As the application deadline is fast approaching, BAA Training would like to remind all those interested in becoming pilots, about the opportunity to get pilot scholarship and begin studies on February 24th of 2016.

The latest issue of magazine "Reitingai" for the second year already, presents university rankings by subject, evaluating seventy study programs. This year, in contrast to the last time, they ranked the Bachelor and Master Degree programs separately.

After lengthy preparations, an agreement has finally been reached with the Bremen University of Applied Sciences on launching Latvian nano-satellite "Venta-1" into orbit.

Investment in Lithuania's startups lagged well behind year-earlier levels until the end of November but the situation improved in December 2015 thanks to two larger deals, the Verslo Zinios business daily reports on December 29th.

European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos in cooperation with the Commissioner for Justice, Consumer and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, will launch the EU Internet Forum. The forum brings together EU Interior Ministers, high-level representatives of major internet companies, Europol, the EU Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator and the European Parliament. The goal is to reach a joint, voluntary approach based on a public-private partnership to detect and address harmful material online.

The Polish and the Spanish cities will mark the 31st year of one of the most popular EU projects.

Microsoft Lietuva, the Lithuanian unit of US software giant Microsoft, saw its revenue shrink by 3.1% in its last financial year to August 2015, to 3.772 million euros, from 3.891 million euros in the previous year.

The University of St. Gallen (CH) and the WU Executive Academy of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, two of Europe's leading business universities, have extended their collaboration: In the future, they will offer a joint certificate program in Business and Corporate Development Strategies.

"National governance should be more open and more honest about what they can and cannot deliver, they should give more realistic expectations to the citizens", says Caspar van den Berg of Leiden University (the Netherlands). The US policies and multi-level governance expert is convinced that it is time now to realise that we are all bound to the EU legislation, to the international economic situation and other types of limitations.

European Union & Public Affairs Directory. The essential guide to the institutions and public affairs community in Brussels. 2016. Unite Kingdom. ISBN: 978-1-908232-24-3. The European Union & Public Affairs Directory (EPAD) 2016, published in December 2015 is Europe's most comprehensive contact directory, detailing thousands of key European public affairs professionals, officials and policymakers and covering organisations from media agencies to major corporations and trade unions to think tanks, as well as the European Parliament, Council and Commission.