The competition of unique bridge building is Vilnius Gediminas Technical University’s (VGTU) spring tradition. This spring the Lithuanian Championship in Pasta Bridge Building 2018 will be held by VGTU for the seventh time. The final stage of the competition will be held on 8 May at 16:00.

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania has become the first university in Lithuania to win ERA Chairs competition for attracting top academics. The EUR 2.4 million funding, coming from the EU's research and innovation funding programme, Horizon 2020 will enable KTU to attract top academics to strengthen its competitiveness among centres of excellence elsewhere in the European Research Area (ERA).

The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have launched a Pan-European Venture Capital Funds-of-Funds programme (VentureEU) to boost investment in innovative start-up and scale-up companies across Europe.

Thakzhan Inthirarajah, or, simply, Takko from Germany, who spent last semester studying industrial technologies management at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), says that he chose Lithuania for an adventure. Of course, the semester gave him so much more.

In the beginning of a Spring semester 2017/2018 new website of VMU Sports Centre was launched. Today, before the Easter holidays, we are happy to invite you to an English version of this website: http://sportscentre.vdu.lt.

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) students were very successful in winning mobility scholarships from Baltic Sea Region University Consortium for Science and Technology (BALTECH). 16 KTU students were awarded BALTECH scholarships, which comprises the majority of all the scholarships allocated in this quarter’s competition.

March 29th, 2018, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Rector Assoc. Prof. Dr. Algirdas Monkevičius presented the annual report. He said that the number of students studying in Master's Degree programmes grew during the 2016-2017 academic year.

“Students nowadays stop focusing on the lecture after the first 20 minutes. They are not interested into sitting and listening to their teacher, they want to take action”, said Martin Velasquez, Director of Academic Affairs at Monterrey Technological University, Mexico while visiting Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) earlier this spring. According to him, cooperation and communication skills, information literacy, creativity, citizenship and problem solving are essential competences in the 21st Century’s education.

Earlier this week the Council of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) has decided to extend the application deadline for the position of KTU Rector for two more months. The potential candidates can apply until Monday, 28 May.

The largest in the world social interface for metal recyclers, Metalface, is being developed in Lithuania, Kaunas. Established by the Dutch company Present Connection, the product is being mainly created by Lithuanian IT specialists, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) graduates. Metalface, a specialised social network for metal recyclers, which provides market news and up-to-date metal scrap prices, has more than 20 thousand users – companies from around the world.