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Klaipėdos miesto geografinė padėtis lėmė tai, kad čia susidarė puiki erdvė kurtis kitokiai nei visoje šalyje – jūrinei – kultūrai. Miesto viešosiose erdvėse yra nemažai išskirtinių jūrinės simbolikos elementų – architektūros objektų, kurių dalis vienaip at kitaip yra susiję su jūra. Tačiau reikia pripažinti, kad dar trūksta objektų, įprasminančių žymias asmenybes, prisidėjusias prie jūrinės kultūros puoselėjimo ir Lietuvos, kaip jūrinės valstybės, garsinimo. Atliekant tyrimą, taikyti stebėjimo, objektų fotofiksavimo, kartografinis, ekspertų apklausos ir kiti metodai. Tyrime analizuojamas jūrinės tematikos elementų (stambiosios ir smulkiosios architektūros, nematerialiųjų simbolių) įvairovė ir teritorinis išdėstymas Klaipėdos miesto viešosiose erdvėse. Taip pat pristatomos jūrinių elementų atnaujinimo ir tolimesnio vystymo tendencijos formuojant miesto įvaizdį bei puoselėjant jūrinę kultūrą. Šis tyrimas turėtų praplėsti jūrinės kultūros pažinimo ribas ir prisidėti prie Klaipėdos miesto jūrinio įvaizdžio stiprinimo. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Klaipėdos miestas, jūrinė simbolika, jūrinė tematika, viešosios erdvės. The geographical location of Klaipeda city determined that a suitable space for the formation of maritime culture was created here. There are a number of exceptional objects of small and large architecture in the public spaces of the city, some of which are related to the sea. However, it must be stated that the city still lacks objects that glorify famous personalities who have contributed to the fostering of maritime culture and the promotion of Lithuania as a maritime country. Methods used in the research: observation, object photography, cartographic, expert surveys. The study analyzes the diversity of maritime symbols and their territorial distribution in the public spaces of Klaipeda city. Trends in the renewal and further development of maritime elements are also presented in order to form the image of the city and foster maritime culture. This research should expand the boundaries of cognition of maritime culture and contribute to the strengthening of the maritime image of Klaipeda city. Keywords: Klaipeda city, maritime symbols, maritime themes, public spaces.

Regional parks in Lithuania preserve the most valuable physical and cultural components of the landscape, NATURA 2000 habitats, etc. They are usually located in natural or seminatural landscapes of rural areas. These territories, however, have a higher depopulation rate than urbanised districts. Still, conservation priority areas were expected to attract young families as permanent residents and make their population more stable. This study aims to investigate changes in the rural population in three regional parks of the Klaipėda county to determine the number of abandoned villages (with no residents) and vanishing ones (with a population

This research article discusses leadership style as the actions of a manager when he seeks to influence employee behaviour and makes decisions that are goal-oriented or employee-related and able to reconcile goal-seeking and employee focus. The selected researched leadership styles are: transactional, transformational and servant. Transactional management is perceived as a leadership style that focuses more on technical problem-solving, and less on employees. The transformational style is considered more complex than transactional, and is not limited to employee encouragement through awards or punishments. The servant leadership style offers more meaningful leadership, to ensure sustainable outcomes for people, organisations and societies. The aim of the article: to distinguish theoretically leadership style criteria, to evaluate leadership style using the developed assessment tool. The object of the research: the evaluation of the leadership style in an organisation. Research methods: based on the insights of researchers, and applying methods of analysis and the synthesis of scientific literature, to present the importance and concepts of leadership styles, to identify their features as evaluation criteria, to describe leadership styles. Based on primary empirical data collected through a survey by two qualitative researchers (directly accompanying manager and staff), a comparison of leadership styles in organisations is assessed. This paper explores different criteria of leadership style: the decision-making method; providing instructions (tasks); responsibility sharing; the attitude towards initiative; the attitude towards employees; the attitude towards one’s own knowledge; communication with employees; the character of relations with employees; the attitude towards discipline; the attitude towards values; providing a vision for employees. These criteria were chosen to assess leadership styles in organisations. The qualitative research conducted allows us to conclude that the leaders of organisations 1 and 2 evaluate their leadership style as a combination of servant, transformational and transactional leadership styles. Their employees argue that the opposite is true, because their managers combine transactional, transformational and servant leadership styles. The leader of organisation 5 indicates that his combination of leadership styles is the same as that of the leaders of organisations 1 and 2. His employees say the same, only indicating that their manager combines transformational, servant and transactional leadership styles. The leader of organisation 4 refers to the leadership style as a transactional and transformational leadership style combined with the servant style. His staff refer to a different combination of leadership styles, consisting of servant, transactional and transformative leadership styles. Only the evaluation opinions of the head of organisation 3 and his staff agreed that the manager uses a combination of transactional, transformational and servant leadership styles. It can be concluded that the criteria chosen are suitable for assessing leadership styles in organisations. The criteria selected showed differences and overlaps between respondents, heads of organisations, and the employees directly under them. It provides opportunities to evaluate leadership styles and combinations of them in organisations. By using these criteria properly and purposefully, managers can ensure successful leadership, and the achievement of the organisation’s goals. Organisations use combinations of different leadership styles. A comparison of the statements made by managers and employees under them reveals the same combinations of leadership styles, only in different proportions.

Dėl migracijos Klaipėda netenka ekonomiškai aktyvių, išsimokslinusių žmonių, todėl uostamiesčiui būdingas protų nutekėjimas. Be to, Klaipėdos miesto gyventojai sparčiai sensta. Dėl nepakankamų darbo išteklių ir jų kokybės miesto tolimesnis ekonominis bei socialinis vystymasis tampa problemiškas. Didžiausia jaunų žmonių, atvykusių gyventi į Klaipėdos miestą, santykinė dalis yra iš Klaipėdos apskrities (40,8 proc.), Tauragės apskrities (36 proc.) ir Telšių apskrities (23,2 proc.). Atlikus jaunimo apklausą, buvo nustatytos Klaipėdos miesto ir Vakarų Lietuvos 17–19 bei 18–29 metų asmenų perspektyvos ir galimybės uostamiestyje. Daugiau nei pusės uostamiesčio moksleivių nuomone, Klaipėdos miestas yra patrauklus gyventi, ir net 42,6 proc. jų planuoja kurti savo ateitį šiame mieste. Norint, kad jaunimas liktų Klaipėdos mieste, jį reikia įtraukti į uostamiesčio gyvenimą: mieste turi būti pakankamai darbo vietų, skirtų įvairaus išsilavinimo ir išsimokslinimo žmonėms; reikia daugiau kultūrinių renginių, kurie būtų prieinami ne tik aukštas pajamas turintiems žmonėms, bet ir studentams ar jaunimui, pradedančiam kurti gyvenimą mieste. Kad jaunimas rinktųsi Klaipėdą kaip studijų ar ateities miestą, svarbu, jog šis būtų saugus. Klaipėda is losing economically active, educated people due to migration, therefore the port city is characterized by “brain drain”. In addition, Klaipėda city population is rapidly aging. Due to the lack of labour resources and their quality, further economic and social development of the city becomes problematic.The largest proportion of young people who come to live in Klaipėda is from Klaipėda County (40.8 %), Tauragė County (36 %) and Telšiai County (23.2 %). According to the survey of young population originating from Klaipėda city and Western Lithuania, their perspectives and opportunities in Klaipėda were determined. More than half of pupils of the port city think that Klaipėda is attractive and as many as 42.6 % of them plan to live in the port city. If the aim is to keep young people in Klaipėda, they must be included in the port city life. There must be enough jobs in the city for people with different levels of education. There is also a need for more cultural events that are affordable not only for high-income people but also for pupils or young people who are starting their lives in the city. In addition, it is important that the city is safe to live, study and work.

The participation in Erasmus and Erasmus+ programmes is the most popular form of mobility among the university teachers and other academic staff as well as students. The geographers of Klaipėda university can study in more than 20 universities of different regions of Europe, and the geography of studies expands from year to year. While studying in foreign countries, they not only deepen their knowledge, but also broaden the geographic scope, acquaint with new people and cultures, strengthen the knowledge of foreign language. From the other side, the students of foreign universities, having been chosen the geographic modules at Klaipėda university, have a possibility to see and learn about the nature of Western Lithuania, social and economic objects, the cultural environment. According to the foreign students, the studies are organised so, that academic staff is able to collaborate with each student immediatly, and the atmosphere of studies is very good. Besides the foreign students, Klaipėda university receives also the foreign academic staff, organises the international practices, develops the projects, and the academic staff of Klaipėda university has a possibility to visit the universities of foreign countries. Those visits give the invaluable benefit to the teachers, because one can recieve more experience, and the newly adopted methods may be applied at Klaipėda university.

Geografai dirba beveik visuose ekonomikos sektoriuose. O pasaulio miestai ir regionai vis dažniau susiduria su įvairiomis gamtinėmis ir socialinėmis problemomis, kurias gali spręsti geografai. Dėl to geografijos specialistų poreikis išlieka daugelyje valstybių. Šio straipsnio tikslas – analizuoti informacijos sklaidą apie geografo karjeros galimybes Lietuvoje ir užsienio valstybėse. Susisteminus Lietuvos universitetų pateikiamus duomenis matyti, kad informacijos apimtis apie karjeros galimybes labai skirtinga, todėl siūloma šį sąrašą praplėsti, detalizuoti. Pristatydamos studijų programas, Lietuvos aukštosios mokyklos stengiasi parodyti jų unikalumą, patrauklumą. Tačiau ne mažiau svarbu akcentuoti įgyjamos specialybės svarbą ir poreikį šalies ūkiui. Įvairiose užsienio valstybėse yra gerai išplėtotas karjeros paslaugų tinklas, kuriame visapusiškai, vaizdžiai ir aiškiai atskleidžiama informacija apie tai, kokie gebėjimai reikalingi būsimajam specialistui, kokiose ekonominėse veiklose absolventas gali ieškoti darbo. Geographers are working in almost all economic activities. Meanwhile, the world’s cities and regions are increasingly exposed to various natural and social problems, and these problems can solve by geographers. As a result, the demand for specialists of geography remains in many countries. Purpose of this article – to analyze the spread of information about career opportunities for geography graduates in Lithuania and in foreign countries. Systematized data of Lithuania universities show that the amount of information about career opportunities are very different, therefore it is proposed to extend this list. High schools of Lithuanian seeks to show uniqueness and attractiveness of study programs. However, it is equally important to emphasize the importance and the need of acquired specialty for the country’s economy. In various foreign countries the career services network is well developed, with full, vivid and clear disclosure of information about the skills needed for specialist in future.

The department of Geography at Klaipėda University (from 2000 changed to Social geography department) was found in 1995. During 18 years of its functioning about 300 graduates of social / human geography fulfilled their study requirements and received the degree of bachelor and /or master in geography. The urban, natural and resort landscape, port and maritime sector, other branches of industry, the country side with still dominating agrarian activities all are developing in the same space or very close distance. Social activities in the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea and Curonian lagoon engender more sharp conflicts than in other regions of Lithuania. That is why the more specific nonstandard regional development and management problems appear here, and in order to solve them, the specialists with good knowledge of geographical and social peculiarities and solutions are demanded. The large requirement of geography teachers, particularly in the schools of small towns and countryside of Western Lithuania is remaining. It often happens that geography at school is taught not by geographers, who can‘t always detects the specifics of this science and aren‘t able to transfer all the quiddities of it. The department of Social geography at Klaipėda University trains the students as the perspective young teachers / lecturers, capable to combine novelties of geography as a science and the experience from older colleagues. Thus the department of Social geography at Klaipėda University prepares the specialists of human geography, capable to work in wide range of geographical fields and economic activities, and education in geography as well as research are among those spheres, which are very important. [...]

The thesis evaluates the socio-economic attractiveness of Lithuanian municipalities. Theoretical part analyzes the attractiveness of areas for residents, tourists and investors and the underlying socio-economic factors. The empirical part examines the attractiveness of Lithuanian municipalities using average migration, tourism and investment rates. Grouping municipalities by attractiveness reveals their differences and the underlying socio-economic reasons. Recommendations on reduction of municipal attractiveness issues are provided.