Courses in English for academic purposes are becoming more important at university as students are aware of the need to acquire the language skills needed for academic success. In this five-part mini-series of workshops with different topics, students of all seven Arqus partner universities will have the chance to improve their skills in academic English.

Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) maintains a high-level of scientificity and a number of study fields have improved their positions, according to university ratings released by the magazine "Reitingai" (Ratings)” for the 2021 fall/winter period.

There are many myths concerning artificial intelligence (AI) today: people say that robots will replace human at work, or that the algorithms collecting big data will use it against people. Some of these concerns are grounded in reality: numbers just a few years ago had shown that robots would take up 50 per cent of jobs in the next 20 years. However, the figures today are more realistic – according to a recent report by OECD, this number dropped to 10 per cent. So how to keep the balance between myths and reality? After all, AI can process a large amount of data and take the load off from repetitive tasks, thus providing space for human creativity.

With the rapid growth of research potential in various fields, the need for modern tools and convenient infrastructure inevitably grows. In order to meet this need, it is planned to expand the largest and most modern research base in Lithuania in Saulėtekis - by investing in modern Faculties of Chemistry and Geosciences and Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University (VU), the largest nucleus of life, physical and technological sciences would form here.

The EMBRACE project activities and development of Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) incorporates such tasks as the survey and analysis of corporate social entrepreneurship’s good practices. Therefore, the project’s partners are engaged in finding better and easier ways to help them perform this task. Having this in mind, the project will benefit - with the contribution of SNSPA - UNESCO Chair on Science and Innovation Policies – from a unique tool, the Horizon Search Mechanism (Radar, for short) to identify more information on Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE).

Two representatives of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) are nominated for a Lithuanian National Television Award 2020 in the Discovery of the Year category. The voting was open until Wednesday, December 2; the winners will be announced in the ceremony, which will take place on January 2, 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the education system worldwide. Many learning and teaching processes today take place online. Although such processes are not new, according to Vladas Lašas, Chairman of the Board of the Lithuanian Business Angels Network (LitBAN.LT), the changes were there, but the pandemic has sped them up.

In the middle of November, Lithuania has signed an agreement with the United States to buy four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters that will replace the Soviet Mi-8T still used by Lithuanian Armed Forces today. Soviet helicopter operational history exceeds 30 years, they are difficult to operate but the society still voices doubts about similar investments in the defence technology.

During the second meeting of the Rectors’ Council, the rectors of the seven Arqus universities restated their firm commitment to reaching the highest mobility rates together with their strong ambition in the development of joint programmes.

ECIU Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning is an annual event that gathers the most promising ECIU University partners’ teams. Dublin University wins ECIU Team Award with the module Learning Innovation for Enterprise (LIFE).