Harmonised EU entry and residence rules to make it easier and more attractive for people from third countries to study or do research at EU universities were approved by Parliament on Wednesday. The new rules clarify and improve conditions for non-EU interns, volunteers, school pupils and au pairs.

Flemish delegation (Belgium) visited Vilnius University in the first fortnight of May. Prof. Artūras Žukauskas, VU Rector, together with prof. Danny Pieterse, Vice-rector of the Catholic University of Leuven and prof. Johan Meeusen, Vice-rector of the Antwerp University signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) at the Government Office. Documents aim to strengthen international cooperation of the Universities.

When the European Parliament held an open day in Strasbourg on 8 May in honour of this year's Europe Day, some 19,000 people took the opportunity to find out more about how it works. Europe Day is held every year on 9 May to mark the anniversary of a declaration by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman in 1950, proposing to create a European Coal and Steel Community. This later paved the way for the European Union.

During the last week of April Vilniaus kolegija organised an annual International Week (IW). This year IW hosted 56 lecturers from partner higher education institutions and business companies in 16 countries. In total 112 lectures were held in all 7 faculties of Vilniaus kolegija. The main goal of the international week was to give possibilities for all the students, who do not participate in exchange programmes, benefit from international lecturers’ classes and workshops (“Internationalisation at home”).

On May 4 2016 Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) launched the first Fab Lab engineering workshop in Lithuania. The total investment into the modern Fabrication Laboratory infrastructure already exceeds half a million Euros.

This week Robert Böhme, the team leader of AUDI (Germany) mission to the moon, took the opportunity to meet the Lithuanian VU team – the VU startup “NanoAvionics“ upon arrival to Lithuania.

Researchers and innovators from Georgia will now be able to participate in Horizon 2020, the EU's framework programme for research and innovation, under the same conditions as their counterparts from EU Member States and other associated countries*.

Hazardous chemical substances used in economic activities cause risk to workers, consumers and environment. A high responsibility is placed on industry for the proper choices of chemicals and chemicals management. Yet how can this be implemented?