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Lithuanian students' internship at NASA 2018

Lithuanian students start internship at NASA

September 7, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

The Lithuanian Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) has announced that 4 students have been selected to participate in the international internship program at NASA Ames Research Center. Students have already left for NASA Ames, located in the USA, California, and on the first days of September started their autumn internship program together with other international students from more than 12 countries, a press release from the Lithuanian agency states. […]

Key enabling technologies and clusters: a promising future

July 19, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Key enabling technologies (KETs) are an important source of innovation, which Europe has highlighted as crucial for the creation of high-value added products, a MITA press release states. […]

Lithuania’s conservatives suggest founding high-tech ministry

November 13, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s opposition Conservatives suggest focusing state funding on three priority fields of high technology economy and establishing a new ministry to be in charge of the area […]

Innovation investor Nicklas Bergman: ‘Curiosity drives human development’

September 1, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Futurist Nicklas Bergman has been investing in new technology for over 20 years. He cooperates closely with Washington-based think tank Tech Cast and Lund University. Mr. Bergman will talk about future technology in Vilnius Innovation Forum 2015, organised by the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania and the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology. The expert will discuss the changing relationship between the society and technology and its importance to our lives. […]

World Lithuanian Economic Forum invites to discuss business and science in Israel

July 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian and Israeli businesspeople, diaspora members and people interested in fostering relations with Lithuania will meet for the seventh time this October in the World Lithuanian Economic Forum. […]

Lithuania recommends 3 students for internship at NASA

June 8, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology last week recommended three university students for internship in the US space agency NASA. […]

Website launched to allow Lithuanian businesses outsource research

May 22, 2015 BNS 0

A scientific research website was launched in Lithuania on Friday, providing opportunities for business to order research. […]

Lithuanian students invited to apply for internship with NASA

April 15, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuania’s Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) has launched a competition for students to complete an internship with NASA Ames Research Centre in the United States and is now accepting applications. […]

KTU Santaka Valley to host open lecture series on zooetics by World-Class Researchers

November 23, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Interdisciplinary art research platform Jutempus (Vilnius, Lithuania) launches Zooetics, a 5 year long exploration of future environmental fictions and models. ‘Zooetics’ is a notion in progress to explore new ways to engage human knowledge and research with other forms of life — from mammals to microbes to molluscs — and to imagine designs, prototypes and interfaces for future interspecies ecologies. […]

PM Alrgirdas Butkevičius at NASA Photo Ludo Segers

Lithuania and NASA sign cooperation agreement

October 7, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) and NASA have signed an agreement on an international traineeship program. […]

Is Nausėda already forming the ruling majority? Only three parties were invited to meet

October 7, 2024 0

While the heads of the opposition parliamentary parties are ironing their suits and preparing for their meeting with President Gitanas Nausėda, the ruling parties shrug their shoulders. Counting down the days until the parliamentary elections, […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]