Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) returns to Lithuania: Moody’s is providing €60,000 in support to help analyze, assess, and address the challenges facing the business sector that are destabilizing the promotion and regulation of entrepreneurship and […]
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry still evokes resonance not only in Lithuania but also in the most respected foreign publications. Various world science magazines write that Prof Virginijus Siksnys from Vilnius University (VU) should […]
High in the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, archaeologists from Vilnius University discovered the strongest evidence yet for early and intensive farming of grain crops initially domesticated in the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia. This […]
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) invites students from Lithuania for internships and work in the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. This is a unique opportunity for students and specialists from various fields to work in an international team and get to know the scientific work that goes on inside the modern laboratories. […]
Webpage of one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, Nature, recently published an article “A Single-cell Atlas of the Airway Epithelium Reveals the CFTR-rich Pulmonary Ionocyte”. It centres around the discovery of a new type of cell – pulmonary ionocyte. Dr. Lindsey Plasschaert and Vilnius University (VU) Life Sciences Centre doctorate student Rapolas Žilionis are first authors on this paper. […]
Vilnius University (VU) together with Embassy of Israel in Lithuania started a joined student mentorship program “Kelrodė žvaigždė“ (The Guiding Star). One hundred VU students volunteered to become friends and mentors to 9-12 year old children from needy and socially excluded families, the VU Communications and Marketing Department wrote in a press release […]
The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a university network reorganization plan worked out by the Education and Science Ministry and will now send it to the parliament. […]
The Lithuanian Education and Science Ministry has unveiled a university network reorganization plan that calls for merging all universities in the country’s second-biggest city of Kaunas and dividing the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU) between Vilnius University (VU) and Vytautas Magnus University (VDU). […]
Over 22,000 applicants have been invited to study in Lithuania’s universities and colleges, including about 14,000 in slots financed by the state or on scholarships. […]
One of the things Lithuania is best known for is the laser industry. While perhaps not at the very pinnacle of the industry, the country does not compare all too poorly against highly developed states such as the USA, Germany, France, China and others. And at the same time the industry shows no signs of slowing down, with growing sales and increasing numbers of manufacturers, which should keep Lithuania within the top echelon of the laser industry. […]
Sigitas Zutautas, a banking and project management specialist, will temporarily head the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT) after its long-standing director general was fired on Monday. […]
Lithuania should have two international-level universities and two technological universities after a planned reform of the current higher education system, a prime minister-appointed working group has decided. […]
Vilnius University (VU) has launched a project to commemorate members of its staff and students who were prevented from pursuing their academic careers or completing their studies due to Lithuania’s volatile history and actions by totalitarian regimes and their local collaborators. […]
Computer engineering is best taught at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), finances at the ISM University of Management and Economics, while pedagogics at the Vytautas Magnus University (VDU), according to a comparison of studies published in the Reitingai magazine. […]
The QS World University Rankings 2016–2017 marks an important milestone for Lithuanian academics with Vilnius University (VU) entering the list of the 500 most prominent universities in the world. […]
The European Association of Archeologists (EAA) is opening a congress in Vilnius on Wednesday, which is one of the biggest scientific events in Europe. […]
Artūras Žukauskas, the rector at Vilnius University, says he believes that Lithuanian professors’ wages are too low.
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In a report on the state of cardiology and cardiac healthcare services, the World Health Organisation praised Lithuania for making progress in improving its cardiac care.
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Vilnius University Gender Studies Centre director Professor Dalia Leinartė has been elected as a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for the second time at the United Nations […]
In her annual address on Thursday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not put the blame for the country’s problems solely on the government and managed to maintain balance and not show her support for any political group in the run-up to the general elections, a political analyst said. […]
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