Vilnius University Accorded with Sustainable Development Impact Award

Vilnius University (VU) has received a Sustainable Development Impact Award at the Research Excellence Awards. This special event was helt on October 18th to celebrate twenty-years of Lithuanian Research Library Consortium's (LMBA) and to recognize members’ achievements with research excellence awards in support of the future of Lithuanian research.

The Sustainable Development Impact Award was granted in recognition of the university with the highest share of papers mapped to sustainable development goals, weighted by the number of scholarly workproduced in the last three years (2019-2021).

The event featured Research Excellence Awards, which bestowed recognition on Lithuanian institutions and individual achievements in research and its impact.

Findings from a signature report prepared by Netherlands-based academic publishing company , "A research landscape assessment of Lithuania", were presented to attendees as a lead-in to a discussion on the strategic aspects of research evaluation in Lithuania.

LMBA has been instrumental in its contributions in advancing the research ecosystem in Lithuania over the past two decades. Through its advocacy for research quality, LMBA sought and secured subscriptions to high-quality research services and tools, ensuring Lithuania’s academic research community benefited from superior access to scholarly content.