A team of KTU School of Economics and Business students became the Europe Regional Winners of the Global Online Marketing Academic Challenge GOMAC 2021. For the competition, the students presented a digital marketing campaign for KIKA the most popular retail chain of pet goods in Lithuania.

Jonas Juozapaitis and Lorenzo Camisi, PhD students at the Vilnius University Life Sciences Centre (VU LSC), have won the very first and only gold medal of the iDEC 2021 (International Directed Evolution Competition).

Forests are the basis of the country's ecological stability, which is extremely important not only for the air, water and soil quality of the whole country but also for the Lithuanian identity. However, deforestation caused by intensive forestry and low restriction levels of human economic activity is already visible to the naked eye. According to Vilnius University (VU) geographers, the current wood-oriented forest policy needs to be changed. In order to preserve Lithuania's ecological stability, it is important to consider the ecological and social benefits of forests as a priority condition of public welfare, and forest issues cannot be solved within the framework of forestry alone.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) offers to apply for an "Erasmus+" internship in Europe during your mandatory internship period. Companies are waiting for students from the Faculty of Architecture, Creative Industries, and Business Management from November. The list can be found here (scroll down to the "BEFORE INTERNSHIP").

For more than a decade, the European Union (EU) has been requiring to provide energy performance certificates (EPCs) when buildings are built, sold or rented. Buildings are rated on a scale from G to A++, which indicates their energy performance and additionally provides information on how much it will cost to insulate and maintain a building. Starting from 2021, new buildings must be designed to meet the highest standard of A++ . However, according to researchers at KTU’s Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture (FCEA), this system needs to be improved to take into account changes in the construction sector and to harmonize systems across the EU.

In October, the Senate of Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) approved an equal opportunity and diversity policy, which outlines the main principles and activities which systematically unite the entire University community.

Researchers from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUSTECH) contribute to the implementation of the BIM4REN project, during which BIM tools are developed and used during rapid and efficient renovation.
BIM (Building Information Modeling) is understood as a functional and physical representation of a building in the digital space.

Here is a description of a statistical employee in Lithuania: it is a person working in a private business for at least 40 hours per week, whose job is related to trade, manufacturing, transport, and whose net salary per month exceeds EUR 900. If the said employee is a woman, her salary is 12% less, and she works in a public, educational, health care or social work sector. However believable the above-described portraits, how well are they representing the reality?

Vilnius University Faculty of Law Celebrates the 380th Anniversary On October 11th.The history of the Faculty dates back to 1641, when the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Vladislav Vasa issued the royal privilege on the basis of which the studies of law were permitted and the Vilnius University Faculty of Law was established. It was the first institution of its kind in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Today it remains the inevitable element of the modern Lithuanian legal system and the Alma mater for the country's leading legal professionals.

10 October 1991 is considered the birthday of the Internet in Lithuania as on that day the development of the computer network LITNET of Lithuanian research and study institutions began.