Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science returned to the issue of higher education reorganisation. Kaunas University of Technology supports the project proposed by the Ministry, which offers the strengthening of three Kaunas universities – Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Vytautas Magnus University (KTU, LSMU and VDU) – in the first stage of the process, with the perspective to create one internationally competitive university in Kaunas in the future.

Find out what the share of renewable energy is in different EU countries, how close they are to reaching ambitious goals for 2020 and what MEPs propose for 2030.

Dec. 8th, 2017, (Friday), 19:00 hrs., in MRU's II-233 aud., the international student Erasmus Got Talent Show will be held at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU).

Although the Ignalina nuclear plant has been closed since 2009, Lithuania will need nuclear engineering professionals for several decades. The knowledge and experience connected to nuclear energy field, especially related to security issues will be always on demand.

Vilnius University (VU) has strengthened its position in the region’s top 20 institutes of higher education, and now appears at a record-high 18th place in QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe and Central Asia, EECA, whose fourth updated edition has just been published.

“Vilnius-Lithuania iGEM” team won the largest, most prestigious, international Synthetic Biology competition iGEM. Vilnius University students bested more than 300 teams from leading world universities. The team won the Grand Prize and received a gold medal as well as three special awards: for Best New Basic Part, Best New Composite Part and Best Part Collection.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed a decree on submitting an Agreement on Lithuania‘s associated membership at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to the Seimas for ratification.

The Charlemagne Youth Prize exists for ten years already and this week all winners - past and present - were invited to the European Parliament to celebrate.

Competition is an inherent part of a researcher’s life. In order to be successful in this career, one has not only to be inquisitive, active in raising questions and looking for answers, but also to have international experience. Many PhD students are convinced that to use the opportunity of internship through Erasmus+ programme is essential both for creating networking possibilities, and for expanding skills and knowledge much needed in the scientists’ vocation.

European Commission has formulated its vision on creating a European Education Area by 2025. With the debate on the future of Europe in full swing, the Commission’s leaders are concentrating their efforts on collective steps to overcome the forthcoming challenges and making the EU more resilient to possible risks. Increasing educational potentials as drivers for jobs and growth is in the common interests of all EU states.