February 15, 2006. EHU Rector Anatoli Mikhailov visited Stockholm, Sweden on February 13-15, where, at the meetings with Minister for Foreign Affairs Laila Freivalds, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers Per Unckel, academia representatives and journalists, further development of academic programs in Belarus and Baltic states was discussed.
As a result, an agreement was reached about a new Sweden-funded master’s degree program to be developed by EHU in collaboration with University College of South Stockholm.

February 15, 2006. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania approved the establishment and accreditation of the European Humanities University (EHU) as a Lithuanian institution of higher learning. With this accreditation, the European Humanities University becomes the 22nd university in Lithuania.
Experts from the Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education and the University Commission of Research and Education Institutions Evaluation Council reviewed the European Humanities University’s application for accreditation according to Lithuanian legislation. The registration of EHU is valid in Lithuania until the University can return to Belarus as a fully functioning institution of higher learning.
Read the Government’s press statement in Lithuanian and Russian.

January 30 – February 3, 2006. Participants of the supported by OSI/HESP project “Contemporary Communicative Philosophy and Communicative Strategies in Philosophy Teaching” (2003-2006) met for the final session to discuss their scientific and teaching accomplishments and possible directions of the follow-up cooperation. The project embraced 24 members of Philosophy faculties from Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Georgia and facilitated their work in a team with noted scholars from Germany, USA, and Canada.

January 31, 2006. During an official meeting at the Institute of Lithuanian History (Vilnius, Lithuania), leadership of the European Humanities University, Institute of Lithuanian History, Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Arts, Institute for Social Research, and Institute of Lithuanian Language and Folklore reached an agreement of cooperation in the sphere of higher education and research in Social Sciences and Humanities.

January 27, 2006. The 2006 winter school “Teaching Visual Culture in the World Full of Images” started in Vilnius. This school is a one-week session of the HESP-funded 3-year-long project “Visual and Cultural Studies: Subject, Methods, and Teaching Strategies”, organized by EHU Laboratory of Visual and Cultural Studies in conjunction with Vilnius University and Institute of Philosophy, Culture and Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania). The school is aimed at giving the floor to the project’s participants to present and discuss the syllabi and materials they employ in their teaching practice. As part of the winter school, Prof. James Elkins from the Art Institute of Chicago will hold two seminars on January 28-29, exploring the issues of visual literacy and global conditions of art criticism. Please read the program of the winter school on the project’s web site.

January 26, 2006. Teaching faculty of the EHU bachelor’s program in Belarusian Studies met with their History colleagues from Lithuanian universities and other academic institutions. The meeting’s participants discussed prospects for organizing joint educational and research programs.

January 11, 2006. On January 9-11, Vilnius University hosted EHU workshop in Contemporary Communicative Philosophy. The workshop was organized in the framework of the OSI/HESP-funded project “Contemporary Communicative Philosophy and Communicative Strategies in Philosophy Teaching”, executed by European Humanities University in 2003-2006. The workshop gathered Philosophy faculty and researchers from Minsk, Vilnius, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tbilisi, and Riga.

December 28, 2005. Philosophy faculty of European Humanities University had a contact making meetings with their colleagues from various Lithuanian universities, aiming at exploring the possibilities for cooperation in the field of Philosophy teaching and research.

November 28, 2005. EHU International Advisory Board met in Washington, D.C. Members of the Board formally recognized the Lithuanian Government’s (Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education) proven commitment and support of the University and welcomed European partners to join the Advisory Board (representatives from EC, Nordic Council of Ministers, EU member states). According to the Advisory Board’s resolution, E.H.U. International will pursue more stable institutional support from funders via longer-term commitments. Besides, the Board accepted the motion to create an International Rector Support Group, including rectors of leading universities in Northern America and Europe.

October 24, 2005. EHU library is now open to EHU bachelor’s and master’s students, faculty and staff members in Vilnius in the ground floor of the headquarters building at Kraziu St., 25. The constantly widening library resources are available both for in-house use in the reading room and for borrowing.

October 7, 2005. Our University started the new academic year.
As a result of intensive competition, EHU has enrolled 171 young Belarusian citizens to attend the 4-year long course of study towards bachelor’s degree in the following majors: Political Sciences and European Studies, Media Studies, Social and Political Philosophy, Belarusian Cultural Heritage and Forming of National Identity, and International Law. Almost half of the bachelor’s students come from regional towns and villages. Besides for face-to-face programs, the University has enrolled 293 students, who will follow the full course of bachelor’s education via distance learning.
The master’s programs invite 100 young professionals to raise the level of their skills during the 2-year course of study in such majors as European Studies, International and European Law, Gender, Culture and Society, Social Theory and Political Philosophy, and Management of Non-Governmental Organizations. Almost half of them are graduates of the European Humanities University in Minsk; some of them, after EHU was forced to terminate its operation in Belarus, have completed their education in respected universities in Europe and now return to their alma mater.
Altogether, EHU admission department received 254 applications for bachelor’s programs and 160 applications for master’s degree programs. Besides for prior academic achievements, the selection criteria included necessity to secure the applicants’ civil right for education, as many of them are at risk of being banned education in their home country due to their political outlooks.

April 15, 2005. The European Humanities University will reopen in Vilnius on June 9, BNS reported. This decision was made during an informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on April 15. Antanas Valionis, the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, called for reopening the EHU to promote European values to the academic circles in neighboring Belarus. The Lithuanian government is looking for a suitable building to house the EHU. Read the BNS full-text press-release in Lithuanian and Russian.

December 28, 2004. E.H.U. International builds its work on partnership with universities and educational establishments from various countries, developing and offering educational programs jointly. EHU is committed to the principle of mobility for its students, who are able to participate in many of these programs through the system of distance learning. Since its official registration, this network university project has received statements of recognition and support from European University Viadrina (Germany), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania) and American Councils for International Education (USA). The International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) has also announced that it is planning to join the project in the near future.

November 5, 2004. At the meeting of the International Board of Trustees of EHU that took place on the 29th of October, 2004, and was also attended by the representatives of the donor organizations as well as the representatives of the USA State Department, German and Lithuanian Ministries of foreign affairs, the Trustees adopted a Statement, affirming their support to EHU (EHU-International) and its activities.
Read full text of the Statement in English here.
Read full text of the Statement in Russian here.

October 29, 2004. EHU-International has been officially registered on October 28, 2004. From this moment the network project EHU-International is established as a legal person, incorporated on the territory of Lithuania according to the Lithuanian legislation. The work of EHU-International will be built on the basis of partnership of universities and other educational institutions from various contries.

October 21, 2004. This week the Rector of the EHU, Professor A.Mikhailov met the Vice-president of Warsaw. During their meeting the Vice-president delivered to the Professor the letter from the President of Warsaw, Mr. Lech Kaczynski, in which the latter expressed readiness to support the efforts of the EHU, aimed at continuing to pursue the mission of the University. The meeting was concluded by a media-conference at the editorial office of the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, which covered it in this article.

In this letter Mr. Kaczynski states, in particular, that "the closure of the University ... aroused the indignation of the international community", and that the Warsaw city administartion guarantees "the possibility of support to the professors and students who would like to continue to teach and study in Warsaw". Read full text of the letter here.

October 4, 2004. The General Assembly of the European Universities Foundation / Campus Europae (EUF/CE) took place in Luxembourg.

The General Assembly of EUF/CE has adopted a Resolution on European Humanities University, where it notes, that "The European Humanities University (EHU) was, and still is, a member in good standing of the EUF/CE", as well as that "Because of the intervention of the Belarus Government to curb the academic freedom and academic development of the EHU, and without any fault on its part, the EHU was deprived of official university status within Belarus and, therefore, cannot - at the present time - accredit its own academic qualifications."

The full text of the Resolution.

October 1, 2004. On the 1st of October a new academic year starts, according to the EHU tradition. This time we are opening the virtual doors of our "University in Exile" - the EHU-International.
This new project of a Network University is being developed with the help of our friends and partners from many countries of Europe and USA. Just as before the University is being headed by Professor Anatoli Mikhailov. All those who studied at EHU can consider themselves the students of EHU-International take part in the educational programs that is has to offer. Welcome to the New EHU!