From March 9 to 19 of this year, 20 students from Hiroshima University (HU) are visiting Vytautas Magnus University as part of the short-term START+ program. During the visit, students listen to special lectures prepared by VMU lecturers, participate in educational activities, and travel to Kaunas and Vilnius to visually reinforce the content of the lectures. To make cultural adaptation easier, HU students are also joined by active volunteers from the RASK program in extracurricular activities, thus sharing student experiences, promoting internationality, and fostering intercultural communication.

The START+ program initiated by HU began in 2018, but was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and has been successfully developed again since 2023. HU is one of the strongest universities in Japan, and since 2017, it has been an official partner of VMU in the bilateral cooperation format.

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