European Humanities University’s high-level Donors Conference to take place in Vilnius
On 10 March, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, in cooperation with the European Commission, organises the European Humanities University’s high-level Donors Conference, which brings together representatives of Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation of the member states of the European Union and other countries, and international organizations. The conference is dedicated to the European Humanities University’s 10th anniversary in Lithuania.
The conference in Vilnius will be attended by the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Tibor Navracsics, the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomír Zaorálek, the Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Hans-Gert Poettering, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Väino Reinart, and Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica, Parliamentary State Secretary for EU Affairs of the Latvian Foreign Ministry. The number of participating senior officials is expected to total around 30.
The participants of the conference will discuss the European Humanities University’s role in the development of the countries of Eastern Europe and will get acquainted with the University’s vision and plans for the future. International donors will discuss prospects for providing financial support to the University.
The European Humanities University was founded in Minsk in 1992. For more than a decade EHU was the only non-governmental institution of higher education in Belarus that had been recognised as a University by the Belarusian state. In the summer of 2004, the Government of Belarus forced EHU to cease operations in Minsk. Thanks to the political will of the Government of Lithuania, the European Commission, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Governments of other countries, public funds and organizations, the University re-opened in Vilnius, where it has been operating since 2005. In February 2006, the Government of Lithuania granted EHU official status of a Lithuanian University. 1,468 students graduated from EHU based in Vilnius (about 800 graduates have acquired diplomas in Minsk).
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