Assist. Prof. Dr. Arvydas Kumpis Head V. Putvinskio st. 23-417, 44243 Kaunas Tel.: +370 37 331323 E-mail: arvydas.kumpis@vdu.lt Responsibility: project based activities, social partners. Research interests: Japanese nationalism, its history and radical branches, ethnic minorities. Curriculum vitae (English)
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Linas Didvalis Senior Specialist V. Putvinskio st. 23-418, 44243 Kaunas Tel.: +370 37 331323 E-mail: linas.didvalis@vdu.lt Responsibility: project based activities, Korea sector. Research interests: East Asian politics and international relations, sustainable development, international environmental cooperation. Curriculum vitae (English)
	Jiabin Song Specialist V. Putvinskio st. 23-417, 44243 Kaunas Tel.: +370 37 331323 E-mail: jiabin.song@vdu.lt Responsibility: China and Taiwan sector, project based activities, inter-institutional coordination Research interests: Chinese politics, political philosophy, security studies, international relations. Curriculum vitae (English)
	Simona Kumpė Specialist V. Putvinskio st. 23-417, 44243 Kaunas Tel.: +370 37 331323 E-mail: simona.kumpe@vdu.lt Responsibility: project based activities, Dragon Academy Curriculum vitae (English)
	Kayako Takagi Specialist V. Putvinskio st. 23-417, 44243 Kaunas Tel.: +370 37 331323 E-mail: kayako.takagi@vdu.lt Responsibility: Japanese studies and projects, Global Japan Office, Hiroshima University Lithuanian Centre. Curriculum vitae (English)

Internship possibilities

Centre for Asian Studies gladly accepts volunteers and trainees who wants to gain experience with asian studies, event coordination, webpage administration and editing . Please contact the head of the Centre for Asian Studies for the further information.

Our past trainees:

Živilė Jomantaitė, VU Oriental center (2012 February – March). Was responsible for Azijos studijų Lietuvoje a website creation project. 

Monika Gerdauskaitė, VMU RASK program (2014 November – 2015 January). Was responsible for creation of CAS promotional video. 

Solveiga Žibaitė, University of Edinburg (2015 May – July). Was responsible for monitoring Chinese media.

Kyungmin Lee, Soongsil University (2015 May-August). Was responsible for Korean subtitles of CAS promotional video.

Momoko Fujiwara, Akita International University (2015 July – November). Was responsible for Chiune Sugihara’s Reading Room Japanese funds cataloging.

Geistė Umbrasaitė, VMU RASK program (2015 September – November). Was responsible for Chiune Sugihara’s Reading Room Japanese funds cataloging.

Alanta Kaminskaitė, VMU RASK program (2015 September – 2016 February). Was responsible for electronic Japanese-Lithuanian dictionary creation project.

Radha-Saulė Bartnikaitė, VMU RASK (2015 September – 2016 February). Was responsible for electronic Japanese-Lithuanian dictionary creation project. 

Ignotas Vileikis, VMU RASK (2015 September – 2016 February). Was responsible for electronic Japanese-Lithuanian dictionary creation project. 

Raigirdas Boruta, the University of Central Lancashire (2015  June – 2016 July). Was responsible for simplifies Chinese subtitles for CAS promotional video. 

Ka Po Wong, Lingnan University (2017 June – August). Was responsible CAS page translation into traditional Chinese.

Linas Kazlauskas, VMU RASK (2017). Was responsible for Sugihara Week organisation.

Mantas Varnelis, VMU RASK (2017). Was responsible for Sugihara Week organisation. 

Ieva Kučinskaitė, VMU RASK (2018 April – May). Was responsible for data base Azijos studijų Lietuvoje expansion. 

Wing Chung Mak, Lingnan University (2018 July – August). Was responsible for Kaunas Tourism Department “Kaunastic” leaflet translation to Chinese. 

Kazusa Miura (2019 September – October). Was responsible for ASC leaflet translation to Japanese.

Rūta Lungytė, VMU RASK (2019 September – November). Was responsible for data base Azijos studijų Lietuvoje expansion.

Vita Gritėnaitė, VMU RASK (2019 September – 2020 January). Was responsible for data base Azijos studijų Lietuvoje expansion.

Dominyka Jankauskaitė, VMU RASK (2019 September – 2020 January). Was responsible for data base Azijos studijų Lietuvoje expansion.

Karolė Mueller,Berlin Free University (2020 September-December). Was responsible for Korean projects, presentation of Korea and its language.