Sustainable Innovations Research Laboratory
Vision
An interdisciplinary and multicultural space for business and scientific cooperation, where students, scientists, and entrepreneurs representing different fields of activity and cultures would work together to find ways to create, maintain, and increase the innovative potential of business in the digital economy.
Mission
By combining the study processes of different fields at the university with scientific research in business innovation, promoting the efficiency and social responsibility of national and global business in the digital economy age, by educating scientists and preparing business leaders who are able to operate in a constantly changing multicultural environment, demonstrate systematic thinking, and strive to continuously update their knowledge.
Conduct research at various levels and degrees of complexity, examining how advances in digital technology development could:
- Increase the innovativeness of existing businesses,
- Promote entrepreneurship and the creation of leading new businesses and jobs through the application of ICT and innovation tools,
- Enable the university to train specialists with the professional knowledge and innovation creation and management skills needed for both the current and future labor markets.
- The impact of digitization on sustainability;
- Research and prevention of threats to public safety;
- Human resource management;
- Energy sustainability;
- Social entrepreneurship.
1. Name: Assessing the cost-benefit of cybersecurity investments.
Project No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0213
Project implementation period: from 2020-09-01 to 2022-08-31
Project coordinators: Dr. Gintarė Giriūnienė and Prof. Dr. Darius Štitilis
2. Name: Algorithmic governance and policing: comparative perspectives from Norway, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa.
Project No. 313626
Project implementation period: from 2021-04-01 to 2024-03-31
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Aurelija Pūraitė
3. Name: Transformation of the Corporate Economic Security System in the Process of Digitisation.
Project No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-23-0211
Project implementation period: from 2021-07-07 to 2023-07-06
Project coordinators: Olena Khadzhynova and Prof. Dr. Žaneta Simanavičienė
4. Name: Digitising the economy as an element of sustainable development in Ukraine and Tajikistan
Project No. 618270-EPP-1-2020-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Žaneta Simanavičienė
Project implementation period: from 2020-11-15 to 2023-11-14
Project description: here
5. Name: ERASMUS+ project HUB4GROWTH. Heightening university/business partnerships for smart and sustainable growth in Asia
Project No. 561978 – EPP – 1 – 2015 – UK – EPPKA2 – CBHE – JP
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Žaneta Simanavičienė
Project description: here
6. Name: Reorganization of Marijampolė College in Order to Ensure a High-Quality Study Process, sub-project “Integration of Foreigners in the Marijampolė Region Labor Market
Project No. 206038001
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Žaneta Simanavičienė
Project implementation period: from 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31
Project description: here
7. Name: Strengthening Quality Assurance In Cambodian Higher Education (SICA)
Project Nr. 2017‐3476/001-001
Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Žaneta Simanavičienė
Project implementation period: from 2017-10-15 to 2020-10-15.
Project description: here
8. Name: EIT HEI Initiative project HEI-TRAIN: HEI Transformation for Entrepreneurship and AI-Driven Innovation, funded under the 2024 Call for Proposals by the @EIT Higher Education Initiative.
Project coordinator: Kateryna Polupanova
Project description: here
9. Name: LMT Student Summer Internship.
Project description: here
Head of Sustainable Innovations Research Laboratory
Prof. dr. Žaneta Simanavičienė
E-mail: zasiman@mruni.eu