Researchers at Kaunas University Technology have developed a type of ultra-high performance concrete they say is eight times stronger than the standard concrete. The innovative Lithuanian material will allow architects and engineers considerably more options when designing compact structures requiring great strength. […]
World-renowned neurosurgeon, scientist and entrepreneur Professor Teodoro Forcht Dagi believes that Lithuania can become an innovative economy on a level with other Western European countries if the relationship between science and business is strengthened and promoted by the state. […]
Rotten WiFi, a Lithuanian WiFi watchdog startup in the UK, tested the WiFi connections of more than 350 universities around the world and found that Lithuanian universities dominated the top 10 in their rankings. Five of the top 10 positions belong to Lithuanian universities, and these also occupy the top 3 spots. […]
“Sometimes I think, how come we weren’t a least bit afraid – even for my husband, who was a Soviet army conscript at the time?” Odeta Barkauskienė, a factory worker at the time of the turbulent events of January 1991, remembers her spontaneous decision to join civil guards of a broadcasting station near Kaunas. […]
Lithuanian residents would prefer to receive immigrants of the same ethnic group or race with barely 13 percent wanting to accept immigrants that are of another race or ethnic group. A survey performed by the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) revealed these and other insights into the Lithuanian public’s opinions regarding immigrants. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė annual press conference appeared more like a speech from an administrator rather than a politician, with a focus on administrative issues like control, inspection and better enforcement, Vilnius University professor Romas Lazutka told LRT Radijas. […]
The Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and the ISM University of Management and Economics (ISM) in Vilnius will soon become partners when KTU acquires a controlling share of ISM’s stocks. The deal will be completed as soon as KTU receives the approval of the Competition Council. […]
Kumar Anubhav Tiwari from India, who is working as a lecturer at Kaunas University of Technology, says that while Lithuania seems to him a peaceful and welcoming country, a recent attack that he thinks was motivated by racism has shaken his good impression of the country. In a letter, published below, he explains his concerns. […]
During the Lithuanian-Chinese business forum on Monday in Beijing, cooperation agreements were signed between the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and Vilnius University (VU), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) and Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). […]
A plan to merge Kaunas University of Technology and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences was proposed in a meeting of a working group set up by Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė to optimize Lithuania’s higher education resources. […]
Journalists and education experts criticise the trends in Lithuania‘s institutions of higher education, which in turn criticise journalists and experts who talk about the bad aspects only, but never see the good ones. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going on an official visit to Switzerland on Tuesday, 6 October, at the invitation of Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga. […]
Van Williams, CIO, chief of product engineering and manager of Virtustream development centre in Lithuania, says that the Baltic countries should be more active in attracting global funding. Also, he is convinced that the main asset of any business are innovative professionals, discovered and fostered by universities. […]
Close cooperation with business is among the top priorities in the strategies of most European universities, and the achievements of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in this field are remarkable, says Heike Fischbach, Policy Officer for Education and Culture at European Commission’s General Directorate. […]
In the latest world university ranking 2015/2016, published by QS World University Rankings, Vilnius University (VU) improved its position to 501-550 from the 551-600 position previously, the university reports. […]
After the European Union’s (EU) Ambassador to Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas spoke about insufficient activity of Lithuanian universities in joint student exchange and research programs with Russian universities, representatives of universities say that the problem lies with academic level. […]
With over 30 million downloads worldwide of their game development platform, Kaunas-based TutoTOONS is going from strength to strength. Established as a start-up two years ago by two Lithuanian game developers, the company now has 15 staff in Kaunas and Barcelona, and has ambitious plans for further expansion. One of TutoTOONS’s founders, Mantas Radvila, makes no secret of the fact that he had a chance to settle in the US and develop his business there, but chose Lithuania instead. DELFI, a Lithuanian media network, caught up with Mr Radvila to discover the reasons behind this decision, and what the secret of the company’s success is. […]
“In India language changes every thousand kilometres, and everyone worships their own god. Regardless of that, cricket is being played everywhere”, says J. K. Tandon, CEO of A&Z Exports International. Last week the Indian company has donated cricket equipment to the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania. Cricket team at KTU, the second largest university in Lithuania with almost 300 students from Southeast Asia, has been founded in 2013. […]
On 15 July, John Erland Østergaard, the founder and director of the Danish company Blue Ocean Robotics, and Thomas Solupajev-Ronlev, partner in the company’s Lithuanian subsidiary, paid their third visit to Panevėžys. During their previous visits the businessmen visited the robotics laboratory of the Panevėžys Faculty of Kaunas University of Technology, Panevėžys Mechatronics Centre, and introduced their company to the city’s mayor and other politicians. […]
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