Vytautas Magnus University, established in 1922 (re-established in 1989) is one of the most liberal and modern universities in Lithuania, pursuing liberal studies policy, seeking and establishing successful international relations with other universities all over the world. It is an open university where traditions and innovations meet and complement each other.University is an institution embodying a nation‘s progress and creative thought. Thus when on February 16, 1918 Lithuanians declared their political independence and began creating their state institutions, the scholars among them saw the establishment of a Lithuanian university as one of the most important tasks ahead. And when in 1919 Lithuania lost its historical capital Vilnius, it fell upon the second-largest city Kaunas to serve as the country‘s political, economic and cultural center for the next twenty years.