The Centre for Asian Studies has started implementing the EU funded project “Feasibility Study on the Transnational Development of Asian Studies at VMU”. The main goal of the project is to prepare a feasibility study for VMU Joint Degree Program in the field of East Asian Studies (political science) and to sign the Memorandums of Understanding with other universities in this regard.

In response to the shortfall of specialists familiar with the political, economic and cultural specifics of East Asia region, VMU launched the postgraduate East Asian Studies program in the field of political science in 2007. It is expected that a newly planned Joint degree program (with at least two foreign universities participating) would ensure a more systematic development of Asian Studies in Lithuania towards internationalization.

During the project, it is expected to find the interested partner universities and to analyze legal, management, cost, content and other aspects of the future Program together with them. The study will summarize three stages of the research regarding the Program:

After the analysis, the best options will be selected.

It is expected that the Feasibility study will not only discover the real opportunities of Joint degree program’s further planning and needs, but also will benefit VMU in the form of expanding relationships and various cooperation capabilities, such as academic exchange, joint research, etc. VMU teachers would be able to maintain and develop contacts established during their internships, as well as to initiate further cooperation in various academic fields. The analysis carried out in the visited universities would enable learning more about different education systems, innovative teaching methods, and would help to absorb the best practices, to adapt them to Lithuania in order to improve education quality and to ensure long-term international collaboration between universities.

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