T4EU WEEK AT VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY
TransformEd: Renaissance of Liberal Arts
WHEN? 20 – 24 OCTOBER 2025
WHERE? Kaunas, Lithuania
Imagine a university not just as a place to get answers, but as a place to ask more thoughtful questions. A space where we grow not only in what we know, but in who we are.
Vytautas Magnus University was founded on the idea of Liberal Arts as a comprehensive, cross-border, and value-driven model of education — a way of learning that emphasizes freedom of thought, interdisciplinary openness, and intellectual responsibility. In a world that urges us to specialize, rush, and refine, the Liberal Arts dare to pause. To look inward and backward — not to romanticize the past, but to recover the tools we need to live wisely and act justly. T4EU Week in Autumn 2025 will be dedicated to this very purpose, showcasing the humanities and their role in the path to a better future.
Over the course of five days, participants will explore subjects at the intersection of knowledge and care, tradition and innovation. There will be no final exams. The true outcome of this week will be measured in the depth of the questions we carry home:
- MAKING SENSE OF DISAGREEMENT. How can we learn to disagree meaningfully in a time of polarization, disinformation, and digital toxicity?
- THE IDEA OF EUROPE. Is Europe a place, a project, or a shared imagination — and what does it mean to belong to it today?
- CRITICAL HERITAGE. Whose memory is preserved — and whose is silenced? How can we approach heritage in times of cultural conflict?
- GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION. How can we think and communicate globally in an era of nationalism, disinformation, and digital fragmentation?
- FIELD NOTES TO FRONTLINES: ANTHROPOLOGY THAT MATTERS.
What does it mean to listen ethically, speak responsibly, and represent others with care in anthropology and beyond? - CREATING A MUSICAL FROM SCRATCH: INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL THEATER WORKSHOP. Can creativity across cultures become a language of shared meaning — and what can a musical say that words cannot?
- GIS 360°: MAPS THAT TRANSFORM SOCIETY. How can maps become instruments of social justice, environmental change, and collective storytelling?
- BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: UNDERSTANDING, THREATS & SOLUTION. Can we protect biodiversity not only through science, but through empathy and civic responsibility?
- CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS. What does climate action mean in a world of complexity — and how can science, policy, and ethics work together?
A more in-depth presentation of the separate courses and their study plan is presented in the T4EU Week course catalogue.
APPLICATION TO THE COURSES:
- Each student participates in 1 course, which will run the whole week, but during the application process you can rank 3 courses that you would like to attend in order of desirability.
- For each course, there will be an in-person component and an online component. The in-person component will take place during the T4EU week, whereas the online component will happen before the week. The exact information will be sent from the course leaders after the selection process is completed.
- To complete the course, you will have to pass a knowledge test. After successful completion you will be awarded 3 – 4 ECTS by the Vytautas Magnus University.
- The courses will mainly take place in the morning. In the afternoon, we will organise optional events, such as sports, cultural and scientific events.
To apply register HERE!
Deadline for applications is the 20th of June 2025.