Klaipėda University is a multidisciplinary leader in marine science and studies of the Baltic region, orientated to international academical networks, a promoter of cultural heritage and a center of lifelong learning. Klaipėda University was established on January 1st of 1991 and started with three faculties and now, approaching its 30th anniversary, it has three faculties and two institutes – Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Marine Technologies and Natural

Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Marine Research Institute and Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology.

The Department of Pedagogy is one of the two largest departments of the faculty and offers study programs of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level in educational science, such as Childhood Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy, Educology, Education Management and doctoral studies in Educology. The Department of Pedagogy is comprised of twenty-one professors and scientists doing innovative work in developing competent educators of the future generations and doing research in how to apply the newest information and communication technologies to the process of learning and teaching.