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.

In a ceremony at the British Embassy in Vilnius on 14 June, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) signed memorandums of understanding with two universities of the United Kingdom: the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and the University of Strathclyde. This partnership allows students to acquire a combination of British and Lithuanian education which will raise their competences and professionalism to an international level.

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.

“I have visited Kaunas before, and I liked it – people here are friendly and kind. I have also enjoyed the snow considering that I am coming from a tropical country”, says Lian Hussein Mahmoud Labib Moussa KTU BSc Renewable Energy Engineering student.

Dec. 8-10th, 2021, the JURIX conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems will be hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania. Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) has been chosen as a local organiser of JURIX 2021. Call for papers will be issued in July. Depending on the COVID-19 situation, the Conference will promote physical participation and networking, but will also provide hybrid participation opportunities.

Migration has been a pressing issue in Europe for several years now, and recently it has posed new challenges. The surge of migrants on the border of Lithuania and Belarus, the increase in refugees trying to reach Europe from north Africa and various incidents related to illegal attempts to cross borders, are calling for new insights on the issue.

For the second year in a row, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) invited teams from secondary schools from across Lithuania to participate in the Design. Engineer. Construct! Lithuania project. Over 60 participants from four schools responded to the challenge to create a Music House in Kaunas.