EducationKTU Is the Only Major University in Lithuania to Attract More Students than Last Year2016-08-06, 18:49The results from the first stage of general admissions to Lithuanian universities and colleges came this week: although the total number of applicants is declining in Lithuania, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) was chosen by more future-to-be students than last year. Also, the KTU’s study programme Software Systems was the most popular study choice this year – 403 future programmers are invited to start studying at KTU in September. VGTU Lyceum of Engineering is the first of it’s kind in the capital of Lithuania. By the decision of Vilnius City Council Vilnius Lyceum of Engineering is given the name of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) from September 1st, 2016. Professor from California fell in love with rainy Vilnius (VGTU-CalPoly‘2016 summer school ends)2016-08-02, 18:07The last 5 weeks will be long remembered by the students from sunny California. Not only because of heavy rains, first time in Europe, and colorful leisure, but mainly because of the overall VGTU-CalPoly‘2016 summer school experience. The engineering summer school is organized together with California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly) for four years already. This year VGTU-CalPoly had a new leader – dr. Graham Archer, who was delivering structural mechanics and mathematical modeling seminars at the summer school. We were curious, what memories is the professor bringing home from Vilnius. 5,500 m2 Modern Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources to Open on the Roof of Kaunas University of Technology2016-08-01, 09:56In the near future one of the buildings housing the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEF) at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) shall be turned into a modern laboratory of renewable energy sources. The roof of the building located at the KTU campus is about to be fitted with 1,520 units of photovoltaic modules while the modern underground geothermic energy system will be used for fulfilling the building’s heating requirements. “There is no one way: we have extraverted entrepreneurs, introverted entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with bunch of different personality traits. Entrepreneurship is about creating opportunities, and you can learn to do that”, says Becky Reuber, professor from Toronto University (Canada) who delivered a seminar for researchers at Kaunas University of Technology School of Economics and Business earlier this year. CERN exhibition attracted over 10 thousand visitorsCERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) exhibition “Accelerating Science” was recently closed after four months of operation at the National Physical and Technological Sciences Center. It had over 10 thousand of attendees from various Lithuanian and foreign institutions. Residents from more than thirty Lithuanian cities and towns visited the exhibition, organized by VU. They came mainly from the secondary or higher education institutions, non-formal education centers, government and private sector, such as, banks, ministries, municipalities, public institutions, churches and various associations. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Panevėžys Faculty of Technologies and Business organizes interactive lectures for Lithuanian and foreign students, involving visits to various Lithuanian and international investment companies, performance of analytical tasks, learning of something new and experience of real company work. Organs retrieved from a donor whose heart had stopped beating will be transplanted in Lithuania for the first time on Friday. Lithuania's leading biopharmaceutical manufacturer Sicor Biotech, which is controlled by the international generic drugs producer Teva, posted a net profit of 87.018 mln euros for 2015, more than a two-fold increase from 41.171 mln euros in 2014. Commission accepts German plans for broadband vectoring, but insists on additional improvements2016-07-21, 17:51The Commission has today accepted a revised regulatory proposal to allow Deutsche Telekom to upgrade its network with vectoring technology, but expects further developments to ensure competition. |
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