Centers intended to boost the interest of school students in exact sciences are planned in ten cities of Lithuania.

From Monday 2 May SocialErasmus Week full of events for international and local students starts. Erasmus Student Network at Kaunas University of Technology (ESN KTU) is inviting all to become more socially responsible while enjoying spring in good company, mingling and networking, having good time.

Elevated cranial pressure, the result of head traumas and brain tumours, is a potentially deadly complication. But although time is of the essence in detecting irregular cranial pressures, conventional diagnosis relies on time-consuming, invasive surgery at increased risk for patients. A new generation of innovative scanning devices invented by Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) researcher Arminas Ragauskas (69) solves the problem: based on the sonic Doppler wavelength effect, the ultrasound scanners provide precise and instant pressure measurements via a probe applied to the patient's eye. Besides elevated cranial pressures, the devices also detect stroke, glaucoma, and brain tumours.

April 29, this Friday, the community of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University will have the opportunity to listen to an extraordinary lecture of Prof. T.C. Edwin Cheng, the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Fung Yiu King - Wing Hang Bank Professor in Business Administration, and Chair Professor of Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will have a lecture titled “Supply Chain Management in Hong Kong”.

On 25 April Valentina Dagienė, VU professor of Mathematics and Informatics receives the prestigious Ada Lovelace Computing Excellence Award, bestowed by an international Awards Committee of the European Commission´s DG CONNECT, DG Growth, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT), in recognition of the significant contribution of women to computing and the Digital Economy.

Klaipėda University, Klaipėda, Lithuania, has the honor to welcome and host the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) annual conference 2016.

Robots are increasingly becoming more important. Not only are they being used in areas such as medicine, agriculture and manufacturing, they are now also capable of driving cars and piloting drones. However, their increasing use and expanding capabilities have significant implications. On 21 April Parliament's legal affairs committee held a hearing to discuss with experts the issues involved, such as safety, liability and risk management.

A new page in the history of cooperation between the VU and business community has been opened – Vilnius University Fund (Endowment) (hereinafter the VUF) has been established by a group of Lithuanian business leaders on the 6th of April.

International Staff Week April 25 to 29 at Kaunas University of Technology will invite to seminars and discussions on the topic of Teaching in English in Non-English Speaking University.

At the beginning of April, Swiss ambassador Nicolas Brühl visited Vilnius University during his stay at the Baltic States and met with the Lithuanian team of the project ‘Swiss-Lithuanian Ferroelectrics’ (SLIFE).