In June this year, the Agreement between Lithuania and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Lithuania‘s associated membership was signed at the Presidential Palace. Our country joined the largest research organization and was recognized as a state that has made a huge progress in science, technologies and innovations. Lithuania was the first among the Baltic states to achieve the membership of CERN.
According to the President, this is an exceptional event for national science as Lithuania‘s membership in CERN – one of the largest and the most progressive research organizations – opened up new growth opportunities for our science and business.
On the initiative of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, a business incubator of CERN will be opened in Lithuania that will host companies open to knowledge and science. As early as at the beginning of next year, a CERN delegation is expected in Lithuania. Lithuanian business incubator of CERN will be the tenth among similar business incubators in other countries.
Lithuania‘s membership in CERN is directly linked to membership in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which places special focus on innovation.
