The geo-engineering study programmes like geodesy, geology, geophysics and geoinformatics are rare at universities even at global scale. Nowadays such types of study programmes are not very popular among students. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) offers two geo-engineering study programmes: “Geodesy and geoinformatics” at Bachelor degree level and “Geodesy and Cartography” at Master degree level. Both study programmes were near the time to close them due to the insufficient number of students interested students in studying geo-engineering specialities. According to Ministry of education of Lithuania, the minimal number of students at Bachelor degree level study programmes should be 10, and at Master degree level programmes – 8 students. This paper reflects the efforts of teaching staff to improve the study programmes making them more attractive to students.

To make the study programmes more attractive to students the staff of Geodesy and Cadastre department had implemented refinement measures:
- The study programmes structures were improved adding more modern courses expressing challenges of digital age like “Geoinformation data bases”, “Remote sensing technologies”, “Digital cartography”;
- The study courses were remastered towards blended courses and implementing active learning philosophy;
- A title of the Bachelor degree study programme was changed from “Geodesy” to “Geodesy and Geoinformatics”, showing the orientation towards informatics and computer-technology based study subjects.

The main workload to make improvements of the study programmes fall to professors and associate professors of the Geodesy and Cadastre department. Besides them the teachers of supporting subjects like mathematics, physics and information technologies were re-thinking the courses content and teaching-learning methods towards sophisticated teaching of geo-engineering students.

In general, the study subjects were improved towards blended courses giving more adequate way to satisfy the new generations needs for training, learning and skills/competences development. That gives enough good results in admission of students to “Geodesy and geoinformatics” study programme. The number of enrolled students became stable and is 16-18 students in period 2022-2024.

Keywords: Geo-engineering, study programme, motivation, active learning, blended course.