Kaunas Faculty

Sukurta: 08 June 2020

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8 Muitinės str., LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel. 37 423222,
E-mail:
http://www.knf.vu.lt

Dean – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kęstutis Driaunys

 

STAFF

85 teachers (incl. 60 holding research degree), 6 research fellows (incl. 6 holding research degree), 27 doctoral students.

DEPARTMENTS OF THE FACULTY

Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics
Institute of Languages, Literature and Translation Studies

RESEARCH AREAS

Modelling and management of social and economic development of Lithuania;
Poetics, rhetoric and linguistics: fundamental and applied research into literary and non-literary texts;
Identification processes, data analysis and visualisation, artificial intelligence, the modelling of processes and systems, mathematical logic and discrete structures, innovative teaching methods; the technologies of images and signals, parallel calculations, system engineering, estimate experiments, application of information technologies.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MAINTAINED IN 2019

J. Astrauskienė. Expression of literary wit in the 17th century drama, poetry and prose.

K. Andriuškevičius. Merger and acquisition market: value creation for merging companies.

G. Buivytė. Reflexes of myth in medieval Germanic poetry and Lithuanian folk songs: common Indo-European heritage.

M. Sueldo. Strategic institutional communication management and its contribution to institutional excellence in private entrepreneurial universities.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANISED IN 2019

14th Prof. Vladas Gronskas international conference (https://www.knf.vu.lt/gronskas-conference-2019)

2nd republican Genre Conference (https://www.knf.vu.lt/zanro2019)

International symposium Making and Shaping Things in Creative Economies (https://www.knf.vu.lt/en/making-and-shaping-things-in-creative-economies)

IMDA 2019: Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Data Analysis and Computer Aided Software Engineering. International conference ICIST 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania (https://icist.ktu.edu/wp content/uploads/sites/317/2018/10/Final_CFP_2019_IMDA.pdf);

AKTB 2019: 11th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business. International conference BIS 2019 (http://bis.ue.poznan.pl/bis2019/aktb/)

BSCT 2019: 2nd Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies. Business in International Conference BIS 2019 (http://bis.ue.poznan.pl/bis2019/bsct/)

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2019

Štreimikienė, D., Mikalauskienė, A., Čiegis. R. 2019. Sustainable Development, Leadership, and Innovations 1st Edition. CRC Press. 2019, 266 p., 24 B/W Illustrations.
Rani, P., Raj Mishra, A., Raj Pardasani, K., Mardani, A., Liao, H., Štreimikienė, D. A novel VIKOR approach based on entropy and divergence measures of Pythagorean fuzzy sets to evaluate renewable energy technologies in India. Journal of Cleaner Production. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 2019, vol. 238, art. no. 117936: 1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117936.

Shim, Y., Lee, H., Fomin, V. What benefits couldn't ‘Joyn’ enjoy? The changing role of standards in the competition in mobile instant messengers in Korea. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. New York: Elsevier Science. 2019, vol. 139: 125–134. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.09.007.

 

INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND APPLIED INFORMATICS

8 Muitinės str., LT-03225 Kaunas
Tel. 37 422477
E-mail:

Head – Dr Giedrius Romeika

STAFF

Professors: Prof. with Distinguished Professor Status Dr. V.V. Fomin, Habil. Dr. R. Čiegis, Dr. E. Jasinskas (part-time), Dr. V. Jurėnienė, D.r R. Kanapickienė (part-time), Dr. A. Mikalauskienė, D.r K. Rudžionienė, Habil. Dr. D. Štreimikienė, Dr. A. Lopata, Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė, Dr. V. Sakalauskas, Dr. C. Frattima (part-time), Dr. T. Limba (part-time).
Senior research fellows: Prof. D.r R. Čiegis (part-time), Prof. Dr. V. Fomin (part-time), Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė (part-time), Dr. A. Novelskaitė (part-time), Dr. R. Pučėtaitė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. G. Gipienė, Dr. E. Freitakas, Dr. I. Kiaušienė, Dr. R. Klimaitienė, Dr. A. Novelskaitė (part-time), Dr. R. Pučėtaitė (part-time), Dr. R. Pušinaitė-Gelgotė, Dr. A. Rimkutė, Dr. I. Šarkiūnaitė, Dr. A. Saiang, Dr. V. Tamulienė (part-time), Dr. L. Bikulčienė (part-time), Dr. K. Driaunys, Dr. S. Masteika, Dr. V. Rudžionis Dr. K. Budrytė-Genevičė, M. Dubnikovas.
Lecturers: R. Antanaitienė (part-time), Dr. M. Ambraziūnas (part-time), Dr. R. Bartkutė (part-time), Dr. A. Chaževskas (part-time), E. Kisielius (part-time), J. Knyvienė (part-time), Dr. A. Ramanauskaitė (part-time), I. J. Vilkevičiūtė (part-time), Dr. D. Dilijonas, K. Kubilevičius (part-time), A. Stravinskienė (part-time), I. Veitaitė (part-time), P. Danielius (part-time), V. Gudaitis (part-time), V. Sakalas (part-time), Dr P. Astromskis (part-time),
Assistant professors: Dr. I. Griesienė (part-time), Dr. G. Romeika (part-time), Dr. M. Valukonis, Dr. P. Aniūnas (part-time), Dr. R. Danielienė (part-time), D.r V. Moskaliova, Dr. M. Sarvutytė-Gailiūnienė (part-time), Dr. Šikšnelytė-Butkienė (part-time)
Junior assistant professors: D. Balevičienė (part-time), D. Ročkė (part-time), M. Vijūnas (part-time), I. Ščiukauskė (part-time), I. Mikalauskas (part-time), M. Radzevičius (part-time), I. Vitkauskaitė (part-time), P. Boreika (part-time), K. Korovkinas (part-time), A. Ūsas (part-time), M. Gubtor (part-time), A. R. Medeišienė (part-time).
Researchers: Prof. Dr. A. Mikalauskienė (part-time), Dr. Triin Jerlei, Dr L. Dovydaitis, Dr. Šikšnelytė-Butkienė (part-time)
Doctoral students: G. Vilutytė (on academic leave), M. Sueldo, S. Jurgelėnas (on academic leave), M. Radzevičius, P. Boreika (on academic leave), I. Vitkauskaitė, D. Balevičienė, I. Mikalauskas, I. Ščiukauskė, A. R. Medeišienė, D. Gliaubicas (on academic leave), M. Vijūnas (on academic leave), S. Mirinavičienė, A. Ūsas, L. Matusevičienė (on academic leave), P. Danielius, K. Korovkinas, M. Vaitonis, N. Makrickienė (on academic leave), O.Pavlova, S. Jurėnė, M. Guptor, V.Janavičienė, U. Pavlovaitė, M. Norvaišaitė, K. Mažeikaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Innovation management
Human resource management
International human resource management
Sustainable development of tourism
Business models
Social entrepreneurship, young social entrepreneurs
Social enterprises
Sustainable development, social acceptance of technologies, economic trends, innovations, technological advances
Research of corporate finance in Central and Eastern Europe
Evaluation, accounting and reporting on intellectual capital
Theoretical and practical aspects of taxation
The problems of commercial bank and central bank in Central and Eastern Europe
Research of accounting quality in small and medium-sized enterprises
Development of cultural industries in Lithuania
Cultural tourism industry
Cultural heritage industry
Activities and management of cultural centres
Creative cities and clusters
Culture and consumption, peculiarities of contemporary cultural needs in Lithuanian society
Educational issues in cultural organization management
Gender issues
Organizational ethics and corporate social responsibility
Research ethics
Organizational communication
Strategic management
Organizational behaviour and development
Enterprise modelling methods, requirements engineering, enterprise data and knowledge modelling, management of information processing and CASE tools
Decision support systems in financial and currency markets, portfolio management and loan risk analysis, logistic capital accumulation models, financial anomalies and bubbles
Intelligent computational models for integrated research of marketing, e-commerce, e-banking, e-learning and social network information
Complex evaluation of customer behaviour
Dynamic process modelling by applying fuzzy cognitive models
Designing the Quality and Cost containment coherence framework for prudent modelling of innovative health care systems
Development, integration, and implementation of high frequency trading models in financial markets on high-performance computing platforms
Implementing the smart contracts via online transactions and other peer-to-peer-based solutions for the sharing economy in online market places
Development block chain or public ledger via peer-to-peer technology based solutions in autonomous decentralized organizations
Artificial intelligence for speech recognition and analysis technologies (Lithuanian language)
Intelligent models for marketing systems, social networks, e-business, e-learning and e-government

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects funded by the University

Sustainability Assessment Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė, Prof. Habil. Dr. R. Čiegis, Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Kiaušienė, Prof. Dr. A. Mikalauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pušinaitė-Gelgotė, Lect. Dr. I. Šikšnelytė-Butkienė, Asist. Prof. Dr I. Griesienė, lect. Dr. R. Bartkutė, PhD student I. Mikalauskas, PhD student S. Jurgelėnas.
The sustainability assessment methodology for sustainability assessment of countries and regions was developed. This methodology integrates sustainability assessment of the most important branches of economy including energy sector. The developed methodology was empirically tested in energy sector. The most important sustainable energy indicators were identified and framework for linking these indicators in the chain of mutual impacts was developed. The sustainability assessment of energy sector development in Baltic Sea Region was performed by applying developed methodology and several multi-criteria decision aiding tools.

Main publications:

Štreimikienė, D., Mikalauskienė, A., Čiegis, R. 2019. Sustainable Development, Leadership, and Innovations 1st Edition. CRC Press. 2019, 266 p., 24 B/W illustrations.

Rani, P., Raj Mishra, A., Raj Pardasani, K., Mardani, A., Liao, H., Štreimikienė, D. A novel VIKOR approach based on entropy and divergence measures of Pythagorean fuzzy sets to evaluate renewable energy technologies in India. Journal of Cleaner Production. Oxford: Elsevier science. 2019, vol. 238, art. no. 117936: 1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117936.

Simionescu, M., Bilan, Y., Krajňáková, E., Štreimikienė, D., Gędek, S. Renewable energy in the electricity sector and GDP per capita in the European Union. Energies. Basel: MDPI. 2019, vol. 12(13), art. no. 2520: 1–15. doi: 10.3390/en12132520.

Solving and Improving Accounting and Financial Problems. Prof. Dr. K. Rudžionienė, Prof. Dr. R. Kanapickienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. G. Gipienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eduardas Freitakas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rūta Klimaitienė, Dr. Agnė Ramanauskaitė, Dr. Mantas Valukonis, Dr. P. Aniūnas, PhD student L. Matusevičienė, PhD student M. Vijūnas, PhD student M. Guptor.

Investigations are carried out in the following directions: analysation of accounting quality in Lithuanian companies, investigation of financial and non-financial information disclosure and quality of this information, identification of problems and offer of solutions; investigating financial markets, the development of financial institutions in Lithuania, researching the practice of risk management, assessment, offering improvement of these areas.

Main publications:

Klimaitienė, R., Ramanauskaitė, J. Insight into budgeting practices: empirical study of the largest manufacturing companies in Lithuania. Apskaitos ir finansų mokslas ir studijos: problemos ir perspektyvos (Science and studies of accounting and finances: problems and perspectives). Kaunas: Vytauto Magnus University. 2019, vol 13(1): 19–27. doi: 10.15544/ssaf.2019.03.

Rudžionienė, K., Guptor, M. 2019. Financial reporting quality in Lithuanian state-owned enterprises. Apskaitos ir finansų mokslas ir studijos: problemos ir perspektyvos (Science and studies of accounting and finances: problems and perspectives). Kaunas: Aleksandras Stulginskis University. 2019, vol. 13(1): 38–46. doi: 10.15544/ssaf.2019.05.

Freitakas, E., Kažytė, A. The impact of FED, ECB and PBoC monetary policies on stock markets returns. 17th international conference Management and Engineering'19. Sozopol, Bulgaria. Sofia: Sofia Technical University: conference proceedings. June 23–26, 2019, vol. 1: 33–42.

Entrepreneurship Development. Prof. Dr. E. Jasinskas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Šarkiūnaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Tamulienė, PhD Student I. Ščiukauskė, PhD Student I. Vitkauskaitė, PhD Student A. Ūsas, PhD Student O. Pavlova.

The activities of the research group are related to various levels of entrepreneurship development: human resource management, strategic development of organizations, innovation management, business environment, consumer behaviour. All of the above-mentioned research areas are closely related to the paradigm of sustainable business development, evaluating current and future challenges, global organizations and local business management solutions.

Main publications:

Ūsas, A., Jasinskas, E., Kalinina, A. V., Molchanovа, A. V. Naudotojo patirties tyrimas vertinant svetainę. Transformations in Business & Economics. Kaunas: Vilnius University. 2019, vol. 18, 1(46): 249–256.

Cultural Industries and Innovations. Prof. Dr. V. Jurėnienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Novelskaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saiang, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pučėtaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Rimkutė, Dr. I. Griesienė, PhD student D. Balevičienė, PhD student R. A. Medeišienė, PhD student M. Radzevičius, PhD student G. Vilutytė, PhD student I. Vitkauskaitė, PhD student S. Jurėnė, PhD student U. Pavlovaitė.

The group carries out research on creative industries and their influence on organizational and national competitiveness as well as individual, social and national identity and image making. It focuses on reputation management in social media, peculiarities of communication management for branding of companies, cities and states. Another aspect of their research encompasses the impact of cultural diversity on organizational innovativeness and its outcomes such as artistic innovations or cultural enterprises. Cultural diversity is approached both from organizational and communities (countryside and urban, communities of practice in organizations) perspectives. This gains momentum considering the recent social issues of immigrant flows to Europe, emigration rates from Lithuania and cultural activities of Lithuanian Diasporas worldwide. From a diversity perspective, women studies constitute a specific area of the group’s research. The group plans to provide research-informed advice to public bodies on economic (innovation), cultural and migration policy development.

Main publications:

Pavlovaitė, U., Griesienė, I. Development of an art platform in terms of relationship marketing: a biennial case. Transformations in Business and Economics. Kaunas: Vilnius University, Kaunas Faculty of Humanities. 2019, vol. 18(2): 259–278.

Rimkutė, A. European capitals of culture in Lithuania. Transforming Cities: Paradigms and Potentials of Urban Development within the “European Capital of Culture”. Hildesheim: Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. 2019, vol. 40: 101–109.

Jankūnaitė, R., Belevičienė, D. Modelling of critical success factors in international cultural project. International Journal on Global Business Management and Research. 2019, vol. 8(1): 32–44. Internet access: http://www.rajalakshmi.org/ijgbmr/downloads/IJGBMRFeb19.pdf.

Gender Issues in Lithuania. Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Saiang, Prof. Dr. V. Jurėnienė; Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Kiaušienė.

The group focuses on manifestations and effects of social gender in different organizational, professional, economic (including different industries) and historical contexts. The research is grounded on the conviction that understanding of gender related phenomena in the society (and, indeed, dissemination of the knowledge) can contribute to development and improvement of various processes not only in the organizations (e.g. creation gender friendly procedures causing both social and economic advantages), but also in entire society (e.g. to bring more tolerance, mutual understanding etc.). Increase in gender sensibility and gender awareness in the society can lead to more sustainable development of the country.

Organizational Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Social Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management. Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pučėtaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Novelskaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pušinaitė-Gelgotė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Rimkutė, PhD student D. Balevičienė, PhD student R. A. Medeišienė.

Research of the relationship between socially responsible human resource management practices and turnover intentions moderated by supervisor’s gender, construction of unity and fragmentation in organisational culture through discourses of trust and distrust were explored in Finnish organisations. Results of an international intensive course “Cases in Organizational Ethics” were presented in a research publication. Empirical data for an international project CSR Research and Teaching in Central and Eastern Europe led by Sussex University (UK) were collected. Research proposal on dignity management in public organisations was submitted to Research Council of Lithuania.

Main publications:

Pučėtaitė, R. Novelskaitė, A. Pušinaitė-Gelgotė, R., Rusteikienė, A., Butkevičienė, E. Understanding the role of social enterprises in attaining the sustainable development goals through the human capability approach: the case of Lithuania. International conference Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy? Geneva, June 2019. Geneva: UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy. 2019, 1–16. Internet access: <http://unsse.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/169_Pucetaite_Social-Entrepreneurship-Post-Soviet-Context_En.pdf>

Pučėtaitė, R., Lamsa, A.-M., Riivari, E., Viljanen, S. Striving for inclusion through participatory practices in social enterprises. Responsible Humane Strategies for Gender Equality, Empowerment and Leadership. Eds: Ajoy Kumar Dey, Hanna Lehtimäki. New Delhi: Bloomsbury. 2019, 164–174.

ICT for Business and Education. Prof. Dr. V. Sakalauskas, Prof. Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė, Dist. Prof. V. Fomin, Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Masteika, Dr. D. Dilijonas, Dr. V. Moskaliova, Dr. R. Danelienė, PhD student M. Vaitonis, PhD student M. Liutvinavičius, PhD student K. Korovkinas, PhD student P. Danielius, Assoc. Prof. Dr. K. Driaunys, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Rudžionis, Phd student T. Rasymas, PhD student L. Dovydaitis, Prof. Dr. A. Lopata, Prof. Dr. R. Butleris, Lect. I. Veitaitė, PhD student M. Ambraziūnas, Lect. A. Stravinskienė.

In 2019, the focus was on 4 research topics:

  • on big data visualization that is based on dimensionality reduction methods. We proposed a multi-level method for data clustering and visualization. It divides the whole data mining process into separate steps and applies particular dimensionality reduction method considering the analysed data volume and type. The methods are selected according to their speed and accuracy. Therefore, we present a comparison of the selected methods according to these two criteria. Three groups of datasets containing different kind of data are used for methods evaluation. The factors that influence speed or accuracy are determined;
  • Nowadays, trade is performed by trading algorithms. The speed of trading is of the most importance; however, there is relatively little research on the increased speed of trading from milliseconds to nanoseconds. In order to address the aforementioned shortcoming, this research [2] measures the differences in the effectiveness of the pairs trading strategies, emerging when microsecond and nanosecond data are included. The effect of the increased speed of data is analysed;
  • Knowledge-based UML models generation from enterprise model technique was improved by creating information flow model transformation algorithm [1] and transformation algorithms of knowledge based UML dynamic models generation were presented [2, 3]. The main scope of research is to present how the quality of stored problem domain knowledge in Enterprise Model (EM) is significant and important in Unified Modelling Language (UML) models generation process from EM;
  • LSTM-based deep neural networks for speaker identification were investigated. The most efficient topologies of LSTM networks have been found for this type of deep networks. It has been shown that for all the tested data sets LSTM-based speaker identification outperforms baseline HMM-based speaker identification methods by at least 20%. The average correct speaker identification level with LSTM networks exceeded 98%. The increase of recognition accuracy is between 4 and 7 per cent.

Main publications:

Krikščiūnienė, D., Sakalauskas, V., Lewandowski, R. Process mining of periodic rating scale survey data using analytic hierarchy process. Business Information Systems Workshops, BIS 2018, Berlin, Germany, July 18–20, 2018, revised papers. Eds: Abramowicz, Witold, Adrian Paschke. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019, vol. 339: 86–95. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04849-5_8.

Danielius, P., Savėnas, T., Masteika, S. Research of ethereum mining hash rate dependency on GPU hardware settings. Business Information Systems Workshops, BIS 2018, Berlin, Germany, July 18–20, 2018, revised papers. Eds: Abramowicz, Witold, Adrian Paschke. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019, vol. 339: 223–228. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04849-5_20.

Wjatscheslav, B., Fomin, V. Framework for enabling order management process in a decentralized production network based on the blockchain-technology. Procedia CIRP: 12th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering. Gulf of Naples, Italy, July 18–20, 2018. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. 2019, vol. 79: 456–460. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2019.02.121.

Research Projects

COST action European Network for Cost Containment and Improved Quality of Health Care, http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15222 . Management committee members Prof. Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania, Prof. Dr. V. Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania, Project participant M. Liutvinavičius.

This COST Action aims at supporting the scientific research and technology development necessary for a breakthrough in the field of cost-containment in healthcare while also maintaining the quality of health care. So far, the EU R&D agenda has under-examined this aspect while in nearly every COST Member Country rising costs of healthcare are becoming a major societal problem.

COST Association COST Action CA15123. The European Research Network on Types for Programming and Verification (EUTYPES), http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15123. Management committee members Prof. A. Lopata, I. Veitaitė, Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Types are pervasive in programming and information technology. A type defines a formal interface between software components, allowing the automatic verification of their connections, and greatly enhancing the robustness and reliability of computations and communications. In rich dependent type theories, full functional specification of a program can be expressed as a type. Type systems have rapidly evolved over the past years, becoming more sophisticated, capturing new aspects of the behaviour of programs and the dynamics of their execution.

BlockChain Network Online Education for interdisciplinary European Competence Transfer (BlockNet).

Project BlockNet (BlockChain Network Online Education for interdisciplinary European Competence Transfer) is funded by the European Commission in the context of the Erasmus+ program KA2-Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices. Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education.
The fundamental goal of BlockNet is the development and implementation in practice of an interdisciplinary Blockchain Technology (BCT) Small Network Online Course (SNOC). To date, there are no interdisciplinary courses providing students of different majors with knowledge of BCT, its applications and impact on business environments, as well as comprehensive essential skills to be prepared for the interdisciplinary work they will face in future projects.
The project consortium is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Habil. Vladislav V. Fomin and Darius Karaša from Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University. However, all participating parties assume leading tasks in the four work packages of the project. The project has commenced in September 2018 and will run through February 2021 (the duration of 30 months). The project funding obtained from Erasmus+ KA2 program amounts to 337,336.00 Euro. Project No: 2018-1-LT01-KA203-047044.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Evaluation of Socio-Economic Impact of Social Business: Comparison of Lithuania and Finland - SOCImpact, contract No. P-MIP-17-483.

It is a 3-year (2017–2020) project that aims at evaluating socio-economic impact of social business on internal and external stakeholders from a cross-cultural perspective. Research methodology for qualitative part was tuned with the researchers from Finland and collection of data on the ethical perspective of motives of social entrepreneurs in Lithuania was started.

Research Council of Lithuania. Baltic Visual Identity in Soviet Industrial Design. Project Reference: 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-08-0001.

This project focuses on design in the Baltic States between the years 1965 and 1985, mainly concentrating on small household objects, furniture and textiles. The main objective of the research is to analyse the nature of ‘Baltic identity’ in Soviet industrial design economy and to understand the factors behind its development. Through a study of historical processes, the project aims at improving the public knowledge and appreciation of local design culture within the Baltic States, which are necessary for a diverse and successful development of contemporary local design. Secondly, this project proposes a new methodology for studying former Soviet and possibly also Socialist states that would step away from the simple understanding of states as simple satellites of Soviet Russia and fully consider all political, cultural and social factors that led to the development of individual design cultures in different regions. Coordinator: Dr. Triin Jerlei.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Latvia (Latvia)
Birmingham City University (United Kingdom)
Swedish School of Social Sciences (Sweden)
University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics (Finland)
University of Tampere, School of Management (Finland)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Poznan University of Economics (Poland)
Cordoba University (Spain)
Intellerts BV Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Tampere University of Technologies (Finland)
Altacom (Estonia)
Bankera Centre of Financial Technology (Lithuania)
Hostinger International
RMD Technologies (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. R. Čiegis –

Prof. Dr. V. Fomin –

Prof. Dr. E. Jasinskas –

Dr. I. Šikšnelytė –

Dr. L. Tauginienė –

  • editorial board member of the Journal of Academic Ethics;
  • Board member of European Network for Academic Integrity.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Kiaušienė –

Prof. Dr. A. Mikalauskienė –

  • member of the Association for Energy Economics, http://aee.lt/ ;
  • Technical Committee member of Lithuanian Department of Statistics, http://www.lsd.lt/standards/tb.php;
  • member of International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES);
  • senior member of Economics Development Research Centre (IEDRC).

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Šarkiūnaitė –

Prof. Dr. D. Štreimikienė –

Prof. Dr. K. Rudžionienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers;
  • editorial board member of the journal Accounting Theory and Practice.

Prof. Dr. R. Kanapickienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers;
  • editorial board member of the journal Accounting Theory and Practice;
  • member of the Certification Board for Internal Auditors of Public Legal Persons Managing and/or Using State and/or Municipal Property and Having it at their Disposition as well as of Persons Occupied in the Field of Internal Audit, www.lar.lt .

Assoc. Prof. Dr. G. Gipienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Klimaitienė –

  • members of the Association of Lithuanian Accounting Educators and Researchers.

Dr. A. Ramanauskaitė –

  • member of Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors (LCA), www.lar.lt;
  • certified internal Auditor (CIA) by IIA Lithuania, www.theiia.org;
  • certified auditor (CA) by LCA, www.lar.lt .

Dr. M. Valukonis –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Pučėtaitė –

  • editorial board member of the international journal EJBO – Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organizational Studies, publisher: Business and Organization Ethics Network (BON), Finland (ejbo.jyu.fi);
  • editorial board member of the international peer-reviewed journal Journal of Management and Change, (previously EBS Review,), published by Estonian Business School, included in EBSCO Business Source Complete database, http://www.ebs.ee/en/research/research-and-development/ebs-review-2/editorial-board-6-2/;
  • member of a follow-up group to a doctoral student Soilikki Viljanen at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland;
  • member of international advisory board in the WeAll – Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life project funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland (2015–2020), carried out by Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä and Hanken School of Economics, (http://weallfinland.fi/weall-contact-information-and-research-team.html);
  • expert on the data base Lituanistika.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Urbonienė –

Prof. Dr. V. Jurėnienė –

Prof. Dr. A. Lopata –

Prof. Dr. V. Sakalauskas –

Prof. Dr. D. Krikščiūnienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Masteika –

  • associated partner of Marie Curie Actions EU project Training in Modern Quantitative Methods and High-Performance Computing for Finance, http://www.hpcfinance.eu/;
  • associated partner of Tampere University of Technology in research project Efficient Numerical Methods on High-performance Computing Platforms for the Underlying Financial Models;
  • member of the programme committee of Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB in conjunction with International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS) Poznan, Poland;
  • editorial board member of the journal Transformations in Business and Economy.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Rudžionis –

  • editorial board member of the international journal Northern European Language Technologies, http://www.nejlt.ep.liu.se/board.htm;
  • programme committee member and organiser of Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB in conjunction with 17th international conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. Dr. Dalia Štreimikienė: The Commission’s Horizon 2020 AGE (Advisory Group for Energy) group member;
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Raminta Pučėtaitė: Member of international advisory board in the WeAll – Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life project funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland (2015–2020), carried out by Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä and Hanken School of Economics (http://weallfinland.fi/weall-contact-information-and-research-team.html)
  • Assoc.Prof.S. Masteika: an expert of Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology- MITA, governmental institution, responsible for implementation of innovation policy in Lithuania. Research fields: Fintech and blockchain applications in finance, private and public sectors.
  • Distinguished Prof. Dr. Vladislav V. Fomin: Expert of Latvian Academy of Sciences (www.lza.lv).
  • Prof. Audrius Lopata: Expert of Lithuanian Business Development Agency (LVPA). Completed evaluation activities for more than 14 EU funding related tenders of scientific and business fields.

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • Audit of information systems reduction to cyber security issues and cyber security training for Trakai municipality

MOST IMPORTANT RESEACH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

 

INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

12 Muitinės str., LT-44280 Kaunas
Tel. 37 422 926
E-mail:

Director – Prof. Dr. Danguolė Satkauskaitė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. D. Aliūkaitė (part-time), Dr. G. Bankauskaitė, Dr. H.-H. Droessiger (part-time), Dr. A. Krasnovas (part-time), Dr. J. Krūminienė, Dr. D. Mikulėnienė (part-time), Dr. S. Radzevičienė, Dr. D. Satkauskaitė (part-time), Dr. T. Solomonik-Pankrašova (part-time), Dr. S. Šarkauskienė, Dr. L. Ulvydienė (part-time).
Senior research fellows: Dr. G. Bankauskaitė (part-time), Dr. I. Stepukonienė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. R. Baranauskienė, Dr. S. Biržietienė, Dr. E. Gabrėnaitė (part-time), Dr. S. Juzelėnienė, Dr. J. Kerevičienė, Dr. E. Keturakienė, Dr. S. Keturakis (part-time), Dr. R. Kudirka, Dr. I. Mickienė, Dr. Ž. Nemickienė, Dr. L. Niedzviegienė, Dr. G. Rumšienė, Dr. D. Vengalienė (part-time).
Assistants: Dr. E. Alosevičienė (part-time), Dr. I. Koverienė (part-time), Dr. V. Linkevičiūtė (part-time), Dr. J. Radavičiūtė (part-time).
Research fellow: Dr. E. Alosevičienė (part-time), Dr. I. Koverienė (part-time).
Junior assistant: J. Astrauskienė (part-time).
Lecturers: L. Abraitienė (part-time), D. Aleksandravičienė (part-time), G. Dubauskienė (part-time), L. Fedorčenkienė (part-time), Dr. M. Grigaitis (part-time), L. Grikietis (part-time), L. Kamičaitytė (part-time), J. Kaušylaitė, A. Kuzmickienė, R. Mačiulskienė, T. Ruškienė (part-time), J. Skovorodko, Dr. I. Šležaitė, E. Voidogienė.
Doctoral students: L. Abraitienė, G. Gibavičienė, E. Merkytė-Švarcienė, D. Burbienė, M. Triaušytė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Linguistic means of social discourse
Cognitive aspects of media and political discourse analysis
Sociolinguistic research of dialectal speech
Perceptual analysis of dialectal discourse
Cultural significance of dialects
Exploration of toponyms
Visual metaphors: methodological approaches
Terminological basis of sranslation studies
Translation of culture-bound units
Vernacular translation as Modus Interpretandi
Interdisciplinary approach to audiovisual translation
Development, characteristics and perception of voice-over
Strategies and problems of audio description
Theatre and opera subtitling as a multimodal construct
Polysemiotic cohesion in film dubbing
Fictional worlds within conceptual categories: from etymology to pragmatics
Literary discourse of contemporary English and American Literature
Interpretative Understanding of Literature: Hermeneutical Approach
Inter-textual criticism: shifts of reading horizons
Modernist poetics: history, fantasy and fiction
Generic deconstruction as reflected in literary discourse
Phenomenon and instrumentarium of literary wit
Historical awareness in the Lithuanian poetry of the 19th century
Contemporary reception of literary heritage and literary criticism
Poetics, Stylistics and Rhetoric in fictional texts and public discourse

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

Projects Supported by the University Budget

Multimodality in Public Discourse. Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Juzelėnienė, Prof. Dr. S. Šarkauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Baranauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Biržietienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Kerevičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Vengalienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ž. Nemickienė, Assist. Prof. Dr. E. Gabrėnaitė.

The research carried out under this project is based on the exploration of multimodal texts, focusing on areas such as politics, advertising and films. Theories of cognitive metaphor and metonymy, conceptualization of emotion as well as interaction of verbal and visual modes are applied in the analysis.

Main publications:

Juzelėnienė, S., Baranauskienė, R., and Mourettou, G. FATI project: From alienation to inclusion. INTED 2019: 13th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, March 11–13, 2019, Valencia, Spain. Conference Proceedings. 2019: 1881–890.

Vengalienė, D. 2019. Patterns of imonic Metaphors in Lithuanian politicized discourse. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 35: 30–43.

Nemickienė, Ž. Means of expression of epistemic modality in Russian political discourse. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 36(41): 19–31.

Audiovisual Translation Research. Prof. Dr. D. Satkauskaitė, Prof. Dr. H.-H. Droessiger, Prof. Dr. L. Ulvydienė, Prof. dr. J. Krūminienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. J. Kerevičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. G. Rumšienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Niedzviegienė, Dr. E. Alosevičienė, Dr. I. Koverienė, Dr. J. Astrauskienė, PhD student L. Abraitienė.

The research carried out under this project deals with theoretical frameworks and research methodologies of audiovisual translation, history, strategies and problems of dubbing, voice-over and subtitling as well as translation for audiences with special needs.

Main publication:

Droessiger, H.-H. The diversity of body and translation: just a matter of perspective. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 36: 158–170.

The Interaction of Text and Context. Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Biržietienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Keturakienė, Prof. Dr. J. Krūminienė, Prof. Dr. L. Ulvydienė, Prof. Dr. T. Solomonik-Pankrašova, Prof. Dr. A. Krasnovas, Prof. Dr. G. Bankauskaitė, Prof. Dr. S. Šarkauskienė, Dr. J. Radavičiūtė, Dr. S. Radzevičienė, senior research fellow Dr. I. Stepukonienė, PhD student G. Gibavičienė, J. Astrauskienė, E. Voidogienė.

The research explored the representation of traumatic events as well as the mythological elements and archetypal images in various texts, the links between ego-documents and lyrics of Lithuanian writers, the portrayal of society in novels, the literary wit in English poetry and the persuasive tools in Lithuanian travel literature.

Main publications:

Bankauskaitė, G., Vaišvylaitė, D. Tėvynės vaizdinys Antano Vaičiulaičio laiškuose. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 36(41): 110–122.

Voidogienė, E. Humanitarika Švedijoje – didvyrė ar tarnaitė? Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 35: 169–181.

Stepukonienė, I. XVI a. diduomenės vaizdavimas moderniame lietuvių ir suomių istoriniame romane – P. Dirgėlos Joldijos Jūra ir M. Waltari Karina. Gimtasai kraštas. 2019, 16–27.

Language Varieties and Language Attitudes: Approaches of Perceptual Dialectology, Sociolinguistics etc.
Prof. Dr. D. Aliūkaitė, Prof. Dr. D. Mikulėnienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Mickienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Baranauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Kudirka, Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Linkevičiūtė, PhD student E. Merkytė-Švarcienė, PhD student M. Triaušytė.

The research carried out under this project focused on the analysis of the variant ability of the Lithuanian and English languages from the perspective of perceptual dialectology and sociolinguistics aiming at working out cultural and social characteristics of the horizontal and vertical language continuum; considerable attention was given to grammatical-structural classification of Lithuanian toponyms.

Main publications:

Aliūkaitė, D. Objektyvusis tarmiškumas: Požymiai ir vertė. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 35: 63–91.

Linkevičiūtė, V. Conceptual metaphors in Donald Trump’s political discourse: Politics domain (2018). Kalbų Studijos. 2019, 34: 46–55.

Kudirka, R. Lietuvių kalbos žargono priesaginių prieveiksmių morfologija ir adaptacinės ypatybės: Priesagos -ai hibridiniai vediniai iš priesaginių rusų kalbos kilmės būdvardžių. Respectus Philologicus. 2019, 36(41): 47–59.

International Research Projects

Erasmus+ project. Developing Modernized \Curricula on Immigrants’ Lives (DEMO). (No. 585583-EPP-1-2017-1-IL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). Prof. L. Ulvydienė. 2017–2020.

DEMO is conceived to increase the awareness and knowledge about migrants’ life experiences among applied social professionals (teachers, social workers, counsellors and others) so that they can provide this population with better-attuned services. DEMO proposes to achieve this aim by developing, implementing and disseminating innovative courses on the lives of migrants in Higher Education Institutions. DEMO will pilot and disseminate 12 new courses (26 class hours) and 5 short modules (1.5–3 class hours) to be incorporated in existing courses. The syllabi will be developed by bi-national teams in collaboration with local NGOs working with immigrants. Novel teaching methodologies will be applied.

Erasmus+ project. From Alienation to Inclusion (FATI). (No. 2017-3-CY02-KA205-001111). Assoc. Prof. S. Juzelėnienė, Assoc. Prof. R. Baranauskienė. 2018–2020.

The innovative character of the project From Alienation to Inclusion lies on the effective collaboration of the project partners, who are seeking to create activities by developing a unique on-line environment which contains comprehensive training modules on social integration of migrants and refugees into EU societies, while seeking to eliminate all those social, linguistic and psychological barriers, which prevent migrants and refugees from being integrated in the new environment.

National Research Projects

State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. Distribution of Regional Variants and Quasistandard Language at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Perceptual Approach (Perceptual Categorisation of Variants) (No. K-2/2017/MTS-620000-223). Prof. Dr. D. Aliūkaitė. 2017–2019.

The project aims at the analysis of the perceptual competence of ordinary members of language community by applying the principles of perceptual dialectology. In 2019, the analysis of variant perception was performed; the data of variant perception research was systemically and analytically estimated; 5 papers were delivered in the scientific conferences; 2 articles were prepared. The articles focus on the discourse of perceptual dialectology with the emphasis on the issue of the objective dialecticity and quasistandard as well.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of Łódź (Poland)
Institute of Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired (Lithuania)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. D. Aliūkaitė –

Prof. Dr. G. Bankauskaitė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. R. Baranauskienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Biržietienė –

Prof. Dr. H. H. Drößiger –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. S. Juzelėnienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. E. Keturakienė –

  • member of the Association of Lithuanian Comparative Literature, htttp:/www.llla.lt

Prof. Dr. A. Krasnovas –

Prof. Dr. J. Krūminienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. I. Mickienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ž. Nemickienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. L. Niedzviegienė –

Prof. Dr. S. Radzevičienė –

Prof. Dr. T. Solomonik-Pankrašova –

  • member of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature Medium Ævum.

Prof. Dr. S. Šarkauskienė –

Prof. Dr. L. Ulvydienė –

Assoc. Prof. Dr. D. Vengalienė –

MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES

  • May 4, 2019, Jurgita Astrauskienė, Jurgita Kerevičienė, the representatives of Audiovisual translation programme, received an award from the Lithuanian Association of the Deaf for the important input into accessibility of audiovisual material for the deaf and fruitful cooperation.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • In August 2019, Laura Niedzviegienė consulted architect Rasa Chmieliauskaite, a project manager of the project (Ne)matoma architektūra ((In)visible Architecture) initiated by architect Rasa Chmieliauskaitė and Kaunas Artists’ House (KMN) on involving blind and partially sighted members of society into cultural events and on issues of audio description of architectural objects.
  • In December 2019, Laura Niedzviegienė consulted the Lithuanian Library for the Blind on involving blind and partially sighted members of society into cultural events and on issues of audio description of films.
  • In December 2019, Laura Niedzviegienė consulted the National Gallery of Art on involving blind and partially sighted members of society into project Blind Date and on general issues of audio description of visual art.


MOST IMPORTANT RESEACH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES