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Mykolas Romeris University
Mykolas Romeris University ( lt, Mykolo Romerio universitetas) is an international university located with campuses in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. MRU cooperates closely with over 350 universities, public and private institutions, takes part in academic, professional and inter-sectorial networks. MRU has a full membership of the following international higher education organizations: International Association of Universities, European University Association, European Association for International Education, European-Asian Knowledge Consortium Social Technologies for Smart and Inclusive Society, etc. Currently MRU enrolls 7500 students including 600 international students and employs over 400 academic staff. The university offers doctoral, Master's and Bachelor's Degree study programmes. Over 80% of them have international accreditation. The most popular study programmes are law, management, psychology, social work, public security, etc. About 200 doctoral students study in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya In Kenya, the Ministry of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saulius Ritter
Saulius Ritter (born 23 August 1988) is a Lithuanian rower, best known for winning a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2011 European Rowing Championships. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's double sculls with Rolandas Maščinskas. file:Ruder-EM 2016 47.JPG, left, 280px, Saulius Ritter (left) and Rolandas Maščinskas at the 2016 European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg Ritter and Maščinskas won gold at the 2011 European Rowing Championships, 2011 and 2014 European Rowing Championships, 2014 European Championships, silver at the 2013 World Rowing Championships, 2013 and 2015 World Championships and the 2013 European Championships and bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the same event with Mindaugas Griskonis. In 2021 Ritter announced about retirement from professional sport. Biography Currently living in Trakai. Studying in Myk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 2004
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykolas Romeris University
Mykolas Romeris University ( lt, Mykolo Romerio universitetas) is an international university located with campuses in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. MRU cooperates closely with over 350 universities, public and private institutions, takes part in academic, professional and inter-sectorial networks. MRU has a full membership of the following international higher education organizations: International Association of Universities, European University Association, European Association for International Education, European-Asian Knowledge Consortium Social Technologies for Smart and Inclusive Society, etc. Currently MRU enrolls 7500 students including 600 international students and employs over 400 academic staff. The university offers doctoral, Master's and Bachelor's Degree study programmes. Over 80% of them have international accreditation. The most popular study programmes are law, management, psychology, social work, public security, etc. About 200 doctoral students study in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships was the thirty-ninth edition of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, that took place between 17 and 21 August 2011 in Szeged, Hungary. The Southern Hungarian city welcomed the world event for the third time, having hosted the championship previously in 1998 and 2006. These championships were awarded initially to Vichy, France, however, the race course on the Allier proved to be inadequate to hold the competition and the French Canoe Federation withdraw from organizing the event, following that Szeged, the original host of the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, was moved up to 2011. Originally 94 nations have indicated their intention to participate on the championship, from them 88 registered officially for the competition, which was the main qualification event for the 2012 Summer Olympics, since 176 of the 248 Olympic quotas were distributed in this fixture. Germany and Russia topped the overall medal count with 11 me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Olijnik
Andrejus Olijnikas (born 16 October 1987) is a Lithuanian canoeist. In 2015 he and Ričardas Nekriošius finished at 7th place in World Championships and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships Olijnikas together with Mindaugas Maldonis Mindaugas Maldonis (born 30 March 1991) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. Competing in the individual K-1 200 m event he won gold in 2021 World Cup stage 2 in Barnaul. In 2021 Maldonis was selected to represent Lithuania at the 2020 Summer Olympi ... won silver medal in K-2 500 m event. References External links * * * * Lithuanian male canoeists 1987 births Living people Canoeists at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Lithuania Place of birth missing (living people) Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Lithuania ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Canoeists at the 2019 European Games Canoeists at the 2023 Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giedrius Titenis
Giedrius Titenis (born 21 July 1989) is a Lithuanian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He is a four-time Olympian, a multiple-time Lithuanian record holder in the men's breaststroke, and a double swimming champion in the same discipline at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China. Titenis is also a member of Anykščiai Swimming Club, and is coached and trained by Žilvinas Ovsiukas. Swimming career Titenis is considered one of Lithuania's top male swimmers, having achieved more than a hundred titles at the national championships, and having broken numerous records in men's breaststroke (50, 100, and 200 m), and medley relays (200 and 400 m). Titenis made his international debut at the 2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he earned a bronze medal in the men's 200 m breaststroke, with a time of 2:16.57. The following year, Titenis repeated his bronze medal triumph in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2007 European Junior Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes compete, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries, with 301 medal events in 28 different Olympic sports, sports. The 2004 Games marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance, and also marked the first time Athens hosted the Games since their first modern incarnation in 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896 as well as the return of the Olympic games to its birthplace. Athens became one of only four cities at the time to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games on two occasions (together with Paris, London and Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrejus Zadneprovskis
Andrejus Zadneprovskis (born August 31, 1974) is a retired Lithuanian Modern pentathlon, modern pentathlete who won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as well as bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Zadneprovskis won the gold medal in the Modern Pentathlon World Championships in the year of 2000 and 2004. He also earned the bronze medal at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships 2006 in Guatemala. In 2010 he retired from sport due to health problems. In 2009 he married modern pentathlete Laura Asadauskaitė, who won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They have daughter who was born in 2010. He also has a daughter with his ex-girlfriend. In 2012 Zadneprovskis was elected to the UIPM executives. In 2014 Zadneprovskis became the president of the Lithuanian Padel Tennis Federation. References External links * * * * 1974 births Living people People from Kaliningrad Lithuanian people of Russian descent Sportspeop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvinas Krungolcas
Edvinas Krungolcas (born 21 January 1973) is a retired Lithuanian modern pentathlete who won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. On 21 January 2013 Krungolcas announced the end of his pentathlete career. Krungolcas participated as official at the 2016 Olympics. References Edvinas Krungolcas ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th .... External links * 1973 births Living people Lithuanian male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Lithuania Olympic silver medalists for Lithuania Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon Sportspeople from Vilnius Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year winners Medalists at the 2008 Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. These were also the second Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state, the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union (with venues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Estonia). Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games over four competitors on 13 July 2001, having won a majority of votes from members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after two rounds o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jevgenij Shuklin
Jevgenij Shuklin (born 23 November 1985 in Glazov, Russia) is a Russian-born Lithuanian canoe racing, sprint canoeist who has competed since 2003. Career He was world junior champion in 2003 (Japan, Komatsu). He won four bronze medals in the C-1 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in 2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 2006, 2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 2007, 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 2009 and ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 2014. He is also a three time European champion, in Pontevedra in 2007, in Trasona in 2010 and in Montemor-o-Velho in 2013. He initially won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but he was disqualified for doping after reanalysis in 2019 and was stripped of his medal. Personal life On 25 April 2023 Shuklin was elected as temporary intermediate Mayor of Visaginas. References Canoe09.ca profile * * 1985 births Lithuanian male canoeists Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
