This year places particular emphasis on strengthening international cooperation with Baltic studies centres. As a result, the courses will welcome highly motivated participants from prestigious European universities, including: the Centre of Baltic Studies at the Institute of Slavic and Baltic Philology, Faculty of Philology, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest); the Section of Lithuanian Studies at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Paris); the Faculty of Humanities and Arts at the University of Tartu; the Centre of Baltic Studies at the Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; the Centre of Baltic Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University; the Department of Baltic Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki; the Subdepartment of Baltic Studies at the University of Warsaw; and other Baltic studies centres.
Importantly, this cooperation will extend beyond the study process to include teaching activities. One B1-level group will be taught remotely by Marija Sulaberidze, Head of the Lithuanian Language and Culture Centre at Georgian Technical University. This represents another significant step in strengthening international academic ties.
Klaipeda University consistently strives to ensure the highest quality of Lithuanian language teaching. This year, that commitment will be even more evident: learner groups will be small, allowing instructors to devote more individual attention to each participant.
Throughout the month, course participants will study Lithuanian at the university for four academic hours each day. In the afternoons, they will take part in a rich cultural programme, including museum visits, educational activities, traditional straw garden weaving, introductions to Lithuanian folk musical instruments, and more. Weekend excursions around Lithuania are also planned. Through active language practice, participants will explore not only the regions of Lithuania Minor and Samogitia, but also travel to other parts of the country, including Vilnius, Trakai, and Kaunas. Numerous additional cultural events are scheduled, making the month intensive yet filled with meaningful experiences.
The official opening of the courses will take place on Monday, 5 January, at 12:00, in the White Hall of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Klaipeda University (S. Nėries g. 5). Members of the university community are warmly invited to welcome the international course participants and to celebrate together the global dissemination of the Lithuanian language and culture.
