Narūnas Kapočius, a fourth-year telecommunication engineering student at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) has just returned from an internship at NASA Ames Research Centre in the US. He shared his impressions and achieved results. N. Kapočius believes Lithuania is well-known at NASA for achievements in small satellite industry. In particular, high-tech and small satellite company “Nanoavionics” founded by VGTU Alumni. Many NASA employees named Lithuania as a leading country in this new area of space industry.

Our Kaunastic friends are writing about the greatest attraction at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) campus – the Mona Lisa mural. If you haven’t had a chance to look at it properly, the sunny approaching weekend might provide a perfect chance. Mind you, it is going to be cold, so dress properly for the weather.

Students’ team from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is working on a development of dissolving contact eye lenses, which can be of great assistance for those suffering from glaucoma. According to statistics, glaucoma is the most common cause of preventable, irreversible blindness – it is responsible for 12.3% of blindness worldwide. It is being estimated that by the year 2020 there will be almost 80 million people in the world suffering from the condition.

The European Commission unveiled today its plans to invest jointly with the Member States in building a world-class European supercomputers infrastructure.

The first step into establishing of the double degree public administration study programme between Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) is already taken: the European Commission has granted funding for exchange between KTU and UFC scholars under Erasmus+ exchange programme.

Lithuania on January 8th formally became an associate member state of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

“I can choose any country for living, but I haven’t made my final decision yet. I think that everyone of us, working towards their future abroad, would like to live at home if they had the same conditions”, says Edgaras Šmigelskis, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) alumni. At the moment young engineer is working at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics – the work place earned by successful internship.

Students are invited to begin applying for studies at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) for the 2018/2019 academic year.

Social entrepreneurship is the sector which is most likely to grow in the approaching decades. According to the agency Enterprise Lithuania, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) was one of the promoters of social entrepreneurship in Lithuania in 2017.

Several new exhibitions, Three Kings celebration and other cultural events are on the menu for this weekend in Kaunas, Kaunas Full of Culture informs.