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Lithuania’s new science centres target first Nobel Prize

March 4, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuania’s new Joint Life (JGMC) and National Physical Sciences and Technology (NFTMC) centres will open on March 15 and Lithuanian scientists hope that modern technology and the knowledge acquired by the centre staff will lay the foundation for the first Lithuanian Nobel Prize. […]

Lithuanian scientists develop technology to detect kidney disease

March 1, 2016 LT Daily 0

Institute of Biochemistry scientists at Vilnius University together with the company Sentiero Baltic and Ukrainian partners are developing a unique technology for the diagnosis of kidney diseases. […]

Voice of America journalist Romas Sakadolskis passes away

February 25, 2016 BNS 0

Prominent Lithuanian journalist Romas Sakadolskis, who had a lengthy career at the US radio station Voice of America, passed away at 68. […]

Vilnius University launches extensive on-line dictionary of literary terms

February 17, 2016 LT Daily 0

Vilnius University‘s A. J. Greimas Semiotics and Literary Theory Centre has launched an electronic dictionary of literary terms, a cooperation of faculty and doctoral students. […]

Icelandic economist and professor receive honorary Lithuanian doctorates

February 12, 2016 LT Daily 0

Icelandic policy economist and diplomat Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Michael Shure have received Vilnius University honorary doctorates. […]

Why was sentence so light for Labour party founder?

February 9, 2016 Ziniu radijas 0

It took almost 10 years for a court’s decision regarding the Labour Party‘s fraudulent bookkeeping in 2004-2006 to come into effect. However, the Vilnius circuit court’s altered decision regarding the sentence for Viktor Uspaskich, the party’s disgraced founder, raised a storm of commentary. Few seem to have expected the appeal court’s decision. How could it be that the accused got away with a tiny fine when they had been working to hide millions? […]

Lithuania offers more civil, political freedoms than Latvia, fewer than Poland, Estonia

January 27, 2016 BNS 0

Lithuania is doing better in ensuring civil and political liberties than Latvia but lags behind neighbours Poland and Estonia, according to the World Freedom Index published on Wednesday. […]

New Polish musical bench strikes up to commemorate Oginskis in Vilnius

January 25, 2016 LT Daily 0

An interactive musical park bench has been given to Vilnius by the Polish Embassy to commerorate the closing of the year dedicated to the composer, politician and diplomat Mykolas Kleopas Oginskis (Michał Kleofas Ogiński). […]

Lithuanian universities’ wifi tops global rankings

January 19, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

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. […]

President’s speech focus on administration not strategy misguided, say experts

January 8, 2016 LT Daily 0

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. […]

Vilnius University included in Top 200 universities of emerging and BRICS countries

December 7, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The results of Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016 were announced on 2 December. Vilnius University (VU) made its début in the ranking with the 116th spot, making into the list of top 200 higher education institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and 30 other “emerging countries”, VU reports. […]

Huawei to cooperate with Lithuanian universities

November 23, 2015 ELTA EN 0

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). […]

Should Lithuania change its name for better marketing?

November 5, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Many a travelling Lithuanian at one time or another had the following conversation: “Where are you from?” – “Lithuania.” – “Where? Ukrainia?” – “No, Lithuania. It’s a Baltic state, next to Latvia and Estonia.” – “(somewhat unconvinced) All right…” […]

Opinion: Foreign students could substantially strengthen Lithuania‘s universities and colleges

October 30, 2015 Gintaras Sarafinas 0

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. […]

Vilnius University in top 20 of regional QS World University Ranking

October 22, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

QS World University Rankings has published a list of the best universities in the region of Emerging Europe and Central Asia. Vilnius University (VU) jumped up by 13 ranking positions and made it to the top 20, ranking in the 19th place, the university reports. […]

Film about Japanese diplomat who saved Jews premièred in Vilnius

October 16, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On 14 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius attended the première of the film Persona Non Grata about a Japanese ambassador in Lithuania who issued visas to Jews during World War Two, saving thousands of people from death. […]