September 8, 2006. Beginning September 11, registration will be open for 61 distance learning courses offered by EHU during the autumn semester. The registration procedure will close on September 28.

August 1, 2006. A delegation of the Swedish Moderate Party, including the Party’s leader and candidate for prime minister of Sweden Mr. Reinfeldt and the Party’s Head of Foreign and Security Affairs Mrs. Clase, has visited EHU to make the acquaintance of our university and discuss its further plans of cooperation with Sweden.

July 31, 2006. The first academic year that our University spent in Lithuania is over. We congratulate the University’s students and their parents, faculty and administrative staff, friends of EHU and all those people who have helped the University to resurrect and keep on its activity in exile. We are grateful to you for your support and solidarity!
We are looking forward to seeing you next academic year!

July 5, 2006. EHU students held a party at “Jazz&Rock” café in Vilnius, to celebrate the end of the first academic year spent by European Humanities University in exile. The party’s program started with performances of the students’ experimental theatre “EST”. The students’ photo community presented a photo exhibition that illustrated the students’ life during the year – their faces, workday routine, and creative works.

June 30, 2006. Finnish Ambassador to Lithuania Mr. Timo Lahelma and Secretary of the Embassy Mr. Stefan Heikkinen met with EHU master’s degree students with a major in Political Science (MA programs: Political Science for NGO leaders and activists, European Studies). Mr. Lahelma discussed the top priorities of Finland’s EU presidency with the students and answered their questions.

June 26, 2006. “CAPITALISM AND/OR PATRIARCHY? Conference on Gender in Post-Soviet Space” took place in Vilnius, June 22-24, 2006. The conference was organized by the EHU Center for Gender Studies. The papers presented by more than 40 scholars from 14 countries of East and Central Europe and North America were focused on gender and post-Soviet social stratification, nation-building, and everyday transformation in post-Communist countries. A collective volume, resulting from the conference, is expected to be published both in Russian and English. For more information about the conference, please visit the Center’s web site.

June 19, 2006. European Humanities University is seeking qualified candidates to fill vacancies at the Department of Foreign Languages. Applicants should submit necessary documents by 19 October 2006. More

June 14, 2006. EHU Football Cup, the first game in a series of friendly matches between EHU students and faculty, took place in Vilnius. In the football field, the faculty contended with their students with help of some members of the University administration and master’s degree students. In the result of this friendly, but nevertheless tense struggle, the students won 5-3. It is planned to hold a return match in the nearest future.

June 13, 2006. EHU is launching a contest of banners and slogans promoting the university as a whole or its selected programs. Contest entries are due by July 2, 2006. Prizes will go to the contest winners in 5 nominations. Contest Rules (in Russian)

June 9, 2006. An Instructional Design Training Course was held at EHU from June 5 through June 9 within the project of technical support of distance learning at our University. The course brought together representatives of all EHU programs’ faculty and an expert of the Dutch company Edugolive BV, a service organization in e-learning. After the training course, the participating faculty members are expected not only to apply the skills learned at the course in their further instruction, but also to share the newly acquired teaching techniques with their colleagues during faculty training events of the EHU Distance Education Center.

June 8, 2006. EHU will hold Open Days for its enrollees in July 2006. The university entrants and their relatives are welcome to visit the University on July 8, in case there are applying to such BA programs as “Political Sciences. European Studies”, “Political and Social Philosophy”, “Media and Communication”, and “International Law”. The entrants of the BA programs “Belarusian Studies” and “Visual Design and Media” are expected to come on July 15. The Open Days’ program includes meetings with the University’s leadership and program directors. After the meetings in the EHU administrative building, the visitors are invited to acquaint themselves with the Old City of Vilnius during a sightseeing tour, organized by EHU students (major – Protection and Uses of Cultural Heritage).
To learn more about EHU, enrollees can also visit a special forum on the web site of EHU community “SehuN” and read the answers to the frequently asked questions (all materials are in Russian).

May 25, 2006. EHU Senate conducted its regular sitting in Vilnius. At the beginning of the meeting, the Senate said goodbye to and observed a moment of silence in memory of its member Prof. Rolandas Pavilionis, who passed away on May 10, 2006. A Lithuanian politician, member of the European Parliament, former Rector of Vilnius University, Prof. Pavilionis was a faithful friend and associate of EHU. His contribution to the reestablishment of our University in exile is inestimable.
European Humanities University grieves over the death of its friend and condoles with his family.

May 23, 2006. A group of state officials from Nordic countries paid a visit to EHU, among them – Ms. Berit Andnor, Swedish Minister for Social Affairs and Nordic Cooperation, Mr. Per Unckel, the Secretary-General of the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM), Mr. Teppo Heiskanen, the Director of the NCM Office in Vilnius, representatives of Denmark and Iceland. The delegation met with the administration of EHU and Romeris University, discussed EHU’s needs and prospects for future cooperation. At the guests’ meeting with EHU students, the issues of academic and cultural exchange prevailed.
The delegation’s visit related to the 15th anniversary of the NCM Office in Lithuania. Beginning in January 2006, the Office coordinates the joint European Commission and Nordic Council of Ministers support for the European Humanities University.

May 9, 2006. Representatives of leading international donor organizations and diplomatic corps gathered in Vilnius at the meeting of European Humanities University (EHU) International Board of Trustees and donors’ conference to discuss the strategy for the University’s further development. More
Press release of the MacArthur Foundation

May 5, 2006. From May 2 through May 4, a joint seminar of the European Humanities University (EHU) and Belarusian Humanities Lyceum (BHL) took place in Vilnius to define the ways of cooperation of the two institutions. Meetings of the EHU administration, faculty and students with BHL faculty representatives gave floor to the discussion of a more effective interplay of EHU and BHL in training of future specialists in the Humanities. On May 5, EHU Rector Anatoli Mikhailov and BHL Director Uladzimir Kolas signed the Agreement of Cooperation between EHU and BHL.

April 24, 2006. Photo exhibition “Chronicle of Awakening” took place on April 16-23 at “Galera” gallery in Vilnius’ Užupis. This exhibition was conceived as a video source of non-biased information about this year’s after-election events in Minsk. The authors of the exhibited documentary photos were 13 professional and amateur photographers, most of them – either current or former students of EHU, who had captured the actions they took an active part in. The exhibition was organized and sponsored by Olga Melgoui, United Center of Initiatives for Belarus, and European Humanities University.

April 17, 2006. The project "Social transformations in the Border region – Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova" has announced a call for grant applications for researchers from Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. The project is funded by the Carnegy Corporation of New York (USA) and administrated with help of American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS) and American Center for Education and Research (ACER).
You can download the application regulations and forms for individual and group grants (MS Word files, in Russian). The application deadline is May 31, 2006.

April 1, 2006. The second phase of the project "Social transformations in the Border region – Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova" (CASE) has started. Goals for this phase of CASE include greater regional outreach by the creation of networks of young teaching professionals and academics in the social sciences and humanities disciplines and the creation of independent cross-discipline and inter-regional research groups.

March 31, 2006. The Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly held a colloquy on university autonomy and accountability in the 21st century in Prague on March 30-31. The Committee heard testimony from the Rector of the European Humanities University, Professor Anatoly Mikhailov, and a number of students from Belarus who had been thrown out of their universities in Belarus as an act of political harassment.
At the conclusion of this colloquy, the Committee adopted a statement on academic freedom in Belarus. In the statement, the Council of Europe parliamentarians strongly condemned denial of academic freedom in Belarus. Furthermore, “the Committee welcomed the support that the international community and in particular Lithuania provided to the European Humanities University which had to go into exile from Minsk (Belarus) to Vilnius (Lithuania). It encouraged member governments as well as universities in Europe to co-operate with the European Humanities University and facilitate student and faculty exchanges.”
PACE press release

March 28, 2006. EHU Senate members have adopted a statement, which reads, “We the members of the EHU Senate subscribe to the demands to release participants of the peaceful rallies, which took place in Belarus after the presidential election. We are indignant over the violation of academic rights of the youth, expelled from Belarusian institutions of higher learning for political reasons. The Senate declares its readiness to admit students who have no opportunity to continue education in Belarus to the corresponding programs of EHU.”

March 23, 2006. On March 24, the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) will sign an agreement with the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius in support of this Belarusian university in exile. This agreement worth € 2.78 million enables 350 students from Belarus to study at the EHU for three years in various degree programs. The European Commission is the biggest donor with € 2.2 million.
The signing ceremony will take place on at 10.00 am at the Mykolas Romeris University campus, Valakupiu 5. The agreement between NCM and EHU will be signed by Mr. Per Unckel, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers and by Mr. Anatoli Mikhailov, the Rector of the European Humanities University.
In the signing ceremony a message from European Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner for External Relations and Neighbourhood Policy will be delivered. The ceremony will be attended by heads of all EU countries' missions to Lithuania.
Mr Unckel will also meet with President Valdas Adamkus and Minister of Education and Science Remigijus Motuzas during his one-day visit to Vilnius.
NCM press-release.

March 21, 2006. EHU has published the revised admission rules and opened the enrollment period for the 2006/07 academic year in the master’s degree programs.
2006 Admission Rules (in Russian)
Press Release (in Russian)

March 9, 2006. U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Stephen D. Mull met with EHU students, staff and faculty. Heads of the Finnish and Swedish Missions to Lithuania, Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Vilnius, representatives of Lithuanian ministries of education and foreign affairs, and administration of Mykolas Romeris University also attended this meeting. Ambassador Mull delivered a message from U.S. President George W. Bush and made a speech on the role of the European Humanities University and the struggle for democracy in Belarus.
Letter by U.S. President George W. Bush (in English, Lithuanian, and Russian).
Speech by U.S. Ambassador Stephen D. Mull (in English and Lithuanian).

March 1, 2006. EHU announced new admission rules and opened the enrollment period for the 2006/07 academic year in the bachelor’s programs, taught both on-ground and via Internet.
2006 Admission Rules (in Russian)
Press Release (in Russian)

March 1, 2006. On the first day of 2006 Spring Semester, EHU welcomed over 500 newly enrolled distance-learning students. The recent registration campaign attracted over 1800 course applications from all over Belarus and far beyond.

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.

February 9, 2006. EHU has opened registration for the distance learning courses of 2006 Spring Semester. 60 courses are offered via Internet within 6 BA programs: “Theory and Practices of Modern Art”, “Cultural Heritage and Tourism”, “Visual Design and Media”, “Political and Social Philosophy”, “International Law”, and 2 supplementary programs in Psychology and Political Sciences, delivered exclusively to former EHU students. All courses are free of charge. From this time on, EHU will organize its on-line teaching in the medium of Moodle, an open source CMS.
Press Release (in 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 30, 2006. The 12th issue of “Topos”, a journal in Philosophy and Cultural Studies, has been published. All texts of the issue are available on-line (in Russian) on the web site of the Center for Philosophical Anthropology “Topos”.

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. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on situation in Belarus on the eve of the presidential election. The PACE resolution inter alia urges President Lukashenko and the Belarusian authorities to “respect academic freedom and in particular provide appropriate conditions for the European Humanities University to return to Minsk” (12.11). Furthermore, the Assembly invites the European Union to “continue supporting the European Humanities University in exile in Vilnius” (15.4).

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.

January 4, 2006. Center for Gender Studies at E.H.U. International is pleased to announce call for papers for the “Capitalism and/or Patriarchy?” conference, which will be conducted on June 22-24, 2006 in Vilnius. The deadline for individual proposals or complete panels is March 1, 2006. For more details, please consult the Center’s website.

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

December 19, 2005. On December 16-18, over 50 representatives of EHU faculty, staff and administration from Vilnius and Minsk, as well as EHU guests from Ukraine, Lithuania, and Germany met at the conference “Belarus in Europe. Education and Culture at Risk of Self-Isolation”. The conference agenda covered issues of interrelations between Belarus’ higher education and power, culture and ideology.

December 19, 2005. In January 2006, the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) is launching a joint project with European Humanities University, supported by the European Commission under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights. The project will provide for implementation of most of the University’s academic programs at undergraduate and graduate levels in Vilnius in 2006-2008 and will benefit 170 bachelor’s and 180 master’s students from Belarus.

December 2, 2005. Center for Gender Studies at E.H.U. International published its annual “Women of Belarus: a Social History” Calendar, for the year 2006, titled “BELARUSIAN TEXTILES.” More information is available on the Center’s website.

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.

November 10, 2005. Olga Melgoui and Nastassia Fokina, 1-year majors in Visual Design and Media, took office as representatives of EHU students in the Campus Europae consortium.

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. Extensions of the library stock will be announced in the readers’ newsletters on our web site (“Information Resources”, in Russian).
The library is open Monday to Friday, from 10.00 to 17.00. For access to the resources the readers need to present a valid ID card.

October 8, 2005. On the second day of the new academic year, a group of students from the 16 Campus Europae member universities visited EHU in Vilnius within the framework of the Tour d’Europe project. At the meeting with their Belarusian colleagues, the guests presented their universities and answered lots of questions from EHU students. Read an article by the students representing EHU during the tour around Europe at the website of EHU community “SehuN” (in Russian).

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.

September 27, 2005. Nordic Council of Ministers announced the plans of this organization along with the European Union to provide joint support for the European Humanities University in Vilnius. Read the press release here (in English).

July 7, 2005. European Parliament adopted a Resolution on Political Situation and Independence of the Media in Belarus. Two articles of the resolution raise the issue of European Humanities University and its students. The European Parliament “welcomes the inauguration of the European Humanities University for Belarussian students in exile in Vilnius, and calls on the Commission and Member States to assist the that University in the pursuit of its teaching and research programmes” (13). Further, it “calls on the Member States to recognise the degrees awarded by the European Humanities University by way of confirmation of a high level of competence and outstanding academic skills, and calls on European universities to enter into a closer cooperation with it” (14).

June 15, 2005. The list of face-to-face and distance learning programs, offered by the European Humanities University in exile (Vilnius, Lithuania) toward bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as well as admission requirements and procedures for 2005/2006 academic year will be placed on our site after July 5, 2005.

June 11, 2005. New issue of “Topos”, a journal in Philosophy and Cultural Studies, appeared in print. This tenth issue of the journal fully focuses on EHU, its major themes being “The Case of Belarus”, “Academia and Power”, “The Idea of a University”. All texts of the issue are published on-line on the web site of the Center for Philosophical Anthropology “Topos” (in Russian).

June 10, 2005. The Inaugural Conference of E.H.U. International took place in Vilnius on June 9-10, 2005. The conference was attended by Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, leading officials of foreign offices of a number of European counties, ambassadors of the USA and EU countries to Lithuania and Belarus, representatives of European Commission and European Parliament, heads of international donor organizations, European and Lithuanian universities, non-governmental organizations, faculty members and students of European Humanities University. Read about the Conference in greater detail here.

April 21, 2005. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and Foreign Minister of Lithuania Antanas Valionis met in Vilnius with representatives of Belarus civil society. Among participants of the meeting was Prof. Anatoli Mikhailov, Rector of European Humanities University. Read articles, prepared by Charter'97; Yahoo! News; TurkishPress.

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.

April 14, 2005. The 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution on the situation of human right in Belarus, expressing deep concern “about the revocation of the license of the European Humanities University (EHU) and the continued pressure exerted by the Belarusian authorities on the EHU and other academic institutions”.

April 6, 2005. Lithuania is ready to host the banned in Belarus independent European Humanities University, reported Baltic News Service with reference to the press service of the Lithuanian government. This position was announced during the meeting of Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas with EHU Rector Anatoly Mikhailov. Among details discussed during the meeting, there were the following: the university in Lithuania may be reopened with assistance from the European Union; the university will operate as an independent entity; and the university could restart its work in the coming year already. Read the BNS full-text press-release in Lithuanian and Russian.

March 29, 2005. Youth Educational Club NEW LINE (“Transformation of Humanities” Association) and iEARN-Belarus – International Education and Resource Network in Belarus, Youth Philosophy Club WWLI-EHU (European Humanities University and the team of World We Live In” Internet-project), Internet Access and Training Program – IATP, Internet project- 2, UNDP, Belarussian Alumni Club of the Federation of Internet-Education and E.H.U.–International are happy to announce an open Internet discussion “World We Live In”, that will take place on March 31, 2005 from 14:00 to 17:00 Minsk time (15.00-18.00 Moscow time or 12:00–15:00 GMT) at http://iatp.org.ua/irchat4/. The conference will be held in Russian, English, Belarussian and German languages.
The open internet-conference is the main part of the “World We Live In” Internet-project, and usually contains 5 thematic chat-rooms running altogether at the same time. Read the full information about the internet conference here.
For instructions on how to use the chat at the above indicated web site, please read this guide.

March 18, 2005. With the assistance of the Eurasia Foundation, E.H.U. International conducted a conference in Lithuania on March 15-18, 2005, devoted to strategic planning of the network university and beginning of the spring semester. Nearly 50 Belarusian and Lithuanian professors and administrative staff directly involved in realization of distance learning programs within the framework of E.H.U. International attended the conference.

March 10, 2005. The Trustees of EHU-International accepted the Five-Year Development Plan for the University and operational budget of the University for the '05 and '06 calendar years presented at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Trustees and Donors in Washington, D. C. (USA) on March 3-4, 2005. Read the full text of the statement here.

March 1, 2005. Private educational establishment “European Humanities University” announced the beginning of the process of its liquidation. Read the corresponding statement here.

January 10, 2005. Our congratulations to Kirill Ilnitski, the 3rd year student of the Philosophy Department, who won the competition for the position of a Representative of the students of E.H.U. International in the Campus Europae consortium.

January 5, 2005. We received a copy of the letter that had been sent by the President of Carnegie Corporation of New York (a private foundation that supports programs designed to strengthen higher education in the former Soviet Union) Vartan Gregorian to the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. In this letter President Gregorian writes in particular: "We join the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, who stated that the closure of EHU represents a violation of the basic principles of the European Cultural Convention, to which Belarus is a signatory". Read the full text of the letter here.

December 28, 2004. From the moment of the official registration of the network university EHU-International, that had taken place two months ago, on October 28, 2004, three organizations already declared their accession to this university: the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt-Oder, Germany), Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania) and the American Councils for International Education (USA).
EHU-International builds its work on the basis of partnership of universities and other educational institutions from various countries, on joint development of educational programs, as well as on the principle of molbility of its students, who will have the opportunities to take part in many of these programs, including via a distance learning system.

December 1, 2004. The Institute for German Studies announces the beginning (from December 3) of the classes on "German and European Studies" in the form of "short courses", that are going to be taught in German from December, 2004 to March, 2005. See the more detailed information (in German) about the offered courses and their schedule here.

November 24, 2004. The Presidium of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities (Konferencja Rektorow Akademickich Szkol Polskich — KRASP) has adopted a Resolution on November 18, 2004, in which it praised the initiative of the KRASP member universities, that supported the EHU students in their efforts to countinue their studies in Poland. The Resolution calls upon other KRASP member universities to also provide an opportunity for the EHU students to continue their studies in Poland (pursuing Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. degrees), or lend assistance to them in some other form.
The full text of the Resolution (in Polish, pdf-format) is available here.

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.

November 1, 2004. The EHU starts offering courses of foreign language. Program of the courses.

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 22, 2004. On 18-19th of October 38 students of the Faculties of Philosophy, Arts, Psychology, Economics and Law of the EHU started their studies at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the St.-Petersburg State University. This opportunity was made possible due to the support of the leadership of the St.-Petersburg State University, Smolny College and the international partners of EHU.

October 21, 2004. The Rector of the EHU, Professor A.Mikhailov this week met the President of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski. During their meeting Lech Kaczynski 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.

A letter of support from Lech Kaczynski, the President of Warsaw, was sent to the Rector of the EHU, Professor A. Mikhailov. In this letter he 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 15, 2004. In the first half of October around 47 of 4th and 5th year students of EHU started their studies in German Universities. 40 students of the Faculties of Law, Economics and Philosophy will spend this academic year at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt am Oder), 6 of 4th and 5th year students of the Faculty of Arts started their studies at the University of Fine Arts of Saarbrucken, and one 4th year student of the Faculty of Economics was admitted to the University of Zittau. An agreement was reached that 17 students of the Faculties of Information Technologies, Psychology and Law will be admitted to the Free University of Berlin.

September 24, 2004. The EHU Gallery jointly with the Embassy of Ireland in Russian Federation opened the exhibition "International JOYCE". The exhibition is devoted to famous irish writer James Joyce. Exhibition program.

September 23, 2004. Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko, while speeking to the students of Brest Region, admitted that he had closed EHU on political reasons. Full text (rus).

September 15, 2004. Three 3rd year students of EHU started their studies in the American University in Bulgaria.

September 1, 2004. With support of EHU's partners in the USA, 19 EHU students, participating in the Work&Travel exchange program, received an opportunity to stay in the United States for one year to continue their studies in American colleges.

August 17, 2004. EHU Rector Prof. Anatoly Mikhailov took part in the Internet conference, run by the Belarusian agency of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. Prof. Mikhailov answered the questions concerning the destiny of the European Humanities University, reasons of the pressure from the side of the Belarus authorities, the University's plans and the future of its students. Full text version (rus/bel/eng).