EducationAccording to Lithuanian Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is one of the reasons behind international investors’ branching to Kaunas. “Scientists at Kaunas University of Technology have been working in Internet of Things field for several years and have not only developed scientific knowledge, but also gained experience carrying out projects with businesses”, the Minister comments on the fact of NKT, a leading global power cable manufacturers is expanding its IoT team in Kaunas. Commission launches new tool to support digital teaching and learning in schools. On 3-5 December, VMU was visited by lecturers from Ukraine, who came here as participants of Erasmus+ project Rethinking Regional Studies: The Baltic-Black Sea Connection. In the project, VMU is represented by the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, while its goal is the europization of the MA degree studies of political sciences offered by the universities of Odessa, Mariupol, Lviv, and Kiev (Ukraine). So this is for real now. My return flight to Germany is booked, I can see it black on white that I will be leaving Lithuania, this beautiful little painfully underestimated country that has dug its way deep into my heart. While one side of me is sad and still in denial about this, the other side is looking forward to it because there is such an important job waiting for me at home. Lithuanian scientists’ novel approach to perovskite solar cells – cheaper production and high efficiency2018-12-11, 18:03A team of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania together with physicists from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) science institute, Germany are offering novel approach for the selective layer formation in perovskite solar cells. The molecule, synthesised by the KTU chemists, assembles itself into a monolayer, which can cover a variety of surfaces and can function as a hole transporting material in a perovskite solar cell. Less and cheaper materials are being used in the process. PhD Student to Defend Dissertation: Empowerment of NGO's in Municipality Decision-Making2018-12-10, 18:47Dec. 14th, 2018, 13:00 hrs., in I-414 aud., PhD student Aušra Šukvietienė will defend her dissertation, "The Modelling of Empowerment of Non-Governmental Organisations to Participate in Decision-making in Municipalities of Lithuania." NORDTEK, technical universities network, which up until recently was having members only from five Nordic countries, signed cooperation agreement with BALTECH, which has Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) among its members. “Networking helps to expand mindset and to find new forms of cooperation”, says Peter Göranson, Secretary General of NORDTEK. Arturo Bris, Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center, professor at IMD Business School will visit Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) on December 17–19. On Tuesday, the 18th he will read a lecture for the Master’s students of Financial Management programme at KTU School of Economics and Business. At 11 am on Wednesday, December 19, the professor will read and open lecture for the University community at KTU Santaka Valley. From 13 July until 10 August 2019, univie: summer school on International and European Studies, organised by the University of Vienna, will be taking place in Austria. Application deadline is 28 February 2019. The rapid development of technology has brought about not only enormous benefits. In view of protecting the cyberspace of countries, the issue of cyber security in the area of cloud computing, which is among the fastest progressing ones, is becoming topical. We have discussed the benefits of cloud computing and the prevailing myths of cyber security with Dr Charles Kamhoua, a researcher at the Network Security Branch of the US Army Research Laboratory, who paid his first visit to Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) under the Fulbright Scholar Program. |
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