VU Faculty of Communication
coordination of project activities:

Project Manager Renata Stonytė
Bernardinų str. 11 | Tel. +370 5 219 3038
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Since its foundation, the VU Faculty of Communication has actively participated in various international and national projects. Among the first ones, the European Union TEMPUS programme projects "Information Management Programme for Lithuania" (1995-1998) and "International Communication Programme for Lithuania" (1996-1999) were particularly noteworthy. Under these projects, a dozen postgraduates and a dozen faculty and staff members studied in foreign universities each year for three years; foreign colleagues from partner universities (Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden) conducted intensive courses in Vilnius and provided advice on the design and implementation of modern curricula and programmes.

In 2000-2006, the Faculty participated in a number of projects funded by the Leonardo da Vinci and Phare programmes, the EU's 6th Research Framework Programme, the Open Lithuania Fund and other funds. When Lithuania started to absorb the European Union Structural Funds, the Faculty was actively involved in the preparation and implementation of these projects.

Since 2010, the Faculty of Communication has resumed its project activities, actively engaging in both national and international projects funded by the EU's 7th Framework Research Programme and the Lithuanian Research Council. New priority areas are related to the dissemination of digital cultural heritage resources in order to open them up to Europe and the world, as well as to national issues of the creation of a research infrastructure for Lithuanian studies, and to complex and interdisciplinary research on the collections of Lithuanian studies in memory institutions (archives, libraries and museums).

Since 2012, in order to ensure the successful continuity of project activities at the Faculty of Communication, the coordination of these activities has been entrusted to the project managers of the Faculty of Communication.

Media Literacy, Reuse, and Heritage in Education

The aim of the project is to gather and redistribute best practices that combine the teaching of audiovisual skills and the (re)use of material be it an award-winning film, piece of a chronicle or a self-made animation, which helps explain some of the more difficult parts of a lesson.

The partners see a need to cooperate across the Baltic and Nordic region in order to collect expert knowledge, know-how, best practices and already existing tools about/for (re)using media materials and heritage that could be used in the educational field with the core aim of bringing media and information literacy closer to school teachers and to the youth they teach. This includes creating awareness of the available tools that can be used to teach media and film literacy, connecting the practice of media experts with educators who teach media-savvy children, and collecting and spreading the knowledge and know-how of practical tools and methods that enable teaching media and film literacy in different contexts.

Project coordinator: Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School

Project partners:

Tampere University's Faculty of Education (Finland)

Latvian Academy of Culture (Latvia)

The Animation Workshop, VIA University (Denmark)

Estonian Film Museum

Estonian Film Institute

Vilnius University Faculty of Communication (Lithuania)

Project implementer at Vilnius University: doc. dr. Andrius Gudauskas

Project implementation period: 2018-2019

Project funded by Nordplus Framework Programme

Nordplus