EducationOn 1.30 p.m., 4 March, Professor Robert Frost from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) will hold a public lecture at the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy (44 Gedimino St., Room 202) entitled "The Polish-Lithuania Union: Success or Failure?". Teachers are on strike in 233 education institutions in 43 municipalities of Lithuania on February 22nd. Lithuania and Indonesian city of Cirebon to share experience of Smart City development and use of high technology2016-02-21, 14:42On 18 February in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius received the governor of Cirebon Region of Indonesia Sunjaya Purwadi Sastra. The governor is visiting Lithonia with the Indonesian delegation at the invitation of the Mayor of the city of Vilnius Remigijus Šimašius on 14-19 February. The purpose of the visit is to develop economic cooperation between Lithuania and Indonesia, especially in the renewable energy-related field – solar energy. To fight the growing resistance of bacteria to today's antibiotics, the use of existing antimicrobial drugs should be restricted, and new ones should be developed, said Environment and Public Health Committee MEPs on Wednesday. In a vote on draft plans to update an EU law on veterinary medicines, they advocate banning collective and preventive antibiotic treatment of animals, and back measures to stimulate research into new medicines. The Zika virus has hit the headlines all over the world as people fear it could be linked to microcephaly in babies, which causes them be born with abnormally small heads. On Wednesday Parliament's public health committee discussed the issue with representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO). After the hearing we talked to Dr Roberto Bertollini, WHO's chief scientist and EU representative, who assured that Zika was a "mild disease" that we were ready to deal with. A US filmmaking company is starting to shoot a movie Cobbler by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's novel Where Love Is, God Is. The Commission today presented its energy security package with necessary proposals to equip the EU for global energy transition as well as to be prepared for possible energy supply interruptions. You are kindly invited to go through a competitive selection process organized at Vilniaus kolegija/University of Applied Sciences. If selected, you can study or do an internship at institutions of higher education/enterprises located overseas. Nora Šlekienė, PhD student of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has won the competition for an internship at European Space Agency (ESA). The student will be awarded more than 32 thousand euros funding for a year's internship. On 16 February the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Jet Bussemaker, will open 'Skills for a Lifetime', a conference focusing on the future of vocational education and training. Experts, teachers, business people and policy makers from all EU member states will meet to discuss the challenges faced by Europe's knowledge society. |
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