The Commission today presents a proposal to coordinate the use of the 700 MHz band for mobile services. It will improve internet access for all Europeans and help develop cross-border applications.

How do people differ in their approaches to innovation management depending on where they live? What effects do the respective economic and cultural environments have on future developments? Why is it that certain factors that have a favorable influence on the innovative potential of businesses in some regions tend to be inimical to innovation in others? The new Global Innovation Expert certificate program will provide answers to exactly these questions.

"Today everything we write is first being read by machines", says Matther Fuller, Professor of Digital Media at Goldsmiths College, London, and the co-author of the internationally acclaimed book Evil Media. In his open lecture at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Fuller talked about interspieces communication, language, ecology and about the contemporary concept of "evil". The lecture was a part of Zooetics 2 seminar series, organised at KTU late last year.

Monday 1 February a Welcome Week for International students arriving to Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) started. Full week of events ranging from city and campus tours to lectures on Lithuanian culture and University life will provide a fresh start to the new members of our international community.

On the 25th of January, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) hosted an extraordinary event, organized by VGTU and the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia.

The Executive Committee of the Coimbra Group will discuss the cooperation opportunities with VU Top Administration during the visit in Lithuania. The delegation will visit the Joint Centre for Life Sciences, Scientific Communication and Information Centre, will participate at the informal disputes with the VU staff.

The Commission published three reports on EU funding in the area of education, training, youth and sport. First report offers one year's results of the Erasmus+ programme, which provides opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad. Second includes statistics on student and staff mobility; and third, focuses on regional analysis and benefits of the Erasmus.

Among the top 250 universities in the world by 2025 – this is the ultimate goal of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU). The leading Lithuanian universities in technological, health and social sciences have taken the decision to consolidate their competences and to become one university, which will carry the historical name of the University of Lithuania.

The interest of Lithuanian university students in doing an internship in the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has decreased in 2016, with the number of applications for the internship down by half year-on-year.

On 19 January 2016, at 6:00 a.m. Lithuania time, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) built a direct "bridge" to Japan, using the information technologies of a classroom of Distance Learning Centre at VGTU for the second time. This time, Arvydas Rimkus and Edgaras Timinskas, the lecturers of Engineering Graphics of the Faculty of Fundamental Sciences at VGTU, delivered a lecture for the students of Kobe University in Japan. Thirty-eight VGTU Architecture faculty and eight Construction Engineering faculty students participated at the lecture.