EducationOn 16 January 2017, Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Choi Sung-joo, Ambassador of South Korea. The meeting focused on bilateral relations and, in particular, opportunities for strengthening cooperation in the areas of education, science and innovation in order to attract Korean investment to Lithuania. From this Thursday, 19 January, the cycle of seminars at DesignLibrary Kaunas starts. Design Thursdays, which will take place at KTU Santaka Valley will cover topics from engineering to user-inspired design, will take audience to a design journey through time. KU to Develop Cooperation in the Field of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Research and Study Institutions in the Kingdom of the Netherlands2017-01-18, 18:40On 17 January, Tuesday, Klaipėda University (KU) was visited by the Kingdom of the Netherlands Ambassador to Lithuania J. E. Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan van der Lingen. The number of state universities in Lithuania has to be cut to no more than five, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday 11 January 2017. Last week the meeting of Vice-Rectors of Innovation and Research of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) took place at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Santaka Valley. The aim of the visit was to find common interests and ways to improve the competitiveness of the research and innovation activities at ECIU member universities. “Competencies cross the continents”, Stephanie Krick, Interim Director at Public Administration Undergraduate Program at University of Central Florida (UCF) is convinced. Later this year Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and UCF are planning to finalise the processes of creating a joint degree public administration study programme. The first students who will be able to partly study in Florida will be admitted no later than in 2018. EU rules for the fast-evolving field of robotics, to settle issues such as compliance with ethical standards and liability for accidents involving driverless cars, should be put forward by the EU Commission, urged the Legal Affairs Committee on Thursday. A recent international research project, financed by the European Commission, showed that Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) is one of the best universities in Central and Eastern Europe creating and implementing social innovations. On Friday 27 January the graduation ceremony for the 94th edition for Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Bachelors and Masters will take place. On the same day the diplomas will be awarded to the University doctors graduating this semester. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) was the initiator and organiser of the most BALTECH (Baltic Sea Region University Consortium for Science and Technology) events in 2016. The International PhD Summer School, administrative staff meeting on the topic of Alumni Associations and the meeting of the Baltic technical universities’ student union representatives were among the highlights of the events organised by KTU. |
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