In March of 2021 lecturer of VILNIUS TECH university, Faculty of Business Management Department of Business Technology and entrepreneurship, Giedrius Čyras did teach at Santo Domingo Institute of Technology, Dominican Republic.
The first systematic conversations that led to the formation of INTEC took place in April-May of the year 1971 in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, when a group of university professors had the concern to create "a small institution oriented mainly to offering programs postgraduate programs in non-traditional areas, permanent education programs, programs for executives and research”. Over the years, INTEC has achieved a consolidation that has involved not only physical and quantitative growth but also an affirmation through qualitative achievements that have made it a university of very high reputation.
It is the first Dominican university to receive accreditation from the Dominican Association for Self-Study and Accreditation, ADAAC, with the participation of evaluators from sister countries. INTEC plans its future, taking national and international accreditation standards as a reference framework. INTEC has cultivated its international vocation through participation in university organizations, teacher and student mobility, the making of institutional agreements and, with increasing emphasis, through the internationalization of the programs it offers.
The aim of the our university lecturer visit was a teaching program in a field of gamification in marketing and management. There were meetings with professors Violeta Lockhart and SME Mipynes center director Kania Castellanos, and taught for the Marketing students course. The professors discussed about their subject and G. Cyras subject "Gamification industry“ in general aspects of program development and good practice options.
As another purpose was to invite students from Dominican Republic under the Erasmus program to VILNIUS TECH. During the visit teacher participated at Erasmus Study Abroad Fair. He made the presentation about VILNIUS TECH.
Additional goal was to search for potential partners, discussing possible areas of cooperation, joint publications options. All Erasmus week participants from 4 different universities were presented VILNIUS TECH conferences and journals. They discussed the possibility of cooperation, particularly with the Faculty of Business Management, as some universities already had existing contracts, but with other VILNIUS TECH faculties.
Maria Ferrand, a long-term partner of the VILNIUS TECH university and the director of the Center for International Studies, has promised to help not only incoming teachers obtain visas, but also to cooperate in admitting doctoral students for distance learning at our university VILNIUS TECH. It should be noted that the ensuing global geopolitical conflicts in our region have had a psychologically negative impact on the plans of potential visiting professors, but this visit had to prove that these problems will not hinder future cooperation.
Internship experience which were gained will be integrated into the subjects taught at VILNIUS TECH Business Technology and entrepreneurship department.
