Follow-up External Evaluation of the Rehabilitation Field of Study at Klaipėda University
On 19 October 2026, the external evaluation visit of the Rehabilitation study field will take place at Klaipėda University. The external evaluation of the study field will be carried out by an international expert panel appointed by SKVC:
- Dr John Xerri de Caro (Chair of the expert panel), Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Coordinator of study programmes and clinical education, Malta;
- Dr Eva Ekvall Hansson (representative of the academic community), Professor at the Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Head of the research group Human Movement: Health and Rehabilitation, Kingdom of Sweden;
- Birutė Karnickienė (representative of social partners), pharmacist, Chair of the Management Board of the Eugenija Šimkūnaitė Charity and Support Foundation, Vice-President of the Vilnius Medical Society, member of the Expert Commission of the Ministry of Health, Lithuania;
- Rugilė Kriaučiūnaitė (student representative), fourth-year student of the first-cycle study programme Public Health at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, President of the Student Representation of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania.
During the visits, the expert panel will meet with the university management, administration, self-evaluation report preparation group, students, graduates, social partners, employers and teaching staff. We invite you to familiarise yourselves with the visit agenda at Klaipėda University.
It should be noted that this will be a repeated external evaluation of the Rehabilitation study field, during which the progress made following the external evaluation of the study field carried out in 2023 will be assessed.
We invite students of Klaipėda University’s Complementary and Alternative Health Care study programme and representatives of the students’ union to participate in the meetings with the experts at the times specified in the visit agenda.