VMU invites staff to apply for the Professional Development Fund

The Vytautas Magnus University Professional Development Fund is a targeted investment in the professional development of the academic and non-academic community. The VMU Professional Competence Development Center, in cooperation with national and international partners, offered 164 professional development events in 2025, including training courses, seminars, and other activities, to the University's academic and non-academic staff, representatives of other higher education institutions, and the general public. In order to meet the individual professional growth needs of the University community, VMU also provides opportunities to develop competencies at other Lithuanian and foreign institutions, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the VMU Professional Development Fund.

Each year, the fund finances an average of twenty applications from VDU employees, and both academic and non-academic staff actively take advantage of the opportunities it offers. Funded applications: 15 in 2025, 18 in 2024, and 19 in 2023. According to Dr. Aistė Ragauskaitė, head of the VMU Professional Competence Development Center, employees choose highly qualified, long-term value-adding professional development activities that contribute not only to personal development but also to the professional competence development of the entire university community.

The announced selection of applications will take place until April 5. From 2026, applications are accepted every month by the 5th day of the month.

The main conditions of the competition:

• Applications are accepted for seminars, trainings or courses (participation fee).
• Applications are open to academic and non-academic staff of VMU.
• The applicant has the opportunity to receive up to 500 euros per academic year to finance seminars, trainings or courses.
• The applicant undertakes to share the good experience with the VMU community after the training financed by the Professional Development Fund.
• The applicant must fill in the training needs application form provided by the Professional Development Fund.
• Applications are evaluated by a committee made up of academic and non-academic employees, according to the provided and approved evaluation criteria.
• The VMU Professional Competences Development Fund and the committee ensure the confidentiality of received applications. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the regulations of the fund.
• Please send your application, scanned with signatures, in pdf format and the same document in doc / docx format to mokymosi.akademija@vdu.lt.
• The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the documents submitted are in order and on time.

Regarding filling out applications, we invite you to consult with the VMU Professional Competences Development Center team: training organizer Raimonda Zinkevičienė, by e-mail raimonda.zinkeviciene@vdu.lt, tel. no. +370 691 12719, head dr. Aiste Ragauskaite, by e-mail aiste.ragauskaite@vdu.lt, tel. no. +370 622 37904.