Ten of the most talented telecommunication technologies students in Lithuania have signed the first agreement with the organizers of the project Seeds for the Future to do a two-week internship in China marking the end […]
Some Lithuanian universities spend 80% of government funding on administration rather than on students – a simple reform would be to link government funding to student numbers but according to leading experts, this is just one of the areas that needs to be tackled if the country is to develop a competitive education system. […]
Those who pulled the trigger during the Jewish genocide in Lithuania are not the only ones who should be considered guilty – those who transported Jews and guarded the sites of massacres should also be held accountable, a local historian says. […]
The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. They have had a profound influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food. […]
Vilnius University professor Virginijus Šikšnys has become the first Lithuanian scientist invited to become an Associate Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) – an association uniting and promoting excellence elite scholars of life sciences. […]
Lithuanian scientist who is tipped for the Nobel Prize is presenting his ground-breaking genome-editing technology at an international conference in Israel. […]
After the announcement on Thursday that Liberal Movement party leader Eligijus Masiulis was under investigation for allegations of having taken a bribe of €100,000, he resigned from his position as head of the party and […]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican‘s Secretary of State, is meeting with Lithuania‘s President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė on Monday. […]
Franz Josef Pschierer, State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology of Bavaria, visited Vilnius University‘s Joint Life Science Centre on Thursday. […]
Entrepreneurs from China‘s Shenzhen city visited Vilnius University on Tuesday in search for new business opportunities in Lithuania. The Chinese entrepreneurs discussed possible cooperation in science and technology with University Rector Professor Artūras Žukauskas. The […]
Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Professor Valentina Dagienė has been honoured with a Digital woman of the year award in Brussels. The professor won the award in the computer excellence category. The […]
The first university endowment fund has been established in Lithuania by Vilnius University with an initial €1 million raised from supporters. Called the Vilnius University Foundation, the endowment fund was supported by Lithuanian laser companies […]
A second Lithuanian satellite, LituanicaSAT-2, will be launched into space in July as part of an international research and innovation project. The satellite, made by Vilnius University scientists and UAB NanoAvionika and its partners, will […]
A new War and Peace tourist trail will be launched in Vilnius today taking tourists on a tour of where the BBC’s War and Peace series was filmed in Lithuania’s capital. […]
Vilnius University professor Virginijus Šikšnys who has patented a gene editing technology and won an international science prize for the technology recently, stands a good chance of being awarded the Nobel Prize, according to the university’s rector, Professor Artūras Žukauskas. […]
Five scientists including Vilnius University Biotechnology Institute Professor Virginijus Šikšnys, have shared the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for significant contributions to the bacteria CRISPR anti-virus protection system knowledge. This is a revolutionary discovery because it can be applied to genome editing. […]
Trakai, a town in southern Lithuania, is hosting a forum of several dozen Russian intellectuals, journalists, public figures and politicians who will discuss Russia and its relations with the West. The speakers include world chess champion Gary Kasparov, journalist Masha Gessen and a member of Pussy Riot. […]
Image navigation system has been used for the first time in surgery in the Baltics at a newly opened hybrid cardiac radiosurgery operating room at Vilnius University Santariškės Hospital on February 25-26. […]
Lithuania is currently undergoing a “medium-sized” political crisis, according to Lithuanian political scientists and analysts, but one that should not threaten the current Government’s and ruling coalition’s composition. […]
The scope of wiretapping of telephone conversations in Lithuania has fallen in the last year but critics maintain that court control of the practice remains too weak as Lithuanian judges approve more than 96% of requests from prosecutors. […]
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