EducationThe Executive Committee of the Coimbra Group will discuss the cooperation opportunities with VU Top Administration during the visit in Lithuania. The delegation will visit the Joint Centre for Life Sciences, Scientific Communication and Information Centre, will participate at the informal disputes with the VU staff. The Commission published three reports on EU funding in the area of education, training, youth and sport. First report offers one year's results of the Erasmus+ programme, which provides opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad. Second includes statistics on student and staff mobility; and third, focuses on regional analysis and benefits of the Erasmus. Project of the Merger Between KTU and LSMU Was Introduced at the Ministry of Education and Science2016-01-30, 18:35Among the top 250 universities in the world by 2025 – this is the ultimate goal of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU). The leading Lithuanian universities in technological, health and social sciences have taken the decision to consolidate their competences and to become one university, which will carry the historical name of the University of Lithuania. The interest of Lithuanian university students in doing an internship in the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has decreased in 2016, with the number of applications for the internship down by half year-on-year. On 19 January 2016, at 6:00 a.m. Lithuania time, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) built a direct "bridge" to Japan, using the information technologies of a classroom of Distance Learning Centre at VGTU for the second time. This time, Arvydas Rimkus and Edgaras Timinskas, the lecturers of Engineering Graphics of the Faculty of Fundamental Sciences at VGTU, delivered a lecture for the students of Kobe University in Japan. Thirty-eight VGTU Architecture faculty and eight Construction Engineering faculty students participated at the lecture. Are virtual currencies an opportunity to transfer money more cheaply or just a way for criminals to trade in illegal goods? The Parliament's economic committee held a hearing on Monday to discuss the issues involved with experts, who told them EU regulation should not go beyond preventing and fighting crime. Parliament is currently working on a report on virtual currencies, which the economic committee is expected to vote on in April. The mark the end of the year of composer and diplomat Michal Kleofas Oginski, the Polish Embassy in Vilnius on January 24th presented the Lithuanian capital with a musical bench. EU research funding boosts scientific excellence and competitiveness, report finds2016-01-25, 16:10Investment in research and innovation from the EU budget between 2007 and 2013 has greatly improved scientific excellence in Europe and strengthened its competitiveness by improving industry's capacity to innovate. On 29 January 2016, a conference will be held at the Embassy of Finland (K. Kalinausko str. 24, Vilnius) entitled "Security, Cooperation and Identity in Northern Europe". Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has become a member of European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), the network of innovation pioneers from 12 European countries and Mexico. KTU is the only Lithuanian university in the Consortium. |
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