The programme focuses on the most pressing issues currently affecting the development of countries and societies.

During the Politics of Global Challenges programme, you will examine the practical dilemmas arising as a result of the transformations and innovations taking place in society, technology, politics and other areas. Teams of different scientists and lecturers will introduce you to the basics of philosophy, political science, biochemistry, technology, public administration and IT. This knowledge will have vast applications as you continue on your way to your dream career.

During your studies, you will learn to work in a team, develop persuasive and argumentative public speaking skills, and improve your presentation and creative writing competencies in various workshops. You will have the opportunity to spend at least one semester at the most advanced foreign universities, where you will have an opportunity to study contemporary challenges and meet the best foreign experts in their fields, in an international environment.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to identify, explain, interpret and critically evaluate the most important theories and concepts of political science, while gaining a knowledge of the basics of social sciences and humanities, which are closely related to political science.
• Students will know and be able to understand the basics of the other fields of science relevant to solving global challenges (new technologies, environment, medical and health sciences) and will be able to connect the existing knowledge, while identifying complex policy issues and major changes.
• Students will know about the latest research on global challenges with political consequences and will be able to refer to these results by creating specific proposals for managing or overcoming these challenges at different levels.
• Students will be able to independently identify relevant topics and those requiring research, formulate a research problem relevant to political science in relation to the global challenges of modern societies, develop that research plan and conduct small-scale scientific or applied research.
• Students will know about the types and principles of social science research design, the most important social science research methods (qualitative and quantitative, including the latest digital research methods), data collection and analysis tools (big data analysis and data visualisation techniques), and will be able to select and apply them in analysing global challenges, as well as critically evaluating their chosen research methodology, while explaining its advantages and disadvantages.
• Students will be able to collect, critically evaluate, interpret and systematise information that is relevant to the research from various (national and international) primary and secondary sources, and will be able to validate it with the assumptions and limitations of their information analysis.
• Students will be able to explain the changing politics and the content, actors, processes and forms of expression in the modern environment, as well as being able to analyse and systematically evaluate them.
• Students will be able to choose complex methodological tools and work together with the representatives of different disciplines, to analyse new occurrences and processes with political consequences and to seek and develop common innovative solutions.
• Students will be able to plan, organise and carry out various professional or analytical activities in organisations that are involved in processes to solve global challenges (especially innovative and interdisciplinary processes) both in Lithuania and abroad, by providing policy analyses, recommendations, strategic planning, policy evaluations, etc.

Career Outcomes:

Graduates of the Politics of Global Challenges programme will be able to fulfil their potential in innovative private businesses and public sector institutions in the fields of sustainability, innovation, ethics, risk management, environment, renewable resources and technology applications, as well as in research companies, public relations agencies and the media. Some of our graduates will be directly involved in national and international political decision-making and the implementation of political processes.

The graduates of this study programme will be able to continue their studies in various Master’s degree programmes in the fields of social sciences and the humanities or in interdisciplinary studies, and later will be able to pursue a scientific or pedagogical degree.