Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is a leading Lithuanian university providing a wide range of studies and closely cooperating with business. The University provides studies in engineering, technologies, physical and social sciences, humanities and arts. The research groups working at KTU contribute to global scientific knowledge by conducting cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the most important questions of the present day. The university has 9 faculties, 8 institutes, 9 research centres, 23 student organisations, 12 dormitories, and 7 art societies. It has a Sports Centre, which offers 20 sports classes, and a publishing house called Technologija. KTU is the founder of two integrated centres for research, studies and business : the Santaka and Nemunas valleys. The KTU National Innovations and Entrepreneurship Centre is responsible for the protection and commercialisation of the University’s scientific output.
There are 7,549 students studying at the university : 4,932 of them are undergraduate (bachelor’s) and integrated studies students, 2,212 are master’s students, 333 are doctoral students, and 1,278 are international students studying at KTU, including students from Ukraine.
KTU has cooperation agreements with more than 350 Higher Education Institutions in 50 countries around the world. Since 2016, KTU has also been a member of ECIU University, a European university where learners and researchers cooperate with cities and businesses to solve real-life challenges. ECIU University will create a new university driven by the demands of society, citizens and industry, enabling us to work together across European borders and come up with solutions for sustainable development goals.
The University provides targeted support to people in crisis, people fleeing war, targeted study places, accommodation, targeted scholarships and other financial and psychological assistance.
Researchers from the Library and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, as well as from other faculties involved, are conducting research on crisis management, citizen engagement and citizen science, refugee crisis management and other issues.
Specifically, KTU Research groups are conducting (or have conducted) research on:
- Transnational Collaboration on Bullying
- Migration and Integration at School Level (TRIBES)
- Developing the Competence of Public Sector Employees in Lithuania and Ukraine through Design Thinking Methodology (PubCom-DT)
- Faces of War : Visual Communication of the Conflict in Ukraine in Lithuanian News Media (FACES).
KTU’s PROJECTS RELEVANT TO EGAL-I :
- Baltics4UA : Supporting Ukraine through citizen engagement at Baltic Universities (2023-2025) ;
- AGILE : Higher Education resilience in refugee crises : forging social inclusion through capacity building, civic engagement and skills recognition (2022-2025).