Lithuania is now the 16th most business-friendly country in the world, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2018 index, Invest Lithuania informs.

The number of school students declined by nearly a half in Lithuania over the past 16 years, dropping by a factor of three in some municipalities, which has a direct effect on the worsening quality of education, authors of the Reitingai magazine have said.

Dec. 18th, 2017, (Mon.), 10:00 a.m., in MRU's II-230 aud., an international forum, "The Security Architecture of East Asia: Political, Economic and Cultural Aspects," will be held.

Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, announced yesterday the EU's additional contribution of €100 million to replenish the Global Partnership for Education.

Some 35 million euros in EU funds have been allocated for selected high-level research projects by scientists from Lithuanian universities and scientific institutes, the Education and Science Ministry said on December 1st.

25–26 November in Tallin, Estonia annual robotics competition Robotex 2017 took place. Pupils from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Panevėžys Faculty of Technologies and Business Technology Learning Centre (TMC) showed great results and were among the best in Europe.

Kaunas University of Technology Erasmus Student Network (ESN KTU) is joining the Social Inclusion Days initiative, organised by ESN, where more than 500 local associations in 40 countries host events raising awareness about volunteering and disability from 27th of November until 10th of December.

Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) continues its efforts in developing strong ties with the top universities in East Asia. Last week VMU representatives visited Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where global liberal arts leaders convened for a conference, and South Korea, where the VMU delegation met with the university’s partners. The latest partnership has been established with Seoul National University (SNU), one of the leading research universities in the world, which is planning to aid VMU in the opening of the Centre for Korean Studies in Lithuania.

The VMU International Cooperation Department has announced call for applications for 2018-2019 academic year exchange studies at Japanese partner universities. Online application deadline is 2 February 2018.

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.