Venue

The Conference will take place in a Library of Šiauliai University. 

Address: Vytauto Street. 84, Šiauliai, Lithuania. More information >>>

Šiauliai University – classical type higher education institution located in the Northern region of Lithuania. Founded in 1997 by uniting Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute and Šiauliai Polytechnic Faculty of Kaunas University of Technology.
The university has a community of about 9500 students. There are 8 faculties: Arts, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Informatics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Social Welfare and Disability Studies, Technology. 

Studies are organised into 3 cycles: Bachelor, Master and Doctoral.

Šiauliai University operates the following research centres: Biomedical Engineering, Dialectology, Educational Research, Energy and Ecologically Clean Technologies, Social Research, Special Education, Physical Processes Modelling, Public Health, Gender Studies. 

Šiauliai is the fourth largest city in Lithuania. 

It is the centre of Šiauliai County. Unofficially, the city is called the capital of Northern Lithuania. Area: 81.13 sq. km. 

Distances to: Vilnius - 214 km, Kaunas - 142 km, Klaipėda - 165 km, Riga - 128 km. Population: in Šiauliai County - 370.000 inhabitants; in Šiauliai City - 129.000 inhabitants. 

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Lithuania is situated in Northern Europe and is the largest and most populous of the Baltic States. It has 99 kilometres of sandy coastline, 38 kilometres of which, face the open Baltic Sea. Lithuania has borderlines with Latvia, Byelorussia, Poland, as well as with Kaliningrad region. Area: The territory of Lithuania is 65.200 sq. km. 

Capital: Vilnius. 

Population: 3.000.000 (December, 2010). 

Largest cities: Vilnius - 541.300 inhabitants, Kaunas - 360.600. Klaipėda - 187.300, Šiauliai - 129.000, Panevėžys - 115,300.

Ethnic groups: Lithuanians 80.6%, Russians 8.7%, Poles 7%, Byelorussians 1.6%, others 2.1% More information >>>, >>>, >>>