July 28th, 2021, a delegation from South Korea’s National Assembly, led by South Korea’s Ambassador Mira Sun, visited the King Sejong Institute Vilnius (KSI Vilnius) at Mykolas Romero’s University (MRU).

On 11–17 August, Transform4Europe invites students from the intiative’s universities to attend free text animation course online organized by the Estonian Academy of Arts. Applications are open until 1 August.

Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Rector Prof. Inga Žalėnienė signed a cooperation agreement with a representative of the Lithuanian Social Innovation Cluster (LSIC). The agreement provides for preparation of new programmes, joint national and international projects, applied research in the social innovations area, cultural and educational events, strengthening of student practical skills and other activities.

This week saw the launching of another innovative, ongoing project of the Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM (global synthetic biology competition) team, aiming to introduce the public to synthetic biology. Using augmented reality technology, the developers of the platform invite to learn the most important concepts of the discipline.

During the last meeting of VMU Senate of 2020 – 2021, which took place on June 23rd, 2021, together with the VMU Student Representative Council, a decision was made to amend and supplement the existing provisions of the VMU Scholarship Description Procedure, which in addition to procedural changes, expands the circle of first-year students who would be eligible to apply for it, and also increases the sizes of scholarships that are already awarded to students who achieve the best academic results.

Every school-leaver considering business studies faces the same dilemma: to study or to find a job first? If to study, then in Lithuania or abroad? What criteria to consider when choosing a higher education institution offering business studies?

Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Prof. Dr. Paulo Alexandre De Silva Pereira has been elected a member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.

A few years ago, Continental and Hella established production sites in Lithuania. Several days ago, Yazaki announced the closure of the plant in Lithuania. It is worth looking more closely at what determines the decisions of global manufacturing companies to establish or close factories.

Dr Aleksejus Žarkovas, researcher with the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences of Vilnius university (VU) and a group of fellow researchers are looking into materials for generating damaged bones and, together with their colleagues from Japan, intend to employ ceramics for those purposes. The young chemist scholarship from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences that has been awarded to the VU chemist for research and achievement in this area is proof that this field is becoming increasingly relevant when it comes to expand the limits of human potential.

Vilnius University (VU) and the cyber security solutions developer Nord Security have signed a cooperation agreement. The parties have agreed to strengthen the partnership between tertiary education and business and to develop joint initiatives in the process of designing and improving cybersecurity products and services. In the long run, new partners also aim to enhance and further develop the competencies of software engineering, data analysis, statistics, and mathematics students.