Lithuanian Sports University (LSU) is the only university in Lithuania that conducts research in all core areas of sports and health, delivers higher education programmes in these areas and trains high-level professionals in the fields of sport, physical education, physiotherapy and sport and leisure management. This broad profile of a specialised university allows LSU to respond to the needs of Lithuania and to organise research activities and higher education in a rational manner, to reveal and exploit the human potential in sport and health studies, research, innovation and leadership for the well-being of society. The Lithuanian sports tradition is closely linked to the Lithuanian Sports University. The graduates of the University have trained the vast majority of Olympic, World and European champions, whose achievements are the pride and joy of Lithuania. According to athletic achievements per capita ratio, Lithuania ranks among the European leaders.
The University, as an important centre of sports science, a promoter of physical education and sports values and traditions, has been serving the people of Lithuania for more than eight decades. Over the next five years, the University aims to bring together European higher education institutions in strategic partnerships in the fields of sport and health research to create a strong consortium of European universities, which will contribute to enhancing the international competitiveness of the universities participating in the Consortium. The aim of this international consortium of universities is to create an integrated and structured platform for strategic collaboration, to pool human, intellectual and technological resources and to introduce more flexible and innovative curricula that allow students to obtain a higher education diploma by combining their studies in several partner universities in order to strengthen the research and development potential of the universities.
