The nine-member Universities and three associated partners of the ATHENA European University are proud to launch the third edition of the Europe Day ATHENATHON, a sporting event destined to reach a distance of 13 000 km.

As blockchain technology evolves, the former power of regulations and norms in the industry becomes limited. Industry players may use four strategic tactics, discussed below, to exploit existing multilevel formal and informal institutional voids. Especially in the context of global business, the innovative usage of public permissionless blockchain technology makes it increasingly easier to circumvent even newly adopted regulations, rendering previous industry norms obsolete.

In March, Vilnius University held two Arqus R&I mini-webinars on "Co-Creation Labs in Practice: Co-creating, Implementing, and Learning from Social-Oriented Science Activities". The webinars were joined by Arqus researchers from all career stages, disciplines, and cross-disciplinary research fields from Vilnius, Granada, Padua, Graz, Leipzig, Lyon, and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University.

May 18th-19th, 2023, the “INSOL Europe” Eastern European Countries’ Committee Conference (EECCC), which will focus on “2023 Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners survival Kit,” will be held in Vilnius. It is organised in cooperation with Mykolas Romeris University (MRU).

Light Conversion, a major ultrafast laser technology company, together with the family of late academician Prof. Algis Petras Piskarskas (1942-2022), has made a donation of 200,000 euro to the Vilnius University Foundation. At the request of the patrons, the donation has created a restricted endowment sub-fund in the name of Prof. Piskarskas, the returns of which will be allocated for the named scholarships to laser physics talents.

On 3–5 May, a visit of an international team of experts of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC) will take place at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU). The expert group composed by SKVC will assess the performance of VMU.

No single one practice is sufficient for greater innovation performance, say the researchers, overviewing the results of the most recent PDMA’s 2021 global survey. The Best companies, according to the results, are better at employing multiple types of innovation, but the spend more time on radical innovation, are oriented towards risk-taking, and employ long-term strategies. The results were drawn from responses from 651 companies in 37 countries, the most extensive PDMA survey so far.

Global subject rankings of universities "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023" have been published, in which world universities are ranked according to specific fields of study and science. For the 5th year in a row, Mykolas Romeris University's (MRU) Law School is the only one of all Lithuanian higher education institutions to be among the beset universities in the world in the field of Law, and ranked 201-250 position.

On 24-27 April, Vilnius University (VU) Life Sciences Center will host the 17th international student-led life sciences conference "The COINS 2023. Changing the World Step by Step: from Theory to Practice". It is one of the largest student-organised life science conferences in Europe, attracting science stars from all over the world.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) joined the project „Pilot courses in Practice Enterprise to implement the University-Enterprise Cooperation for the development of Caspian Area (PICASP)“. During the project will be developed and disseminated the new training methodologies, including company practices and MOOCs.