SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION BETWEEN
LITHUANIAN SOCIETY OF YOUNG
RESEARCHERS (LSYR) AND
OTHER EURODOC MEMBERS
Julija Baniukevic
2015 04 27, Cluj Napoca
Who are we?
Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers (LSYR) – a
dynamic knowledge-based autonomous non-political and
non-profit
nation-wide
organisation,
open
to
young
researchers, scientists and students from various science
and research fields
2002 02 20
2003 05 12
208 members
Our Vision
Lithuanian scientists – world-class scientific elite
Our mission
To encourage young people to become world-class scientists by
establishing interdisciplinary scientific community, promoting science and by
facilitating improvements in the system of science and education
Our values
Competence
Creativity
Responsibility
Cooperation
Openness
Initiative
What are we doing?
 Creation
of
interdisciplinary
and
interinstitutional
community of researchers in Lithuania
 Establishment of science development – friendly and
open environment that orients to global environment
 Science popularization
2002 02 20
2003 05 12
208 members
Effective collaboration = Good communication
How and where can we
communicate?

Direct contact/face-2-face  personal
invitations to events, discussions, face-2face meetings
International conferences
2011 04 01-02 “New generation in science: towards a new
fashion ERA?”
2012 01 26-27 “Interdisciplinarity: How to make it work?”
2013 11 15-16 “Invest in researchers”
How and where can we
communicate?
Direct contact/face-2-face  personal
invitations to events, discussions, face-2face meetings
 Eurodoc working groups, e.g.
Interdisciplinarity, Mobility
 Organisational level  international
projects

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
REALIZED 2010 - 2014 m.
“Researchers Night 2010”, “Researchers Night 2011”, “Researchers Night 2012”
2009-2011 Grundtvig Learning Partnership project
“Let’s mix up creativity and innovation in ault education” (EC)
Partners: Austria, Italy, Poland and Spain
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
REALIZED 2010 - 2014 m.
2013-2014 Subproject “Strengthening institutional capacities of Lithuanian
Society of Young Scientists.
The project supported by the Fund of the Lithuanian Republic and the Swiss
Confederation Collaboration Programme
Partner: ActionUni (Switzerland)
LSYR collaborated with
Odillo Huber
CONTEST “BEST PhD THESIS”
2011 05 12
2008 04 24
2010 04 08
2009 04 21
The best thesis, from those, defended last
year, are elected during this contest. The
purpose of this contest is to stimulate doctoral
candidates to prepare high level thesis,
increase motivation of young Lithuanian
researchers in performing scientific activity of
highest quality and significance to society.
2014 04 23
Event “Smithy of Ideas”
Smithy of ideas is a camp that stimulates communication
and collaboration of scientists from different fields and
countries.
Smithy of Ideas benefited from cooperation with Eurodoc
members by attracting participants from different countries
(Poland, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey,
Latvia, Estonia, Russia)
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
IN ACTION, 2015 year
Project
"FACILITATE OPEN SCIENCE TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH".
This project has received funding from the EU FP7 programme for research, technological development
and demonstration under grant agreement no 612425.
The aim of these 4 trainings is to increase young researchers’ competence on open
science and to develop practical skills on open access publishing and research
data management.
Participants: Kaunas technological university, Research Council of Lithuania,
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania, LSYR.
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
IN ACTION, 2015 year
Application for Erasmus+ project on Interdisciplinarity and transferable skills topic
Participants:
LSYR (Lithuania), ADCB (Bulgaria) and MLAZ (Croatia)
What have we learned?
find out the strenghts of our organizations
identify potential directions for further improvements
share the knowledge about third party organizations,
e.g. Vitae
learn from ADCB that LSYR can provide certificates
that have greater value.
4P’s of effective collaboration
Purpose
People
Effective
partnership
Place
Process
CONCLUSION
EURODOC is a good platform where you
can meet young researchers, discuss about
European scientific-political environment
and work on future collaboration. This
knowledge can be successfully used as well
in the discussions with national
stakeholders.
Feel the moment 
Thank you for your attention!
If you’re interested to collaborate with us or just ask
sth so you’re more than welcome:
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.ljms.lt