Magistro darbe yra išanalizuota bei susisteminta Lietuvos bei užsienio autorių mokslinė literatūra kaimo bendruomenių veiklos tematika, išanalizuota kaimo bendruomenių įstatyminė bazė bei jų veiklos finansavimo būdai, išsiaiškinamos gyvenimo kokybės gerinimo galimybės Šiaulių apskrities kaimo vietovėse dėka veikiančių kaimo bendruomenių. Tyrimo metu renkama informacija apie Šiaulių apskrities kaimo bendruomenių organizacijų veiklą, kliūtis su kuriomis jos susiduria savo veikloje bei analizuojama kokiu būdu ir kokiomis priemonėmis įmanoma plėtoti bei tobulinti kaimo bendruomenių veiklą Šiaulių regione. Esminė tyrimo problema formuluojama kaip sugrąžinti gyventojus, ypatingai jaunimą į nedidelius miestelius ar kaimus, kokiu būdu kurti darbo vietas išsilavinusiems žmonėms. Baigiamajame darbe patvirtinama suformuluota hipotezė, kad bendruomenių stiprinimas ir plėtra – tai galimybė užtikrinti Lietuvos kaimo perspektyvas, sukurti naują kaimo struktūrą, tokiu būdu įrodant, kad kaimas – tai ne tik vieta, kur gaminami žemės ūkio produktai. / In the Master’s degree thesis the scientific publications by Lithuanian and foreign authors, concerning the countryside communities activities, were analysed and systematized; the legitimate basis and the ways of financial supply allotted to countryside communities activities reviewed; the possibilities to improve the quality of life in the villages of Šiauliai Country, owing to the acting countryside communities, were found out. During the process of investigation, there was collected information about the activities offered by the Šiauliai Country countryside communities and their organizations, about the obstacles that arose in their proceedings, and analysis was done, how and taking what measures it is possible to expand and improve the activities of countryside communities in Šiauliai area. In the graduation thesis a hypothesis was formulated, stating that strengthening and expansion of communities create a possibility to assure further perspectives of Lithuanian village and to create its new structure, thus proving the village to be not just a place, where agricultural products are made.

The work presented here focuses on the development of economic activities in the provinces of Thrace and Moesia Inferior (in today's Bulgaria), specifically on the problematic of glassmaking in Roman period and the Late Antiquity. In my work I have focused on the systematic interpretation of the economical development of the rural environment in a context of social, political and economic transformation during Roman rule. The second part of the work presents the glassmaking in the Roman Empire - its beginning, the development of certain technological processes and the specifics of trade activities with raw glass and finished glass products. A collection from the Roman site of Yurt-Stroyno was selected as a case study (during seasons 2012-2014) 1413 fragments of glass were found here. The main aim of the presented study is a typological analysis of the glass finds, supplemented by an analysis of the material composition of selected artifacts. Chemical XRF analyses of the material composition were applied due to clarify the chronological framework of the study group, to determine the source of raw glass for the local glassworks and to raise awareness of Roman and late antique glass in southeastern Bulgaria. 116 samples from the Yurta-Stroyno site were analysed. The selection of samples was carried...