For the
first time the Diplomas of Master Degree in Information and Communication were
handed to Vilnius University International Center of Knowledge Economy and
Knowledge Management seniors on the 15 of June at 10
o’clock at the
St.
Johns’
Church.
For the first time the
Diplomas of Master Degree in Information and Communication were handed to
Vilnius University International Center of Knowledge Economy and Knowledge
Management seniors on the 15 of June at 10
o’clock at the
St.
Johns’ Church.
The Center
will celebrate its first anniversary next week; President Valdas Adamkus – the patron of the Center,
UNESCO goodwill ambassador of creation of informational community visited the
event to compliment the graduates and the Center. Other Center partners and
guests from different business and state institutions also took part in the
ceremony. 50 master degree diplomas were handed to the graduates of
Informational management (full-time), Informational system management
(full-time) and International communication (distance studies).
The event of VU International Center of Knowledge Economy
and Knowledge Management diplomas award gathered lightsome, optimistic,
assertive students, their kinsfolk, the Center’s personnel, sponsors. The
St.
Johns’ Church blossomed with many ken
speckle students’ nosegays. The principal of VU Birutë Pociûtë said: “A solemn
event begins today at Vilnius University. The first group of seniors will
get their diplomas soon“. B.Pociûtë exulted with another event of VU – the
University celebrated their 425 years anniversary this year and also saw off the
first crop of seniors.
“The old classical
University mirrors a new concept. The new sciences, which the old University
didn’t have, have appeared in it, - said the principal of VU. – There is not
enough of acquired experience. We must look into the future, to intertwine it
with the requirements of today’s life“. Finishing her speech and wishing “good
luck in the difficult lot of an adult“ B. Pociûtë told, that an educated man
must first be an intellectual, but the diploma that he or she got is not a limit
of the career, the seniors have to raise their qualification for a dynamic life
forces, to improve the knowledge.
The patron of the new
Center - President Valdas Adamkus – congratulated the seniors and stressed the
importance of today’s celebration not only to students, but also to the whole
country. V. Adamkus said that knowledge has invaluable price in the creation of
new technologies. They are especially important in stepping to the XXI century,
where Lithuania must be equal with the other
countries in its education. “
“Your knowledge is an
improvement, we do not lag behind in our intellectuality, we are showing a great
example to the other states, - says V. Adamkus.- I want you not to stop in your
life, as it is only beginning. Show your power, intellect; all eyes of the world
are set on us. Be strong, go ahead with the others. And they will follow you,
therefore you have to use your possibilities to raise the level of people’s life
and “to cement the foundations” of Lithuania“.
A director of the
Information Society Development Committee under the Government of the
Republic of Lithuania Aurimas Matulis also came to
congratulate the seniors of VU
International Center of Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Management. A.
Matulis expressed his joy when talking about the first crop of seniors and
notified the importance of specialists in this field: “This field’s
professionals are the mostly required. The government prefers the development of
informational society. We hope, more of you come to the civil service sector
each year. You are wanted and acceptable. You are the future, so don’t
stop!”.
The director of VU International Center of Knowledge Economy
and Knowledge Management professor Renaldas Gudauskas, talking about the
Center, was satisfied with the professionalism of the Center’s personal, their
competence: “We have created a brave, mobile, supple collective during these
years. We’ve also got an opportunity to invoke the experience of foreign
experts, who agreed to be our guests“.
The seniors were invited to
take their diplomas after the congratulation speeches. They also got
commemorative presents – a new edition about VU International Center of Knowledge Economy
and Knowledge Management “Witfor 2003 White Book“ and the Center’s badge,
President V. Adamkus presented his book “Penkeri darbo metai“ (“Five years of
working”). The light of joy and pride was shining in the eyes of the seniors and
their parents at that moment.
The offspring of the long
and hard work is already in the seniors’ hands. And what do they have in their
souls? “I think, this is not the last top. There is always time and place to
improve our knowledge. There was work and sweat during study time. I hope, my
associates will continue their studies and our prestige specialty will help to
find the right road to life“, - says a senior of the International communication
studies Irina Rudanova.
About VU International
Center of
Knowledge Economy and Knowledge
Management
International
Centre of Knowledge Economy & Management of
Vilnius
University was established on
the basis of the former Institute of
Knowledge
Management of the Faculty of
Communication, Vilnius
University pursuant to the
Decision of the Vilnius University Senate of 17
June 2003.
The project
of the Center is supported by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe,
World Bank and National UNESCO Commission. Companies group “Penki
kontinentai“ is one of the Center’s partners. The
sphere of activity as envisaged for the International Center of Knowledge
includes international academic, research and business projects with the focus
being given to the Central and Eastern
Europe
states.
The Center
seeks to make a substantial contribution to the development of the Lithuanian
system of higher education by creating, sustaining and developing the
intellectual potential of the society in order to turn research and knowledge
accumulation into the basic factor which would ensure the development of the
State of Lithuania under the conditions of globalization.
VU
International Center of Knowledge Economy and Knowledge
Management suggests post-graduated teaching
programmes:
· Information
management
· Information system
management
· International communication (full-time
and distance studies)
More about studies and programmes read
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