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Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas (''Vilnius Gediminas Technical University''), also known as VGTU, is a public university in Vilnius, Lithuania. Founded on 1 September 1956, the university was first a Vilnius-based evening division of the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=VGTU )〕 It currently has 10 faculties, 14 research institutes, 33 research laboratories, and 2 research and 4 training centers. According to the QS World University Rankings, VGTU is in the top 4 percent of world universities.〔 QS has given VGTU five stars in teaching, facilities, and innovation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited )〕 Measuring student mobility in the ERASMUS exchange program, VGTU is the most popular university in Lithuania for foreign students.〔 == History == VGTU was founded on 1 September 1956, when the Vilnius Evening Division of the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (now Kaunas University of Technology) was established, with Jeronimas Kudaba as the first dean. In 1960, the division was reorganized into the KPI Vilnius Evening Faculty. Aleksandras Čyras was named the Dean of the Faculty, with 500 students. In 1962, the first class of graduates completed their studies. In 1964, the Faculty of Construction Economics was added, followed in 1968 by the Faculty of Urban Construction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=VGTU )〕 In 1969, the division separated from the Kaunas Polytechnic institute and became the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute (''Vilniaus inžinerinis statybos institutas''), or VISI, and Čyras was named the first rector. In 1971, the Faculty of Architecture was added, and in 1987 the Faculty of Municipal Economy was established.〔 After the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania in 1990, the Supreme Council of Lithuania decided to change the VISI into the Vilnius Technical University (VTU), with Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas as rector. After the statute of VTU was adopted in 1991, the Supreme Council approved it on 2 July 1992. VTU moved more toward a Western European university structure and featured faculties of architecture, construction, engineering communications, mechanics, and electronics.〔 The following year, in 1993, VTU established the Aviation Institute and two more faculties, one in business management and one in fundamental sciences, along with the Faculty of Transport Engineering the following year.〔 On 22 August 1996, the Lithuanian Government awarded the name of Gediminas, a 14th-century Grand Duke of Lithuania, to VTU, and the university became known as Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.〔 Romualdas Ginevičius was elected rector by the VGTU Senate in 2002. With the 2009 Law on Higher Education and Research, the Seimas of the Lithuanian Republic ordered all state-funded universities to reorganize into nonprofit organizations (''Viešosios įstaigos'') tasked with working in the public interest by 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc_l?p_id=478933 )〕 VGTU met this requirement in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vilnius Gediminas Technical University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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