The branch of the University of Bialystok in Vilnius „Faculty of Economics- Informatics”was estabished on the basis of resoutions pf the Minsitry of Higher Education of the Repubic of Poland (25 April 2006 No. DSW-2-0412/ /JB/05), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (9 March 2006 No. BDG-0131-3409-06), Government of the Republic of Lithuania (Order No. 633 of 19 June 2007) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania (Permit to implement studies No. 002011 of 8 August 2007). According to the Law of Lithuania, the unit is the first branch of the foreign higher education school in Lithuania and the first faculty of the Polish higher education school situated outside the territory of the country.