Oct. 19th-21st, 2016, the international conference, "Empowering EU Security Research Through Innovation, Co-Creation and Implementation," will be held on campus.

October 5th 2016, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Rector Assoc. Prof. Algirdas Monkevičius signed a cooperation agreement with South Korea's Chonbuk National University Vice-President for International Cooperation Prof. Yoon Myeongsook.

Institute for Peace and Dialogue invites to join the next 10 Days International Winter Program and 3-12 Month Visitor Research Program (VRP) which will be held in Switzerland.

“I will always be less concerned about low voter turnout than high turnout with poorly informed voters”, says Thomas A. Bryer, Fulbright core scholar and visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). According to him, citizenship does not begin, and does not end with the vote – we are citizens every day.

“Interactive textile studies and research are not limited to the textile industry only; the textiles can be found in almost any business”, says Professor Dr Donatas Petrulis, researcher at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design. He, together with Dr Salvinija Petrulytė have delivered a series of lectures across various universities in the Baltic’s, Finland and Denmark.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Mitch Kennedy, Vice President of Thermo Fisher Scientific – the world leader in serving science – to discuss the company’s expansion in Lithuania and its engagement in promoting cooperation between business and research.

Virginijus Siksnys of the Institute of Biotechnology at Vilnius University (VU) has a realistic chance of winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, VU Rector Arturas Zukauskas said on Tuesday.

“We all like news about exotic countries and their interesting traditions, but they are not very useful in everyday situations, when, for example, a teacher needs to involve an Asian student into discussion, and the latter avoids voicing his opinion as it is inappropriate to do so next to an older person”, says Audronė Gedžiūtė, a teacher and research assistant at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). According to her, today it is hardly possible to imagine a young person’s life in an environment isolated from internationality.

Representatives of the International Children’s Games Organization visiting Lithuania officially passed the baton for the organization of these games to the city of Kaunas. The games to be held in this city next summer will bring together over 1.5 thousand young athletes from the whole world.

“National cyber security exercise Cyber Shield 2016 crowns an important stage of the state’s cyber security development,” Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said at the closing of the first exercise of its type in Lithuania. Over 100 representatives of more than 40 Lithuanian state, cyber incident management and investigation, information resources management, scientific, energy, communications operators, and other agencies, practiced responding to cyber incidents during the exercise from September 27 to 29 in Kaunas, Klaipėda, and Vilnius.