Vilnius University
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Lithuanian ministry unveils university network reorganization plan

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). […]

Brain tomography
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CNS awards Lithuanian Professor for paradigm shift in neurology

The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), USA. The paper “Association of Severe TBI Patients’ Outcomes with Duration of Cerebrovascular Autoregulation Impairment Events” was awarded in Neurotrauma & Critical Care section. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Professor Arminas Ragauskas was granted the award during the annual meeting of the Congress in Boston. […]

Road Safety Seminar in Vilnius   Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune
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The Zero Road Fatalities challenge for Lithuania

Lithuania has come a long way from being one of the most hazardous road environments in the EU. Road fatalities have decreased substantially over the last 10 years. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Education and enforcement contribute to overall safety. The main factors to achieve safe roads are road design and reshaping human behaviour. Particularly speed, alcohol and risky driving styles contribute to road fatalities, no surprises. […]

Using sign language during the project  Photo © Ludo Segers @ The Lithuania Tribune
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Art and the city – opening a World to the deaf and blind in Vilnius

A group of young people going on an art discovery trip through Vilnius on a rainy October day. Perhaps a regular sight in Lithuania’s capital, but this was one with a difference. “Art in my town”, was for deaf and blind people, a group all too often marginalised in society. […]

A happy couple
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Fear of relationships

Time after time you feel desperate to get into a relationship and to commit to some imaginary partner. But as soon as the possibility to get into a relationship is right in front of you, you are doing your best to avoid it. Why? The answer is simple, you have a fear of relationships. It may take many forms, but it always ends this way, at the very last moment you refuse the possibility of dating someone. Let’s with Natasha single dating have a look why sometimes we are afraid to get into relationships. […]

Agnė Širinskienė, Ramūnas Karbauskis
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Government to discuss contracts of joint operations for cohabitants

Lithuania’s government will Wednesday discuss the possibility for persons living in cohabitation to regulate their relationship by contracts of joint operations. […]

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How to act to attract girls?

You may not automatically become a dating loser if you don’t know how to attract a girl, but the lack of this knowledge will definitely make you suffer. Most of the problems that arise between men and women lies in the fact that the former rarely know how to attract girls. How else can you explain that huge number of articles about things girls find attractive floating all over the internet? While knowing what girls like can be useful, but the fact that each girl should be treated individually makes it really doubtful that you can know them for sure. One likes romantic movies, while another one hates them. So, the best is to know how to be attractive to girls, which we and pretty ladies online site going to check out. […]

European Humanities University graduation in Vilnius 2016 Photo by Kilimas Arts
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European Humanites University set to move to state premises

The Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), whose students are mostly from Belarus, is readying to move to new premises in the old-town part of the Lithuanian capital to be provided by the Education and Science Ministry. […]