European Humanities University

European Humanities University
founding	1992
Sponsorship	Private
place	Vilnius
country	Lithuania
Rector	Lina Gorbačiovienė
Students	~ 1800
Website	www.ehu.lt

The University in Vilnius

The European Humanities University and European Humanities University ( Lithuanian Europos humanitarinis universitetas , Belarusian Еўрапейскі гуманітарны ўніверсітэт , Russian Европейский гуманитарный университет , English European Humanities University ) is a private university in Lithuania . Most of the approximately 1,600 students come from Belarus .

The language of instruction for most of the courses is Russian.

history

The EHU was founded in 1992 in Minsk as a private university by the philosopher Anatoly Michailow in order to create a place for science free of ideology after the collapse of the USSR . Teaching was in Russian, English, French or German.

In June 2005 the EHU moved from Belarus (where it was closed in 2004 for political reasons) to Vilnius and is run there as a temporary university in exile .

profile

The EHU offers bachelor , master and doctoral programs in social , humanities and law .

Students and teaching

Around 1,800 students are currently studying at EHU, 700 of them at the Vilnius site . The remaining 1,100 students take advantage of distance learning . This makes the EHU the largest Belarusian distance learning university .

In Belarus, the graduates and students work as researchers, lawyers or journalists. Two thirds of all EHU students complete distance learning programs from Belarus. These are offered on the worldwide Moodle online platform . The other third study and live in Vilnius .

The EHU campus is only 35 kilometers from the border. Students can also take part in seminars on campus. In cooperation with the Lithuanian government, EHU students receive residence permits for their studies in Lithuania .

Others

Since it was founded, the EHU has established numerous partnerships with German institutions such as the Goethe Institute and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). After the move, these collaborations were revived and contributed to the fact that the EHU was able to set up a center for German studies again. This center is to become a regional center of excellence for German language, culture, history and philosophy in the near future.

To this day, the university is dependent on donations.

Web links

Commons : European Humanities University - collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage (in four languages)
German funding initiative
Eurasian Magazine: Intelligence in Exile , Issue 11-05

Individual evidence

↑ Leadership. In: ehu.lt. 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .
↑ In Eastern Europe, it is customary to refer to the humanities as “humanistic sciences” (e.g. Russian гуманитарные науки ); see. studia humanitatis or english humanities . The university's German sponsoring association also uses the term European Humanistic University ( European Humanistic University Funding Initiative ).
^ Archive link ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
↑ The possibility of an island? A university in exile in Lithuania ( memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), July 22, 2010.

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[Leitung-1] Leadership. In: ehu.lt. 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .

[2] In Eastern Europe, it is customary to refer to the humanities as “humanistic sciences” (e.g. Russian гуманитарные науки ); see. studia humanitatis or english humanities . The university's German sponsoring association also uses the term European Humanistic University ( European Humanistic University Funding Initiative ).

[3] Archive link ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).

[4] The possibility of an island? A university in exile in Lithuania ( memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), July 22, 2010.