On 3-7 June 2019 VGTU hosted the visit of Yosef Shavit, Director of the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). This visit was supported by the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme project. This Centre has created unique innovation eco system and runs best acceleration program in the southern region of Israel, aimed at early-stage tech startups. As part of his role in the Center Yosef Shavit is the founder and CEO of Inno-Negev, BGU’s Technology Accelerator, founder of the Innovation Gateway technological hub, co-founder of 4 communities for developers and entrepreneurs, two international open innovation competitions and more. Beside his role at BGU, he is the owner of Yozma (Initiative) Consulting, a business consulting firm which has been delivering high-quality professional services since its foundation in 2005.

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Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) are joining forces to prepare highly qualified public servants are ready to meet the needs of a contemporary global society. Admission to Public Governance at KTU, the first in Lithuania dual degree programme with a U.S. university, has already started. Public Governance students accepted from September will have the opportunity to study part of their time in the U.S. Needless to say – without a hefty price tag attached to the offer.

Representative of the multinational corporation Komatsu, Mr. Takashi Ishihara, visited Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). Komatsu has been founded more than 100 years ago and is a successful manufacturer of construction and mining equipment. The guest from Japan came to Lithuania to participate in the Start-up Fair 2019 and to meet representatives of universities, companies and start-ups in Lithuania.

In the beginning of June, the results of U-Multirank 2019, the largest global university ranking came out. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has improved its results in 15 criteria out of 24. One of the best-ranked dimensions is internationality, where KTU improved its positions in 6 criteria.

A young researcher from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania – Domantas Didziapetris – created an artificial intelligence based solution for measuring the emotional climate in Manhattan Island, New York. After carrying out a sentiment analysis of over 36 thousand tweets, he created a scale which indicates how the residents and visitors rate emotional climate of the different Manhattan neighbourhoods.

The Global Student Satisfaction Awards empower students across the globe to determine the best universities. It is an open call to both students and universities to contribute to the transparency of study choice, and the quality of education worldwide. Studyportals invites students to review their study programme and share their abroad experiences. In this way, it aims to give recognition to the best educators and award those universities which have achieved the highest student satisfaction ratings.

Raimundas Petrauskas, Managing Director at Schmitz Cargobull Baltic was elected as a Chairman of the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Council. The new Chairman was elected unanimously by secret ballot last Thursday, May 30, 2019.

VMU International Cooperation Department invites all VMU teachers to participate in the contest for Erasmus+ teaching visits in Partner countries.

In the newly-published May-December 2019 issue of the Lithuanian university ratings magazine, "Reitingai," Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) placed 2nd of 11 Lithuanian universities in student satisfaction and pride in their University. MRU was 2nd only to Vilnius University (VU).