The document provides information about Vilnius University, its Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, and the Department of Informatics. It details the university's history, facilities, student and faculty numbers, study programs in different fields including business informatics, and international partnerships and research projects of the Department of Informatics.

1. VILNIUS UNIVERSITY ERASMUS, study programs and research cooperation Prof. Virgilijus Sakalauskas Department of Informatics

2. One of the eldest universities in Eastern and Central Europe, founded in 1579 Signatory of Magna Charta of the European Universities since 1991 Member of the European University Association Vilnius University in Lithuania www.vu.lt

3. Vilnius University has 12 faculties, 8 institutes, 10 centers of studies and research, computer centre, the eldest library in Lithuania, university hospital, astronomic observatory, botany garden Teaching and research staff 1458 Habilitated doctors 163 Doctors of science 882 Students over 20 thousand bachelor studies 17 632 master studies 3652 PhD sudies 586 Vilnius University, facts and figures

4. Study system in Lithuania and VU The Law on Higher Education, adopted 2000 The three level system (except medicine and law) first ( undergraduate: Bachelor programmes); second (graduate: Master, specialised professional programmes); third (doctoral studies; residency). For a Bachelor programme 4 years studies (160 national or 240 ECTS credits) The Law on Higher Education allows the duration of first cycle programmes 3,5 - 4,5 years, from 140 to 180 national (210 ECTS 270 ECTS) credits

5. ECTS system- 60 credits is the workload of a full-time student during one academic year 1 ECTS credit equals to 25 to 30 working hours. It is awarded for successful course completion Lithuania has its national credit- 40 work hours by a student per week, equal to 1,5 ECTS credit. School year- 40 credits Credit accumulation is allowed at other faculties, study programmes, universities. VU uses ECTS for the exchange purposes with other institutions. National credits are fundamental, they equal 1.5 ECTS credits. ECTS AND NATIONAL CREDITS

6. Students are selected on competitive basis (language skills and grades) Full or partial financing About 300 students going from VU to other universities each semester for all 3 stages of studies Most popular are 3 rd , 4 th semesters of bachelor, 2 nd semester of master programmes ERASMUS exchange

7. Courses in foreign languages at Vilnius University EU Subject Available code area courses 04 Business Studies and Management Science 75 courses 11 Mathematics, Informatics 15 courses 11.3 Informatics, computer science 12 courses 11.4 Artificial Intelligence 2 courses 14.3 Economics 36 courses 15.0 Communication and Information Sc iences 6 courses Currently about 200 various courses are offered for incomming students: http://www.trs.cr.vu.lt/courses/ Also WebCT distant learning courses can be included

8. Master Programme in International Business Economics and Management Master Programme in Eastern and Central European Studies Language courses (lithuanian, russian) INTERNATIONAL MASTER PROGRAMMES (in english) and language courses

9. Population in 2008 – 364 .000 inhabitants Men 16 4 .000 Women 2 0 0.000 Unemployment rate 3,5 % Number of employed 167.000 Education: Kaunas is one of the main centre s of education in Lithuania Seven universities , four branches of other universities KAUNAS-second large city in Lithuania, founded in 1361

10. Foreign direct investments in Kaunas

11. Multidisciplinary faculty (Kaunas Campus) 8 departments, three main scientific research spheres : Business management and administration Business Informatics and Information Systems Language studies Kaunas Faculty of Humanities www.vukhf.lt Academic and teaching staff - 135 Student s – 2769: Bachelors - 2406 Ma sters - 325 Do ctoral 38

12. The objective of the study program is to prepare young specialists, able to effectively develop integrated solutions, apply newest technologies and methods for meeting global business challenges The Business Informatics program is aimed to provide interdisciplinary knowledge of computer science, information technologies, economics and business management Graduates are of big demand in Lithuanian job market Carreer opportunities: managers, directors, programmers, system analytics, project managers, consultants of IT departments or enterprises Business informatics studies at VU KHF

13. Informatics and Business Informatics Program range in Vilnius University VILNIUS UNIVERSITY Faculty of economics Faculty of Math. and informatics Business information systems: Bachelor: 150 Master: 30 Kaunas Faculty of humanities Business informatics: Bachelor: 180 Master: 50 Informatics: Bachelor: 1100 Master: 200 Education content Management-50%, Informatics-50% Economics Management Inform.technol. Informatics Computer science Matemati cs

14. Business informatics studies succession at the Department of Informatics Bachelor study pogram , 240 ECTS credits Master study programs 120 ECTS credits Business informatics ( management study area ) Management information systems (Informatics study area ) Business infomatics ( Informatics study area ) Doctoral studies ( Informatics study area )

15. Scientific staff 26 Studen ts : 23 0 Ba chelors 1 8 0 Ma sters 5 0 Do ctoral students 7 VU KHF Department of Informatics

16. International Project, EU action COST278 „Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunication“ , International Project Action Tempus programme SM_SCM_T037A05-2005 “Integrative Qualification in Electronic Government (IQeG). Partners: Dresden University of Technology (coordinator), St.Petersburg State University, School of Management. Vilnius University , VU KHF Department of Informatics Project “Integrated teaching programs for development of entrepreneurship”, according to 2.4 measure “Sustainable development of human resources”, started at 2006 05. Project “Information portal for successful integration to job market”, according to 2.4 measure “Sustainable development of human resources”, started at 2006 05. International Scientific Programmes and Projects

17. IQeG seminar moments in Kaunas, March 2006

18. After the seminar-lithuanian folk event “ Integrative Qualification in Electronic Government (IQeG ).

19. “ Information technologies and university studies” (joint conference of doctoral and master students of VU KHF, VDU, KTU), April 28, 2006 Information technologies for business (international scientific conference)- in 2006 as thematic workshop in conjuction with 7th Biannual International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2006), July 3-6, Vilnius, Lithuania Comparative analysis of e-business processes in financial institutions (Lithuania 1995-2005)(Co-operative research with Budapest University of Technology and Economics, presented at Penzinfo conference, 2006) Scientific conferences

20. Workshop on "Computational methods for financial markets" organized at International Conference on Computational Science 2006 (ICCS 2006) , University of Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006 2007- Stream “Information technologies for business” in multidisciplinary international conference Fihuso-2007, Kaunas, Lithuania. Proceedings published in two scientific journals: Transformations In Business & Economics. Volume: 6. (ISI Web of science), and Information technology and control, Vol.36, No.1A. Kaunas: Technologija, ISSN 1392-124X (ISI Web of science). 2008 - “XIII Session: Application of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Government, Learning and Business” of the International conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Technologies”, in Neringa (Nida), Lithuania. Prceedings: Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Technologies - EurOPT2008, Nida, Lithuania, Technika:Vilnius, ISBN 978-9955-28-283-9 (ISI Proceedings). 2009 - 1st Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) Poznan, Poland, April 27-29 (ISI Proceedings). Scientific conferences

21. Joint projects partners: Dresden University of Technology (Germany) Cotbus University of Technology (Germany) Osnabruck University of Technology (Germany) Twente University Entschede, Netherlands Hamburg university (Germany) Roskilde university (Denmark) St. Peterburg university (Russia) and Budapest University of Economics and technolog y Most Fruitful I nternational Partnerships of Department of Informatics

22. Research Interests of Informatics Department VILNIUS UNIVERSITY Kaunas Faculty of Humanities Department of Informatics

23. Research Interests of the Department of Informatics Enterprise modeling methods and tools, analysis and design of CASE tools; Speech recognition; E-Business and solving problem-based tasks in Virtual collaborative environment; Intelligent decision support systems in financial markets .

24. Enterprise modeling methods and tools Analysis and design of CASE tools Process and product modeling; Data and knowledge modeling; Analysis and development of Knowledge based CASE tools; Enterprise model based user requirements acquisition and specification; Research of Knowledge based CASE tools implementation for User Requirements acquisition and analysis.

25. Speech recognition Speech processing and recognition (search of better features and methods for speech recognition). Research of phonetical properties of relative languages. Group closely collaborates with other groups in this field. Group takes part in the EU program “Spoken language interaction in telecommunication”.

26. E-Business and E-Learning Information Systems for: Marketing; Management Accounting; E-Commerce; Virtual Collaboration in E-Business Projects (together with Dresden TU); E-Government (TEMPUS project IQeG)

27. Intelligent decision support systems Financial markets; Portfolio management; Loan risk analysis; Logistic capital accumulation models.

28. Department of informatics J.Naugardo 2, LT-44280 Kaunas www.vukhf.lt/index.php?url =/ lietuviskas/katedros/informatikos Head of the Department Prof.Virgilijus Sakalauskas Tel.: +370 37 422566 Fax: +370 37 423222 [email_address] Information and administration Elena Grinkienė Tel.: +370 37 422566 Fax: +370 37 423222 Elena. Grinkiene @ vukhf.lt Contact information of VU KH F Department of informatics