EducationKTU Honorary Doctor Entrepreneur David J. Teece: “Ideas are Pretty Cheap – What Matters Is Their Implementation”2016-04-15, 18:42“Unexpected awaits us both in business and in life. In today's complex economy this happens more and more often and as a result we constantly have to deal with an equation of unknown unknowns”, notes US professor, respectable economist and entrepreneur David J. Teece. According to him, as the knowledge economy changes the industrial one, managers today can welcome new challenges and find solutions to various problems by reading professional literature. Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU) is among the leading universities of Lithuania in the newly published third edition (April 2016) of the largest global university ranking U-Multirank. LEU received 8 A‘s and took the 3rd position in the final ranking of Lithuanian HEIs. The South American Business Forum, better known as SABF, is an annual international conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the aim of bringing together current and future leaders to achieve sustainable development in the world. War Journalist Chris Kline: I See No Reason Why a KTU Student Should Not Aspire to Work at CNN2016-04-12, 18:02“It is something very different to see a resistance movement, to be amongst partisans rather than regular soldiers, because it is ordinary people fighting for their land, their homes, their villages, their friends and families, it is the war of the ant, the war of the weak against the strong”, says a distinguished war journalist Chris Kline, who joins teaching staff at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) this semester. VU professor Valentina Dagienė, Head of the Department in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University, has been nominated for the prestigious Ada Lovelace Computing Excellence Award, bestowed in a number of categories by an international Awards Committee of the European Commission´s DG CONNECT, DG Growth, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT), in recognition of the significant contribution of women to computing and the Digital Economy. Quantum physics not only explains how matter behaves at the subatomic level, but is also used to create many devices in our everyday lives, from lasers and transistors to GPS and mobile phones. The next wave of innovation could lead to unbreakable encryption and computers that are up to one million times faster. On 6 April, Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) unit organised a workshop to discuss with experts the potential of these new quantum technologies. IT company Softneta, founded by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) alumni received €1 million investment from the venture capital fund Practica Venture Capital, states press release from Startup Lithuania. Softneta, an award winning Lithuanian IT company providing software-based specialised health care solutions is based at KTU Santaka Valley. A traineeship at the European Parliament offers a unique opportunity to get hands-on experience in an international and multicultural environment. If you want to become a part of Parliament's day-to-day business, apply for a traineeship before the deadline of 15 May. Read on for more information. A new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships will be launched soon (deadline 14 September 2016). Two international students, Muhammad Ishtiaq and Parthiban Siddenshwaran, are among 60 Rector's Scholarship winners this semester. Rector's Scholarships are being awarded to those KTU students, who demonstrate exceptional study and research results. |
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