place in Vilnius on the 25th of February.

Participants of the international workshop were congratulated by Kazimieras Simonavičius University Vice-Rector Andrius Tekorius, Head of the Taipei Mission in the Republic of Latvia, Ambassador Gary Ko and the General Director of Taiwan Government Department of Gender Equality Pi-Shia Huang.

Coordinator of scientific research project assoc. prof. dr. Liutauras Labanauskas and Scholar from University of Latvia dr. Marita Zitmanė presented to participants the project of scientific research “Sharing EU Expertise: Gender Equality Index of Taiwan“ which was created by international scientific research team from Kazimieras Simonavičius University, University of Latvia and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Taiwan). Participants discussed the programme of this project, the opportunities of creating and setting the gender equality index of Taiwan.

Assoc. prof. dr. L. Labanauskas, Andrius Tekorius, Gary Ko and Pi-Shia Huang

Delegation of Taiwan also visited the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) situated in Vilnius. They were introduced with the structure of EIGE, ongoing projects, gender equality index which was set and created by EIGE, its creation history, methodology and opportunities of application.

Collaboration between Kazimieras Simonavičius University, National Kaohsiung University and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology started in 2012 when the collaboration agreement was assigned.

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.

More information is available:
www.euca-invest.eu
www.facebook.de/eucainvest
www.twitter.de/eucainvest

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.