President is conferred with an honorary degree by Vytautas Magnus University

Wed 20th Jun, 2018 | 13:45
location: Kaunas, Lithuania
President is conferred with an honorary degree by Vytautas Magnus University

President Higgins was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University, in a ceremony in Lithuania's second-largest city. The President was given an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences for his work on human rights. Read the President's address on ‘Ireland and Lithuania - Towards a shared future within the European Union’ 

President Higgins, on an Official Visit to Lithuania, visited Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city, where he received an honorary 
doctorate from the Vytautas Magnus University, and witnessed the signing of a number of cooperation agreements between Irish and Lithuanian 
education institutes. 

 

Click on the links below to read or listen to the President's speech.