The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the education system worldwide. Many learning and teaching processes today take place online. Although such processes are not new, according to Vladas Lašas, Chairman of the Board of the Lithuanian Business Angels Network (LitBAN.LT), the changes were there, but the pandemic has sped them up.

In the middle of November, Lithuania has signed an agreement with the United States to buy four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters that will replace the Soviet Mi-8T still used by Lithuanian Armed Forces today. Soviet helicopter operational history exceeds 30 years, they are difficult to operate but the society still voices doubts about similar investments in the defence technology.

During the second meeting of the Rectors’ Council, the rectors of the seven Arqus universities restated their firm commitment to reaching the highest mobility rates together with their strong ambition in the development of joint programmes.

ECIU Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning is an annual event that gathers the most promising ECIU University partners’ teams. Dublin University wins ECIU Team Award with the module Learning Innovation for Enterprise (LIFE).

Based in the Saulėtekis Valley, the largest and most modern research base in Lithuania is going to expand - in three years it will accommodate the modern faculties of Chemistry and Geosciences as well as Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (VU). In this way, the Saulėtekis Valley will be home to the largest centre of life, physical and technological sciences in Lithuania and the Baltic States.

Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) has signed a partnership agreement with CEPOL to provide learning opportunities for law enforcement officers across Europe.

According to the analysis of diversity and equal opportunities, in 2018, Vilnius University (VU) had 113 employees from 30 countries (which accounted for 2.3% of all VU employees), and more than 1 000 students who chose to study at VU were citizens of 70 countries. However, according to the interlocutors, VU community members should be given even more opportunities to gain experiences of otherness and diversity, therefore, there could be more both foreign employees and students in the VU.

From October 26 until November 21 study activities at Vilnius University (VU) carried out remotely. According to VU Rector Rimvydas Petrauskas, the exception would apply only to laboratory and other practical classes that require VU equipment, as well as activities necessary for the preparation of students' final theses.

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has signed a cooperation agreement with IT and technology accelerator Tesonet. The company agreed to work together with the KTU Faculty of Informatics. Among other things, this means that Tesonet will be involved in the training of IT and IT engineering students.

Significant changes have taken place at the Institute of Dentistry of the Faculty of Medicine (MF) of Vilnius University (VU). This scientifically accomplished unit has always been open to experiments, social and technological development and educates highly qualified dentists, specialists and future scientist in both – Lithuanian and English, who make the name of the University famous not only in the country, but also abroad. Now the management of the Institute is being taken over by a Professor and a Doctor of biomedical sciences Vilma Brukienė. She will be replacing Prof Dr Vytautė Pečiulienė, who has started managing the Žalgiris Clinic of Vilnius University Hospital (VUL).