Solid foundation for Lithuanian aviation industry breakthrough has been laid in Kaunas’ region – the first in Europe cluster of aeronautical engineering companies and educational institutions is being created. After the airport is connected to the free economic zone and with a constant staff supply of qualified aviation engineers prepared at local university, Kaunas will be capable of accepting for service the great transatlantic aircrafts with repair value from several hundred thousand to several million euros.

Yesterday international university rankings „QS World University Rankings“ published the list of 200 top universities in „Emerging Europe and Central Asia 2016“. There are 7 universities from Lithuania on the top list (last year there were 5) – Vilnius University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Kaunas University of Technology, Vytautas Magnus University, Klaipėda University, Šiauliai University and Mykolas Romeris University.

The Commission has adopted today a new and comprehensive Skills Agenda for Europe. The aim is to ensure that people develop a broad set of skills from early on in life and to make the most of Europe’s human capital, which will ultimately boost employability, competitiveness and growth in Europe.

Date: 25th July 2016 – 30th July 2016. Venue: Curtin University Sarawak, Malaysia Theme: Empowering the Millennial Mind.

Start-up SearchNode born and developed at Startup Space of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is named as the most ambitious Lithuanian start-up, according to the global business website Forbes. There are two more enterprises created by KTU graduates among the listed most ambitious Lithuanian start-ups. “We are proud to be reading about Lithuanian start-ups in global media. This means that we are equal players in the game”, says Donatas Smailys, Head of KTU’s start-up incubator Startup Space.

VGTU Council has unanimously elected Alfonsas Daniūnas as the rector of VGTU for the second five-year term by a secret ballot.

The European Commission has registered a new European Citizens' Initiative called “More than Education” to modernise the existing education systems in the EU states. The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) is a reflection of “citizens’ democracy”: a registered ECI with 1 million signatures from seven EU states forces the Commission to take actions.

For the last six months Tomas Butkevičius, the second year marketing student at KTU’s School of Economics and Business has been going to lectures in… Indonesia. He had won the KTU Mobility scholarship for studying at BINUS University in Jakarta. In an open letter to his fellow students Tomas encourages everyone to use the opportunity to travel for free to European or other universities and to gain invaluable experiences.

From conducting search and rescue operations to monitoring sea borders and the state of agricultural crops, it has all been made easier thanks to data from satellites. Europe's space initiatives are helping to create new opportunities for European companies as well as making it easier to protect people. On Tuesday MEPs discuss ways to make better use of these programmes. Read our glossary of terms related to the EU's space policy ahead of the debate.