Department of Environmental Technologies

About

The predecessor of the Department of Environmental Technology, the Department of Urban Sanitation, was established at Kaunas University on August 15, 1940. The founder of the department and its first head was professor Steponas Kairys. Later on until 1956 the department was called Department of Water Supply, Sewerage and Plumbing and it prepared engineers specialising in water supply and sewerage systems. Since 1978 the focus has been on the rational use of water resources and the treatment of industrial waste water. In 1988 the department was again renamed, this time becoming the Department of Engineering Ecology and continued its activities at KTU’s Faculty of Chemical Technology until 2014 when it became known as the Department of Environmental Technology.

The Department of Environmental Technology’s mission strives to produce world-class research, to train highly qualified environmental engineering specialists at Bachelor, Master’s and Doctoral level studies  who are marketable at both national and international level and who are able to apply their acquired knowledge in both scientific and practical ways.

Activities:

• Pedagogical: Coordinates the implementation of first and second cycle study Environmental Engineering programmes. A strategic priority for the improvement of study programmes distinguished by content and teaching quality that are competitive at an international level. Students can access up-to-date study literature and laboratory equipment for the determination of pollution via computer-aided and technological modelling. Bachelor and Master’s programmes are conducted in Lithuanian and English.
• International student exchange: Close relations between the department’s lecturers and colleagues from international universities provide students with great opportunities for temporary studies abroad. The ERASMUS and ERASMUS+ student exchange programmes open the doors to schools of high education in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Turkey and elsewhere.
• Scientific: The department’s scientific group performs researches in the area of environmental technologies. Research is carried out with the aid of high technologies and interdisciplinary studies. Lecturers who actively participate in scientific research, publish their work in internationally acknowledged scientific publications thus ensuring a unity of science and study.