To foster research excellence, it is essential to share experiences and insights. The workshop “From Ideas to Impact: Workshop for Sharing Research and Partnership Building” is designed to introduce research conducted at the KTU School of Economics and Business, focusing on labor market and workplace welfare, and to hear perspectives from researchers at the Prague University of Economics and Business, Bocconi University, and the Estonian Business School (EBS), as well as to discuss opportunities for further collaboration.
⏰ Date and time: 15 October, 2025 | 09:00–17:00
📍 Location: KTU Santaka Valley, 2nd floor – A225 (K. Baršausko St. 59, Kaunas, Lithuania) | Online – Zoom link
👉 Event Agenda
❗️ Registration required
🔹 09:00–09:10 |
Welcome speech and opening
Assoc. prof. dr. Kęstutis Duoba (Dean of KTU SEB)
Prof. dr. Asta Savanevičienė (Principal Investigator of Sustainable Management Research Group)
🔹 09:10–10:15 |
Participant Introductions
KTU SEB Research Highlights & Future Directions:
Prof. dr. Živilė Stankevičiūtė (KTU)
Enhancing Employee Resilience – Organizational Systems versus Personal Responsibility
Prof. dr. Eglė Staniškienė (KTU)
Social Entrepreneurship through Community-Led enterprises: the Contribution of the Pathfinder+ Project
Assoc. prof. dr. Viktorija Varaniūtė (KTU)
Managing paradoxical tensions and developing organizational capabilities in a circular economy
Prof. dr. Rūta Čiutienė (KTU)
Sustainable careers of refugee women
Prof. dr. Audra I. Mockaitis (Maynooth University | KTU)
Research of the system of values and pull factors of the Lithuanian emigrants in host countries
🔹 10:15–10:30 | Coffee Break
🔹 10:30–12:00 | Generating Ideas for Future Projects within the RIS4SEB Initiative: Focus on Labor Market and Workplace Welfare
- Short presentations of partners’ research interests (UB, EBS, VŠE)
- Overview of upcoming Horizon calls (Asta Savanevičienė, KTU)
- Exploring synergies and identifying potential collaboration areas in relation to the upcoming calls
🔹 12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break
🔹 13:00–15:00 | Generating Ideas for Future Projects within the RIS4SEB Initiative: Focus on Labor Market and Workplace Welfare
- Generating project concepts and outlining potential project content
🔹 15:00–17:00 |
Infrastructure Seeing
KTU National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (NIEC)
Vaida Morkūnaitė-Mačiulienė (KTU Business Project Development Manager)
KTU Interdisciplinary Prototyping Laboratory Centre – M-Lab
Junior Researchers: Greta Dargytė, Lukas Geryba
Students: Aivaras Sendžikas, Kadir Batuhan Sayan
Project no.: 101159106
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
