From 7 to 12 April, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) hosted two international travelling seminars of the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA), bringing together students and academic staff from across Europe and once again highlighting MRU as an open and internationally oriented academic environment.
During the first seminar, “EXTRA (Exploring Digital Transitions in the ERUA Area)”, master’s students from Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis visited the university together with their lecturers, Marie Chagnoux and Sébastien Broca. The seminar focused on exploring Vilnius as a smart city by analysing its digital transformations and urban innovations. Dr. Artūras Jurgelevičius, Associate Professor at the MRU Faculty of Public Governance and Business, invited participants to take part in an interactive practical session covering team building, startup development principles, learning from failure, time and stress management, market competition, and self-awareness. The session strengthened collaboration, encouraged hands-on learning, and helped participants better understand the importance of teamwork and entrepreneurship. As participants noted, the seminar “enabled them to explore the dynamics of urban innovation related to smart cities through meetings with academics, business representatives, technology experts, and local residents.”
At the same time, MRU hosted another ERUA seminar, “Teach the Teachers: LLMI Training for Primary English Educators”, organised by Prof. Dr. Giedrė Valūnaitė-Oleškevičienė from the MRU Faculty of Human and Social Studies. The seminar brought together students and lecturer Patricia Arnáiz Castro from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It focused on the training of English language teachers and included innovative, intercultural teaching strategies, practical classroom methods, language activities, and job shadowing. A key component of the programme was the cultural experience, which encouraged participants to reflect on how intercultural communication, multilingualism, and local context can enrich teacher training and the broader educational process.
These international seminars once again confirmed Mykolas Romeris University’s active engagement in ERUA alliance activities, contributing to the strengthening of international academic cooperation, the development of innovative teaching methods, and open dialogue among diverse European academic communities.
