As part of his dream of a traffic-free future, Elon Musk has been talking for a while now about boring a tunnel under Los Angeles from the HQ of his SpaceX company to LAX, the city’s airport. In fact, he has actually started taking the first steps towards making this seemingly crazy idea come true. On Feb 3 a tweet showing a picture of the first drilling operations was accompanied by a single word: “Minecraft”. That was inspiration enough for a team of Lithuanian techies, who decided to complete the entire project for Mr. Musk in just two days. In Minecraft.

Japan's Mimaki Engineering, one of the leading producers of ink jet printers and equipment for textile and graphics industry, is investing in the production business of ink for digital printing in Lithuania.

This year Kaunas will celebrate the Day of Restoration of Lithuania’s Independence in a special way. On the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the State and the 95th anniversary of the university, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) will invite the University and city community to a few free events.

Lithuania's higher education network needs restructuring is needed not only to ensure better quality but also in response to demographic numbers, as the number of university student will be on the downward scale up until 2025.

Even though more and more women pursue scientific studies, only one in three researchers in the EU are women. With the International Day of Women and Girls in Science being marked on 11 February, we asked MEPs Eva Kaili and Michèle Rivasi what should be done to attract more women to science. Watch the video to find out what they had to say.

On 6 February, integration contract was signed between Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) and Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LUES), solidifying the merger process that the universities launched two years ago. Until 2018 the University of Educational Sciences is set to become the VMU Academy of Educational Sciences, which will ensure the preparation of teachers for the 21st century and the system of teacher qualification training in Lithuania.

The Welcome Week for international students starting Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) this spring has passed by in a blink of an eye. It was filled with exciting introductory activities, some paperwork, new sights, new beginnings, and the joy which, hopefully, will be long lasting.

Robots were the guests of honour at today's press seminar on creating rules and laws to regulate their use. MEPs will vote on a report on this during next week's plenary. Report author Mady Delvaux, a Luxembourg member of the S&D group, also took the time to answers questions about it by followers of our Facebook page yesterday.

International students, residents and visitors of Kaunas are invited to enjoy one of the most popular plays at Kaunas National Drama Theatre in English. In the beginning of February, the theatre play “Gentis” (Eng. The Tribe) with translation will be staged.

On February 3rd, 2017 Tesla tweeted: “Lithuania knows the way to our heart: a Gigafactory 2 pitch using Minecraft.”