One of the important aspects of the university's infrastructure is digitization. We must urgently seek tools and solutions to create new automated systems for data, processes, finances, assets, and personnel activities and synchronize them. We must strengthen IT competencies by investing in personnel and external services for complex tasks using AI. Digital teaching/learning and research data platforms must meet modern requirements, be 'user-friendly', and easily managed by the entire community. I will do my best to ensure that bureaucratic tasks and activities are managed using AI and other technical solutions so that students, researchers, lecturers, and non-academic unit employees have more time for their direct work and studies.

We must also increase the resilience of the entire university as an organization in critical situations. I will continue with and initiate new projects to improve the university's energy resilience through innovative technologies and strategies, ensuring cybersecurity and digital resilience. We must pay particular attention to emergency preparedness, including staff training. We need to invest in renewable energy sources (solar panels/solar power plants, etc.), diversify energy sources and suppliers, and develop renewable energy and storage technologies.

Although most of the university's infrastructure, study and research facilities, and the Sports Center have been renovated and make a good impression, student dormitories remain an urgent issue. So, funds received from the investment project will be directed toward the construction of a new modern dormitory at the Agriculture Academy, and the remaining funds will be used to modernize the dormitories.

I am convinced that the Agriculture Academy campus could become a modern innovation center where modern academic activities, services, collaboration initiatives, innovations, and active student life would develop. All of this would be further emphasized by architectural and environmental design solutions that reflect environmentally friendly principles, highlighting the ideas of future continuity and innovative sustainable thinking.

We need to initiate the renovation of the Academy of Education in Vilnius infrastructure and implement ambitious projects for the future vision of this campus. Important community discussions about the visibility of VMU activities in the capital are ahead.

Special attention must be paid to strengthening the strategic directions in the activities of the Music Academy by establishing its recognition in the Baltic States. By consulting the community, I will aim to increase the academy's international visibility—from participation in international events to master classes. Unique, modern, and interdisciplinary programs, a doctoral school, as well as strengthened and renovated infrastructure could also be initiated. I will support and encourage lecturers' and students' artistic and creative experiments and projects that combine technologies and various art fields.

The VMU Botanical Garden has a large untapped potential. Although many important renovation projects have already been carried out, much more is needed: interior renovation of the Central Building and the stables. I hope that through the combined efforts of the University, the city, and other social partners, we will begin some infrastructure projects.

One of the most important financial resilience goals is the necessity to create a VMU Endowment Fund. This would be a long-term financing system ensuring the funding of research, innovation, studies, arts, and university development, as well as the university's financial sustainability and independence. Initially, the fund could be created using funds from the sale of university assets, sponsors, international projects, and other sources. Over time, the fund could invest the initial capital in low-risk investments, e.g. government bonds or index funds. The annual interest or dividends received would be used to finance the university's activities, keeping the initial capital untouched. The fund would be managed transparently, with an independent board that would oversee the allocation of funds and the return on investments. Fund revenue would be allocated to priority areas: research infrastructure, talent attraction, scholarships, and innovation commercialization projects. The long-term goal is to ensure that the fund generates sustainable financial resources for decades to come. This will create a long-term foundation that ensures the university's successful operation.