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In November 2021, an international team of experts from the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC) carried out a third-party assessment of Kolping University of Applied Sciences (KUAS). The assessment covered the areas of management, quality assurance, studies and research (arts) activities, and the impact on the region and the country. The KUAS […]
On 1 April 2022, the KUAS representatives Monika Terzytė, Public Relations Specialist, and Viktorija Geštautienė, Coordinator of the Social Welfare Centre, visited the Palemonas High School of Kaunas. During the meeting, the students of the 11th and 12th grades were introduced to the KUAS, its principles, values, study programmes and opportunities during the studies. For their active […]
On 25 March 2022, the KUAS hosted the students of the Jonas Biliūnas High School of Anykščiai. The high school students, together with partners from Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, and Poland, visited the KUAS as part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project. During the meeting, they discussed sustainable tourism and ecotourism, got acquainted with ecotourism studies and the […]
On 23 March 2022, an international symposium on Social Work Responses to Climate Change was held remotely to celebrate the World Social Work Day 2022 and its theme Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind. The symposium was organised by the KUAS in collaboration with the Department of Social Work, Central University of Tamil Nadu, […]
Sustainable development is increasingly important in today’s world. Communities play a key role as social partners in the economic, social, political, cultural, environmental, and other challenges of sustainable development. Communities promote the implementation of sustainable development through voluntary and selfless social relations, moral unity and responsibility, communication and solidarity and social identity. During the conference, […]
On 21 March 2022, practical first aid training took place. The training was conducted by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Regina Navickienė, the Head of Ecotourism Study Programme of the KUAS, and the Manager of the company UAB Mūsų odisėja. Participants learnt how to perform closed-chest cardiac massage, use a defibrillator, help a choking person, and stop bleeding. The practical first aid […]
Symposium “Social Work Response to Climate Change ” on the occasion of World Social Work Day 2022 “Co-Building A New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind” on March 23, 2022. Organized by Bharathiar University (India), Central University of Tamil Nadu (India), Gandhigram Rural Institute (India) and Kolping University of Applied Sciences (Lithuania). The schedule including […]
On 14–18 February 2022, the lecturers of the Experiential Learning Centre of the KUAS Evelina Darulienė and Vitalija Mikutaitienė, the Director of the KUAS Assoc. Prof. Dr Ramunė Bagdonaitė-Stelmokienė and Public Relations Specialist Monika Terzytė, went to the Erasmus+ Adult Education training organised by Anatolia Education in Barcelona, Spain. The training subject was Andragogy & Self-Directed Learning; it was led […]
The Lithuanian University Rectors’ Conference and Rectors’ Conference of Lithuanian University Colleges vehemently condemns the military actions of the Russian Federation against the independent state of Ukraine. Lithuanian universities are in solidarity with Ukrainian universities, their staff, teachers, students, and the entire Ukrainian nation. We are ready to use all available resources to help Ukrainian […]
Researchers, scholars and practitioners from various fields are invited on March 17th to attend the International Scientific-Practical Conference 2022 “Promoting Community in the Context of Sustainable Development“. Purpose of the confernce – to discuss the role of communities in contributing to the implementation of sustainable development provisions; to present the results of research relevant to […]